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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1920
Page
9
Thousands of customers packed 175 Dev Ontshire Street yesterday to buy navy surplus clothing blankets and household items. Stock includes pearl gray heavy weight woolen blankets undergarments sizes 32 and 34 military brushes galvanized pails and rattan coating baskets. Large hardware stock shipments are being arranged for arrival.
Frank P. Walsh former chairman of the Federal Industrial Board and envoy of Irish Americans to the peace conference will speak at the reopening of the League of Catholic Women lecture course on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Notre Dame Academy Fenway.
Advertises Noonan's Lemon Complexion Cream 4 creams in 1 a cold cleansing bleaching and astringent cream for aging women. Claims soft fresh skin, removes impurities and evens tone. Sold by drug or department stores, 50 cents for a 4 oz jar from T Noonan & Lions Co Boston MA.
The Thomas Pigeon Airplane Company of East Boston forms a 100000 corporation to build six passenger seaplanes at 31 Coleridge street. Reginald D. Thomas leads design and testing with M I T engineers approving the cruiser planned for spring delivery and 600 mile range.
City Hall disclosures show two superintendents and three deputy superintendents receiving full pay as executive heads of Boston s new police force. One superintendent and one deputy superintendent were on the payroll before the policemen s walk out.
The city funds show Superintendent Crowley at 5000 annually with Pierce retired at 5025. Deputy Kimball earns 3500, while Coulter and Warren, retired, draw 3500 each. Other retired officers include two captains at 3000, three lieutenants at 2000, three sergeants at 1825, and nine patrolmen at 1600. 1566 patrolmen are listed in duty, with Curtis earning 8000 not included.
Lawrence Council 67 Knights of Columbus opened a three day observance with a banquet at St Marys Hall honoring 210 council members who served in the war and commemorating the council charter’s 27th anniversary. Speakers included Rev Father William J Farrell, State Deputy William J Day and James E F Cavanaugh.
James Cheever, 8 Stewart Street, Lynn, a driver for Washington Express Company, was held up by two masked men in a car with lamps out just after 6 pm in Saugus. They threatened him with revolvers and took $2. Police searched the area but found no trace of the culprits.
The College of Liberal Arts at Boston University fpassed a ballot on the peace treaty and Covenant of the League of Nations at Jacob Sleeper Hall. The Lodge reservations form led with 193 votes, while other tallies included ratification 152 and Lodge compromise 198.
Mrs Catherine L Jillson wife of a Colorado Springs physician faces Central Court over a confessed larceny of a fur coat in a downtown store. She cited a violent nervous headache and an overdose of palliatives that morning. Her husband pleaded her condition as the coat was recovered on the spot. He said they came to Boston for a new location and to improve health. The coat was laid aside by Mrs Louise Tekley of Prescott street East Boston.
Fish dealers at 111 Fulton Street were fined 80 dollars and appealed in Central Court yesterday after Officer McCaffrey persuaded Judge Burke of their guilt. The case involved 108 pounds of salmon dyed a deeper pink using a carmine colored coloring agent.
Secretary Baker urged Congress to authorize an army of about 275000 officers and men to stay in Germany and Siberia for the rest of the fiscal year. A bill to carry out this plan was sent to the military committee. He and the House panel debated universal training as a condition for any reorganization. The committee voted 9 to 5 to remove from the bill the rank of lieutenant general for Hunter Liggett and Robert Bullard in the regular army.
Endowment drive, led by graduates outside Boston and New York, surpassed 75 percent of its 3.8 million target as of last night. Regional totals show Boston contributions of 4,596,726 and New York at 3,92,619, with outsides at 2,970,124, bringing the total to 11,459,469.
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