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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1920
Page
12
The Rev John E Killion former secretary to Bishop Foley of the Philippines will deliver an illustrated lecture in St Francis de Sales School hall Vernon street Roxbury tonight at 8.00 pm to aid the school fund and also at 4.00 pm for the children.
The Public Works Department, with Mayor Peters, awarded a $117,308 contract to John McCourt Company to build a new bridge on Clarendon Street over the Boston & Albany and the New York New Haven Hartford railroads. The bid was the lowest of four offers, the highest reaching $127,000.
Elsie Capper seventeen from South Monson disappeared Monday night. Peter Laplante of Holyoke led investigators to her whereabouts after his arrest in Fairview. They left Monson together, traveled to Springfield, then Holyoke where she worked at Grant and Kelly woolen mills. Laplante has a wife and three children in Westfield.
Washington May 13 W J Lauck consulting economist for railroad unions says sugar could sell at 11 to 12 cents a pound with fair profits but profiteers will extract at least 600 million dollars from consumers this year. He notes the current price trend forces families to pay about 30 dollars annually to gouging profiteers.
The Rev. Lucius R. Paige formerly of South Boston and Indianapolis was installed as pastor of the Porter Square Universalist Church in Cambridge with a large congregation present.
May 13 Cape Lookouts report President Wilson may visit to establish a summer White House in Buzzards Bay if administration duties allow. His daughter Mrs Sayre has rented a cottage in Falmouth to be near him, with plans depending on national and international affairs.
The Amalga mated Clothing Workers of America in Ford Hall resolved to seek a $10,000,000 unemployment fund to be raised by employers. The convention also defeated the 40 hour week proposal amid hisses directed at United States Attorney General Palmer. A. I. Shiplacoff of New York urged the fund, proposing a working capital of at least $10,000,000. The resolutions passed unanimously amid a thunderous ovation.
Stuart MacLean writes And He Never Did for the Boston Sunday Post Magazine, set to run in the next issue. The humor column is expected to entertain readers with its distinctive witty voice and engaging narrative.
George Henry Payne claims the Treasury Department tried to tax income on a 1.2 million dollar gift to the government by Colonel I M Lewis inventor of the Lewis machine gun. Payne spoke at a luncheon for Lewis as he sails to France.
Nathan Fagin a 28 year old Roxbury man arrested on larceny charges jumped from a police officer and threw himself in front of a car at Washington and Bedford streets. He was cut and bruised, treated at Relief Hospital. The vehicle was owned by John Keenan and operated by Benedict Solari.
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