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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1920
Page
7
June 3 at Lawrence the canoe club held a strictly feminine stag party with a beauty prize decided after a playful guard and protest tangle. Women in costume staged a comic mix up while male guards watched from afar and others patrolled nearby.
Two people were injured when a manhole cover blew into the air near Spring and Chambers streets in the West End. Mrs. Sarah Gellier, 3, and Charles Amello, 28, reported injuries from falling fragments but were not seriously hurt. Officials from Edison Tamination Company found no clear cause after investigation.
In St John s Newfoundland the King s birthday was celebrated with official functions. At Placentia a war memorial honoring 88 soldiers from the village who were killed overseas was unveiled.
Plymouth June 3 Work to transform the local Mayflower Pilgrim tercentenary committee into a nationwide body progresses under J Frederic MacGrath organization counsel with headquarters here He reports growing acceptance of invitations from leading national figures and daily adds to the list A national committee meeting is planned for Tuesday at Hotel Touraine Boston to discuss preliminary organization matters.
A long list of signatories joins the national committee including Charles W. Eliot of Harvard as president, Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia as first vice president, Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, A Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, Ellen Pendleton of Wellesley, Henry McCracken of Vassar, W. H. P. Faunce of Brown, David Starr Jordan of Stanford, and many others from colleges, universities, chambers, railroads, and civic bodies across the Northeast and beyond.
Boston advertising and business men, members of the Pilgrim Publicity Association, will leave tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock for Indianapolis to attend the four day convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. The theme will be Advertising, How and Now with community advertising examples and several addresses by British advertisers.
Authorities will be delivered at the department sessions. Thirty nine speakers prominent in advertising educational and religious work are scheduled to speak. Members of the women's conference will conduct one department session.
Ernest M. Sands six, of 110 Princeton street South Medford, suffered possible skull fracture and broken arm after being knocked down crossing Mystic avenue near Hancock Street. The car, driven by Richard F. Bee of 112 Magoun avenue, Medford, fled to Medical care at Malden Hospital.
Asuncion June 2 Manuel Gondra Paraguayan SC features to the United States will succeed Jose Montero as president of Paraguay following elections in which the radical party won a majority in the electoral college.
Dr. Charles Augustus Stoddard a noted author editor and clergyman died at his New York home after a brief illness aged 87 Born in Boston he led the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church from 1859 to 1883 and served as president of the New York Observer for many years. He was educated at Williams College Union Theological Seminary and earned a Doctor of Divinity from Williams.
Aspirin marketed for nineteen years under the Bayer name. The label proclaims Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as safe for colds headaches toothaches and earaches. It marks Aspirin as a Bayer trade mark with directions included on each package.
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