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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1916
Page
9
A reader’s note highlights two best sellers The Haunted Woman and Gods Country and the Woman. The story follows a hero racing over dangerous passes to reach the heroine he has only seen in a photograph yet loves passionately.
Veiled threats of impeachment against the Board of Apportionment in Suffolk County and charges of high handed action circulate in Wards 25 and 26 as rumors spread that Ward 25 in Brighton may receive a single representative under the new apportionment. The board must file its final report by Ang 2.
Ex representative and former port surveyor Jeremiah J. McCarthy denounces proposed ward reallocation. He argues Ward 25 should join Ward 26 for three representatives, cites growth, warns of rights of suffrage and political bias in a Democratic commission.
The interview highlights Fannie Ward’s famed jewels valued at a quarter million dollars and her dual life as stage beauty and screen actress. She recalls her career shift from English aristocracy to acting, her love of New York, and a habit of tri yearly Broadway flights, while noting she prefers drama over comedy.
Descriptive notes praise Fannie Ward with vivid beauty imagery and warn of her childlike voice. It also announces Mary Pickford Talks appearing five days weekly in the Daily Post and Sundays in the Sunday Post.
A new synagogue will be erected in Revere by its Jewish residents. The Shirley and Nahant avenues building was bought by Tifereth Israel Congregation for 18000 dollars and will be remodeled as a house of worship for over 3000 Jews. A fundraiser committee led by Abraham Alpert R Krol B Apple and M M Aisner was named to support the construction.
Thomas F. Williams of 47 Turner Street Brighton driver of a large limousine overturned on Commonwealth Avenue Newton on July 6 was fined $75 in Newton Court yesterday He was found guilty of reckless speed and leaving the scene without making himself known He appealed and was held in $300 bonds on each case
Charles W. Simms Jr, a Harvard graduate, allegedly confessed to stealing 1100 worth of jewelry from William E. Litchfield's Newton home. He was arraigned, held on 1200 bond with a hearing set for Aug. 16, and later bailed. Evidence included pawning of a watch and fur for 200.
Nantucket paper claims primacy in publishing word of the German transatlantic submarine venture. The Inquirer and Mirror on January 29 described plans for a fleet of large cargo submarines linking German and American ports, corroborated by the Deutschland’s Baltimore arrival.
Carnation day Spread through East Cambridge as Sacred Heart parish children sold flowers to raise funds for the church. The event preludes a forthcoming parish bazaar with proceeds aiding the parish.
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