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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1920
Page
12
Knights of Columbus held memorial masses for deceased brothers yesterday. Councils in Boston and statewide hosted services attended by relatives, friends, and fellow members of the Catholic fraternal order.
The Gate of Heaven Church hosts a memorial mass and high service for councils South Boston 78 Pere Marquette 71 Robert Fulton 131 with clergy from SS Peter and Paul and St. Margaret's Dorchester. Other councils including Rose Croix Roxbury Ausonia North End Post and Teutonia, St. Leonard and St. James hold separate services across Boston.
Supplies for Magdalen Islands inhabitants cut off by ice were landed on Grindstone Island after the government steamer Montcalm reached within a mile of Pleasant Bay. Provisions were transferred to island teams who crossed the frozen bay to deliver relief.
Vice Admiral Trevelyan D. W. Napier, commander of the British North American and West Indies Naval Station and veteran of the Jutland battle, arrived in New York from Bermuda today aboard the Fort Hamilton en route to Washington.
Captain Stephen P. Gerow of the Canadian overseas forces was located in Montreal after a two week absence. He said he left New York for Philadelphia and Boston where he was ill, then traveled to Montreal and learned police had been notified due to a trunk of clothes and papers left in a New York hotel.
Malden is without a city messenger after the resignation of Agnes M. McGrath who asked for a 400 raise. Mayor Kimball refused and accepted her resignation. Walter K. Milliken will be sworn in as comptroller after serving as assistant treasurer. McGrath served 13 years at City Hall including 10 years as street department auditor and three in the comptroller’s office.
The Moss line will inaugurate a Mediterranean service from Boston on March 12 with the steamship Amasis. The Amasis will arrive around March 7 from Alexandria loaded with cotton and then carry general cargo to Gibraltar Algiers Malta and Alexandria before final freight at New York.
After two months of drift in the schooner Rostellan with a missing rudder sails gone and the ship leaking the captain and 11 men were rescued 40 miles east of Bermuda by the American steamer Deepwater on February 18. A dog and a goat saved with the crew were also taken aboard.
Two sailors were killed and two more badly burned when a steam pipe burst on the destroyer Kitty during a speed run near San Diego, California, on the preceding Saturday.
Al Smith former newsboy and New York Governor was guest of honor at the Brace Memorial Newsboy Home Washington's Birthday dinner. Undergraduates called for reminiscences of his days at 32 Park Row while praising the governor and urging opportunity for the boys. Dishes rattled with cheers as he exited.
The New York report says Lucien H Alexander of Philadelphia claims a Lincoln tribute to Washington from 1842 was overlooked by Nicolay and Hay and other Lincoln biographers. Readers send letters and telegrams as citations surface, including mentions in Nicolay and Hay.
The Duc de Crussol arrived in New York on La Savoie announcing voluntary exile to mourn Gaby Deslys in the land she loved. He referenced a failed engagement, displayed two pearls from her necklace, and said he intends to stay in America after her death. He had been among the first French nobles to enlist, and was wounded several times.
Argentine republic, once on the cusp of social upheaval, now enjoys its greatest prosperity says Senor Alejandro T. Bellini, consul general to Canada. He arrived with his family aboard the Pampa from Buenos Aires, noting new industries and self sufficiency in manufacturing goods formerly imported from Europe.
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