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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1920
Page
8
A girl asks a swimming teacher for drowning lessons to attract rescue by handsome men at a hotel. The note frames a risky, flirtatious intent and involves a teacher-student interaction in a domestic setting. The exchange hints at social gambit rather than genuine instruction.
In Greenfield and Nantasket details emerge of an auto tragedy that killed Mr. Huxley and Miss Burke. The two were linked to Jamaica Plain and Turners Falls while rings vanished, investigators sought clues at the scene, and neighbors described a close friendship between the Huxley and Burke households.
Mrs Henry P Ayer watched a man and woman steal her car from Tamworth Street beside the Hotel Touraine Newton last night after an after the theater supper. She saw the pair resemble her son and daughter as they drove off. Her son and daughter emerged shortly after and found the vehicle missing.
Mayor Peters announced the 12 district chairmen for the July 5 Independence Day observance. Names include East Boston William J Ferguson Forest Hills John B Archibald Hyde Park John A Kiggen North End John A Scanga Roxbury James H McDade South End Louis Shulman West End William H Cuddy West Roxbury William N Irving Ashmont and Neponset Charles B Lawler Allston and Brighton Dr Edwin A Meserve Roslindale Albert Frith Metropolitan Hill Roslindale F H Parker. The Roxbury squares will be dedicated during the parade with plans for veterans associations to join the event.
Miss Rosamond Eliot and William Gorham Rice Jr were married yesterday at the bride’s parents summer home in Asticon Maine. Only immediate family attended the outdoor ceremony with no attendants. The groom, Harvard Class of 1914, is the son of Albany residents Dr. and Mrs. William G. Rice. The bride, Radcliffe ’17, is a Eliot grandaughter of Harvard president emeritus Dr. Charles W. Eliot. her sister Frances Eliot recently wed Frank Fremont Smith Jr.
Cornelius Sweeney long time Milford resident and pioneer meat dealer of New England died at his home 44 Pearl street aged 82. Funeral services will be held Thursday from his residence.
Federal and district attorneys press an inquiry into Joseph Bowne Elwell's death and a suspected bootlegging deal. Investigators question ex-saloonmen and Elwell's secretary William Barnes as officers trace a large liquor purchase tied to the slain man. Letters and anonymous tips complicate the case. A witness is questioned at the criminal courts building amid renewed efforts to locate the liquor stock.
Mrs. Cora Hincke, 36, told of three years of silence with husband Harry 40 at 116 North Thirty-ninth Street Camden. She filed for divorce yesterday before Vice-Chancellor Learning, citing neglect and lack of husbandly conduct since 1916 after she joined a religious denomination. He disputes the split, saying they were happy until 1917 and remains living at home.
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