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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1920
Page
14
Lavender enamel wicker tray labeled W713 inches holds ice-tin beneath. Includes eight tall glasses and space for PRR re pricing noted as 25.50 dollars. Store display or sale item description with period-appropriate phrasing.
White washable fabric gloves with two clasps listed at 85c to 1.50, including duplex fabric options in white sand and beaver shade. White washable doeskin gloves shown at 3.50 to 3.75 with whole wrist slip on and various button counts. Natural chamois gloves priced around 3.50, various sizes and finishes noted.
Attorney Fielding and Suffolk District Attorney Tufts led a two hour interview with Barney after a sensational disclosure in the auto ring case. Widespread belief held Barney would spare accomplices if sentenced harshly. The interview touched on the escape, the two accomplices Ward and Dintzer, and the broader auto theft network centered in Cambridge and Charles Town.
A Boston area arbitration hearing on street railway workers wage demands featured Howard F. Friten detailing his rise from timetable clerk to a 6000 dollar salary, while witnesses argued current pay for motormen conductors and others is inadequate for living costs. George A. Keegan of Lawrence testified his family cannot live comfortably on 61 cents an hour and described rising expenses including rent and coal costs amid snow and debt pressures.
James R. Bancroft, a Weat Newton native, rose from thawing car doors to office boy at a Boston financial firm after answering an ad 13 years ago. He is appointed president of the American Institute of Finance, a multi million dollar backed corporation, after leaving Roger Babson’s statistical office in Wellesley Hills. He credits hard work and study at Boston evening schools for his quick ascent.
Eva Norgunas of 96 Fourth Street South Media sustained a severe head cut when a rock was hurled at a North Cambridge bound trolley at Commonwealth Avenue and Everett Street Arlington. Dr. Charles J. Walsh treated her and she was sent home by taxi. Police investigate.
A publication warns mothers to beware of inferior alternatives to Fletcher's Castoria which has served for over thirty years as a trusted aid in infant care. It discourages trying unproven substitutes for babies who are scarcely breathing and urges relying on the established remedy.
Miss Esta Mae Barr of Marblehead said she was dumfounded by unpaid bills totaling between ten thousand and twenty five thousand dollars for The Chosen King pageant produced at the Boston Opera House. She was found at a Merrimack River cottage near Concord New Hampshire in seclusion and said she was in excellent health despite the alleged shortages triggering fear of a nervous breakdown.
Creditors seek over 10000 for unpaid bills from a biblical pageant produced by Miss Barr to aid the Salvation Army Home Service fund drive. Salvation Army says it handled only a 1000 loan and disclaims involvement, while Miss Barr and her representative claim the Army bears the responsibility and will settle at a forthcoming conference.
Four boys led by a 12 year old drove a reportedly stolen car through Malden pursued by two police sergeants and a traffic officer on a motorcycle. After a two mile pursuit they fled to Bell Rock Cemetery then Locke Coal Company wharf and hid in a coal wagon. A patrolman found them and one asked, I wonder how we got here.
Police seized gowns and waists worth hundreds of dollars from the room once used by Miss Helen Bottomley of Haverhill at the Hotel Westminster. Investigators say the woman, free on bond of 3000 dollars, faces additional charges for uttering counterfeit checks totaling over 4000 dollars.
Thomas Higgins aged 85 of 25 Quincey street Quincy and Charles Dolan aged 32 of 266 Harrison avenue were picked up by police at Kingston and Beach streets last night and taken to City Hospital in serious condition.
New York July 14 Harvard University will receive about 50976 from the sale at auction yesterday of 1492 lots in the East Chester section of the Bronx. The total receipts were 256848. The university share is one seventh interest of the late Lawrence B B Sexton, a member of the syndicate which bought the property in 1908.
Mrs Annie Cohen of 2 Oak Street Cambridge asks the Post to help locate her son Harry D Cohen missing eight years. He left Rockland Maine eight years ago, worked in Lynn, was seen in Boston, then stopped writing. He is an electrician by trade and is believed to be in this city.
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