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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1919
Page
12
Detroit reports a 23 word advertisement in Boston papers spurred C. S. Henshaw, a leading Boston auto dealer, to rush to Detroit after an ad promising a 10 cent fare tomorrow by Boston Elevated Railway Company and urging people to prepare dimes or nickels for public management and time saving.
Mr. Henshaw, meeting with auto executives in Boston, outlines delivering 50 chassis to build special bus bodies for a new motor bus line. He plans seven cent fares, up to 10 miles, serving suburban Boston. Licensing or franchise needed. five or six cars to start, expanding with demand and factory output from Dodge Brothers.
A compilation of marriage intentions includes numerous pairs with ages, occupations, and addresses. Notable entries feature George E. McCabe and Adelaide L. Winnelman of Worcester and Charlestown, with others from Dorchester, Somerville, Malden, and Philadelphia.
Acting Mayor Francis J. W. Ford announced he will seek council approval to buy and sell to the public the surplus canned foods now being disposed of by the federal government. The items include corned beef roast beef bacon and hash through a city sale program.
Mr. Ford as council president plans a special meeting to push a city foodstuffs program needing Mayor Peters approval. City eyes purchasing surplus canned meat from the U S Quartermaster and bids car load lots while federal officials reject low bids from private interests. Municipal sale to towns may follow.
Several Dorchester milk dealers were found guilty in district court of violating food laws on selling milk without a license. Judge Joseph R. Churchill fined John Rangel Max Lieberman Charles A Kaspar and Bernard Brostoff ten dollars each and Emil Krauth auser paid ten dollars for selling substandard milk. Joseph Koslofsky was fined three dollars and sixteen cents for ice cream with less than seven percent milk fats.
A fire of unknown origin caused 10000 dollars damage to the Wave a beam trawler belonging to the Bay State Fishing Company fleet of steamers tied at the foot of New Street East Boston early yesterday morning. No one was aboard at the time.
The Brookline Board of Selectmen promotes Sergeant H Allen Rutherford to lieutenant in the Brookline police department's criminal investigation division. Rutherford joined Dec 25 1893, served as patrolman until Dec 1905, moved to the criminal investigation unit, then became a sergeant in May 1906. He led the Varney murder investigation in the Keyes case.
James Wilson of Cambridge Massachusetts, awaiting trial for a taxicab holdup at Appenaug two weeks earlier, escaped from Rhode Island Hospital today. Wounded by a driver during the attempt, he dressed in a convalescent’s clothes, left to a nearby bakery, then telephoned for a taxi. When the driver learned his identity he refused passage and Wilson vanished in hospital grounds.
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