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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1921
Page
5
Laurie Devon, star of The Wings of Youth, returns in a new serial The Girl in the Mirror by Elizabeth Jordan. The story will begin in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
Chicago dispatch reports Mrs. Etta Heil, wife of broker Joseph Heil, arrested for posing as a servant and stealing jewels, rugs, and furs. Heil settled $60,000 in claims, spared jail, but she was sent to a sanitarium after the arrest and then abducted her two children. Police recovered the children. Heil's husband moved to divorce and sent the kids out of the city.
The Sacco Vanzetti murder case heads into final arguments in the Superior Criminal Court at Dedham with Judge Webster Thayer set to charge the jury Thursday morning. Jurors were selected after a three month long effort, and both sides rested yesterday.
The New England Telephone and a telegraph company report over 10 000 lines out of service from recent storms with 1500 workers operating day and night. By this morning local service was expected to be nearly normal.
Miss Alice Hazeltine of the St. Louis Public Library spoke at a three day librarian institute noting children favor traditional books over jazz influenced works. She praised continued library use, urged foreign history stories for children, and emphasized reading American life alongside global biographies.
Inquest to be held in Central Court after a Stewart girl, found in a hotel with a man calling himself W. P. Boyer Gloucester, is linked to a likely suicide attempt. The bell boy and night clerk who registered the couple offer few new details.
In the months leading to the inquest a woman endured hardship after being deserted by a male companion with only 27 cents and debts to pay. Police and numerous investigators have tracked the man known as Boyer for ten days, but his identity remains a mystery on the eve of the inquest.
A Boston protest notes ice cream cone prices and profits with a veteran note on costs. The commission is urged to summon witnesses to verify facts about retail pricing and wartime costs as 5 cent cones and rising prices prompt action.
The report notes that a small profit margin on ice cream cones yields 100 percent net for two and a half cents, 200 percent for seven cents, and 300 percent for ten cents. It urges summoning witnesses to confirm the fairness and accuracy of these figures, condemning unjust prices.
A fragment notes Paul H a representative of the 10th Suffolk District. The scene references a child holding a cream cone and a nickel, with a request for another penny. The readable text is sparse and suggests a local political notice or reminiscence.
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