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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1920
Page
9
A crowd of over one thousand will perform in The Chosen King at the Boston Opera House for the Salvation Army home service fund. The initial show opens tonight and runs all week with a large cast supporting the fundraising event.
BROCKTON May 9 Mrs. Berinthia Tillson one of the oldest music teachers in the state celebrated her 7th birthday today at her home 17 Eaton street. Though approaching eighty she still plays difficult compositions with rare skill despite rheumatism and vows to keep making music as long as she lives.
New York report from Lloyd's Register shows world shipyards under way steel steamers amounting to 7,692,000 gross tons for the quarter ending April 1. This surpasses 4,935,000 tons on Sept. 30, 1918 and 7,504,000 tons on Sept. 30 last, the prior high.
Total tonnage under construction falls to 7,941,000 tons from 8,048,000 as of Sept 30 1919. Wooden steamers show sharp decline with only 105,000 tons under way versus 1,824,000 before armistice. UK leads US in early 1920 after a shift from a joint neck-and-neck position.
Bishop Anderson confirmed 400 children yesterday at the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Brookline. The ceremony drew families and parishioners to the parish, marking a significant rite of passage for the youths and the community.
Dr Frances J Heath at the New Old South Church centennial medical missions event cites that under 1 percent of China's population attends school and at least 65 percent of women still bind their feet. She notes limited medical access with less than 5 percent using American medicines and recalls her work with Sleeper Davis Memorial Hospital and Pekin Women's Medical College.
An unusually fascinating set of stirring short stories by John Russell begins with The Wicks of Macassar to be printed in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
Spencer L. Sawyer of 1218 Commonwealth Avenue Allston was arrested by Sergeant Daniel Hines and Special Officer McNeally charged with manslaughter after Mildred Kelley died at City Hospital. He is bailed and to face Dorchester Court hearing. Police say his car struck the girl near the Elevated reservation on Columbia Road near Stoughton Street Dorchester. Sawyer is assistant manager of the Copley Plaza Hotel.
Members of the Junior Congregation of Adath Jeshurun Synagogue in Roxbury held a concert at the State prison in Charlestown yesterday afternoon. The event featured both congregation members and the prison orchestra, with over twenty participants. A committee led by Isadore Bloom organized the visit, assisted by Esther Aronovitz Irene Shain and Pauline Miller, and about a dozen cars from David Gelewitz of Jamaica Plain transported attendees to and from the prison.
Most of the 17 firemen overcome by smoke aboard the brig Rhine in East Boston are recovering. Lieutenant Robert Nugent of Engine 44 and Captain Thomas J. Flynn of Engine 9 remained in the relief station on the danger list but were removed yesterday afternoon and are expected to leave the hospital soon.
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