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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1920
Page
6
Stettin dispatch reports the Baltic blockade against Germany was lifted yesterday. The Baltic naval commission says the first German ships have already sailed from Baltic ports.
Six full quarts and 24 full pints of real red licker sit unclaimed on Captain Richard Fitzgerald's desk at the Joy Street police station as Boston grows drier and no owner steps forward to claim them.
In a chaotic scene at Central Court Judge Creed hears tales of two dozen pints seized from H Liner s thirstatorium at 1812 Green Street and later linked to Howard Barnes cafe and Genoa waiter Ceasar Salla. Officers recount sacks of liquor disproving the stranger story as Salla faces a $300 fine and appeals loom for the remaining defendants.
Charles I. Crockett alias Ralph Wilson confessed robberies of typewriters silverware and scientific instruments from multiple high schools including Winchester Brookline Cambridge Somerville Arlington Medford Watertown Everett and Malden. He was committed to East Cambridge jail on $6000 bond after a raid on Winchester High School and was captured in a private garage early Saturday. His wife Emily L. Silva, startled by the arrest, is at her parents home in East Boston.
Six people, three men and three women, were arrested on drug charges in a Dudley Street Roxbury house raid conducted by a Roxbury squad and inspectors. They were held in bail totaling 28000 dollars in Roxbury Municipal Court until January. The house had been under police surveillance for weeks.
The coal strike settlement commission can start deciding miners claims for higher wages and shorter hours after operators in the central competitive field agreed to participate. John L. Lewis and miner representatives presented the full demands from last November, seeking a 60 percent wage increase, a 30 hour week, and six other concessions aimed at permanently higher living standards.
A wooden storage building at the Stand ard Saw and Tool Company plant on Cam rell Street South Boston burned yesterday afternoon. The blaze caused several thousand dollars in losses and a second alarm was sounded due to the congested neighborhood. Officials believe spontaneous combustion sparked the fire.
London reports from Belfast say Sligo citizens with government issued permits had cars lorries and patrols destroyed last night. One depot shed seven autos in a single act and four hundred gallons of gasoline belonging to an Anglo American company were wasted. A pasted notice claimed the car was driven under a British permit and that preventative measures were ordered.
Lord Robert Cecil told a gathering in Widnes that the League of Nations could immediately help end fighting in the east by demanding Poland stop waging war on Bolshevik Russia and by instructing Bolshevik forces to cease hostilities.
Frank Geacobee, 42, of 821 Broadway Somerville, was knocked by a street car while rushing for another electric on Frederick Avenue near Main Street. He suffered a fracture of the right leg and was taken to Malden Hospital yesterday afternoon.
Edwin F. French longtime Boston Post compositor died yesterday at 4 pm after brief bronchial pneumonia at his home 11 Brooks Street Atlantic He previously served as superintendent of the composing department at the Record and Advertiser.
The obituary notes Mr French born in Taunton on July 80 1847 built a bold paper career in Boston as a compositor and head of the composing department at the Record and Advertiser. He died after a storm disrupted rail service when a belated Boston-bound train toppled him from the car steps while attempting to oversee makeup of the paper.
The article recalls Mr. French a longtime Boston Post composing room figure who suffered injuries in a building crash and spent two weeks in hospital. He later housed in Atlantic and survived by daughter Mrs Jennie Carr. He belonged to Shawmut Lodge Odd Fellows and Boston Typographical Union since 1886 with funeral details to be announced.
Superintendent Reising of the railway mail service said a new plan to number stations in the Boston postal district will raise delivery efficiency on train distributed mail by ten to twenty percent. The system seeks parity with already efficient portions, provided patrons use the option.
Renowned fiction writer Clarence Budington Kelland, noted for vivid storytelling, will publish his unusually strong story You Can’t Tell Till You Try in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine, signaling high literary anticipation.
Advertisement touts Poslam as effective against virulent eczema, claiming rapid soothing, cooling relief and significant healing as it penetrates skin. It promotes Poslam soap medicated with Poslam and urges readers to request a free sample from Emergency Laboratories in New York City.
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