Officer Perkins Wins Ford A Day Prize In Boston
The Boston Post reports Officer Warren S Perkins of Station 17 Roxbury won the Ford A Day prize for a patrol story The Unwelcomer Joyride about rescuing a kitten from a car The ceremony drew a blue coated reception committee led by Captain Bowley The Ford car was supplied by Bussey Garage and approved by Police Commissioner Wilson Superintendent Crowley and Captain Rowley with rules restricting gifts to Christmas only.
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Boston
George J. Fallon
Beacon Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Fallon
Perkins
Clinton E. Bowley
Officer Perkins
Police
Army
Navy
Philippines
Offchr Perkina
Post
Bussey
Washington Street
Roslindale
Boston Post
Wilson
Crowley
Rowley
Station 17
Dedham Square
Warren S. Perkins
Weat Roxburye
THE
Warren I. Perkins
West Roxbury
Dam collapse blamed on softened filling under former ice pond
The Willimansett Cooley Brook reservoir dam failed due to softened filling under a wall lacking sheet piling. State Public Works Chief Hodgdon and Commissioner Cole fault supervision, nonapproval by county commissioners, and outdated foundation methods. The 1909 construction, now unapproved, is cited as a legal shortcoming.
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Cooley Brook
Willimansett
Frank W. Hodgdon
State Department of Public Works
Cox
Public Works
John N. Cole
Cole
Hodgdon
Eee
Couty
Suit Against Rawlinson the Actor Set for Jan 23
Trial of a $200000 damage suit against actor Herbert Rawlinson in Los Angeles Superior Court was set for January 23. The suit is brought by Dorothy Clark Elms, a Boston stage dancer, through her mother Mrs. Ethel B. Clark of New York, alleging Rawlinson attacked her in New York. Rawlinson denies the charge.
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Los Angeles
Herbert Rawlinson
Dorothy Clark Elms
Boston
Ethel B. Clark
New York
Frank R. Willis
Dr Williams Pink Pills Help Nervous System Case
Mrs Hiram Chapman of Baldwinsville recounts a severe pleurisy attack followed by a bad cold that left her nerves wrecked and health run down. After using Dr Williams Pink Pills she regained strength, appetite, and energy, with headaches gone and sleep restored. A free booklet on nervous diseases is offered by the Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady NY.
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Hiram Chapman
Baldwinsville
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
Hopper to contest divorce in court as affair heads to trial
De Wolf Hopper, the noted comedian, announced through his lawyers that he would vigorously fight the divorce proceedings filed by his fifth wife. He said the case would be tried in the courts, not in the newspapers.
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New York
de ‘Wolf Hopper
Fail to Find Missing Girls in Holyoke Search
Police admit bafflement in Holyoke as Catherine Sarewicz aged 18 and Edith Feinstein aged 15 remain missing. Relatives fear abduction while other cities join the hunt. Sarewicz left for a 7 am church service and cried when urged to wait.
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Holyoke
Catherine Sarewicz
Edith Feinstein
Sarewilcz
Feinstein
Sarewicz
Man Refuses To Bathe With Wife Over Her Bathing Suit
John J. Riel an automobile mechanic and World War II veteran faced accusations of cruelty in Suffolk County Divorce Court. He claimed he refused to bathe with his wife because of her bathing suit and cited alleged misconduct by John J. Hurley Sr. of Nantasket and Revere Beach as part of the disputes.
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John J. Riel
John J. Hurley
Nantasket
Revere Beach
Suffolk County
Witnesses recount affair involving Mrs. Riel and Hurley in 1918 Chelsea case
Testimony describes a Camp Devens summer in 1918 when Riel refused a bathing suit worn by a married woman. Hurley allegedly mocked the marriage, and later witnesses claimed to see Hurley with Mrs. Riel in 1920 at her Chelsea home. Riel says he lived with Hurley briefly after the army. Mrs. Riel defends spending from her own funds and discusses a photo showing arms around Hurley Sr.
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Camp Devens
Revere
Hurley
Riel
Boulevard
Revere Beach Boulevard
Hidden Cost Of Conduct Sermon At St. Pauls Cathedral
Rev. Edward T. Sullivan will address St. Pauls Cathedral on Sunday evening at 7 30 with a theme The Hidden Cost Of Conduct. George W Stewart of the Boston Festival Orchestra will perform Gounods Repentance on the lo phonium. Frank Bagdasarian will sing Shelleys Hark Hark My Soul. Morning service at 11 will cover The Romance of Routine or Making Drudgery Radiant. The summer choir will sing The Heavens Are Tell ing.
