Legal battle on wet ships looms before DOJ hearings
Washington July 9 The dry forces and proponents of liquor sales on American ships face a DOJ hearing opening next Thursday as Anti Saloon League predicts a major legal showdown. Wayne B Wheeler acts as general counsel with a voluminous brief while 12 temperance groups ready to protest liquor selling on vessels and to press for strict enforcement of the three mile limit.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Anti- Saloon League
Wayne B. Wheeler
Wheeler
Dog Rider Ends City Trip at Correct Stop
A Boston Post reader recounts a large black and white setter boarding a streetcar in town and riding to the city alone. The conductor says the dog often makes city trips and always disembarks at his usual stop, 118 M Street, South Boston, care of J H Bany.
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J. H. Bany
M Street
South
Boston
Janitor in Wellesley Clash Over Education Quote
The incident occurred at Wellesley Hill where a janitor argued with a woman teacher. The janitor, growing angry, declared I had rather know something than be educated as quoted by Richard Cunningham.
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Wellesley
Richard Cunningham
Wellesley Hill
Foreigner Obsessed Spectator Eats Ice Cream Cone
In Hopedale, Margaret Arey reports a curious incident where a foreign man watched a girl eat an ice cream cone with intense focus. He then entered a drug store, returned with a cardboard ice cream box, and consumed both the contents and the box.
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Hopedale
Margaret
Human clothesline causes mistaken attire sighting
A dignified man departing for Boston discovers a long white article pinned to his overcoat. His astonishment grows when he learns his wife dried a pillow case on the coat overnight using heat from a furnace pipe, making him appear in odd garb. M. M. Gray. Prince Avenue Peaks Island Me.
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Boston
M. M. Gray
Princes Avenue
Peaks Island
First class mechanic and shoe repairing sign noted
While driving through the Adirondacks and White Mountains I saw a sign reading First class mechanic and shoe repairing Eat here. Signed L. A. Deming 12 Allen Avenue Westfield.
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Adirondacka
White Mountains
L. A. Deming
Allen Avenue
Westfield
Angler Recovers Hook After Kingfisher Grab Incident
John Armstrong of Framingham Centre recounts paddling a canoe when a kingfisher snatched his spoon hook and line. He freed the bird after a struggle, noting the bird dived thinking the lure was prey.
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John Armstrong
Curve Street
Framingham Centre
Humorous Theatre Evening and Derby Prank Letters
A reader from East Kingston recalls a theatergoer removing a sleeve and explaining it was sewn in quickly. Ruth Lavery of Orient Heights shares a tale of a friend arriving hat in cardboard derby, walking the boulevard in darkness and being teased afterward.
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Albert Pushee
East Kingston
N. H
Ruth Lavery
Saywood Avenue
Orient Heights
Miss Bijou Fernandez Scout Draws Flapper Greeting
In Lowell several flappers meet Miss Bijou Fernandez the Movie Scout with a nervous young woman reapplying powder and a gleaming smile. The scout moves on leaving a disgusted embryo Mary Pickford behind, noted by Ted Sheehan of Andrews Street.
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Bijou Fernandez
Lowell
Miss Fernandez
Mary Pickford
Ted Sheehan
Andrews Street
Evening Subway Etiquette In Boston Observations
In a crowded Winter Street car a haughty young woman refused help while a man offered his seat. She sat, then when he searched for lost gloves he paused, and he reclaimed her seat. In a 5 PM subway two women argued about paying fares, each paying two fares, then argued with the attendant.
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Winter Street
Hayden
New England Sanatorium
Melrose
Rosh Abrams
Townsend Street
Roxbury
Popular Roxbury Girl Joins Catholic Sisterhood
Miss Sarah Fitzmaurice a popular Roxbury girl of 9 Sunset street became Sister Mary Thea at the Convent of Our Lady of Angels in Glen Riddle Pa. Present at the ceremony were her sister Catherine and her brother-in-law Patrolman Patrick J Prendergast of the Hanover street station and his wife.
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Sarah Fitzmaurice
Roxbury
Sunset Street
Mary Thea
Our Lady of Angels
Glen Riddle
Catherine
Patrick J. Prendergast
Hanover Street Station
Sarah Fitzmaurice Roxbury
Convent of Our Lady of Angels
Knickers Banned In Zion By Voliva City Law
Wilbur Glynn Voliva, ruler of Zion, bans knickers for women insisting on modest dress. A large sign over Zion’s entrance proclaims the Bible verse against cross dressing. Police will blanket and jail violators for wearing garments deemed improper.
