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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1921
Page
7
The cruiser Chattanooga, noted for aiding refugees in European waters, was placed out of commission at the Charlestown navy yard yesterday.
A discussion on how pallor and sallow skin signal health issues in teen girls. It promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to correct dietary and blood deficiencies, and offers free booklets on Chlorosis and Pink Pills with mailing details for Schenectady based Dr Williams Medicine Co.
Dwight Webb jailed for a year after refusing to support his family. He was found on a Nevada mountain peak after escaping Nevada authorities at the direction of District Attorney Pelletier. Others located in Riverside California and Portland Oregon agreed to support families and entered probation with payments and reimbursements to the county.
Local American Legion posts arrange for the military burial of Lieutenant Harry BE Hanley of Roxbury. Hanley died from wounds received in the Argonne in July 1918 and arrived at Hoboken from France. He was second in command of Company A 1st Infantry VC Division and is survived by his mother Mrs Mary J Hanley of Roxbury.
James A. McKibben opens the first session at Northwestern University for a School for Commercial Secretaries. Paul T. Cherrington lectures on Marketing. One hundred eighty secretaries from the United States Canada Cuba and Hawaii attend. New England is well represented with fifteen secretaries including eleven from Massachusetts. Boston leads New England in representation with five secretaries.
A gentleman's agreement reducing wartime deck officers pay by 15 percent and letting masters negotiate with ship owners was formed in New York. The pact, signed by deck officers groups and the American Steamship Owners' Association, takes effect August 1 and replaces the existing agreement ending that date. It includes changes in aboard working rules to revert to pre war conditions. The talks began April 1 and involved all steamship employee branches with representatives from the shipping board.
Physically incapacitated from duty, two Boston patrolmen were retired with Mayor Peters approval after more than 20 years in the force. John P. Walsh of the D Street station South Boston and Albert Gould of Mattapan station, aged 52 and 59, will receive pensions of 90 and ? a year. Walsh appointed Nov 10 1898 Gould joined in 1887.
Representatives from the Mattapan Improvement Association urged Mayor Peters to extend the widening of Oakland Street from Mattapan Square to Hyde Park Avenue. Peters said he hopes funds can be secured to approve the project. The street would be widened to 60 feet if approved.
In Philadelphia on July 19 Major Stephen De La Ney of the U S Army chemical warfare division oversaw a test of lachrymatory gas as a mob disperser and defender against attacks near Point Breeze. About 200 police, led by Superintendent Mills, were driven back weeping three times.
Sidney Woodward profiles James D. Gill who for 48 years has specialized in American paintings. Gill opens a Boston gallery at 372 Boylston Street showing a careful, non modern collection and resisting fake works. His early career began in Springfield in the 1870s with a one painting at a time sale, frames not delivered, canvas priced at 1000 dollars.
Robert B. Locke formerly of the Old Colony Trust Company and ex Boston ABA chapter president was elected president of the A I B section at the national ABA convention in Minneapolis. Locke later held key posts with the Detroit clearing house and a Detroit Federal Reserve Bank branch before his recent election.
Captain Arthur Crenshaw died at the Naval Hospital Newport after an appendicitis operation. A 1892 Annapolis graduate, he recently moved from Gulfport naval reservation to the War College. He was 46 and lived in Greenville Alabama.
The body of 60 year old M. M. Adams of North Amherst was found in a brook on his farm. Officials ruled drowning with in personal crisis intent as the cause of death. Adams was reportedly the wealthiest farmer in the area and had married only recently.
The New England Order of Protection held its second annual excursion to Provincetown aboard the Steamer Dorothy Bradford. About 500 travelers from 100 lodges visited Pilgrim monuments and historic sites, with officials including Grand Warden Frederick W. Marenan and Grand Secretary Judith A. Hinckley among those present.
Commanding officers of any Navy ship may discharge any sailor without Washington approval if the discharge is requested by the sailor within three months of his enlistment expiration. The policy applies to all in service and requires the sailor’s explicit request.
The British steamer Urbino with a smoldering bunkers fire arrived from Alexandria Smyrna and Palermo, needing to offload 200 tons of coal before docking at Pier 2 East Boston. A 43 000 box Palermo lemon shipment valued higher en route will be unloaded here and sent on to New York.
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