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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1920
Page
7
The Canadian three masted schooner Eva A Danen is driven ashore on Sagamore beach near Cape Cod Canal after a northeast gale. Captain Abner Neves and six crew were rescued by coast guard before the hull broke up. the vessel was bound from Apple River Nova Scotia to New York with lumber and lathes and is quickly becoming a total wreck.
A testimonial ad promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a universal tonic for pale weak blood causing stomach distress and sleeplessness. Mrs Claude F Cooke of East Boston credits the pills with restoring appetite weight energy and sleep after two weeks. Pills sold by druggists or direct from the company at 60 cents a box with free booklet.
General John H. Sherburne, chairman of the Commission on the Necessaries of Life, will take steps today to investigate the sugar situation and cases of alleged profiteering in the commodity. Up to now the matter has been handled by the Department of Justice, with the commission only passing any information to federal authorities.
The commission will send letters to sugar refiners this morning requiring weekly statements to state sugar received, refined, costs, selling price, and post-refinery disposition. It will probe whether candy makers are obtaining more refined sugar than others as part of an ongoing investigation.
Tufts seniors held their annual Class Day in Medford despite rain. The morning chapel program featured Ralph Dewy Weston and Dorothy Tucker with the class poem, plus three new Tufts songs. Afternoon events moved indoors to Goddard Gymnasium with a joint Salem Cadet and Tufts Band concert and a class day march.
In Marion Ohio on June 18 a life-long friend and business associate of Senator Harding told a Post reporter that Harding will not pledge pre-nomination or pre-election promises. He said if elected President Harding would enter the White House free to appoint without regard to political bosses.
A Post informant claims Harding would pick cabinet members on merit, not as puppets, contrasting with rivals who pledged jobs. The report details alleged Wood and other managers promising posts, while Harding supposedly promised independence in appointments. Marion plans a large homecoming July 5 or 6 as festivities begin.
Mayor Thomas E. Andrews told a Post reporter the old City Hall site could be turned into a parking area with no part left. He plans to invite Northampton's mayor Michael J. Fitzgerald to Marion for Harding's home coming and to arrange Coolidge's visit, making Northampton part of the trip.
Herbert Hoover endorses the Chicago Republican platform and supports the party ticket after conferring with Senator Harding. He calls most planks constructive, urges forward interpretation for labor and the league, but criticizes insufficient handling of election expenditures primaries and warns against factional party coalitions. He says Republicans with definite views should bring them forward.
In remarks attributed to Herbert Hoover he warns that the Republican party must avoid an irrevocable split. He notes Senator Harding’s claim that the administration would reflect both conservative and progressive wings and deny domination by any single group.
Virgil G. Hinshaw at Prohibition headquarters in Chicago today released a statement alleging Senator Warren Garding once owned brewery stock in Ohio. The claim ties Harding to a dinner in Washington two and a half years ago and his later votes for the federal prohibition amendment and the Volstead Act over the President's veto.
The public works department approved four paving contracts led by Mayor Peters. W J Barry wins granite block work on Washington Street 115,557.60 dollars. John McCourt Company lands wood block Charles Street 17,971.70 dollars and repaving English High School yard 1,187 dollars. James Doherty gets granite relaying on Franklin Street 19,342.20 dollars. Division forces resurface Winslow Warren Canterbury Clifton streets with various macadam and tar preparations totaling multiple thousands.
Worcester June 18 railroad police investigate the Boston and Albany wreck last Tuesday night and believe a grammar school boy dropped a crowbar onto the preceding train causing the express to stop. Officers report the boy has habit of dropping objects from a bridge onto speeding trains to watch them fall away.
At a Brussels cabinet council on June 18 Belgium unanimously favored lifting the blockade on Soviet Russia in principle and agreed to seek resumption of economic relations with reservations about Belgian rights in Russia.
A Dover woman seeks divorce from Murdock Stewart after desertion on Dec 1 1899 following a Nov 2 1899 marriage in North Sydney P E I. Other filings include John C Stockbridge and Charlotte L Stockbridge of Wellesley for cruel treatment and alimony, Annie J Littlewood and Edward J Littlewood of San Pedro for cruelty, and Florence M Osgood in Dedham for cruelty after a Sept 24 1919 marriage.
Gov Coolidge signed commissions for Massachusetts National Guard officers including Daniel B. Cullinane of Concord Edward J McInerney of Lowell and Alfred L H Gustafson of Lowell plus Fred M Cutler of Worcester as chaplain. The list sent to the War Department includes Major General Walter B E Lombard retired Colonel Edward L Logan Colonel John H Sherburne and Colonel Alfred F Foote for appointment to the federal military committee shaping National Guard policy.
Inspector reports detail actions of the National Guard under Colonel John F. Osborn with the 101st Engineers and Major involvement. The item outlines unit assignments, training milestones, and upcoming duties shaping local defense readiness.
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