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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1921
Page
18
General Butler Ames of Lowell, a former Congressman and former commander of the State Guard, risked his life to protect a companion during a dangerous incident. Details of the event and its outcome remain under report by local sources.
In Arlington road and Lake avenue yesterday afternoon in Woburn General Ames shielded a young woman driver from a pole impact and was critically injured. Miss Elizabeth Kennard of Lowell, 23, uninjured aside from a minor facial cut, was driving a new limousine owned by Priscilla Kennard. eye witnesses say she struggled with the car throughout the ride and narrowly avoided a team earlier on Main Street. Mrs Butler and Joseph A Lagare were in the back seat and unhurt. General Ames is at Choate Hospital.
The party traveling toward Boston encountered a sharp bend on Arlington road turning into Lake avenue in Wo turn. Miss Kennard misjudged the curve and the car veered across Lake avenue, striking a pole despite attempts to steer away.
In a mass meeting at 881 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge tenants refused to accept their landlord Thomas F Wurkes compromise offer on current rents. They say rents for this month were already paid to former landlord Anthony Govan now missing. Burke via attorney William H Sullivan proposed to take half of the claimed amounts given the circumstances.
Odorless kerosene with antiseptic added for dandruff and dry brittle hair. Uses include treating hair with a delicate perfume. Barbers offer the treatment for 15 cents. bottles sell for $1.00 at drug and department stores or directly from T Noonan & Sons of Boston.
Washington Jan 25 The failed conferences of 11 eastern railroad presidents end today with no compromise on the through freight rate redivision between trunk lines west of the Hudson and New England carriers. A Friday meeting in New York is planned to present the New England carriers’ financial woes to all presidents.
After Dr. F. M. Padelford spoke in Cambridge last night against compulsory vaccination, residents adopted a resolution urging optional vaccination and state guarantees against various smallpox matter. Padelford questioned vaccine purity, warned of unproven virus and cited past cattle disease outbreaks linked to seed virus imports.
In Philadelphia the mother of Elmer C. Drewes testified in the Brines murder trial, describing her emotions as she said she last saw her son alive on Oct 16 and noting he was murdered after arrival home. A key witness, Howard Heath, testified Drewes planned to see a friend and obtain a car in Philadelphia, with Brines implicated in burning a letter.
President James A. Dorsey welcomed about 200 women at the annual ladies night dinner dance in Hotel Somerset ballroom. Judge Charles B. Sullivan praised women's public role and influence on governance, noting suffrage abroad could hasten peace. dignitaries and guests filled the head table.
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