02 Mar 1922
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1922
Page
1
Dublin March 1 clashes marked the session as De Valera pressed for Dail supremacy while the provisional government ministers argued they alone held sovereign authority and were accountable to the Irish people.
Federal Judge Mack sealed the verdict in the Mary Pickford pay dispute with Mrs. Cora Wilkenning, who claimed to broker higher wages from Adolph Zukor. The case centered on a 1916 salary jump from $4000 to $10000 weekly and Wilkenning’s 10 percent commission.
Observers stated that Griffith holds firm leadership as divisions persist. The discussion focused on the enduring authority and the implied outcomes from the ongoing debate and events.
In New Bedford on March 1 John Gouveia of Acushnet and his family faced trial for neglecting minor children. Testimony described a 15 by 20 shack housing 6 cows 4 pigs several rabbits a horse and 60 hens. The odor prompted a recess and the judge ordered ventilation. Gouveia received a suspended sentence.
Mon signor Moriarty of St. Thomas Church Jamaica Plain sailed today on the Olympic. He is in splendid health and has had a wonderful trip and asks the Post to convey regards to all friends.
Ora One, style expert, tells the Retail Milliners Association of New England that bobbed hair in Boston is cut too short and ends curl upward instead of under. The remarks were delivered at Perkins Hall on Boylston street during a closing season lecture last night.
The piece notes the ongoing bobbed hair craze sweeping the nation and its impact on hats. Milliners in Greater Boston unveil innovations such as sliding brims and tiara shapes while remarking that most women defy paradise plume laws, including Princess Mary.
The committee on municipal finance reported leave to withdraw the Strandway bill urged by Mayor Curley for Dorchester Bay improvement. The committee also reported against a municipal building at Field's Corner.
Louis Spazman a printer and union card holder aged 28? committed suicide in his hotel room after writing four letters one directing a $5 payment to a friend who loaned him money a .22 caliber revolver found in his hand Despondency is cited as the cause police seek relatives and confirm a Cambridge Mass address is former residence.
A foretaste of a unsettled day and night with snow and rain and possible sleet is expected. The period will be warmer and windy with variable temperatures reported from Thompson's Spa and various stations showing yesterday's averages and readings.
Nash A. Belmont known as the White Mahatma was found not guilty by a Hartford Municipal Court jury after an all-day trial in White River Junction Vermont. Wheeler an 18 year old telephone operator testified about the charges. The jury deliberated three and a half hours.
Miss Wheeler now Mrs George Ledder accuses Felmont a slick clairvoyant who worked in Vermont towns of hugging kissing and attempting other familiarities during a reading in his office on February 6. The case follows her marriage after the complaint was filed.
John B. Perkins of Cambridge was sentenced to 12 months in Charles Street jail from the Superior Court. After a visit from friends, guards found a rubber finger containing morphine in his pocket, and six more months were added to his sentence in the House of Correction.
George Jones, a San Jose laborer, admitted the $100 debt from 25 years ago. The judge, after accountants' calculation, ruled the amount at $304,840,332,904,685.16, far exceeding world gold, national debts, and U S currency. Jones earns $200 monthly and faced an impossible judgment.
Attorneys for the grievance committee of the Boston Bar Association ask the Supreme Court to mark the Pelletier and Coakley disbarment cases for trial. Judge Jenney will hear Tuesday, with Judge Carroll handling the equity session starting March 13.
Roger Coulthurst a $20 weekly bookkeeper from the Hotel Touraine fled with a $7448.60 payroll and spent 507.60 on liquor tips and lavish living with ex-waiter Albert J. Walker. They were captured in Worcester while under Volstead Act violations and Coulthurst faced larceny charges.
Dr. George Harris, president emeritus of Amherst College, died at his New York home aged 78. Born in Fast Machias, Maine, he graduated from Amherst in 1866 and Andover Theological Seminary in 1869. He served Congregational pulpits, taught theology at Andover, led Amherst College from 1899 to 1912, and earned multiple honorary doctorates. He will be buried in Providence Saturday afternoon.
The Senate voted 67 to 22 in favor of ratifying the Hughes-Shidehara Yap convention, yielding seven votes over the required two thirds. The vote signals strength in approving the principal treaty of the four-power group amid discord with conference treaty opponents.
A customer with diplomacy and tact demonstrates to an agent how to display and sell seeds in a cooperative merchandising proposition. The description notes experience and an address in Boston Post context.
William G. McAdoo announces he will leave New York for Los Angeles with Mrs. McAdoo. His son Francis H. McAdoo will take his place at the firm McAdoo Cotton and Franklin. He plans to hang out his shingle and continue legal work in California.
Relatives of Catherine A Burke RLY of Whitinsville are asked to call Concord 37 immediately for information and arrangements regarding her matters.
Washington March 1 Elimination of the cash feature of the soldiers bonus bill is under consideration by the House Ways and Means Committee. A plan would let former service men obtain funds from banks on adjusted service certificates immediately after issue as a possible solution.
The remark argues that proceeding would avoid placing heavy pressure on the Federal Treasury in the coming two years. It suggests the plan would thus ease funding needs and stabilize fiscal conditions.
German forces announce capture of Kiev the Ukrainian capital as they smash two more forts in the Dardanelles. One year ago today former U S House Speaker Champ Clark died in Washington. President Harding receives a fond farewell at Marion Ohio.
A weather forecast notes snow or rain for Boston area Thursday with possible sleet and warming into Friday. Northern New England expected snow and warmer conditions. central parts rain or sleet with warmer Thursday. southern sections rain or sleet. East of the Mississippi snow in the north and rain in the south, winds increasing from the Atlantic with storm warnings from Cape Hatteras to Nantucket.
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