19 Jun 1922
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1922
Page
1
Dr. Joseph Henry Selib a dentist of Dorchester married Miss Ona F. Sturman of Rochester at the Powers Hotel Rochester following a courtship interrupted during the past months.
Harold F. McCormick, described as a modern Ponce de Leon, is profiled as a self made magnate. The piece notes his rise from early manhood to amassing millions and references a continuation on page 9 Fifth Column.
The Gayety Theatre in Portland Maine was gutted by fire this morning destroying the interior and damaging adjacent stores. Loss estimated at 150000 dollars. Fire origin traced to a cigarette stub in a dressing room. Nearby residents narrowly escaped as officers and firefighters alerted them. Charles P Brilliant and wife escaped by roof and yard fall. Mary Vassar and five daughters reached the street through heavy smoke.
A skating car accident near West Peabody claims four lives instantly and injures several others while en route from camp toward an early mass in Lowell. Six Roxbury youths on the trip were killed in the collision.
Thomas A. Oneal, 14, of 91 Linwood street Somerville, was beaten and robbed of 5 in change by an armed thug on Mansfield street. He said the robber demanded surrender then struck him, knocked him down, and fled as he lay unconscious in a vacant lot until found by passersby at nine o clock.
Telegraphic advices from Key West said the steamer Bella and the De Soto were sinking with a coast guard cutter removing survivors. The Bella is listed as a 731 ton freighter and the De Soto as a 360 ton tanker. Private reports cited a collision and the Borgestad aiding in rescue.
National League results list St. Louis 4 New York 2 with rain called. Pittsburg 2 Brooklyn 6 after rain ended the sixth. Tennis notes name Miss Florence Ballin as Eastern States' jaws champion at Philadelphia with William Tilden slated for exhibition matches against national contenders.
John H. Lamphier aged 17 drowned off Bass Point Nahant last night while attempting to rescue two boys from a frail raft. Hundreds on shore watched as the tragedy unfolded during the rescue attempt.
In Holyoke on June 18 police used clubs to scatter a crowd that mobbed William Smith and Joseph Silva after alleged insults to two white women. More than 500 people gathered and the two colored men were beaten before officers rescued them. Both were arrested for breach of peace.
A cloudburst hit Port Jervis New York for nearly 24 hours ending this afternoon leaving much of the city under two to six feet of water. Officials estimated damage at about 500000 dollars.
Harvard seniors host a noon Phi Beta Kappa oration and poem in Sanders Theatre followed by an evening senior spread and dance in Memorial Hall with students and graduates attending.
Harry Forni of 80 Beach Street Revere told police yesterday that two young men robbed him early yesterday morning as he locked up his shop. He offered a brief description and the force is investigating the incident.
Abraham Thebay intervened in a street fountain brawl in Washington, shielding others and taking a plate to the head. He was taken to the hospital with a badly lacerated scalp and remained unconscious, while the two combatants dispersed to continue their dispute.
Philadelphia June 18. The theory that epics for the alleged first wife of Anastase Vonsiatskoy Vonsiatsky caused the burglary at the love nest in Ridley Park proved false today. V V the Baldwin apprentice and his $45,000,000 bride Mrs Marion Ream Stephens returned from a trip through New York and found the cottage stripped of 27 dainty items of lingerie lace trim imported from Pareel valued at 750 dollars. Fur coat and beaded cigaret case among wedding gifts also missing along with small jewelry and parcels.
President Faunce of Brown University in a bac calaureate sermon argues for a selective admission system in some colleges. He condemns racial and religious discrimination as abhorrent and says character and scholarship should decide. He also suggests letting 25 percent of current students never have entered.
A reader suggests naming the Boston Post’s Baby Hippo after the fund’s supporters. The idea honors contributors who donated to the Baby Hippo Fund and supports the playful mascot campaign.
Lowell June 18 A girl and a man were injured in Dracut around 10 o clock when their automobile slid from the road and dropped 30 feet down an embankment. Miss Louise Burke 20 Tremont street Lowell fractured left leg and Nelson Gilbert 62 Merrimack street Lowell fractured skull badly torn right leg and fractured wrist. Gilbert is in serious condition.
One hundred volunteer acts are needed for the mammoth Welcome Home Circus planned for Baby Hippo's arrival on the big playstead in Franklin Park next Saturday morning. Twelve monster performances are already arranged with room for 50 clowns and more performers. Communicate with the Post Baby Hippo Fund Editor at the Boston Post.
Boston organizers push ahead with plans for a massive Welcome Home Circus Pageant while Baby Hippo’s Royal Coach races toward Philadelphia. Dozens of performers in bright costumes prepare to join the procession and entertain crowds along the route.
Benjamin Lefcourt alias Jaffe and Christy Connors alias Seaman were brought from New York to Boston police headquarters by Inspectors Pelton and Ring. They are charged with passing checks totaling 240 dollars at downtown department stores in January 1921 and were arrested on indictment warrants.
Ice stations will sell 100 pounds of ice for 25 cents at four city sections including Brighton street West End Day Square Gore street Emerson H and Third South Boston and North Square North End. Charity delivery of free ice to destitute families will continue all summer with private referrals.
Forecast calls for a unsettled day with a chance of showers at times and possible tonight. Temperatures will remain moderate with little change expected throughout.
Four of six youths from Roxbury traveling in a car from Nahant to attend mass near Lowell are dead after a collision with a freight train at an unguarded crossing near Phelps Mill station West Peabody. Two others are critically injured while passengers slept. Leonard Coppenrath, a student.
Mabel H Morrill, the central figure in a high profile New Hampshire divorce, has been located at a camp near Laconia after vanishing post filing suit. Her brother William J McDuff guided a reporter to the hideout but she refused to discuss the case, citing her current stance.
A dated notice references sunrise times and moonlight, daylight saving, and a 1915 Austrian German repulse by Russians near Lemberg. It mentions mobilization due to the Mexican crisis and lists today’s anniversaries.
Forecasts predict occasional showers in Boston and vicinity on Monday and probably Tuesday with moderate temperatures and easterly winds. Unsettled conditions extend to northern New England and eastern New York with clouds and showers, while offshore winds remain variable and unsettled.
Monsieur Frederique Brunnelle, once a French soldier, led a drunken one man raid in Malden after seeking moonshine. His improvised attack with a white horse defeated by bad equipment ended with his arrest at the Malden station. He awaits court martial after a night in the local jail.
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