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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1920
Page
13
In Springfield Ohio on June 1 Judge Frank W Geiger of Common Pleas Court warned women applying for divorces to dress modestly. He told attorneys that necklines and short skirts are inappropriate and must stop in court sessions.
Pensacola officials report a second bubonic plague case. Oscar Green, a Negro jeep wagon driver, is the patient in the newly affected city area, where the first case was found, spurring intensified rat eradication efforts.
A cross college game on Fitton field ended with a local train ramming an express. Boston College reports none of its players injured. The rear engine crew suffered burns and bruising from the crash and ensuing fire.
Chief Marshal O'Brien of the St. Louis police and two detectives were injured as a local train collided with an express near Worcester while a Boston College sports party traveled home after a game. The crash followed a crowbar incident on the baggage car and left several passengers needing ambulance and hospital care.
Names and addresses of injured travelers from a dining car incident are listed. John A. Ross dies on arrival. others suffer lacerations head injuries bruises fractures and concussions. Including Charles Dodd Ashland and officers Martin O'Brien John P. Hannegan B. F. Verhoven.
Rail officials report all Boston bound trains blocked on the Boston and Albany line until late morning. Investigators will determine if a pinch bar was placed to obstruct a train or if engine trouble caused the crash. The engineer's condition fuels speculation of an onboard factor.
In the House of Commons the home rule bill faces amendments as Unionists press for 17 non elective members in the Southern parliament chosen by property. Government offers two new protective clauses to counter defiance or improper constitution, prompting Colonel Guinness to withdraw his amendment.
The Louisiana House refused to ratify federal suffrage, voting 67 to 44 to defeat the federal ratification resolution and 60 to 39 to adopt a resolution opposing federal suffrage, at Rouge Lat. The move blocks enfranchisement ahead of the November elections.
A fast auto carrying passengers crashed through the gates at the Main street crossing of the Boston and Maine railroad in Woburn last night. It narrowly avoided an oncoming train, smashed one gate fifty feet, then the second, and fled. An unrelated ad promotes Noonan's Hair Petrole, claiming it cleanses the scalp and improves hair health with a 15 cent application or a $1 bottle from T Noonan & Sons.
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