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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1922
Page
8
Mayor Curley announces that William J. Casey municipal printing plant superintendent will act as head of the supply department pending Civil Service Commission decision on Frank J. Rock’s appointment. Cronin resignation from the 101st Infantry becomes effective last night.
Ruth Law announces retirement from aviation citing ten years since her first flight near Boston. The noted pioneer held numerous flying records and plans to end active flying duties.
Edward J. Nesky a former Boston police officer was fined $50 in Suffolk Superior Court after pleading guilty to assaulting Patrick Collins on the night of November 29 1921. He was given until September 5 to pay.
The Hub Journalists' Club celebrates its 32nd anniversary tonight at 7 with a reception and dinner at Pinebluffs the home of Mr and Mrs Charles A A Parker and Mrs Edith Minster. Toast master J Bernard Lynch will preside. Guests include Nelson G Morton Charles L A Waegner Edith Minster Annie Cross Ellis and Robert Terry plus others. Music and dancing will follow.
Queen Mary of England becomes the first woman to receive the degree of doctor of civil law from Oxford University, marking a milestone in the university's history and women's higher education.
John McCormack performed poetry set by Charles Martin Loeffler with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux in Symphony Hall yesterday afternoon. The program featured Irish poems and drew praise for the vocal interpretation and musical accompaniment.
A vibrant Boston concert featured Mr. McCormack with Dr. Loeffler’s orchestra. Yeats verses and Celtic themes, including The Hosts of the Sidhe and The Pretty Girl Milking the Cow, drew strong applause. The night closed with Mozart and Monteux, and a note on proposed Recreation Vessel law actions.
Luks Shields of the Roxbury city employment bureau made public a plea for work from a 31 year old father of eight seeking any kind of employment after a year of job hunting. He refuses charity and asks only to provide food and warm clothing for his wife and children. Contact Mr Shields at Room 85 City Hall Annex.
The 1922 Boston auto show features a lavish display built by hundreds of artisans. Visitors enter via the Aisle of Fountains and a fairy like canopy, then view the Grand Hall with a 50 foot electrolier and a blue distant backdrop.
The prohibition commissioner met with Ralph A. Day enforcement director of New York in Washington to discuss a proposed floating source of relief for thirsty New Yorkers.
More than 200 graduates and undergraduates attended the annual men's banquet in the Liberal Arts building. The evening featured class cheering songs and stunts with over two hours of entertainment and a vaudeville bill presented by the undergraduates.
The Massachusetts American Legion state executive committee approved an Aug 31 to Sept 2 convention in New Bedford and agreed to travel to the national meeting in New Orleans by fall. They also approved a charter for a new Colonel Charles Young Post in Roxbury, denied a Cambridge post election challenge, and granted withdrawal for a petition to form another post in New Bedford.
Land along the Taunton river at Weir Village will be cleared and leveled into a park after old grain buildings are razed. Robert M. Leach of the Weir Stove Company will donate the 800 by 60 foot tract to the city in memory of his father in law William E. Walker, a founder of the firm in 1879 who died in 1918.
Obituary notices for Patrick J Casey in Malden and George Henry Robinson in Charlestown, with funeral details and times. Infant Sarah F Ross of East Boston also noted with service at 127 Brooks Street. Relatives and friends invited to attend.
Coast guard reports Captain Hudson of the cutter Kickapoo and the Grasham seized a British tug named Grazelle off Cuba bound for Portland Maine loaded with 3000 cases of whiskey. The Kickapoo towed the seized vessel to Cape May harbor, with arrival expected tomorrow after a rough northward voyage and detection near the Delaware Breakwater.
James Lovering of Carlisle was fined 50 dollars for cruelty to a neighbor's dog in the District Court. The dog, owned by A. H. Johnson of Allston, strayed onto Lovering's property and was maimed by a rifle bullet before being killed. Prosecution by officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Announcement of the engagement between Miss Alice Cosco a Wellesley graduate from Syracuse and Warren E Montsie a Dartmouth graduate formerly of Waltham now abroad on an American University Union exchange fellowship in France.
Miss Coseo gives lectures at the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. No wedding date has been set.
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