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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1921
Page
16
President Lowell reports a 161000 deficit despite endowment work and hints at tuition rising toward 300 dollars aligning with Yale and Princeton. He urges higher standards, better discipline, and targeted scholarships to keep the school’s ascent while maintaining access for students from modest means.
More than 500 wounded veterans, in pajamas and bathrobes, cheered for an hour and a half as the Passing Show Company staged a hospital entertainment at Parker Hill Hospital. Two AEF veterans, recently able to sit up, applauded amid a jovial performance by Tilly Barton’s Mischief Makers. The event was arranged through Gilman Haskell, with actors volunteering their leisure.
The Festival of Lights at the Cathedral Church of St Paul drew a large crowd with every seat filled and doors closed early. The service featured a mixed choir procession through the street with lighted candles and continued to the Common and subway entrances. Dean E Rousmaniere preached on The Sacred Flame closing Epiphany season.
The archdiocese plans Forty Hours Devotion at St Francis Roxbury St Joseph East Boston and St Casimir Maynard from Friday to Sunday. Mrs Alice Maloney reports 38000 raised for starving children and a bed at St Elizabeth's Hospital. A Young Ladies Sodality event is tonight at St Marys Hall Stillman St North End. A Jesish Order run three week Lent mission begins Feb II at Cathedral of the Holy Cross for women and men and non Catholics.
A bronze tablet listing 98 church members who served in the World War was unveiled at First Habitat Church Medford. Edith Woods unveiled the tablet. dedication by Rev D J Nelly. Of the 98, nine served in the military, three were in secretarial roles and four were killed.
The Boston Allied Printing Trades Council, automatically constituted, has imposed a lockout at the city plant. Workers continue to abstain from work, keeping the dispute active as negotiations proceed.
Boston unions announce withdrawal from the Municipal Printing Plant over unpaid prevailing wages. They cite four months of unfair conditions, a city mayoral stance against a wage schedule, and a plant lockout by noncompliance. The notice details proposed increases, cited city-wide wage comparisons, and union firm appeals for collective bargaining.
Superintendent Charles S. Lawler stated that the situation at the city printing plant is not a lockout. He explained that failure to appear for work constitutes a strike, not a lockout, as union leaders advised men not to report Monday. He added that absent workers would likely discharge themselves from city service.
Business Agent John J. Kearney of Watters Local 34 told the Boston Central Labor Union that unions will present facts to the Boston Chamber of Commerce the State House and U S district and Suffolk county prosecutors showing hotels in the city profiteering more now than when summoned earlier. He urged appointing a five member committee to aid cooks waiters and waitresses in their wage dispute, a request granted with the creation of a committee led by Jeremiah F. Driscoll and including George Tagen James T. Moriarty P Harry Jennings and Martin J Joyce.
The Boston Central Labor Union received a Chamber of Commerce invitation to take part in upcoming public hearings on building and housing starting Jan 1. The United Building Trades Council urged affiliated unions to strike Wednesday at five o clock if a 10 cent per hour cut or 99 cent rate is proposed by the Building Trades Employers Association. The Trades Council may decide at today’s meeting, so the Central Labor Union executive council will review to coordinate action.
Seven big unions representing members of the International Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union of America voted unanimously at a special meeting at 1 Wiget Street to stop work Wednesday night on projects where wage scales are reduced. They will continue work for contractors who accept the submitted terms from the United Building Trades Council.
William J. Best, indicted by the Hillsborough County grand jury for first degree murder of his wife Dorris Billa Best, is to be arraigned in the Superior Court in Manchester New Hampshire tomorrow morning. Major Ivory C. Eaton will defend Best and County Solicitor T F O Connor will prosecute. The trial date is not yet set.
Three firemen were overcome by smoke and more than $20,000 in damage occurred at the C. C. Bailey Company on 141 Friend Street. A large quantity of Oriental rugs and curtains on the fifth floor were destroyed or damaged while the cause of the blaze was not determined yesterday afternoon.
Smoke and water flood five story building housing Maurice F. Horan Company Brooks Gill & Co and warerooms on Canal Street. Fire confined to rugs with Bailey tags. Five alarms. Firemen Quigley O Leary Flynn overcome by smoke but saved. Estimated rug stock damage over 25000 dollars plus other losses.
Vice President elect Coolidge will take a brief South visit before returning home from the Southern congress in Atlanta. Mrs Coolidge said they have not decided where to spend the vacation after the January 27 29 trip.
A unanimous group of 30 New England representatives, largely from Lawrence, affiliated with the Amalgamated Textile Workers, refuse to accept a 2 1/2 percent wage reduction proposed by the United Textile Workers of America. They pledge to back strikes and organize against the American Woolen Company, with mass meetings and a planned textile alliance to counter the cut.
The People's Choral Union conducted by George Dunham performed Mendelssohn Elijah with Boston Symphony Orchestra under Jacques Hoffman. Soloists Mildred Faas Bertha Orgill Davies Harold Tripp and others received praise for dramatic delivery and vocal quality. An appreciative large audience attended.
Miss Lucy Pagé Gaston of Chicago representing the National Anti Cigarette League said she received a reply from President elect Harding. He said it is fine to save the youth from tobacco but the movement should be carried on in good faith and without hypocrisy. He did not state he would stop smoking.
A New York wave of crime returns with two homicides, numerous robberies, and heightened police activity. Edward Markie, a clerk, died after a West 147th Street shooting. an acquaintance, Rank Bond, was later arrested. James Sullivan was killed near an East Side saloon by a hidden assailant. Six men raided a Greenwich Village home. four were captured after a struggle with William Royen’s family and a police clubbing. A Harlem apartment resident captured an alleged robber, John Robinson, held on $5000 bail. Pollen squads raided Bowery Harlem and Lower East Side, arresting over 150 for gambling or being suspicious. Alexander Lukin, a salesman, was beaten and hospitalized. a West Side theater box office was robbed after a ticket clerk was assaulted.
A dynamite blast damaged the storefront of James A. Joyce a Pittston merchant serving as a volunteer conciliator between miners and operators. Joyce and his family slept on the second floor but escaped injury in the Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania incident linked to the recent labor disputes.
Full military honors marked the funeral of Lieutenant Elmer R. Bolinder and Corporal John E. Blacksidge both Swampscott veterans who died overseas. The Congregational Church welcomed hundreds of veterans and friends before burial at Swampscott Cemetery where the two were laid to rest together.
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