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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1920
Page
2
If Tennessee approves suffrage this month Boston women expect a flood of registrations before August 18 the last day before the September 7 state primary. A special meeting of the election commissioners will consider how to accommodate voters who wish to register in case suffrage becomes operative.
Governor Coolidge yesterday signed eight commissions in the National Guard. Albert S. Owen of Framingham and William B. Schley of Boston were named majors in the Medical Corps. Philip R. Morse of Chestnut Hill was commissioned as second lieutenant in the 10th Field Artillery. First lieutenants include Michael J. Lally of West Newton in the 104th Field Artillery Louis L. Morse of Boston in the 101st Field Signal Battalion Thomas Yess of Beverly in the 102d Field Artillery Benjamin S. Lunt of Salem in the 102d Field Artillery and Charles H. Moore of Lynn in the 102d Field Artillery.
Newburyport July 7 Harry Davis 24 of Haverhill is hospitalized in critical condition after a fall near Plum Island where an electric car used for hauling sand and building materials passed over his legs. He is not believed to survive.
First Mate C A Brown of the Nan tasket line steamer Mayflower escaped drowning yesterday after a lifeboat capsized off Pemberton a mile from shore. The Mayflower stopped and lifeboats were sent to aid him. Captain C B Dow aboard the Merlin picked him up before rescue crews reached him. Brown was exhausted and could not have stayed afloat much longer.
Physicians attending Mrs. Clarence R Edwards say she is improving though still serious. The wife of General Edwards contracted a cold while motor ing to Portland Maine last week and has been confined at her Westwood home as doctors foresee steady recovery within two weeks.
The bronze medal of Queen Elizabeth of Helfium was conferred yesterday on Mrs. Frederick Mead, chair of the surgical dressing committee, as a tribute to her work and the war organization she led. The medal features the Queen’s likeness and a nurse with a lighted lamp.
The Lake Eliko arrived with a large sugar cargo from Vita and was to unload at the American Sugar Refining Company wharf in South Boston. The vessel carried 21 660 bags of raw cane weighing 6 931 200 pounds. Earlier, the Corapeak from Banes delivered 6 080 000 pounds for the Ravere Sugar Refining Company.
The Purity Ice Company plant on Beacon Street Newton Centre was sold to New York interests for 10000 dollars. Francis Williams, the acting plant manager, reports equipment was recently attached by creditors and deliveries to Newton Centre and Newton Highlands customers were discontinued.
Morris Winer and Ieaae Harwits used red paint on a brush to repaint a salon consignment and sold the product as food. Board of Health officers arrested them in Central Court. They pleaded not guilty and asked for a continuance to July 21. Winer runs a business at 160 Commercial Street, Hurwitz on Marginal Street, Chelsea.
Newton police Chief Fréd erick M. Mitchell was nearly struck when a heavy touring car driven by a woman sped toward his vehicle on Chestnut Street in Waban yesterday. He swerved onto the sidewalk and into a bank to avoid collision.
Joan O Grady of Roxbury was found dead near the village after cutting his throat with a penknife during a road drill. The incident occurred today in what authorities describe as a sudden fit of insanity.
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