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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1919
Page
6
Police seek Nicholas Fonidakas previously of Crete now in Boston after fleeing City Hospital Wednesday afternoon when told he must go to Penikese Island for leprosy treatment.
Dr. David D. Brough of City Hall says there is no known danger in handling a leprous patient and the disease is not contagious as popularly believed. Police may arrest the man without contact. notify Dr. Jogesed or Dr. Brough on locating him. The patient cnidakas is 6 feet 6 inches tall, about 14 pounds, dark complexion, with short black hair.
A man described in a dark suit with a tight striped pattern, dark gray overcoat, felt hat, and black shoes. His face shows disfigurement with nodules like small warts on one side and a slightly affected upper lip, while his English is imperfect and his demeanor is retiring.
Governor Coolidge accepts a bronze panel engraved with 6th Division battles after Major General Hale offers it to Massachusetts. Hale notes the bronze came from Countess de Boisrouvrey, wife of the senior French officer with the division in France, for a fitting Capitol display.
Twenty three Boston firemen, mostly new appointees, begin four months of practical drill school training at headquarters on Bristol Street under Captain James Mahoney. They will alternate morning and afternoon sessions with ladders, hoses, and fire lines, following the department’s standard program.
The Massachusetts State House may see a scrub women strike again over pay. Last year they quit for 25 cents, demanding 30 to 40 cents. Rep. Niland's bill to raise pay stalled, revived, then postponed for constitutional review by the Attorney General.
Major Walter E. Lang, currently in the Debarkation Hospital No. 3 in New York, has been appointed superintendent of Westboro State Hospital succeeding the resigned Dr. H. O. Spalding.
A stained glass window by Charles Connick for Princeton University portrays the Grail search from Malory’s Morte d Arthur in pure colors and white. Placed in Proctor Hall, the piece echoes medieval chivalry with a jeweled mosaic style.
New York May 22 Julius H Barns United States wheat director invited grain exchanges dealers wheat jobbers bakers producers organizations and trade papers nationwide to attend a conference here June 10 to plan how to reflect to the consumer any reduction in the governments resale price of wheat
Turin May 22 Lieutenant Prackpapa an Italian aviator with three passengers took off and ascended to a height of 23 796 feet four and a half miles in 40 minutes.
Notices posted in the mills of M. T. Stevens and Sons Company say wages rise 16 percent, effective June 2. Sulloway Hosiery Mills follow with the same raise on May 29. About 1100 workers affected in both plants.
Dr. William C. Woodward, Boston health commissioner, leads a city wide extermination drive against skeeters and rats. Park staff and health department attaches will spread oil to swampy pools and stagnant water. The campaign aims to eliminate skeeters first, then rat breeding sites with stealth and thorough destruction of all ages.
ROME May 21 A Vatican semi official communication states that Epitacio Pessoa was received by Pope Benedict while a guest of King Victor Emmanuel, since Pessoa had not yet assumed the Brazilian presidency no precedent was broken according to the Vatican.
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