Special Circus Number in Boston Sunday Post Magazine
A special circus issue will be issued next Sunday featuring two thrilling stories of circus life.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1921
Page
7
A special circus issue will be issued next Sunday featuring two thrilling stories of circus life.
Customs officials continue to hold several guns seized in Hoboken after a search and seizure warrant was served by Hoboken police. The fate and ownership of the firearms remain unresolved as investigations proceed.
Federal writ halted a hearing on how 105 machine guns stolen from Frank Williams's Hoboken warehouse ended up aboard a ship that cleared New York for Norfolk. Customs will move the arms to a storehouse tomorrow as agents probe factory origins and crew links while Williams seeks IDs of alleged thieves.
Hartford report states Ambassador George B. M. Harvey is father in law to the inventor of a new rapid firing gun. The powerful weapon was seized at Hoboken as it was prepared to ship to Ireland. General John T. Thompson is the inventor.
President Samuel T. Stone of Colt's Patent Firearms says his company will fulfill a 15 000 unit contract for the Thompson sub machine gun. He notes Colt acquired Auto Ordnance's contract last year and has begun deliveries, adding the gun uses a .45 caliber pistol cartridge at up to 1500 rounds per minute.
Two large crowds filled the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey tent on Huntington Avenue for matinee and evening shows. Clowns acrobats equestrians and animals performed well amid sunny weather. The circus’ Boston visit ends today and tomorrow with strong advance ticket sales.
In Rumford Maine the skeleton of a man with a fractured skull and no identification was found by a railroad section hand. An iron bar lay beside the bones. The medical examiner said the man likely died nearly two years ago. Local authorities had no missing person report matching the case and planned further investigations.
James W. Angell son of Yale's president will tutor in history government and economics at Harvard for next year. He is Harvard class of 1918 graduate student in Cambridge. Also named tutors are James Hart William A Berridge Karl W Bigelow Elmo Hohman and Norman Silberling. Francis B Foster will succeed John A Nef as graduating manager of the Harvard Union.
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