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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1919
Page
6
High school girls in Boston suburbs reportedly do not use face powder in quantities that would prompt official action. Superintendent and school committee members indicated yesterday there is no current policy or disciplinary need related to powder use.
City and town school leaders across Roxbury, Weymouth, Chelsea, Medford and Everett deny enforcing any powder rule for high school girls. Principals Laird Parlin and Nickerson say no facial powder scrutiny exists, while Superintendent Pearson and Leighton frame powder use as a private matter and parental concern.
William A. Wright aged 75 of Mattapan was found unconscious in a bedroom as bed clothing burned. His wife and daughter discovered him kneeling near escape flames. Dr. Johnson pronounced him dead after helping extinguish the blaze caused by hot ashes from a pipe.
Harvard College reports 1740 undergraduates enrolled this year, with 494 freshmen and 176 seniors. The Engineering School, funded by the McKay endowment, shows 46 students. Returning soldiers boost the unclassified division to three times its three-year-ago size.
Sixty eight casualties for the entire country compose the minimal War Department list issued since American troops entered France. The brief list includes all fatalities and marks a low point in casualties to date.
Four New England servicemen appear on the casualty list. Two died of wounds received in battle and two died from disease. Died of wounds Pt. Joseph Grzesik Chicopee Hospital Chicopee. Pt. James Lees 135 Thorndyke St East Cambridge. Died of disease Pt. George J. Straka Noroton Heights Conn Pt. John E. Walsh 213 Beacon St Somerville.
Rockland Maine January 19 George Leith Boston detective to receive all evidence from County Attorney Henry J L Withee and agents to reopen inquiry into the murder of Mrs Carolyn West Brown Witnesses to be re examined The theory posits Mrs Brown left the home of Mrs George W Bachelder Jr with a Rockland business man who courted her and rode with him to Thomaston in his automobile the man objected to attentions from a Rockland yeoman at the barracks
Norman O'Sullivan has not been absent from Sunday school at the Hancock Congregational Church in Lexington for four years and has missed only one Sunday in five years according to the Sabbath school honor roll made public yesterday. He is the son of Humphrey O'Sullivan of Winter Street, North Lexington.
The United States transport Northern Pacific, stranded on a Fire Island sand bar since January 1, was floated last night and towed into New York Harbor today. It will be taken to the navy yard tomorrow to be dry docked and repaired before returning to the transport service.
An unidentified motorist in a cream seven-seated touring car struck two boys and a girl on Forest Street opposite the Metropolitan Park Police Station in Medford and sped off into the night, eluding pursuers through the early hours.
A cream colored seven passenger touring car struck three Medford youths as they crossed a street. Charles Wells 17 was fatally injured and dying at Massachusetts General Hospital Amos Wilkes 16 was only slightly hurt and taken to hospital Helen Stokes 15 sustained a severe forehead cut but is expected to recover The driver fled the scene as witnesses and police pursued leads across Greater Boston and Eastern Massachusetts.
Demetrius Kalopothakes of the American legation in Athens will address the public at the Fogg Art Museum Harvard Thursday at 430 pm on Greece in the Peace Conference. A Harvard alumnus class of 1888 he befriended Premier Venizelos in Athens and tours the United States to detail Greek aims following talks at Yale and Cornell.
Mme Catherine Breshkovskaya warns that any new Russian government will fail without immediate aid. She says Czecho-Slovak soldiers are preferred over allied troops and that their arrival would be welcomed as a sign of salvation.
Madame Breshkovskaya, on a Pacific crossing tour, defends Kerensky and condemns Bolshevik methods while urging aid for four million orphans and eight million illiterates in Russia. She plans Washington and Boston stops as she recounts her eight months hiding in Petrograd and travels through Moscow.
A British report notes 45 000 Armenian and eastern Syrian refugees at Baqubas camp near Bagdad. The site, rapidly set up to handle 59 000 exiles, now functions with clean water, sanitation, three hospitals, and about 1000 orphans cared for. A new irrigation canal at Mansureyah widens the Diaba River to water 300 000 acres near Bagdad.
A Boston reader argues police pay is far too low and apprenticeships unfair. He compares starting wages of officers to a car conductor earning far more, urging a living wage to honor their service.
Ammi Peirce Cutter, Arlington's oldest native born resident, died yesterday at his home following a two week shock. Born June 18 183 in West Cambridge, he was the son of Cyrus Cutter a town pioneer and the sixth generation born on the Cutter farm. His ancestors arrived in the Mayflower in 1620 and were market gardeners.
In Germany grave election riots erupt during the general vote for the national assembly. A general strike is reported in Leipzig, leaving the city without gas and water, Copenhagen dispatches say.
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