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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1919
Page
9
Ice will cost 60 cents per hundred pounds in Boston beginning Monday July 21, up from 50 cents. Early this week the popular ice pieces will shrink by a fifth in size, a notable reduction on 20 or 25 cent ice portions.
G H Vater vice president of the Massachusetts Ice Dealers Association says shipping costs from the North to Boston rise, forcing price increases. South side stations charge 80 cents per 100 pounds, with new Brighton Street outlet planned to serve more districts. Free ice is offered to the sick by the association at 201 Devonshire Street.
Lincoln Ware Riddle, Ph.D., formerly of Wellesley College, has accepted Harvard University's offer and will join the faculty in Cambridge in the fall at the college reopening. He resigns from Wellesley and is noted for village improvement work on Waban Street.
In London an informal peace celebration honors General John J. Pershing and American troops. Pershing reviews American forces bound for Hyde Park Victory parade, receives a gold mounted sword of honor from the City of London, with speeches by Churchill and others and a Mansion House luncheon.
State House brief notes the Boston bill to authorize city purchase and sale of dwellings was rejected on third reading 13 to 97. It would have allowed a 5 million dollar city borrowing plan to finance the proposition amid a broader debate on transit fares.
The Senate approved a 613 million dollar sundry civil appropriation bill aimed at rehabilitation and education for disabled soldiers sailors and marines. The bill now awaits the President's action after his veto of a prior version over training funds for wounded service members.
Lydia Marsh Halsall of 95 Court Road Winthrop drives about town with a real live man hitched to a cart in lieu of transport. The novel rig has drawn comments along the Nar row Gauge and Halsall even photographed it to share with the Post for a smile.
Patrolman Thomas F. J. McGrade of City Hall station sustained a compound fracture of the left leg after being caught between two automobiles at the Court and Washington Streets crossing during his traffic duty. He is confined at the Relief Hospital. The incident occurred as cars driven by H F Duppy of 154 Congress Street and Benjamin S Evans of Portsmouth nearly collided. The officer's home address is Oakview terrace Jamaica Plain.
Joseph D. Guertin of Chicago and Canada and elsewhere, a discharged soldier, was held in $1000 for Superior Court charged by Inspectors Dorsey Haggerty and McCarthy with forging an order for 151 dollars worth of goods with the local Red Cross.
Governor Coolidge signed the Swig bill allowing savings departments of trust companies and savings banks to pay monthly interest and interest for deposits under six months. The law repeals an earlier prohibition. Simon Swie of Tremont Trust led the repeal push. the House backed it, the Senate had opposition but approved with amendments.
A 20 year old Dorchester cyclist, William J. Kearns, was fatally struck by a Jamaica Plain driver at Boylston road and Audubon Circle. Healy of St. Joseph street aided him to City Hospital where he died of a fractured skull. A separate accident left Chadwick street East Boston hospital bound with a compound leg fracture from Saratoga and Addiston streets. Jacob Sherman of Chelsea, 43, received minor injuries after a collision with a motorcycle operated by Jeremiah J. Grady of Cambridge. Sherman later went home.
Throughout the day eight victims were treated at the Relief Station and City Hospital after automobile incidents. Among them Annie Lindsky and Alexander Jamerson were moved for further care, with injuries including facial cuts and a possible leg fracture.
A thousand Czecho-Slovak World War I veterans, invalided home from Siberia, paraded up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington amid heavy rain as President Wilson reviewed them near the White House. The largest foreign troops procession in the capital, with 400 veterans in motor ambulances, ended at Camp Meigs before sailing from Newport News to Bohemia.
Ralph Kirkland of Roxbury was found guilty of larceny of an automobile and sentenced by Judge Edward Pratt to eight months in the house of correction. He was also fined fifty dollars for operating an automobile while under the influence. The case goes before the same judge for final disposition in Abington court later today.
Police hunt burglars who smashed a side window at Isaac Ayres Haber Dashery at 1 Congress Street and stole about $1000 worth of finest silk garments early yesterday morning.
In Fast Cambridge Probate Court Mrs. Lucinda J. Colla 76-year-old clairvoyant of 11 Buena Vista Park Cambridge filed to appoint her nephew Forrest W. Dixon of 9 Buena Vista Park Cambridge as conservator. The petition was granted with Dixon furnishing a 15000-dollar bond. estate valued at 17000 dollars.
In East Cambridge Probate Court attorney Isadore Fox appeared with Carpenter and Stone for Dr Collamore. The paper filed with the registrar identified Carpenter and Stone as her counsel. Doctors Thompson Colburn and Bryant testified to her incapacity while she stated she wished her nephew to manage the estate. Judge Lawton appointed Dixon under bonds of 15000 dollars.
Two German assailants fired on Major George Cockriel provost marshal for American forces in Germany in Coblenz. Cockriel escaped unharmed after a brief pursuit. he has received multiple threats and was on a secret list of marked Americans.
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