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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1920
Page
17
General Leonard Wood is slated for four or five speeches in Massachusetts ahead of the April 27 presidential primaries. Arrival dates and full itinerary are not yet set, but the Wood League plans include a sequence of speeches by the general.
The Wood campaign plans a single daily speech starting around April 18, with General Wood touring Springfield Worcester Boston and Salem. Campaign managers hope to boost him as Massachusetts favorite son, aiming to win pledged Wood delegates in four districts namely the fourth sixth ninth and thirteenth.
Miss Grace Warner daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry S Warner of Brookline married Moses H Gulesian a Boston businessman at the bride parents home Chestnut Hill The ceremony was by Rev Addison Moore D D with the bride given in marriage by her father Lt Gov Channing Cox served as best man The ushers included William H Vincent Harry C Adalian Major Caleb Warner and Wallace V Plummer
Police intervene at the Copley Plaza Hotel to enforce dance hall rules amid a statewide push against the shimmy bunny hug and cheek grapple. Managers seek licenses as officers monitor attire and contact Mayor Peters' office for guidance while authorities stress license needs.
Police warn hotels to secure dance hall licenses with optional officer presence if needed. Only three hotels hold licenses now: Copley Plaza Somerset Tuilleries. Copley Square Hotel Hotel Colonial Brunswick Lenox Westminster managements applied for licenses in the afternoon.
Salvatore Buloni aged 14 of 69 Charter Street East Boston was locked up for assaulting two North End boys during a boat ride near Governor's Island. He allegedly threatened to throw them overboard and struck Luigi Pattetti and Giovanni Cionni with an oar and knife wounds required stitches. Police took the youths to the East Boston Relief station for treatment.
Governor Ritchie urged passage of the Jones bill to legalize beverages up to 3.12 percent alcohol and supported a statewide wet program as proposed. He transmitted his liquor message to the Maryland House endorsing manufacture and sale of beer cider and light wines.
Professor David Todd of Amherst College said he would attempt a new altitude record in an army air service airplane piloted by Major Leo Stevens from the government field at Omaha Nebraska. The expedition aims to obtain astronomical and meteorological data.
At the Brookline annual meeting, voters approved 3,057,973.18 for the town’s appropriations and rejected a $4.50 daily wage for laborers while granting emeritus schools chief George S. Aldrich a 3600 yearly salary. Laborers backed $4.50. opposition from Parker and others led to $4.25. Firemen and police saw salary boosts, with a $100 raise and a platoon system for firemen and a day off in eight plus $100 for police. School janitors won a pension. highway department budget rose by 20,000 for snow and ice removal.
A major blaze on the third floor of a four story brick building at 15 17 Portland street caused heavy smoke and flames. The Naples Hotel suffered scare as smoke was diverted by closing fire windows. Damage to the third floor plus stored paints and blankets exceeded 5000 dollars. The adjacent building houses Louis M Rose Company wholesale auction rooms.
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