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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1921
Page
4
Sir Percy Stott defends battleships in a London Times letter noting a lady’s quip that ships serve usefulness beyond fighting. He cites a midshipman’s remark that battleships are of no use and counters with the idea that decks for dancing and a band prove their value, while praising submarines’ lack of such amenities.
Brigadier General Ruckman and staff were hosted by General Electric Company in Lyon for an inspection tour of the plant. After the tour, company officials hosted a dinner for the officers to conclude the visit.
Milton O. Dearn, agent of Edwards Manufacturing Company, said the cotton miller would be running on full time soon. He expressed the belief that improvement in the business outlook would lead to similar action in other mills in Maine.
A masked man robbed the bakery of Herman D. Schnetzer at 57 Blue Hill avenue Roxbury last evening taking about 45 in bank notes and silver from one cash drawer. He wore a long black coat and a white handkerchief over his mouth and had been identified by clerk Stella Stokinger who previously encountered him offering a counterfeit $2 bill.
New Haven reports a three story Lafay ette street blaze at Samuel Portnoy wholesale grocer and Schulman Candy Co causing about $50,000 damage. Earlier and later small fires added to the day’s burden for firefighters.
Soft drink manufacturers announce a year of extensive advertising, predicting record business. FR L Dee of Orange-Crush Chicago spoke at the Eastern Soda Water Bottlers Association banquet in Quincy House, urging dealer cooperation with manufacturers to secure success. Seventy-five members attended. William Barnstead acted as toastmaster. Other speakers included C Fred Wright, Junior Owens, and Hugh McMackin on industry work and legislative unity.
Louis K. Liggett addressed 350 Rexall New England employees at the American House banquet, urging labor to help reduce costs and promising a year focusing on sales. He said the public must buy, and that labor controls 90 percent of production costs. The Rexall two day convention closure marked the first session with H. E. Rice as toastmaster and Liggett as keynote speaker.
George Lavigne 26 of Marlboro an auto mechanic and amateur wrestler was brought to Boston from Newport Vermont on a cot in the baggage car charged with the December larceny of two automobiles. He attempted suicide with bichloride mercury tablets in Newport and while en route but was stopped and placed under guard in the Relief Hospital in a dangerous condition.
The Department of Labor says 3,473,466 fewer workers were in industry this January than a year earlier, a 26.9 percent drop. New York City led with 254,213 dismissed, while Michigan faced the largest regional decline driven by the auto sector.
An old style ad urges readers to use Jad Salts to flush and cleanse kidneys. It claims the remedy prevents backache, headaches, bladder issues, and liver problems by taking four ounces in water each morning for a few days. It touts safety, low cost, and pleasant taste.
The report shows about 62 percent of total employment tied to industry with January figures around 11 percent. Notable drops occur in textiles and related fields by 2.5 percent, leather by 3 percent, lumber and house furniture by 32 percent, metals machinery electrical goods and foundry by 50.5 percent, packing and food by 19 percent, and clay glass cement and stone by 19 percent.
The Rev Thomas R Gorman a visiting priest from Columbus Kansas will be guest of honor at a Columbus Charity Club reception on January 28 at Longfellow Hall Roxbury The event honors the visiting priest with a reception.
Frank Curtis known as The Good Cheer Evangelist says he will go to any small church without pay to spread the gospel. Next Sunday he speaks at Union Church at Sion with afternoon topic Choose Ye Life or Death and evening talk On the Mining Line for Christ in the Slums.
Mayor Peters approved Miss Effie M. Fife of 600 Blue Hill avenue Roxbury as secretary in the institutions department at a salary of 230 a year. The appointment becomes effective January 28.
In Pittsburg Van 25 Mrs William Bangham pressed a pistol to the side of William Wilson a Negro charged with assaulting her at a court hearing in Forest Hills Borough. She pulled the trigger but it did not fire as about forty of fifty women gathered cried kill him and we will stand by you. Five detectives surrounded the prisoner and moved him to an automobile then to county jail. Wilson faced arraignment on felonious assault charges and admitted knowledge of robberies in Forest Hills.
Funeral services for Patrick IL Shaughnessey of 8% Glenwood Street Roxbury, longtime public works foreman, who died last Saturday night at City Hospital after a short illness, were held yesterday from his Roxbury home. Representatives from Mt. Pleasant Council M C O F church debt societies of St. Joseph's and St. Philip's Roxbury and Holy Name Society attended the home and St. Joseph's Church where a high mass of requiem was sung.
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