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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
4
In Middlebury Vermont Mrs Felix Liberty bailouts from a car that slid 60 feet backward down an embankment into Otter Creek. The vehicle rolled over into the water but she clung to the running board and was rescued by three men. She survived though internal injuries are feared.
An advertisement touts Noonan's Lemon Complexion Cream with four benefits for the complexion and 50 cent jars sold at drug and department stores or via Boston. A long feature reports Captain Seavey and the mackerel catch on the schooner Arthur James noting 60,000 pounds in 12 days of May, the $12,898 earnings, prior seasons stock totals, and vessel specs including 138 gross tons two 36-horsepower engines, 19 crew, and a 1000 yard seine valued at about $4000.
Boothbay Harbor Maine July 1 Captain John Seavey of the schooner Arthur James has caught 45 000 000 pounds of mackerel over 45 years. He is the oldest fishing skipper by service on the Atlantic coast and has handled more mackerel than any other Seine captain on the coast.
Three officers were transferred and one dismissed in general orders at last night’s roll call. Patrolman Carlton B. Perry moves from City Point to Harbor, Frank Bradley shifts to Athens Street, and Timothy J. Murphy replaces Perry at City Point. Patrolman Patrick J. Mooney is dismissed for conduct unbecoming an officer after an appeal upheld the trial board.
The Boston committee for Americanism reports 64089 noncitizens among residents and notes weekly inquiries on citizenship papers. It plans fall forums to counter radicalism, offers English and citizenship classes, distributes cards with school locations, and broadcasts patriotism via foreign-language newspapers. It also backs American Legion posts in obtaining citizenship papers.
Ladderman William E. Keenan of Ladder Company 8 Fort Hill was commended by Fire Commissioner Murphy for capturing a dangerous criminal on Tre Mont street on June 14. Keenan chased and detained the suspect who had robbed a woman of $22 on Pwight street, later handing him to City Hall station police. The order also announces transfers of John T. Murphy Edwin McNamara and John J. Corcoran from Chemical Company 14 to Engines 19 Ladder 28 and 48 respectively.
Tony Bosso of 8 Pear Street Chelsea is hospitalized at Symmes Arlington Hospital after being struck by a car on Massachusetts Avenue near Appleton Street Arlington Heights. The machine was owned and operated by Arthur Birch former Arlington Board of Public Works chairman.
Andover July 1 The principal mills of the American Woolen Company operating three days a week will be shut down completely for an indefinite period on July 10. President William M. Wood said cancellations and curtailment of orders for next season made the stoppage necessary.
President Wood announced that mills would remain closed until market conditions improve and that reopening would be ordered immediately when signs of recovery appear. The plan affects all American Woolen Company mills except three named facilities. The company employs about 40 000 across roughly 50 mills in New England and New York.
The May report from the Department of Commerce shows a world wide improvement in the U S trade balance with major regions. Europe posted a $290 million favorable balance as exports reached $383 million and imports $92 million, up $37 million from April. South America had a $5 million surplus, India ran a $30 million deficit, and North American trade totaled a $14 million surplus with exports $138 million and imports $152 million.
Lieutenant Herman Hanneken and Corporal William Button of the Marine Corps received the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism leading a force that killed Haitian bandit chief Charlemagne Peralte near Grand Rivere in October. The awards were presented at the Navy Department by Major-General John A. Lejeune.
A detachment fought off hundreds of Peralte followers during the night and discovered bandit leader Peralte and nine of his bodyguards dead at his headquarters after an assault. Hanneken and Bottom exchanged fire during the clash, with revolvers and a machine gun.
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