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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
12
City Auditor Richard J. Shea announced in Lawrence that back city taxes totaling 822000 are due. Tax bills will be issued within a week and the city collector with police department help will collect them, with court action as a fallback.
Sergeant Arthur C. Cliff of the Marine Recruiting Service, missing four days, reported to Marine Headquarters and to Major Joseph D. Murray. Officials say his mind is a blank regarding his disappearance. Wounds from France are cited as affecting his condition, and he was moved to the Naval Hospital at Chelsea.
Augusta Mo Jan 14 Governor Carl E Milliken told the third annual state convention of city and town assessors that several hundred million dollars of Maine property now escapes taxation He urged support for a constitutional amendment to enable an income tax law in Maine and called for cooperation with state assessors to properly equalize valuations of tangible property.
The Nova Scotian schooner Frances Gardiner crew was landed at John, N. B., after being taken off 70 miles south of Cape Race by the Norwegian steamer Albert W. Selmer. The vessel was in sinking condition due to storm buffeting.
Edward Cc. R. Bagley former Massachusetts Prison director told Boston Women’s Civics Club a hostile view of women inmates. He said some women are “awful” disobedient, refuse sewing or housework, yet accept punishment with pick and shovel as better treatment, while men remain paragons.
Winifredian docks at East Boston with 55 cabin passengers and 4200-ton cargo valued near 4 million dollars. Elsie Armstrong Mabel Cluness and Hilda Cooper wed men from West Roxbury Hebron Indiana and Detroit after meeting their beaus while serving in wartime. Passengers include William Reedy Arcadia Texas and Reverend Albert E Ashton missionary to India. Agnes Broome, former London censor, will visit sister in Brookline.
A letter column runs through a series of reader questions and notes. Topics include cooking times for meats and vegetables, origin of the term tanks, Bible verse numerology for children, origins of Simmons and Smith colleges, Europe’s big eastern city from Boston, Browning rifles in WWI, and whether live lobsters are broiled while alive.
The practice of broiling a live lobster involves killing it by opening the underside body, removing the intestines, and preparing it for cooking. This method reflects traditional seafood preparation steps from early culinary guides.
Agent E F Gorman of the Woburn Board of Health and Charities petitioned the Superior Court to place the bank account of Frank Figuccia of 67 Conn street Woburn at the citys disposal to aid the destitute Figuccia family. Figuccia, one of four men in East Cambridge jail on a murder charge, refused to turn over 235 to his wife, prompting the attachment. The wife and family of John Cammeria, jailed on the same murder charge, have also sought town aid.
Howard H. Trussell, a retail grocer of Wiscasset Maine, arraigned before U S Commissioner Chapman in Portland January 14 on charges of selling sugar at exorbitant profit. He pleaded not guilty and was held to the grand jury in 100 dollars bail. It is alleged he bought nine tons of sugar from a Rockland wholesaler and retailed it as high as 20 cents a pound.
New York January 14. Manufacturers ask the public service commission to allow purchase of thousands of trolley tickets at 10 cents each for resale to College Point factory workers at five cents. The aim is to keep the New York and Queens County Electric Railway operating and prevent isolating College Point plants with about 10,000 employees. The railway reportedly loses 200,000 dollars yearly at the current fare and has threatened to suspend service.
Northampton January 14 Ed ward Lyons Hadley Hotel proprietor bound over to the grand jury on four charges arising from more than 60 deaths from alleged wood alcohol whiskey sales. Lyons faced a man slaughter charge in Michael Sarzynski death with probable guilt on three minor charges and was released on 6500 bail.
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