Rancher Walks Ocean in Small Boats Before 600 in Ventura
A. N. Sheldon, a rancher, walked on the ocean in a pair of small foot boats before about 600 spectators in Ventura California on May 4.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1922
Page
12
A. N. Sheldon, a rancher, walked on the ocean in a pair of small foot boats before about 600 spectators in Ventura California on May 4.
Mrs. Ann Dolan of Cambridge filed a Federal Court damage suit against the United States claiming 57 years of withheld information about her husband, a veteran in Grant's Army of the Potomac, and alleging persistent secrecy.
A person asserts belief that fraud has occurred after a suspected incident. The statement frames the alleged wrongdoing and expresses concern about financial deception. Further details are unavailable in this fragment.
Mrs Dolan, a Massachusetts widow, files a bill of complaint asking the court to assign counsel and probe the disappearance of her husband Patrick H Dolan who enlisted in 1864 with the 69th Regiment. She alleges he served as a nurse in City Point and remained on army rolls until April 1865 and beyond, while claiming government fraud and demanding damages for 67 years of loss and harassment.
Dr. Timothy Brassil of 204 Broadway Cambridge was badly injured in a collision at Concord Avenue and Walden Street Cambridge yesterday. He was unconscious and on the danger list at Cambridge Hospital. His car struck by Eliot B. D. Smith of 1 Kensington Road Arlington.
Worcester May 4 Dr Edwin G Boring professor of experimental psychology at Clark University and Dr Carroll C Pratt instructor in the same department have tendered resignations to join Harvard University They say they left due to not being in sympathy with Clark administration and deny that any mass resignations are planned President Atwood responds defending his policy and notes Boring criticized Clark after accepting Harvard appointment while receiving favorable Clark support.
In Wheeling West Virginia Judge W B Baker refused naturalization papers to five petitioners after a Wheeling post American Legion protest. The five claimed exemption from military service during the war due to alien relations.
The House, following the Ways and Means Committee, rejected the $10 000 appropriation for an investigation by the Commission on the Necessaries of Life into substitutes for anthracite coal. A note on the page mentions Lucien Cary’s story Waking Up the Old Home Town to be printed in full in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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