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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1922
Page
4
A jury in East Cambridge ruled the will of Benjamin Fitch of Lexington was fraudulently executed or unduly influenced by Elisabeth Fitch and Mary A Fitch. The estate was valued at about $400 000 and the testator was deemed of sound mind when the will was signed.
Mrs. Newton frets over a ruined blanc mange for a luncheon while Mrs. Barker suggests Puddine. The rich easy dessert saves the day offering flavors like chocolate vanilla and lemon and promises a nourishing cake filling. Mrs. Newton thanks her friend and agrees to serve Puddine from grocers.
South Hamilton residents Mr and Mrs James Clemeno celebrate healthy twins Rosina and Emma born last September now weighing 20 pounds each. The couple previously lost a first pair of twins at birth. At birth Rosina was six and a half pounds and Emma six pounds. In a week both lost a pound.
James H. Murphy files a bill in equity in Suffolk Superior Court seeking to enforce a seniority or bumping rule he says the Boston and Maine railroad adopted in 1912. He alleges June 14 railroad agents tried a clerical personnel cut at Warren bridge terminal and that Harry M. Taylor should be displaced under the rule. Murphy asks to enjoin railroad officials from blocking his exercise of the bumping right and the case is set for a Tuesday hearing.
Prohibition Director Elmer C. Potter told the Massachusetts State Pharmaceutical Association that national obedience to the prohibition law is rising and predicted broad adoption of strict policy. He noted a June 25 start for new physician prescription blanks printed on special paper to deter forgery, and listed newly elected officers led by Timothy S. Shea of Worcester as president.
The Lockwood legislative committee will draft bills to restrict investments of fire insurance companies. Samuel Untermeyer, counsel to the committee, announced after testimony suggesting some companies buy securities underwritten by their own officers and receive underwriting commissions, with securities tied to large losses.
Health officials in New York propose fingerprinting babies and mothers to identify infants in abandonment or accident cases. Hospital heads dispute the plan, saying it does not concern maternity institutions in the city.
Boston physicians have not moved to adopt a new infant finger printing plan. Massachusetts law requires maternity hospitals to mark every newborn’s clothing with an indelible ink tag showing the hospital license number, aiding tracing in abandonment or accidents. Telescoped notes mention toeprinting at Bellevue and earlier experiments in Chicago.
State Fire Marshal George C. Neal reports fire losses in 1921 at 15,687,000 dollars, an increase of 88,330,000 from 1920. Boston losses totaled 4,011,000 dollars in 1921, up from 3,141,000 in 1920.
A statewide drive to promote prohibition enforcement began with the Citizens' Alliance led by secretary Jeannette Mann. Committee chair S H Thompson oversees work with members including Davis Perry Tilton Whitcomb and Carter as allied groups from churches and temperance unions join a referendum effort.
The oldest Cape Cod flivver was registered at Commonwealth Pier after a serious debate by Frank A. Goodwin registrar of motor vehicles. The Brockton owner Joe Shimlovich pressed for registration claiming justification, with inspection of improvements ordered before plates issued next Tuesday.
John Stephen Twombly, 74, Boston's oldest merchandise broker with 50 years in the business, was found dead in his 110 State Street office. A pistol shot ended his life as his stenographer Miss Louise Barrett arrived for work. Once wealthy in the 1920s, he lost his fortune to bankruptcy and a failed Canadian Pacific land venture.
William C. Meekins, a Harvard Law School student, was found guilty by Judge Stone in Cambridge district court of assaulting Louis Rosencrantz, a second hand clothes dealer with a shop in Harvard Square. The case followed an argument over a clothes transfer.
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