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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
18
Reynolds leads momentum for Coolidge as Republican standard bearer in the 1920 national election. The movement gathers nationwide sentiment over the past three months.
Cardinal O Connell decried social disorder and urged Holy Name men to uphold church and state, stressing obedience to God and law. He warned of red tyranny and called for industrial peace through duty by employers workers and the faithful.
The New York Sun reports William Gibbs McAdoo will not enter the Democratic presidential race. He shows no interest in the party cue and will stay out of politics for now, focusing on wealth while pursuing business. He eyes Roosevelt and 1924 as possible future steps.
New York dispatch reports a man believed to be Albert Reinhart about 60, a Boston musician from 45 St. Botolph Street, died in a taxi en route to Roosevelt Hospital. Driver Robert C. Cotter of 241 Halsey Street, Bronx, noted the illness before the car stopped. Bellevue Hospital autopsy cited heart disease as the cause.
An Exchange Telegraph despatch reports a Cork police barracks explosion with the sergeant and his family unharmed. Distrurbances drew crowds to Carrigthill and attacks followed at Inchigeelagh and South Kilmurry, while wire communications were cut. The Press Association backs the Cork outline.
Twelve masked men stopped a taxi on Glen Road in Belfast and forced the occupants at gunpoint to drive to Hannahstown three miles away before returning to Belfast. No injuries reported.
Members of the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America held a mass meeting in Lawrence to denounce Department of Justice raids on alleged radicals and the deportation policy. Leader H. L. Rotzel criticized the DOJ and attacked William M. Wood of the American Woolen Company for not recognizing the union.
The entry notes celestial events and morning star positions. It lists lunar phases with full moons on January 5 and February 4 and March 4, and new moons on January 21 and February 19. It identifies Mars, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn as morning stars.
The report presents mean temperature, mean dew point, and mean relative humidity. It lists a maximum temperature of minus forty four point six degrees and a minimum of six degrees, credited to J W SMI rit, a meteorologist.
By last evening no fishing craft had reached port though several were expected. Weather of the past days hindered shore fleets while steam trawlers were relied on to bring in most of today's arrivals. The Triumph, a steel steamer built in Alameda and owned by the Shipping Board, arrived yesterday from New York to sail on the American line for Liverpool.
After a full overhaul of hull machinery and boilers the Ocean line steamer City of Rome is in commission again and will sail tomorrow afternoon for Savannah on its regular trip. Roston to receive one cargo of Chillan nitrate. Lake Festina brings a large nitrate shipment from Tocopilla and arrives next Friday. Shipping Board allocates 16 steamers to nitrate trade with cargoes to France Belgium Holland and Spain totaling 80568 tons.
Steamers Lake Jessup Pray Nuevitas Triumph Watt New York Palias Balti Mass solt Brown Portland City of Gloucester sailed. Steamers Betsy Bell Norfolk Lake Worth Coutolene tugs Triton New York towing barges Devon Chemung Shamokin Tagus Norfolk towing barges Luzon Sea King Paoli Portland towing barge Ampere Baymead Portsmouth N H.
The upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine promises a 1920 almanac insert that is up to date in every respect and highly worth obtaining.
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