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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1921
Page
8
London reports that the British Premier offers Dominion Home Rule for southern Ireland with safeguards for Ulster and key financial concessions. It includes machinery to coordinate an Irish government and other governance measures.
Ireland's leader and Lloyd George held talks as Ulster Prime Minister Sir James Craig returned to Belfast. A joint communique said no basis for a new conference yet while Dublin and Belfast study the government offer. Lord Curzon voiced cautious optimism on a final outcome.
Dublin dispatch notes De Valera cannot accept British settlement terms though no immediate rupture of the truce is expected. The Dail Eireann may be summoned only for a truly large offer and if terms are rejected without official consult, De Valera could address the Irish people. Financial terms reportedly aim to sway Belfast toward a united Ireland.
Washington officials voiced renewed confidence that Japan would agree to a broad discussion of far eastern issues as part of the disarmament conference after another informal exchange between Tokyo and Washington. Baron Shidehara met Secretary Hughes at the State Department and they reportedly discussed the situation at length.
A freight car derailed west of Cordaville station on the Boston and Albany line yesterday afternoon delaying several passenger trains. The derailment was caused by a dropped brake beam and cars were lifted back onto the rails after diversions were made.
A large block party on Newbury Street in Boston drew about 200 couples who danced on a sprayed cornmeal floor. The event, organized by the Girls' City Club and Scollay Square Service Club, featured debutantes, navy banners, and a live band, with ample space and fresh air.
Vermont labor figure Alex Ironside secretary of the Vermont State Branch American Federation of Labor died today at age 48. He was prominent in many Vermont labor movements and served as secretary for one year.
Jonathan FE Porter, inventor and founder of the Porter Machine Works, died in Hatfield at age 72. His death was reported tonight.
Affidavits in New York Supreme Court show Philip M. Shaw of 15 William Street facing an absolute divorce from wife Eleanor filed May 3. Co respondent is Miss Madrienne La Barre who resided at the Woodward Hotel from 1919 to 1920.
Shaw’s answer claims the wife knew of alleged offences and condoned them, and that he is not her legal husband because the divorce from Boston-based William Meserve Jordan was not finalized when she wed him in the city in 1902. Mrs. Shaw says household expenses run around 49 000 a year and that proposed alimony of 500 a month is insufficient. she seeks at least 1 000 a month. She alleges misconduct by her husband and Miss La Barre.
The document cites allegations that Shaw paid Miss La Barre's hotel bills totaling 2250 dollars at a Wood ward hotel and Sommer home in Somerville Massachusetts. Shaw claims that on September 1 1920 his wife accompanied him to Bretton Woods hotel New Hampshire and shared a room there until September 12.
In Plymouth a chair once owned by Governor Bradford, linked through generations to Edward Winslow and Ralph Waldo Emerson emerged in a room where Emerson met Lydia Jackson. A 1754 Winslow house hosted his marriage, with a French lounge, high-backed cane chairs, and a 200 year old dressing table with a secret pin cushion and brocaded silk from a great-great-grandmother.
A trolley wire broke between Copley Square and Massachusetts Avenue stations delaying inbound traffic over an hour. Cars were moved to the surface toward Kenmore as workers replaced the wire and cleared smoke from the tunnel.
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