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Wilbur Glynn Voliva
Zion
Voliva
State Police Shift Name Lieutenant Sheeran to Troop B
Lieutenant James H. Sheeran of Troop A Framingham has been named to command Troop B Northampton replacing Lieutenant George Brake. He is a Woburn native who served in World War II with the 101st Infantry Yankee Division.
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Northampton
James H. Sheeran
Framingham
Alfred Foote
Department of Public Safety
George E. Brake
Sheeran
Woburn
101St Infantry
Roxbury Man Fractured Skull After Street Attack
Frank Di Sangro aged 38 of 42 Dacia Street Roxbury is in serious condition at City Hospital with a fractured skull from a blow at Blue Hill Avenue and Dove Streets last night. He was found unconscious by a Dudley Street police officer and rushed to hospital as detectives seek several suspects who fled the scene. Di Sangro’s name is on the danger list.
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Frank di Sangro
Dacia Street
Roxbury
City Hospital
Blue Hill Avenue
Dove Streets
Dudley Street
di Sangro
General Hersey Visits Massachusetts Coast Guard Forts
Brigadier-General Mark Hersey, commanding the coast artillery of the First Corps Area, visited the Massachusetts Coast Defense Command units on their annual duty tour at Forts Andrews Warren and Strong in Boston harbor. He praised the troops and congratulated Colonel Benjamin L. Shedd on their equipment and bearing.
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Coast Artillery Corps
First Corps
Massachusetts Coast Defence Command
National Guard
Forts
Andrews
Warren
Strong
Boston Harbor
Nersey
Benjamin L. Shedd
Band Concert Terminated by Cobble Stone Attack
A July 4th band concert at Mission Hill playground Tremont Street Roxbury was halted after a single song when an attacking gang hurled cobble stones instead of applause. The crowd’s profane yells and violent behavior made the evening intolerable.
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Mission Hill Playground
Tremont Street
Roxbury
Hoodlums Disturb Band Concerts in Roxbury Crossing
Sergeant Sullivan and officers aided musicians as vandals hurled paving sand from a street under construction. The crowd scattered stones and sand, striking collars and shirtwaists. police escorted bandsmen to safety and dispersed the hoodlums with clubs. No arrests were made. A second concert near Ruggles and Cabot streets faced a renewed disturbance attempt.
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Sullivan
Roxbury Crossing
Ruggles and
Cabot Streets
Revered Clergyman Relieved as Concert Sparks Disorder
Rev N W Lund of the Swedish Congregational Church ended Sunday night service as musicians played and audience fled in panic. Disorder forced dismissal of the congregation, with Lund declaring no protest but warning against weekly concerts at the same corner.
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N. W. Lund
Lund
Post
Delusions Put Frank In Toils At Tremont Street
Frank Hamilton of Appleton Street tried to direct traffic at Tremont and Appleton last night. He then offered to run a restaurant and claimed to turn the cash register into lobster salad by mystic incantation. Patrolman William Dumas escorted him to the regret room on Fast Dedham Street.
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Appleton Streets
Frank Hamilton
Appleton Street
Hamilton
Frank
William Dumas
Marion Davies Double Hurt In New York Film Stunt
Thomas Hicks, 28, the male double for Marion Davies, was injured during a risky stunt for When Knighthood Was in Flower in the Shawangunk mountains. He was moved from Kingston Hospital to his Bronx home after sustaining fractures to a left arm and leg along with severe cuts when a horse and rider fell about 100 feet into a waterfall. the horse was killed.
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N. Y
Marion Davies
Rifton
Shawangunk Mountains
Miss Davies
Thomas Hicks
Bronx
Kingston Hospital
Hicks
Knife Wound Incident Leads to Arrest in Dedham Area
Miss Callie Hill 8 of 100 West Springfield Street suffered a knife wound to her left arm and was taken to City Hospital after an alleged assault by William Horan of 138 Savoy Street. Horan was arrested by East Dedham patrolmen Kelly and Lockwood after claiming the Hill woman and another lured him into an alley to rob him.
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Callie Hill
West
Springfield Street
City Hospital
William Horan
Savoy Street
Kelly and
Lockwood
Simply a Matter of Love by Katherine Haviland Taylor
Katherine Haviland Taylor’s entertaining tale follows a girl with a fondness for children as her story unfolds in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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Katherine Haviland Taylor
Boston Sunday Post
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