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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1920
Page
4
Springfield June 16 The Hampden County Improvement League contracted for a large sugar supply to aid canning. It will sell 100 pounds to every woman canner in the county who uses it only for canning and reports her harvest this fall. Many requests already received.
The Bela Pratt statue of Phillips Brooks, displayed for six months at Boylston and Berkeley streets, was removed yesterday morning to be moved to Cambridge. The site for its placement is not disclosed, but Harvard Campus is suspected as a possible location.
An old time remedy for greying hair uses Sage Tea and Sulphur, now sold ready to use as Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound. The product darkens gray hair with several applications and leaves a natural shine, available in drug stores.
Taunton June 16 In Morton Hospital Mrs Annie Dunn the woman shot at 196 High street by Finley Patterson Jack is said to recover barring infection from four wounds Jack a boarder at the house died instantly from a self inflicted wound after turning the revolver on himself Mrs Dunn lived with her sister Agnes Fleming who let rooms Neighbors say Jack had wooed Dunn who was older by twelve years quarrels precede the incident Last evening heated words and an observation of Jack watching Dunn from behind a wall preceded the shooting and self inflicted pistol shot.
Washington reports that Americans in Marash Asiatic Turkey are safe and do not require aid. Funds for the American colony can be drawn from Marash banks. Other dispatches note foreigners at Baku detained by Bolsheviks but Americans there unmolested. A Tiflis despatch says Tartars at Elizabethpol were wiped out by Bolsheviks and Tartars in Ganja districts revolted.
Three bishops parochial clergy and diocese standing committee members joined in services at St Pauls Cathedral to honor the centennial of the church consecration. Bishop William Lawrence led the holy communion with assistants Suffragan Bishop Samuel G Cock and Bishop Herbert Bury of Northern and Central Europe.
The service featured Dean Rousmaniere and leading clergy with Bishop Lawrence in scarlet vestments leading a colorful procession. The diocesan flag bearing Bishop Lawrence’s arms, gifted by Rousmaniere’s Bible class, was carried amid an excellent musical program. The bishop reviewed St Paul’s role in Boston’s religious life, reconciliation of liberal and orthodox faiths, and the parish’s wartime and postwar contributions.
Health department statistics show a higher infant mortality rate in the first five months of 1920 at 119.28 per 1000 births versus 112.2 for the same period in 1919. Officials expect the annual rate to be as low as or lower than 1919, noting May 1920 at 91.7 vs 9 in May 1919 and highlighting 1918 as the peak year due to influenza.
Medical Examiner David C. Dow states that a home brewed liquor with wood alcohol base caused the death of Carl Bartkiewicz of 28 Porter Street Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge Municipal Hospital.
John D. Hart of Derry is sued for 30000 by Emma Chase of Antrim for breach of promise. She claims Hart courted her while another breach suit against Phoebe Ballew was settled by marriage on May 26, and Hart promised marriage after clearing the Ballew case.
Police investigate a raid at the nine family house at 6 Gordon Street Jamaica Plain after breaks reported yesterday. The incident prompted a Jamaica Plain police response and inquiry into possible suspects and losses.
Harry Kaplan received a state prison term of two and a half to three and a half years for stabbing Mrs. Pearl Miller after she refused further interaction. eight stitches were required for her facial injuries.
House owners on Heldon street in West Roxbury told street commissioners yesterday that trucks and heavy vehicles injure walls and ceilings and they vigorously protested the petition to make the street a public highway.
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