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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1922
Page
11
The Building department reports a surge in construction with 309 dwelling permits in 1921 costing 2,683,300 up from 100 permits in 1920 costing 794,485. Garage building also climbs with 67 permits costing 1,980,517 versus 569 garages in 1920 costing 4,1337,567, noting several garages exceeding 200,000 and one street garage over 1,000,000.
Attorney General Daugherty indicated associations of retail merchants may receive hearings before the Department of Justice in the government probe of essential goods prices. Requests for hearings have been received and several associations may be heard. Price schedules for different communities will be completed in about a week to 10 days and then published.
New York reports a holiday death toll from bootleg liquor including eighteen dead, eight from wood alcohol and others from acute alcoholism. Hospitals show many more affected with Bellevue Hospital admitting forty patients in two days, including five women, some blind or paralyzed.
Turkeys diverted to the United States due to Sinn Fein boycott flooded American markets at Christmas, dropping wholesale prices. Miss Margaret Mahaney of Concord spoke at the New England Turkey Breeders Association meeting in Boston about Irish shipments competing with native birds. Rigg and Delano spoke as endorsements were made for the next American Poultry Association convention. Local officials and dignitaries attended as judging continued, with Saltonstall and Lowell receiving top awards for Black Hamburg cocks. Turkey Day followed by Baby Chick Day.
The Vermont Bar Association voted 37 to 354 against disbarment proceedings for former Governor Horace F. Graham. It withdraws information from the attorney general and notes his 1920 conviction for grand larceny of 19 000 dollars and prison sentence later pardoned by Governor Clemont.
Captain A B Randall of the Steamship Hudson was hailed as a hero after a radio message detailed his rescue of six crew members from the dismasted French schooner Reine Des Mers. He had been acquitted of abandoning a small boat in distress near the Ambrose channel lightship.
The White House announced on January 3 that Henry P. Pletcher Under Secretary of State is to be Ambassador to Belgium.
Report claims about 30,000 Armenian captives are held in harems in Turkey. The statistic surfaces amid ongoing ethnic tensions and debates over minority rights and forced labor in the region.
Judge Morton told George G. Cook a light sentence is given for passing counterfeit money. The Boston chef from Warwick Street was found guilty by a jury and sent to the Plymouth House of Correction for 18 months. The counterfeit bills imitated twenty cent and nineteen cent notes.
George A. Long, convicted of the 1919 murder of Jucina C. Broadwell in Barre Vermont, lost his petition for a new trial. The Vermont Supreme Court held no error occurred in the lower court proceedings. Long remains in Windsor State Prison for the balance of his life.
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