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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1921
Page
16
Dorothy Everett age five of 8 Storey Street South Boston was severely burned about the face hands and neck when her clothing caught fire while lighting a candle in her home yesterday. She was reported resting comfortably last night and remains on the danger list at City Hospital.
Portland Maine March 2 Anxiety grows for the safety of the four masted schooner M Vivian Pierce of Boston which sailed from Norfolk March 11 with 2431 tons of locomotive coal for the Grand Trunk railway here and is fully a week overdue She carries a crew and was built at Thomaston in 1919.
A fine elderly, large voiced woman in Dorchester was found on the Elevated and assisted to City Hall station by a marching uniformed quartet. She is vigorous and inclined to stir things despite many well spent years.
An elderly 73 year old woman resists assistance in a public disturbance at a harbor area. After clashes with officers she is helped into a carriage and escorted to Dorchester, where family awaits. She protests with curt remarks as she is aided into the home, slamming the door on her conveyance.
Massachusetts youngster August Dutra aged three enjoys a kiddie bar aeroplane built by his father John Dutra of 12 Spooner Street New Bedford. Traffic policemen grant right of way as motorists slow to two miles per hour. The wooden frame with canvas wings mirrors a modern biplane, cockpit steering gear, front-wheel pedals, and a paper propeller. August wears an aviator helmet and goggles with U S aviation stars painted on the plane.
Judge Lawton of the Suffolk Superior Court granted a temporary injunction at the request of Elizabeth F. Rogers of Boston restraining Eva F. Emery of suite 8 784 Beacon Street from disturbing tenants’ enjoyment of their apartments. The order allows piano playing at reasonable hours. Rogers, ill and living in suite 6 beneath Emery, reports many callers and loud noisy behavior including singing dancing and jumping that harms others in the building.
Full military honors will be accorded at the funeral of Lieutenant Stephen A. FitzGerald the first commissioned officer in Greater Boston killed over Beas The service will be held Monday from the home of his father Christopher FitzGerald Sargent Street Roxbury with a solemn high mass of requiem in St Pauls Church.
The Gil bert & Barker Manufacturing Company announced a four day work week starting Monday, affecting 1200 employees. The switch reduces operations from six days a week at the tanks and gasoline pumps maker.
William Justin Mann recalls Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s Crowding Memories and a life entwined with Boston’s literary circle. He highlights Edwin Booth, Mary Booth, Lincoln’s assassination, Aldrich’s marriage in 1865, Dickens’s Boston visit, and friendships with Longfellow, Twain, Harte, Stowe, and other famed writers.
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