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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1920
Page
4
The cornerstone of the Norwegian Evangelical Free Church at Lang street in Concord was laid this afternoon with services led by Rev. Edward M. Anderson. Sealed in the stone were the church constitution, member list, a Bible, hymn book, and photographs of prominent history figures.
Provincetown reports the season’s first large herring catch in the White Bar trap at Race Point. High barrels of the large fish sold for 2 dollars per bushel.
Massachusetts labor groups criticize Governor Coolidge for vetoing the 2.75 per cent beer bill. The open letter, signed by union leaders in Boston Lynn Somerville and other cities, questions the veto reasoning and defends the petition urging passage. It argues workers and others supported the act and notes potential delays if the Supreme Court rules versus Volstead. The letter ends by urging candor and warns against deception in lawmaking.
The Boston Post Office Clerks Local 100 met at the Quincy House to install new officers and broaden calls for nationwide cooperation to raise salaries for post office workers. A Joint Postal Organization of Boston note cites vacancies and lowered tests as factors, urging citizens to push Congress for action. Officers installed include Kelley, Fitzpatrick, Reardon, McManus, Regan, and Murphy. Nine delegates to the Boston Dental Labor Union were also installed.
The tentative United States Railroad Federation of Affiliated Employees to unite 18 independent unions outside the Big Four and AFofL railroad department was announced by Farl H. Mirton in New England. Delegates will hear the plan at a Fort Pitt Hotel meeting in Pittsburg next Sunday and housing relief work will be promoted at Wells Memorial tomorrow night by the building trades council.
Two Hingham fire engines 1 and 2 became mired in mud while responding to a Hull shore blaze on the Weir River just before midnight. The fire destroyed two large camps as Hull crews, unable to reach the flames, commandeered boats and used hand extinguishers until aid arrived. the camps burned to the ground.
Representatives of the Electrical Workers Union and General Electric officials reached an agreement last evening at the Inn plant. Union leaders said the company capitulated to workers demands and the 100 winders will return to work this morning.
The article cautions that measles often leaves lingering airway inflammation even after eruption and fever subside, risking pneumonia. It advocates nightly Vicks VapoRub applications to draw out inflammation and ease coughing as the body heats the medicine vapors.
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