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Edward T. Sullivan
St. Paul's Cathedral
George W. Stewart
Boston Festival Orchestra
Gounod
Frank Bagdasarian
Shelley
Cat steals milk on Dorchester stairs and licks clean
A Boston reader reports a cat on Draper Street in Dorchester removing milk caps and licking milk from a bottle at 6:15 am. The writer notes the odd scene and questions if any home was drawn into the cat’s milky mischief.
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Draper Street
Dorchester
Indy
Post
Henry Heinstein
Boston
Bowdoin Street
Tempting apples lead to fatal fall on limb
An elderly passerby in a New Hampshire town recounts a tale of a man killed after being shot at while stealing apples from a tree. The owner’s shot frightened the thief, who fell from a dead limb and died. The limb bears no leaves or fruit but tests as alive. Daniel Mordecai.
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Hooksett
N. H
Sonny
Daniel Mordecai
Nahant Avenue
Revere
Proof of Demise in Street Car Conversation
An overheard chat among geome young ladies reveals a flapper remark about not spending another vacation at Westerly Rhode Island as it was dead. She cites wearing the same hair net for a week and finding it unfit as the reason.
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Geome
Westerly
R. I
Woodman
Dale Street
Worcester
Bicycle riders pass with caution sign on back
A passerby reports two men on a bicycle on Dorchester Avenue this morning. A sign on one rider’s back read Dear Mate Please Be Careful. The witness identifies herself as GEORGE SHEA of 60 Edwin Street Dorchester Massachusetts.
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Dorchester Avenue
Mate
George Shea
Edwin Street
Dorchester
Mass
Horn Blasts Make Caterpillars Fall From Apple Tree
Mrs. Sarah Ella Dodge reports that while seated in a car beneath an apple tree in Cambridge Massachusetts she blew the horn and caterpillars fell from the tree. A second and third blast produced more falling worms suggesting a link between sound and the caterpillar shower.
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Sarah Ella Dodge
Columbia Street
Cambridge
Mass
Camouflaged Prohibition Stunt Sparks Village Cheers
A narrator recalls a border village scene where a mock sheriff and driver simulated a rum raid with a revolver loaded by a strong imposter. Crowds cheered thinking a successful capture occurred, only later learning it was a fake arrest and the duo fled toward another route.
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Philip Begrey
Massachusetts Avenue
Boston
Carrier pigeon rescued after being shot near Boston yard
Alfred F. Greenleaf reports a carrier pigeon found exhausted on a draw bridge track at Boston and Maine yards North Station. The bird, shot under the wing and banded, was identified to its owner in Wakefield and is recovering at its new home.
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Park Street
John P. O'Connor
City of
Boston
Tower “A
Boston & Maine
North Station
Wakeeld
Greenleaf’s Prize Ford Won in Today’s Contest
The item by Mr. Greenleaf reports a Ford car awarded to the winner of today’s drawing. The notice confirms the prize and participant eligibility, with the competition held under local event rules and sponsorship by the Ford dealership.
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Greenleaf
Woman Eats Ice Cream With Glasses in Library
An old woman in Beverly Farms took off her glasses and began eating ice cream with them after failing to borrow a spoon or straw at a drugstore. She had entered the drugstore with a Pint box of ice cream bought elsewhere and then moved to the public library.
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Cross
Hale Street
Beverly Farms
Pretty woman wheels carriage and applies rouge to baby
A sighting describes a young woman at Newburyport applying rouge to her baby's cheeks from a vanity bag while wheeling a baby carriage near 22 Milk Street. The fragment notes the observer M J Moore.
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M. J. Moore
Milk Street
Newburyport
Unexpected Seal Sighting At Duxbury Beach
A morning excursion near the long bridge at Duxbury Beach captured a seal surfacing near shore followed by a beached school of mackerel. The animal darted about as a ripple spread, then the fish pushed back to sea while the seal held a shiny catch. T. M. Wright, 500 Main Street, Brockton, Mass.
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Long Bridge
Duxbury Beach
Atlantic
T. M. Wright
Main Street
Brockton, Mass
Beat Him To It and Decorate Own Graves
A Boston attorney rushes into a Poor Debtors court seeking a one week continuance after a rival obtained a month for illness, the judge bemused. a second note recalls a private auto hire on Memorial Day to place flowers on unoccupied graves claimed as future plots by a Rochester man and his wife.
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A. TD. Stinson Tremont
Boston
Fred Miles
Rochester, N, EL
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