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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1920
Page
3
The Housekeepers League condemned the commission on the necessities of life led by General Bherburne and urged its abolition. They called for a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall before the presidential conventions, reporting sugar coal and potatoes as climbing costs.
New York organizers aim to unionize 12 000 New York Telephone operators. A meeting is planned at Bryant Hall to gauge support and form an organization if a majority backs unionizing. Teresa M Sullivan of Boston leads the effort with influence from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
The coal supply in New England remains acute and relief depends on President Wilson extending fuel administration power under the Lever Act. Railroads revert to private ownership after Feb 29, but the president can extend the fuel agency until peace is declared.
James J. Storrow reports 26 400 tons of coal carrying ships arrived or due including Luxpalile Ozankee Lake Worth Cowan and Ridge plus Imhaha and Fluor Spur and Sahale at Hampton Roads. Eight more vessels with 75 500 tons capacity may be secured if fuel authority extends. Weather and car shortages threaten supply. Connecticut faces the sharpest strains without the New Haven line.
Former New Jersey Governor Franklin Murphy died in Palm Beach Florida at age 74. He had traveled south a month earlier seeking health improvement, with the telegram confirming the death received by his son Franklin Murphy Jr in Newark.
Self styled medium Sir Thomas Mozette of London, known as the Master Mind, is jailed in Akron Ohio for allegedly swindling Boston and Cambridge women out of large sums. Police expect a difficult extradition as investigators trace the “leader” of a fraud ring that operated across the United States and Canada.
Police and state officers conclude a lighted match dropped by Ephraim Smith, 69, the janitor, started the blaze that killed four women at the Lynn Home for Aged Women. Smith shares the grief as investigators, with Matron Brainard and others, note the rapid spread and possible prefire conditions. The case hinges on the janitor’s accidental match and no charges are likely.
Former Boston officers claim Police Commissioner Curtis disgraced his office in his first general order calling ten officers booze fighters peanut stealers. John J Lane testified before the city committee supporting a bill to let the Mayor appoint the police chief instead of the Governor. Several ex officers and legislators urged home rule for Boston police management.
London February 24 Lady Astor makes her maiden speech in a debate on control of the liquor trade and wartime restrictions. She argues for removal of liquor controls to protect children and insists she will face strong opposition but remain firm.
Metropolitan Boston’s Community Service emulates War Camp methods to stage elaborate Pilgrim story pageants in every New England city and town. The tercentenary exercises begin in spring and run through 1921, forming the dominant note of the celebrations.
Community Service with its headquarters in the Little building offers planning help for nationwide observances of the Pilgrim landing. Constance D Arcy Mackay prepared a catalog of suitable plays and ceremonies for towns and cities to use. Sulgrave Institute plans international celebrations starting May 1 in England Leyden and the United States with a second Mayflower voyage and a welcome in Provincetown.
Maurice De Wulf, president of the University of Louvain, Belgium, a leading medieval philosophy scholar, gave a lecture yesterday afternoon at the Lowell Institute. It was the second of six addresses on Monastic Life in the Heart of the Middle Ages in Huntington Hall, highlighting his ties with Cardinal Mercier and his interest for Bostonians.
New York actress Mrs Mackie now grandmother shares a home remedy to darken gray hair. Dissolve Orlex powder in water, comb through hair, and use as directed in the box. One box lasts months and the product is advertised as safe non staining and non greasy.
A World War veterans club will be organized in Revere next Sunday afternoon at Foresters Hall for mutual aid and sick benefits. All World War veterans are invited to attend and participate in the new group. A Venus Penen offer is noted with a quirky incentive attached to pencils.
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