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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1922
Page
2
New York January 2 The New Year toll from poisonous liquor rose to four dead and six seriously ill in city hospitals. James Cassidy died at Bellevue Hospital after illness since Sunday. A fractured skull from a fall at his West 18th street home was said to contribute to his death. One case of alcoholic paralysis reported.
Prisoners at the Massachusetts Reformatory in Concord Junction observed New Year's Day with holiday festivities. A special dinner was served to inmates as part of the celebration.
In New York on January 2, women and men evacuated the ballroom of the Westchester Country Club as it burned to the ground. A bucket brigade formed despite 10 below zero snapping cold with water from a private hydrant proving useless. Tapestries paintings and furniture were saved valued in the thousands, while the club suffered an estimated 250000 dollar loss.
N Y Yonkers January arrest of M A Brenthal on charges of opening gas jets in his home endangering his 7 year old daughter Anna who lay ill in bed Neighbors alerted police after smelling escaping gas and reporting the danger Brenthal allegedly fought with his wife and released the fumes to kill himself and the child
An earthquake lasting about a minute struck at one this morning with the epicenter about 60 miles away. The tremor shook Panama City and the Panama Canal area but caused no damage locally.
Mercy Rogers aged 31, daughter of a Bellevue Pennsylvania minister, died by inhaling illuminating gas in her New York apartment. A note found by her roommate said Life is too much for me and asked to tell Marie. The note named Marie Schmidt of Toledo Ohio who had visited Rogers during the holidays.
In North Adams on January 2 a ten inch crack in a 24 inch water main left households on the low pressure system without water for over two hours in the western section of the city.
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