Liscomb divorce case adjourned as wife nears testimony
In Middlesex Superior Court East Cambridge the Liscomb divorce trial paused as Mrs Mabel Liscomb, plagued by illness, was expected to testify. Evidence centered on accusations of infidelity and cross libel alleging cruel treatment and non support with witnesses detailing the couple’s troubled home and the care of their children.
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Liscomb
Middlesex Superior Court
East Cambridge
Mabel S. Liscomb
J. H. Devine
Cox
Lexington
Charles W. Liscomb
L. R. Chamberlain
John Daley
Everett Avenue
Somerville
Thomas Tate
Liscombs
Bessie E. Liscomb
Pear] Street
Mabel
S. Liscomb
Show Girl Is Given Divorce
Ethel M. Bassett of Natick, soon to join a New York musical company, was granted an uncontested divorce in East Cambridge Court. Judge Lummus noted eight years of marriage and reported that her husband Harry O. Bassett of Nantucket abused her, including throwing her on the floor, cutting her lip, and threatening to shout her. Numerous other divorces and a nullity were granted in the session, including Beatrice McClearn, Gertrude Kyle, Eunice Mathews, Kathryn Wackrow, and Alfred Payao cases.
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Ethel M. Bassett
Natick
New York
East Cambridge
Lummus
Harry O. Bassett
Nantucket
Helen G. Fredrickson
Cambridge
Carl P. Fredrickson
Quincy
Abbie V. Oberle
Arlington
Frank C. Oberle
Boston
Florence G. James
Framingham
Harry C. James
Brittania Cooper
Esau Cooper
Somerville
Beatrice G. McClearn
Westboro
Seth RB. McClearn
Melrose
Gertrude D. Kyle
Everett
John F. Kyle
Bristol
Conn
Eun
Alfred &. Payao
Mariana R. Payao
Thomas E. Cherry
Waltham
Mae E. Hill
Lynn
Big Future For Business Seen
At a Boston City Club banquet closing a two day New England retailers convention governors and business leaders urged cautious government reform and banking reform. They praised Hoover and predicted renewed confidence for American commerce in clothing and homegrown products while stressing the need to protect savers from spurious securities and to return workers to the land where jobs await.
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Harding
Cox
Boston City Club
New England Retail Clothiers’ Association
Men’s Apparel Club of
New England
Washington
Fred Voiland
Topeka
Kan
Hoover
I. L. Marienthal
Chicago
Franklin H. Whitney
Boston
New England Apparel Club
Horace A. Carter
William Goldman
Clothiers Conclave Hears Inflation Warnings and Pranks
The convention featured prophecies of near term normal prosperity and a warning from the Governor that lower prices require lower costs and wage cuts. A staged hoax by Mark Mulvey as Professor von Strauss sparked near riot, exposing paper clothing myths. Gov Cox urged prewar price return with wage reductions, while retailers mull price cuts.
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Robert M. Brewster
Hartford
New England Retail Clothiers’ Association
Mark B. Mulvey
Boston
Herman von Strauss
Heidelberg University
Cox
Champaign Born Paramount Star Starred In The Devil To Fame
Screen Gossip notes a Paramount actress born in Champaign Illinois and educated in a Chicago convent. Her early stage and stock work led to a Lubin company debut and later success in home life dramas with husband Joseph Kaufmann as lead and director. After joining Famous Players Lasky she scored a personal triumph. recent films include The Price of Possession and Sham. She stands five feet five inches, with red-gold hair and gray eyes.
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Paramount
Champaign
Ill
Chicago
Old Lubin Company
Gree
Home li
Joseph ‘Kaufmann
Kaufmann
Miss Clayton
Famous Players-Lasky Company
Character actor Rudolphe Christians dies in Los Angeles
Rudolphe Christians, noted stage and screen character actor, died of pneumonia in Los Angeles last week. He recently completed a key role in Foolish Wives and was slated for Eric von Stroheim’s forthcoming Universal production.
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Rudolphe Christians
Los Angeles
Eric von Stroheim
Universal
Wallie Reid May Take World Trip for Films
Wallace Reid, known as Wallie, could soon travel around the world on behalf of the Famous Players-Lasky Company. The trip would aim to film scenes in various global locations, blending entertainment with potential production opportunities.
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Wallace Reid
Famous
Players-Lasky Company
Wallie
Beebe to Lecture in West on Social Crisis
Dean Jamfes A. Beebe of Boston University School of Theology attends the Council of Cities in Buffalo under Methodist Church auspices to discuss The Social Crisis Can the Church Meet It. After the convention he plans a tour of major Middle West colleges and universities.
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Jamfes A. Beebe
Boston University School of Theology
Council of Cities
Buffalo
Board of Home Missions
Methodist Episcopal Church
East Boston Girl Wins Show Tickets
Miss Anna Harrison of East Boston an operator at the Richmond telephone exchange won two tickets to Honors Are Even when her name was used in the telephone scene at Park Square Theatre last night.
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Anna Harrison
Princeton Stret
Boston
Richmond Telephone Exchange
Park Square Theatre
Five years for theft of coat at Smith College
Northampton Feb 23 A Smith College girl Miss Mary McBain of Cleveland had a $600 fur coat stolen from the Alumni House last November. Mrs Florence M Davis of Springfield was sentenced to five years in a State reformatory after confessing to the theft and a series of larcenies in cities from Arizona to Massachusetts. She was recaptured after an escape while walking toward Holyoke. The police said she also confessed to thefts from Smith students totaling $8 to $50 and to taking $40 from Mrs Julia Thornsley, secretary treasurer of the Hampshire Hampden Relief Corps in December 1919.
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Northampton
Smith College
Florence M. Davis
Springfield
Mary McBain
Cleveland
Alumni House
Holyoke
Smith
Davis
Julia Thornsley
Hampshire-Hampden Relief Corps Association
Mayor Peters backs Greater Boston as congestion relief
Mayor Peters urged creation of a Greater Boston at a Pilgrim Publicity Association luncheon. He argued federal legislation could build the port, boost commerce and manufacturing, and benefit the entire district. He warned size alone is not enough and fusion should gain authoritative weight.
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Greater
Boston
Peters
Pilgrim Publicity Association
Johnson Attacks Builders in Settlement Standoff
Secretary E A Johnson of the Building Trades Council accuses builders of starving labor into accepting a settlement after a final conference with Mayor Peters. No settlement is reached and no further talks are planned.
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E. A. Johnson
Building Trades Council
Peters
City Hall talks on settlement delay with April 1 target
Mayor Peters and Secretary Johnson met with delegates for a fifth conference amid hope of a settlement over back pay and the building stoppage. Officials cited resumption on April 1 as the deadline tied to new construction and warned of public concern as talks stalled.
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City Hall
Peters
Johnson
Building Trades Council
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