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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1920
Page
3
James A. Keown, noted YNN physician and attorney, has been committed to a asylum for observation as to his sanity. The move follows court proceedings to determine mental competency and ensure public safety.
Judge Christopher T Callahan in the Superior Court at Salem ordered commitment after District Attorney Donnell requested it and Dr. Keown appeared seeking transfer of his Commonwealth case to federal court. Dr. Keown claimed persecution and bias in state courts, arguing for asylum. Dr. Walton testified to paranoid insanity.
Rochester N Y June 11 A $9 000 000 school of medicine and dentistry including a 250 bed teaching hospital has been given to the University of Rochester by the Rockefeller General Education Board and George Eastman of Rochester The board contributed $5 000 000 and Mr Eastman $4 000 000
The Rochester dental dispensary built and endowed by Mr Eastman will equip the school's clinic for dentistry. The medical school gains modern laboratories for anatomy physiology and pathology, with the hospital serving as a cooperating adjunct. Eastman's total university gifts reach 4 500 000.
Former Boston mayor James M Curley spoke at Faneuil Hall during Flag Day exercises by the United Spanish War Veterans ladies auxiliary Massachusetts. He said fear of a radical nominee is misplaced and that Americans must safeguard the nation from those who place the dollar above the flag. He stressed the menace lies in individuals who influence politics rather than in political ideologies.
The Eastman School of Music announces a world unique program with scientific laboratories. A 1913 endowment reaches $500,000 and a Victory fund increases by $100,000 to reach the $1,000,000 goal.
A Burton and Furber coal truck operating opposite 50 Border Street East Boston struck a boy who had just jumped from a wagon. The operator Edmond Nagle of 171 Princeton Street East Boston could not avert the collision before bringing the vehicle to a stop.
Plymouth reports plans by the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of Veterans to reproduce the Old Colonial Powder House at Burial Hill for the Pilgrim tercentenary celebration. The project aims to honor colonial history with a faithful reconstruction.
The C F Hovey Company show at Jordan Hall wowed audiences with The Matador of Yucatan a three act farce set on a sisal plantation. Notable performances included Arthur M Harrington as P G Ham mer Kathryn Healy Mary Olivia O Brien and Babe Bates who drew encores. The First Corps Cadets orchestra provided music and the show will be repeated tonight.
Five crew members died when the Eagle war boat capsized in a squall on the Delaware River. Forty-six sailors escaped, the drowned were trapped in the engine room until a survivor chiselled a hole to escape as the vessel floated bottom up. An excursion steamer rescued the survivors at the Philadelphia navy yard.
Henry A. Daredevil Smith of 45 Portland Street Boston showed marked improvement at Lynn City Hospital after a Curtiss biplane crash on Revere Beach Boulevard Thursday afternoon. The accident killed driver Thomas H. Havey. Smith is expected to be discharged within a week.
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