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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1920
Page
13
Republican presidential campaign plans begin to take definite shape in Chicago after the Democratic convention adjourns in San Francisco. Will Hays arrives with national committee members and several Harding campaign managers to kickoff activity tomorrow in Chicago.
A sightseeing auto from Boston skidded through a fence at the foot of a decline on Weston Road in Lincoln Centre and struck a telephone pole this afternoon injuring two women and a man. Several others in the vehicle escaped serious harm.
The injured were Esther Fearles and Jennie Wilcox of Washington DC and Harry Burns of Cambridge. They were removed to Deaconess Hospital for treatment but none was detained. The Rockett Touring Company owned the machine at 49 Batavia Street Boston and was operated by G E Tetlan. The car slipped off the road at the foot of the hill and crashed into a pole as Tetlan tried to regain the road. The injured were thrown from their seats. the front of the car was badly damaged.
Dedham Post 18, American Legion, held a field day on Whiting avenue to raise funds for a $35,000 home donated by Mrs. Henry B. Endicott in honor of her late husband. The event drew several thousand as the club prepares a renovated clubhouse for World War II veterans and local boys.
The Art Commission called the Roxbury memorial tablet inartistic, prompting the Ward 12 Military Aid Society to unveil its bronze honor roll on an easel on the lawn of St. Patrick's High School in Gately Square Roxbury rather than mounting it on the Ward 12 Municipal Building as planned.
Roxbury residents condemn the municipal building tablet plan after the art commission rejects the bronze memorial. Dr C Hurl ey says the $300 tablet from New Hampshire will instead be placed on the St Patrick Church grounds and later moved to a proper site. The memorial honors local soldiers and will be erected with care for the dead.
A prominent 30 by 18 inch tablet with the United States seal and laurel border honors World War I 1917-1919. It lists Ed win F. Barnes James F. Bruce Francis J. Donehan Albert P. Cox and others among the heroes and notes the Ward 12 Military Aid Society oversaw the ceremony. The committee included Mrs Elizabeth Stearns Elizabeth Dowd Maria McCarthy May Pollis Sadie Earle and Annie Steward.
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