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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1921
Page
9
In New York on July 10 more than sixteen thousand delegates at the sixth World's Christian Endeavor convention urged a warless world and urged the United States to join an international body to promote peace.
Fred B. Smith, chairman of the Commission on Interchurch Federation, urged Christian churches to push authorities in Washington to join the League of Nations or a similar body. He called it the Christian duty of the country to join a peace-promoting league and warned isolation would be a national tragedy. Smith said a three months tour of Europe and study of conditions shaped his views.
An advertisement promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood builder to restore digestion. It claims thin pale individuals with indigestion improve when blood improves and notes the pills turn hunger back on. It mentions a free diet book and that the pills sell for sixty cents.
A Christian Endeavor assembly heard bold calls for warless world advocacy and international cooperation. Speakers urged Americans to reflect on democracy’s global task while noting threats from profiteers and morphine shipments to China. Miss Emily Hartwell warned that morphine smuggling harms Chinese lives. Robert Speer touted Christian doctrine as the race problem’s solution.
New York July 10 Twenty eight days after a large hole was stove in her starboard bow when she struck an iceberg off the Grand Banks Newfoundland the three masted Danish bark Astrid made port today with a patch of wood and cement hastily rigged at sea replacing the crushed plates. Mariners regard the feat of the crew commanded by Captain A Skov as a nautical triumph. Many a larger vessel they said had gone down from a less serious wound suffered in the same manner.
Inspectors Tremblay and J Keating of the Chelsea police arrested Mike Wojdznsky in North Brookfield on larceny charges of 145 dollars from his brother John at their Broadway Chelsea home. He is to appear in Chelsea Court this morning with John as complainant. Also noted is Madaleine Bres, 12 year old, blind and penniless in Paris, noted as the first woman to receive a medical degree.
London July 10 The prime minister sent a telegram to De Valera inviting him and any colleagues to Downing Street at any day that week with instructions to wire the arrival date. Rioting flared in Belfast with Unionists clashing with Nationalists, police gunfire, armored cars, and fires as parades were planned for Ulster.
The article outlines a shift toward dominion status for Ireland if republic demands are dropped, with London premiers offering fiscal autonomy and foreign policy input. Lloyd George imposes no conditions, while a border conference may appoint Lloyd George as chair and Smuts as deputy. Rioting erupts in Belfast as Orangemen’s Day approaches.
Irish city of Belfast experiences sustained clashes from Sunday night into Monday with military deployed to restore order. By 10 PM casualties reach 15 dead and nearly 100 wounded as police report continued shooting by republicans in the Falls district.
A bomber crashed near Langin Field causing sixteens cars to be crushed and set afire. Stanley Patrick aged three Leonard Darra fifty Mrs. George Mertz and others were injured with skull fractures and internal injuries. Two lieutenants and a sergeant escaped serious harm. A dynamite shed 2000 pounds away was spared from impact.
Ruth Andrews, a Broadway show girl and former Ziegfeld Follies performer, sues vaudeville star Will Jerome for divorce alleging non support. The case hints at high clothing costs and Jerome allegedly balked at buying hose for six for $100. Andrews plans to return to the Follies after settling the divorce.
Elizabeth Jordan debuts a new serial titled The Girl in the Mirror in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine, promising a gripping mystery likely to unfold across upcoming installments.
A noon Thursday parade from the Common to the State House protests high soda prices. Captain Hines appeals civic groups to join with children marching to urge lower costs, citing the Bronx demonstration of 1600 children. Officials say they lack authority to regulate prices on state property.
Paul Hines demands the ice cream dealers reveal costs and profit margins before the Commission on the Necessaries of Life. He accuses dealers of high prices amid falling costs and urges production books be shown or prices lowered.
In Brockton a man identified as Howley shot Mrs. Mary Park and her sister Mrs. Mabel Gebo then wounded himself. Howley, a bakery worker and lodger, had long pursued Mrs. Park who rejected his proposals. He then died in hospital after asking that stolen money and bank books be given to his sister.
Springfield reported a drowning at Harmon Pond when 8 year old Frank Allsop capsized a crate boat while racing his brother Robert, 12, for lily gathering. Robert tried to save him despite getting tangled in pond pads and exhausted, delaying recovery for hours.
The Edison Illuminating Company at Brockton fights floods threatening its large East Bridgewater generating plant. Two dams broke earlier and a third failed tonight, releasing vast floodwaters that inundated the facility. About fifty workers labored through day and night to keep the plant running.
Late tonight manager A F Nelson warned most Brockton manufacturers face power cuts tomorrow, with over 80 percent of plants dependent on electricity including George Fr Keith Co. and Commonwealth Shoe. Up to 30,000 could lose work, water pumps submerged, East Bridgewater cut off, Forge pond dam breached, bridges washed out, and Crops and tracks damaged by record rainfall.
Joseph Panken municipal court justice was nominated for mayor of New York by the Socialist party at its eighth city convention. Harriet Stanton Blatch was nominated for comptroller.
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