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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1921
Page
6
Interest in the ongoing trial of Charles M Brightwell his wife and 12 alleged Old Colony Foreign Exchange officials rose as Mrs Rose Ponzi attended as a spectator yesterday afternoon.
Mary L. Connolly testifies as cashier at 54 Devonshire Street for the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company until its closing. She notes no ledgers and only eight sheets listing investors and dates of contributions. Defendants Brightwell Bouchie Meyers Lindblad are identified in the case as officers and officers’ aides and a foreign agent in Europe, with interviews suggesting improper conduct.
Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Maine Central Railroad announce wage reductions for all employees who benefited from last May’s advance. The cuts take effect April 16 and are tied to the Rail Labor Board decision, with both lines aligning on the same effective date.
The Foster and Blake houses in what is now South Boston date to 1676 and 1680. By 1775 only a few homes stood on the Neck, defended by Castle William on one side and Boston on the other. In February 1776 British troops burned several houses, including the Foster and Blake, as inhabitants fled to Dorchester. James Blake, a longtime town figure who authored Blake's Annals, died in 1750. his son later watched flames from Dorchester.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a leading labor lecturer and figure in the Sacco Vanzetti defense, told the Twentieth Centre Club yesterday that the labor movement is the ideal American movement and that its radical edge shows brotherhood while noting Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with murder and highway robbery for their prominence in radical labor activism.
Arthur Stringer crafts a compelling mystery as a detective yarn. The story titled The Left Hand Necklace will appear complete in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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