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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1920
Page
9
Irvin S. Cobb, a noted humorist, to be featured in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine with "Who s Who at the Zoo" described as one of his cleverest literary humor pieces.
A citywide membership drive by the Instructive District Nursing Association begins this week in the North End Brighton and East Boston with later efforts in the West End Dorchester and Roslindale and plans to raise 190000 for expenses this year. Prominent women will address meetings and readers will hear a letter from Henry B Endicott to Miss Gertrude Peabody praising the association and noting a $1000 donation.
An all day conference at the Cathedral Church of St Paul will discuss Industrial Democracy as part of a diocesan campaign by the Episcopal church. Bishop Brewster of Mains will speak on the human side of industrial production. Dr Richard W Hogue of Baltimore will lecture on what the League is doing and on our immediate problems.
City gardeners at Fast Cottage Street Dorchester raised over 100 pots of shamrocks from seeds brought from Drogheda Ireland, birthplace of John Boyle O'Reilly. The plants, cultivated with care for exhibition, will mature March 11 as part of a historic display. In a separate incident, Sheriff Armstrong detained Pomeroy and Scott after a night pursuit aboard a Canadian Pacific freight, linked to a prior Moore Motel boarder case and a 1917 robbery history involving George A. Long.
Two men, William Pomeroy and J. O. Scott, boarded at a small hotel run by Moore, were arrested after a nightlong pursuit. They were captured at Jackman by Sheriff Armstrong in a freight car shortly after 2 AM, ending a sensational manhunt that tied telegraph and telephone lines.
Mrs. Moore, regaining consciousness, says "Bill" and "Scottie" committed the shooting in the Haddigan House hotel. Sheriff Rogers and County Attorney Hall plan first degree murder and murderous assault charges as investigators pursue two men linked to the hotel burglary and $150 in cash inside.
Reader question discusses using Laxative Amaro Quinine tablets as a preventive for flu and colds. It notes a Grovf’s signature on the box and asks if this advice is valid, seeking medical guidance.
A new campaign to enforce the federal prohibition amendment was announced in New York. Rev. Dr. Charles Scanlon of Pittsburgh, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare, said the movement would be led by the World Prohibition Federation with combined religious forces, though the Anti-Saloon League had not joined yet.
Dr Seamon announced a broad movement against alcohol and habit forming drugs with the National Temperance Society and the Commission on Temperance of the Federal Council of Churches joining the World Prohibition Federation. Denominational agencies and groups including Good Templars Sons of Temperance Prohibition Party United Society for Christian Endeavor and International Sunday School Association participate. Catholic Priests Prohibition League led by Fathers Zurcher Curran joins. A key effort targets foreign speaking communities via an inter racial committee collaboration.
Salem March 18 The United Shoe Machinery Company strike grows as 9000 machinists already walk out and 1000 Metal Trades Council workers vote to join if contracts are not unilaterally abandoned. An ultimatum set for 9 45 am threatens a seamless shutdown and near impossibility of plant operation.
Former U S Senator Henry W Blair of New Hampshire died in Washington at age 85. His son James B Blair is an attorney in the city.
The Rev Gerald C Treacy criticized spiritism claiming no scientific proof supports its claims. He noted spiritist writers often rely on table tilting demonstrations and accused magazines of promoting propaganda that exploits the bereaved by promising communication with the dead.
In Frankfort the militia attacked Noske troops but were repulsed. Noske forces vow loyalty to Ebert amid street demonstrations. Across Duesseldorf clashes between old and new regime supporters continue. Southern Germany governments reportedly unite to oppose the revolution.
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