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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
17
Reverend Ernest Meredith of Watertown presided at the burial with service in Forest Hills cemetery. Private Dodwell belonged to Medical Unit 27 of Hospital 35.
Lawrench June 3 operatives at the American Woolen Company's four local plants earned a four day week after quitting time tonight freeing about 15 000 workers until Monday morning. The policy, announced yesterday, aims to last at least through the in between seasons. Other local plants like Arlington and Pacific have not adopted curtailment yet.
The engagement of Abraham Edward Pinanski a prominent attorney of this city to Miss Viola Josephine Rottenberg Wellesley 17 was announced Wednesday. Pinanski a Harvard 1908 graduate Harvard Law School 1910 in general practice in Boston served in the war attaining a captaincy discharged February 1919. He belongs to the Harvard Club of Boston Elysium Club and Kernwood Country Club.
A Boston health department report notes 5519 measles cases this year with 253 new cases in the past week. The document warns of high death rates and stresses isolation and avoidance of deliberate exposure to reduce spread. It also reports six new whooping cough deaths this year and urges vaccination to prevent smallpox.
The British steamer Aleppo arrived from the Near East with goods worth over $1,000,000 for local merchants. Readily distinct cargo included 600 tons emery stone from Cavalla, 400 tons tobacco from Galatz, 450 tons tobacco from Salonica, 1275 bales of cotton from Alexandria, and 100 tons corkwood from Algiers.
Three women were arraigned in Roxbury court on charges of violating traffic rules. They allegedly failed to slow their cars on signals along Massachusetts Avenue Columbia Road and Seaver Street. Louise Whiting, former Red Cross nurse and ambulance driver, was among those arraigned.
Charlotte Cox a music teacher of 74 Summer Street Malden reports that the defendants were found guilty and their cases placed on file in court records.
Donald Powers of Allston elected editor in chief of the 1871 year book for the College of Liberal Arts Boston University. Alvah Patterson of Watertown named business manager. Staff includes Mildred Adams Beverly literary editor Marie Orozzo Auburndale art Adeline Allan Gloucester organizations Richard Haggarty Greenfield music Dorothea Fall Malden faculty Gladys Elliott Somerville fraternities Marjorie Pelton Lynnfield class histories Ruth Mansfield Dorchester calendar Mildred Burdett Lawrence photographs William Trossone Melrose advertising Lloyd Dresser Boston subscriptions Frances Laughrea Watertown Philip Mason Malden athletics.
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