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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1921
Page
12
New York patrolman Patrick English, sitting atop Robert Miller, 24, an alleged burglar, learned they were former buddies from the Lost Battalion in the Argonne. English captured the pair on an uptown apartment roof after jewelry and silverware were stolen. a third suspect was nabbed hiding in a dumbwaiter.
Dana McArthur 26 of Malden and Carlisle Lakeman 2 Medford are jailed on three larceny counts from John Hancock Insurance offices. McArthur spotted on a Summer street train by Lovegren, pursued to Malden, arrested after ride to Malden police HQ. Police seek accomplice’s girlfriend. earth Mars distance noted.
Joseph Lovegren of Everett, a clerk at John Hancock Insurance, acted as a vigilant amateur sleuth leading to two young men held at City Hall avenue station on theft charges as police credit his persistence.
At Provincetown Town Hall the Ter Centenary Commission ruled out building a memorial hospital or marine boulevard. The group is limited by law to create a suitable and dignified approach to the Pilgrim Monument to mark the 300th anniversary of the Pilgrims landing.
Town Hall area property owners attended as Chairman Thomas C. Thacher outlined that the commission is bound by Massachusetts and federal laws. The panel cannot approve a memorial hospital, marine boulevard, or similar tribute in the Pilgrim monument approach and discussed property values affected by the plan.
At a city hearing the commission reviewed plans affecting nine buildings for an upcoming monument approach. Owners’ valuations were not disclosed. Charles H. Morse of Haverhill led engineering, with Henry M. Chase and Professor Henry V. Hubbard of Harvard guiding surveying and planning with Olmstead Brothers on the landscape work.
The note recalls watermarks in paper history, mentioning John Tate a Stevenage papermaker who in 1494 used an eight petaled flower as his watermark.
The sons of Daniel Desmond, 50, of 4 Center Avenue Reading, dug and prepared his grave yesterday after finding the St Patrick's Cemetery vault full and winter burial rules forbidding digging. The family was told the vault was crowded and grave diggers were not employed from Jan 1 until spring.
Thure Johnstone, former editor of a Scandinavian newspaper, has advertised himself for rent for one year to support his wife and newborn son. Despite four years in America and fluency in seven languages, he cannot secure employment at any price set at 1000 dollars.
Frederick Tudor of Bourne as trustee sues in Suffolk Superior Court to reach Edward Slade of New York City interest in a trust fund from Daniel D. Slade of Newton. The bill alleges Slade failed to keep an agreement to pay $300 a month to his wife Euphemia T. Slade of Boston, from whom he is separated.
The city plans to enforce overdue poll taxes with warrants against delinquent taxpayers. About 40,000 delinquents for last year and around 67,000 for 1919 are targeted as constables will proceed in the Back Bay to collect unpaid taxes.
Boston hotel staff will hold a mass meeting at Fay Hall Dover and Washington streets at midnight to discuss and act on a proposed wage reduction of dollars per week for all cooks and waiters in the city.
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