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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1921
Page
30
Colonel William Cooper Proctor, manager for Major-General Leonard Wood's presidential campaign, files suit to recover 110000 from Major Albert A. Sprague of Chicago, treasurer of the campaign, alleging Sprague borrowed the funds to cover campaign expenses.
Advertisement touts Tiz as instant relief for sore corns callouses bunions and tired feet. It claims feet feel happier after a Tiz bath drawing out poisonous exudations and eliminating swelling odor and discomfort, urging readers to buy at drug or department stores for immediate relief.
Advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment as a guaranteed cure for pimples and eruptions with money back if not effective. Claims wide druggist availability and provides a testimonial from Dr W Bur e of Erie Pennsylvania for eczema and scalp relief. Mail orders handled by Peterson Ointment Co Inc Suffolk New York.
Major Sprague refuses personal obligation to repay funds raised for a campaign. Colonel Proctor alleges unpaid notes tied to a $100,000 bank note due Nov 15 1920 and accuses Sprague of failing to meet half the amount. Major-General Wood says he knows nothing and the financial committee should settle. Sprague reports he signed notes as treasurer and disputes repayment claims, citing $60,000 personally advanced by Proctor.
Colonel William Cooper Procter asserts a Chicago suit seeks Major Sprague to pay his share of a $110,000 note endorsed by Sprague and Procter. He states Sprague has not paid his portion of the obligation in Cincinnati.
John J. Cornish was re elected president at the annual Boston Protective Department meeting held yesterday at the Boston Board of Underwriters headquarters. Officers chosen include Vice President W E Davenport and Secretary Treasurer C W Gooding. Cornish Henry M Felton and Arthur H Hollis joined the board of directors. Henry E Thompson was reappointed superintendent and Dr William F Temple Jr medical officer.
Hyannis March 24 Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce directors voted unanimously to protest the erection of billboards along Cape Cod and to seek cooperation with Senator and Representatives. The plan is to push for removal of existing signs and curb future displays.
Screen gossip recounts Lillian Gish born 1896 in Springfield Ohio educated in Massillon Ohio. She toured with sister Dorothy in repertoire shows and acted in The Little Red Schoolhouse and Her First False Step. Gish joined Biograph via Mary Pickford and D W Griffith, later starring in The Birth of a Nation Hearts of the World Broken Blossoms and Way Down East. She briefly left Griffith but may reunite after a Massillon visit.
Vincent Coleman, a popular young lead, will play opposite Anetha Gotwell in the Pantheon first production. Gotwell is a 1920 Fame and Fortune contest winner from Motion Picture Magazine. Leah Baird, former Vitagraph star, has completed a new project titled The Heart Line and is identified as Mrs. Arthur Beck in private life.
William Fox intends to establish a branch company abroad, with J Gordon Ed leading the initiative. The move signals expansion of the film and entertainment enterprise into European markets and reflects growth strategy amid changing international opportunities.
Wards will be the managing director and his first picture will be Mary, Queen of Scots, to be filmed in England and Scotland. Betty Blythe is mentioned as the probable leading lady of this new company.
A survey lists numerous film figures with birthplaces ages and screen roles. Notable mentions include Vale Dana and Viola Dana born in Brooklyn and Philadelphia figures, plus Lila Lee Augusta Apfel and Beatrice Libby. Addresses and credits point to Realart, Selznick, Fox, and Christie companies with PRUNELLA HALL as contact at the Boston Post.
The entry notes a March 25 waterfront calendar with 84th day of the year and 6th day of spring. It records times, tides, lunar phases, and visible evening stars Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn. Full moon occurred March 23, new moon April 8, and there is reference to an April 22 full moon in one line.
Fresh fish supplies rose yesterday with 10 arrivals including the Margaret L with 5000 pounds of flounders and the Two Brothers with 1700 pounds. Trawlers carried haddock cod hake halibut and cusk totaling about 1 200 000 pounds with sales to wholesale dealers quoted in the 2 to 11 cent range per pound. Plans proceed to establish a Boston Halifax Charlottetown passenger freight service under Canada Steamship Lines using the Maona and Karima with weekly departures and 200 passengers per ship. A stormy voyage troubled the Worcester on a Genoa run, and ice patrols will begin April 1 using the Seneca and Ogsipee. The Shickshinny will sail tomorrow for Rotterdam and northern ports carrying corn and relief goods, with Bernard M struck a ledge in fog near Fish Island. The Minnekahda, rebuilt as a third-class passenger liner, departs for Hamburg with 2150 aboard.
