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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
13
A nine foot alligator basked on the Wabash River banks in Wabash Indiana drawing hundreds of spectators. Residents watched from the bridge all day as hunters tracked the miscreant gator. Local swimming holes were ruined and neighbors fear venturing to the river bank.
Agide Jacchia curates a rich program at Symphony Hall featuring Akhmeds, Arensky, Strube, Cui, Rimsky Korsakov, and Tschaikovsky selections including Orientale, Scheherazade, Trepak, and the Fourth Symphony finale. Soloist Georges Mager performs trumpet. At 103, Miss Ames G Reader from Ashford still plays with childlike energy.
Edmund K. Billings relinquishes the post of collector of the customs service at the Custom House as Wilfrid W. Lufkin is to be inducted at 10 30 this morning. Billings praised the loyal and efficient local force, rejected political criticism, and received a six piece silver service, a bronze desk set, and a coal portrait from Joseph A. Maynard. The ceremony follows a complimentary dinner honoring Lufkin and the customs staff.
The Suffolk county grand jury will investigate the disappearance of Jackson Arthur Hardy of Brighton and his 15-year-old stepdaughter Gladys Richardson. District Attorney Pelletier said Mrs. Hardy appealed after the U S district attorney's office refused to issue a warrant. The pair are reportedly in Buffalo and the mother seeks their return under the Mann Act. Police plan a quiet inquiry. no arrest is yet planned due to questions over criminality of mere absence.
In London a threatened strike over wage reductions was avoided as employers and engineers reached a provisional agreement after a conference. The talks averted a potential disruption in the engineering sector.
Rocco Donaldo, 27, said to belong to a Black Hand society, was sentenced to eight to 10 years in State prison by Judge Cox in East Cambridge Court. He was found guilty of assault with intent to kill Louis Arone in his Belmont tailor shop on March 18, slashing Arone’s face with a razor with a confederate. Arone claimed he was targeted in a Black Hand plot.
A mail-in entry received by midnight tomorrow can win either 1000 or 500 dollars. The 1000 dollar first prize goes to the best advertising idea for any of 24 listed products, submitted by a reader of any paper. A 500 dollar special award will go to the next best effort.
Only today and tomorrow remain for a chance at a $1000 reward in the Zain Ad Writing Contest. Several thousand Post readers have already won weekly prizes, and this is the final opportunity to receive an award in this fascinating con test of wits. Send entries to Box 5281, Boston.
Mass readers are urged to submit ad ideas for a contest open to nonprofessionals. Postmark by Saturday allows eligibility even if reached after judges, with numerous requests for extra time. Read the list of products and file a forceful brief of a few chosen items before midnight tomorrow.
Eugene R. Drioly of Littleton received a life prison term in East Cambridge Court for second degree murder after pleading guilty to fatally striking his stepson Vincent P. Plancich with an axe on March 20. The Boston University Law School student died, and Drioly wept after the sentence.
In Plymouth the town jail stores pikes dirks helmets and other Tudor era items for a Pilgrim pageant directed by Michael C Carr. Local women craft 1660 fashion garments daily as the event runs July 18 to 22 and again July 30 August 2 8 with production ending August 10.
The Department of Public Utilities notified Representative Coleman E.B. Kelly of Dorchester of a July 6 public hearing on his protest against Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company's refusal to accept commutation tickets and its charge of regular fares on Sundays and holidays.
In Ellsworth Maine authorities will exhume the body of Isaac L. Stover's first wife, who died over six years ago in convulsions, to test for traces of strychnine poison. The case centers on a possible poisoning link and follows renewed investigative steps.
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