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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1922
Page
13
The annual Episcopal Diocese convention begins at Trinity Church with Holy Communion at 8:30 AM. About 254 clergymen 350 laypeople and four women are expected to attend.
Clergymen discuss and nominate a coadjutor to succeed the bishop at Trinity Church. The session includes an address by Bishop Lawrence in Huntington Hall, with balloting for minor offices before the election, which will occur tomorrow in Huntington Hall.
The American Legion warns police about fake solicitors who tell hard luck stories and claim Legion endorsement. Boston police have been notified that the Massachusetts department does not endorse solicitation and Legion headquarters will cooperate to end the abuses exposed recently.
Captain George McDonald and eight crew members of the schooner Josephine reached Jacksonville after rescue by the Camilla May Page off Charleston. The Josephine, 842 tons, bound from Jacksonville to New York with lumber, lost her four masts in a northeast gale. the crew rode on the cabin top until saved. McDonald hails from Somerville, Massachusetts.
Police link a former Pittsfield New Hampshire resident to the murder of Ralph W. Brewster Boston and Maine ticket agent in Winchester. Brewster was found with two bullet wounds in his office on April 20. A stranger seen bowling in Winchester that night has been positively identified by photo.
The suspect, a friend of the murdered Brewster, traveled south after a Pittsfield residence of six years and boarded a train to Winchester the night of the crime. He bowled with Edward McKensie and Donald McDonald, who identified his photo among fourteen. Carey noted the stranger's palpable nervousness.
A spotter positively identified the photograph as that of the étranger in the alléya. The finding confirms the presence and recognition of the foreign visitor in the scene.
Charles J. Miggos of 676 Broadway West Somerville offered to escort a young woman from the Malden Carnival to Somerville. Their car backed into Alewife Brook after a trolley encounter, ending with responders pulling the vehicle free and Miggos continuing home alone. The woman then found another ride. Miggos said he does not know her name.
Police in Révere and Somerville probe the disappearance of Big Daw also known as Charles Daw. He was last seen Saturday April 22 in Revere while working for a friend with $40 to $60 in his pocket, raising fears of foul play.
Both houses of the Icelandic Congress vote large majorities to authorize exempting wines with no more than 1 percent alcohol from the prohibition law. Cablegram to Danish legation reports the action received today in Washington.
Charging Hawk a Sioux Indian 83 says his wife Ethel has deserted him four times and attempted to poison him twice in a Court of Domestic Relations in Chicago on May 2. He cites a string of former husbands including German Mexican Chinese Russian Bolshevik and claims a warlike life with the US Army and as a Sioux police officer.
Somerville officials cut the graduation appropriation but the Somerville school committee will still stage the exercises in Tremont Temple Boston on June 15. The 600 plus member class is the largest yet, prompting the move as no Somerville hall could hold the crowd.
Boston records show April filings for new buildings and alterations exceed the prior year. A total of 07 new construction projects and 124 alterations were listed, including 14 new apartments and tenement houses and 123 garages valued at $823,800. Major projects include two hospitals seven office buildings a public building and a schoolhouse with total construction cost for seven offices at $4,247,160.
Pas American Legion posts throughout Greater Boston will join with military and civilian groups to make Mothers Day on May 14 a special occasion. Department Commander Charlies H. Cole will preside at the outdoor mass meeting on Boston Common and has secured most veteran posts to attend with colors and bandas.
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