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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1920
Page
8
Rapid progress and many subscriptions support a $100,000 drive by prominent Italians to establish a permanent home for little children. The drive began Saturday and runs through the month with open air meetings led by James A. Pausata as part of a large programme.
The copy promotes Bayer Tablets of Aspirin with the Bayer cross as a mark of authenticity. It claims physicians have approved the product for eighteen years and urges buying intact packages with directions for relief of cold and various pains. It notes small tin boxes and larger packages are sold by druggists and identifies Aspirin as Bayer's trademark.
The committee announces the Sicilian actress Mimi Aguglia will appear next Sunday evening at the Tremont Theatre in Boston with members of her organization. Proceeds support the Italian relief fund under Sem Benelli Dramatic Association auspices. Donations may be sent to Thomas Nutile or 60 State Street Boston.
Cardinal O Connell expresses deep gratitude to American Catholics for their generosity amid current circumstances as the Holy See relies on American aid.
The Pope sent Cardinal O'Connell to deliver Apostolic benediction to Boston archdiocese institutions especially the League of Catholic Women. He wished success, said the group sets a fine example followed abroad, and would stay in Rome to early June. The cardinal then toured St Peter's tombs and treasures including Constantine's cross and Cellini works.
Two South Boston men Thomas Walsh and Thomas Moynihan paid 15 fines each in East Boston court after arrest by Patrolman Roberts for calling a Boston police officer a scab while drinking jakey. They offered no defense and claimed they did not remember the incident.
Three life saving station surfmen from Appledore Island Isles of Shoals drown after their 30 foot motor boat sinks two miles from Whaleback Lighthouse. Victims are Leo E. Foss 17 Reginald Chesterton 19 of Jonesport Maine and Sherman E. Parker 20 of Cape Elizabeth Maine. Elmer E. Alley survives.
Four young men from a naval radio station traveled from their posting in a 80 foot motor-sailor. They loaded six barrels of gasoline for the return trip and encountered a sudden squall two miles from Whale's Back Lighthouse. The boat sank after taking on water. Coast Guard Wood Island alerted Captain Hand, who went to the scene with his crew. Parker, Hand’s son in law, clung to a spar, Alley rode a life preserver, two others were not found. Parker and Alley were recovered and treated at Fort Constitution Army Hospital. Parker died, Alley survived. Captain Hand had been called to the rescue. Parker had recently married Hand’s daughter.
In New York on May 5 1915 writer Fannie Hurst and pianist Jacques Q Danielson left town for Lakewood New Jersey where they married and separated 30 minutes later. They have kept separate homes studios and friendships to not hinder their art and kept the marriage secret until now.
Miss Hurst declares a long term nontraditional union with her husband based on definite theories of marriage. They breakfast together twice a week, will use paternal names for children until age discretion, and keep their private arrangement largely secret.
City Council blocks motion to appropriate 89 000 dollars for the Milk and Sears site for Police Station 2 as councilors Moriarty McLaughlin Brickley and Donoghue oppose the measure. Mayor Peters had pursued the purchase despite opposition.
On With the Dance leads today at the Washington Theatre with Louise Glaum in Sex and Robert Warwick in Thou Art the Man scheduled for Thursday Friday and Saturday photoplays.
The final fort night of Listen Lester opens at the Colonial Theatre with Ada Mae Weeks, Fred Heider, Joel Brown, Emma Q O'Neil, and Ruth Mabee among its popular cast members.
The Tremont Temple began the last week of its engagement with Charles P. Carey’s melodramatic stage classic Old Kentucky, shown in its screen edition, at Tremont Temple yesterday.
Ad promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets as relief for headache from cold. Claims tonic laxative and germ destroyer effects. Mentions box signature E. W. Grovs and price 30 cents.
A musical comedy adaptation of Alice Duer Miller and Jerome Kern lands at Plymouth Theatre. Austin Bevans reshapes a women’s boarding school with a flashy new education, pleasing many students while stirring opposition. Elise Benedetti and Miss Curtis fall for Bevans as a comic farce unfolds.
The production features Sam Hardy as Bevans and Marie Carroll as Elise with Minnie Dupree and Margaret Daly in key roles. Rapley Holmes shines as the lawyer and owner while Ernest Cossart James Gleason Neil Martin and Albert Hackett provide strong support as the schoolboys. The piece blends comedy and sentiment and proves a capital comedy well worth seeing.
The Boston City Council unanimously approved the Salvation Army Home Service appeal drive as a city endorsement. The drive runs May 10 to May 20 to raise 170000 dollars with Elks support on Boston Common and rallies at the Elks Home.
The Franklin Park Theatre presents in the first half of the week Back to God's Country and The Gingham Girl with Mack Sennett comedians and vaudeville. In the second half Ethel Clayton stars in Young Mrs Winthrop the Adventures of Ruth final episode and new vaudeville.
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