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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1922
Page
4
Miss Charlotte Sharman of London now aged 90 is highlighted as an expert typist. The article notes women have been allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court since 1879.
The ship Charlie and Willie under Captain Old Frank Robbins will lift anchor for Lynn this morning. The compass is reportedly missing, likely swallowed by mud in Fort Point channel.
Elijah Grove, a kidnapper ordered by Judge Dow to recover a submerged compass, has vanished. Skipper Robbins waits for him while Captain Frank watches the water for the missing instrument worth $50. The tale hangs on whether Grove returns to face the court and retrieve the compass.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to watch for internal disorder symptoms in children such as foul breath coated tongue grinding teeth or griping pains. It promotes Dr True's Elixir a vegetable laxative and worm expeller claiming four generations of use and prices 40c 60c and 1 20.
Ed mund C Codman former Fitchburg president files a bill in Supreme Judicial Court accusing the New York Central Railroad of an illegal plan to gain control of the Boston and Maine by directing stock votes. Judge Crosby denied Codman’s injunction to count 222000 B and M shares voted by US court trustees. Codman seeks injunction and to prevent counting proxies to block a voting trust plan.
Judge George I Wentworth of the Boston Municipal Courts died suddenly at his Main Street home in South Weymouth aged 70. He served tirelessly on Fridays and was beloved for his kindly manner and humane rulings, leaving colleagues and reporters shocked on the eve of a summer vacation.
Margaret Sheehan aged nearly eight, a famed York Beach bather, spends summers with grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She travels from Manchester New Hampshire, mother of John A. Sheehan an insurance agent. She enjoys icy water and credits daily swims for her health.
Investigators from the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Saugus police uncover a case of unusual cruelty involving an 18 month old baby boy at a residence known as the baby farm run by Mrs Emma Redding at 714 Broadway Cliftondale Newburyport Turnpike in Saugus.
Saugus police and State child welfare officials uncovered a case of mistreatment at Mendal C. Redding and Emma Redding. A malnourished infant boy, kept in a wire cage in the back yard, was found after neighbors heard cries. Mrs. Redding, facing possible prosecution, may be barred from State wards care.
John J. Kelley of 49 West Third Street South Boston was sent to the House of Correction for three months on a charge of assault and battery on his wife Mrs Grace Kelley. Testimony showed Kelley beat his wife again after being released on probation. Mrs Kelley appeared in court with a swollen face an eye blackened and a bruised arm.
May reopen later after the two Sears Roebuck shoe factories in Springvale, Maine, employing 80 workers were closed at noon yesterday due to labor trouble. A conference between management and a employees committee will be held tomorrow morning to try to settle the differences.
A letter presented to Supreme Court Justice Cropsey in Brooklyn by Roland C. Kessler opposes his wife's alimony and fees request in a divorce suit. The document, said to be written by the wife to Kessler, expresses shame pity and longing and refers to findings about her affair at a Mr Samuels apartment.
A wife writes that after leaving Rollie she went out with Samuels and was pressured into an unwanted advance. She says she warned she would scream, became ill, and pleads for a separation, noting divorce is cruel. Justice Cropsey reserved decision.
In two speeches Joseph B. Ely, Democratic governor candidate, urged changing the Volstead act. He attacked the 0.5 percent limit as unjustified and called for higher alcohol content and real beer for medicinal use. He urged state laws to conform to federal prohibition policies and emphasized law obedience.
The Dorchester Town Team will meet the Fitton A C of East Boston at Rowman Park next Monday evening. Tommy Ring or Johnny Murphy will be on the mound for the Fittons with Condrick opposing them. The lineup includes Henry Bagely catching Dick Casey or Eddie Burns at first Billy O Leary second Shaun Cummings short Muffer Dorgan third Johnny Archdeacon Frank Silva and Joe others in the outfield for Dorchester.
Six sturdy horses pull the Copley Theatre stage section four stories high toward a new Stuart Street extension. The interior remains intact with scenery and lighting in place as engineers shift the rear section before moving the balcony portion weighing about 2400 tons to its new foundation.
United Textile Workers strategy board votes to meet State Board of Arbitration to discuss return to work at the old wage scale with greatly reduced hours. Workers favor returning one day a week under old scale rather than full time under a 20 percent wage cut. A petition seeks City Council meeting to assign responsibility for the labor trouble and its local impact.
Fuel Administrator Eugene C. Hultman stated there is no need for regulatory orders yet but supports hard coal rationing. He proposed using bituminous coal or coke as substitutes in emergencies and noted adequate supplies in Massachusetts cities. He warned that delays in production could cause shortages for anthracite users and said outside coal supplies depend on the national government. He added no mine price rise and that all-rail freight on newly mined coal will be 40 to 50 cents per ton less than current dealer charges.
The Uncanoonue Incline Railway of Shirley Hill and Uncanoonue Mountain near Manchester New Hampshire asks the Public Service Commission for approval to raise its fare from a half to ten cents. Officials say operating costs have risen.
Charles Strick begged in Hoboken police court to serve time in place of his dog Sport after the animal was sentenced to 20 days in the city pound for biting a little girl. He offered to appeal if the request was refused.
Vito Caruso, a local painter, arraigned in District Court for the murder of his wife Marie, 42. Evidence incomplete. hearing set for next Wednesday. Caruso held without bail. Brother Stephen Caruso is held 2500 as accessory before the fact. Prosecutor Timothy J. O’Brien presented a long thin ice pick alleged to have been used to stab Marie three times at 109 Garden Street on Sunday morning July 2.
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