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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
1
Douglas Fairbanks and wife Mary Pickford faced a crowd of thousands of motion picture fans when the White Star liner Olympic docked. They had to be escorted by mounted and motorcycle police to reach their car for safety.
Crowds gathered outside the docks to glimpse the honeymoon couple. Police were rushed to Twentieth Street as the crowd surged, bowling over officers in a dramatic scene. Continued on Page 21 Third Col.
Governor Edwin P. Morrow of Kentucky, in pajamas, rushed from his room to help overpower an intruder at the Waldorf Astoria. The burglar, Peter Hermida, a discharged hotel employee, was captured after a struggle but later held in bail. The governor was en route from Coolidge ceremonies in Northampton.
Michael A. O'Leary, Democratic State committee chairman, fails to secure a satisfactory lieutenant governor candidate and files his own papers for the post. The piece mentions his action and references continued coverage on page 21. Also lists results from National and American leagues with multiple games across several cities.
Fairhaven police and Deputy Sheriff Walter H. Francis closed in on a suspect after an all day inquiry into the discovery of a full grown woman's leg in the Acushnet River. The leg was found wrapped in newspaper inside a wire bound box by 13 year old James McNair. Associate Medical Examiner Danil assisted.
Daniel Leroy Prendergast a 63 year old real estate agent and longtime secretary of the Boston Elevated Street Railway Corporation died last evening at his Atlantic Hill Nantasket summer residence. He was prominent in Catholic fraternal and charitable societies.
The federal government launches a strict investigation into get-rich-quick operations at home and in Europe. A Boston-area case notes a soldier in the Yankee Division who engaged by mail to a woman just in a quarter hour, waiting for his return to France.
Somersworth New Hampshire July 20 Paul J St Jean the local YC hero returned home with his French bride whom he met for 15 minutes in Angouleme while he was en route to the front in 1918. He wooed her by mail and made a special trip to her home to marry.
Continued on page noting another day and night of bright fair weather. expects similar warmth to yesterday with likely pleasant conditions.
Forecast for southern New England calls for partly cloudy conditions Thursday and Friday with little temperature change and moderate southerly winds. Northern New England expected showers Thursday or Thursday night with fair conditions otherwise, while coastal winds remain mostly south and variable.
Charles Ponzi declares the United States is butting in as he defends his money scheme. He argues government involvement is none of its affair while claiming supporters seek repayment of funds.
Governor Coolidge said he will direct the Attorney General to act with the district attorney and the federal office to investigate the Ponzi get rich quick scheme run by Charles Ponzi and the Securities Exchange Company to determine legality and detect possible fraud.
Reads like a commemorative roundup noting Belgrade occupation by Austria in 1914, an English fleet with sealed orders, Russian defeats near Tyangorod and 10 000 prisoners in 1915, plus a 1914-15 context of Wilson and a treaty, Chicago race tensions, and an Actors Equity strike in New York.
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