The report details Captain Henry S. Smaridge of the former Wauconda and Captain W. H. R. Dyett of the West Hospicie as senior and third officers aboard the steamer Prince Arthur. Samuel T. Oldfield and W. S. Everding depart for Yarmouth and Halifax to survey eastward freight and passenger movements, with a two week return. Swedish steamers Gothia Holmia Lombardia and Italia will carry sugar from Cuban ports to Boston, with Lombardia due tomorrow and Italia in 7 to 10 days, each likely 25 000 bags.
Steamers Worcester Swendsen Genoa Rizerta Barrymore Haynes Newport News for Liverpool J H Devereux Keene Norfolk Everett Banks Co City of Gloucester Pray Gloucester tugs Liberty Umstead towed barges Mercury Free man New York Stroudsburg Jupiter Pateman L & W barges 2 and 9 Jeff barge 14 Salem Bess from New York towed barges Hornet C C B 6 SAILED Belgian Manchester Minnekahda Mount Clay Chamu Landvard City of Sparta Suveric Delaware San Mateo Havana Port Simon GC Prince Arthur Yar mouth Mohawk Portland tugs Bathgate Sandwich Absecon Neptune towing barges Alice Biwabik Wings Necks Liberty calling New Bedford barge Huron Fall River for barge Fall River
Incoming steamers listed due today and weekend including Servisa Banes Cuba Nitonian Danzig for Manch Eng Persia Baltimore Norfolk Essex Philadelphia Newton Baltimore Pawnee New York Gaelic Prince Japan da China Clan Murdock Table Bay Melrose Norfolk Boswell Buenos Ayres Also schedules for Polonia Danzig Shields Prince Arthur Yarmouth along with voyage notes and an Atlantic forecast of strong southerly winds and rain to the Grand Banks plus wireless reports from multiple ships and recent American port arrivals and departures.
Movements include steamers and schooners leaving and arriving at Boston and Portland with ports such as Philadelphia Newport York and Yokohama noted. Foreign ports listed include Palermo Tempico Barbadoes and Sierra Leone with cargo and passenger actions. Legatees from Somerville and Newton receive named sums and real estate allocations ranging from 600 to 8500 dollars.
Annie Bradley of Woburn Legatees includes children with personal $975. Julia A Brown of Watertown Legatees list sons with real estate $3000 and personal $200.
Rollin McCullough Gallagher of St Louis Missouri named sole legatee and wife for personal estate $5000. In Norfolk Mary E Kelley of Norwood lists real estate $400 and personal $4000 with son daughter and two granddaughters as legatees.
Edward W. Choate of Ipswich with no estimate listed leaves life interest to his wife, then to F. P. Trussell of Hamilton. Ellen M. Merrifield of Lawrence is named as legatee with a personal estate valued at $500.
Joseph J. Blevins a bookbinder of 12 Tufts Street Cambridge and Marie EB Geiger a clerk of 447 Western Avenue Cambridge filed marriage intentions. Also listed are Jose A. Mello an Indorer of 22 Portsmouth Street Cambridge and Noemi M Simone a factory operative of 601 Main Street Cambridge.
Frederick A Klein of 317 Cornell Roslindale and Margaret M Connell at 51 Norfolk Cambridge. Abraham Rivers 122 Inman Cambridge and Gussie Cohen at home same. Arthur O Brose 80 York Cambridge and Marion Patrician 126 Orchard Somerville. Felix K Raab 248 Prospect Cambridge and Florence H Kuner 180 Hampshire Cambridge. Charles W Taintor 124 Brattle Cambridge and Elizabeth W Taber Hampstead Hall Cambridge. Thomas A McGrath 159 Magazine St Cambridge and Elizabeth Brown 78 Marion Somerville.
The record lists multiple paired tradespeople and residents, giving each husband or partner with occupation and home address alongside their spouse or companion with a separate occupation or status. Entries include barber, auditor, policeman, clerk, porter, laundress, assistant manager, stenographer, blacksmith, candy maker, shipper, cook, salesman, and saleswoman across Dorchester, East Boston, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, and surrounding streets.
A list of pairs including Alessandra Starl and Andrew Pawho at various urban addresses, and multiple laborers, domestics, clerks, and professionals linked to immigration station records. Names span Charlestown Somerville Dorchester Roxbury Cambridge Brighton and South Boston with occupations such as laborer bookkeeper nurse and lawyer.
An ad describes toning benefits from a tonic that boosts heart function lungs energy and digestion. It promotes organic iron from plants sold as Nuxated Iron via druggists promising two weeks of increased strength and endurance. Beware substitutes and ensure the word Nuxated and N. I. on tablets.
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