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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1922
Page
11
Cambridge residents, backed by local lawyers, oppose moving a new drawless bridge location over the river. They warn costs will hit taxpayers and worsen traffic and riparian damages, while real estate interests and lobbyists push passage. Cambridge lawmakers oppose the change, with key figures vowing to block the bill as committee reports loom.
In its 1921 annual statement Metropolitan Life Insurance Company reports over 2 million policies in force and 7.005 billion in outstanding insurance. It lists assets of 1.116 billion including bonds, mortgages, real estate and cash with substantial premiums and accrued interest. The firm notes a 1921 income of 301.98 million, surplus 47.24 million, and daily activity figures for claims, policies issued, new insurance, and payments.
More than 1000 Macullar Parker employees gathered at the Hotel Westminster to discuss moving the company into its new Tremont street store. Ross Parker president Herman Parker treasurer and T Franklin Preston vice president and general manager spoke on company aims and past work accomplished.
The Commonwealth plans to present evidence against Thomas Gettigan a Revere grocery store manager accused of poisoning his aunt Mrs Lizzie M Cook with arsenic to gain her fortune inheritance in a court case.
The trial opened with rapid jury selection and a visit to key pages of evidence. Judge Hugo Dubuque ruled jurors may go home after hours but must avoid discussing the case or reading newspapers. Gettigan and co defendant face an alleged conspiracy to kill an uncle, with a long list of jurors and witnesses described.
Jurors heard that Gettigan lived with the Gettigans and Richardson on different floors near Revere Beach Boulevard. The State alleges arsenic traces in Mrs O Cook’s exhumed organs. Gettigan faces conspiracy charges with William Lindsay and John P. McDonald as witnesses. Richardson’s fortune, about 200000 dollars, is claimed as motive.
William H. Whiting 36 a Beverly telephone worker shot himself at 6 30 pm in his home on Catot Street leaving three children. His wife and friends say he had been despondent for weeks despite payroll audits showing no discrepancies.
Secretary of State Hughes plans a September trip to Brazil to attend the Brazilian centennial exposition in Rio de Janeiro. President Harding aims to have Hughes lead the mission, with Brazilians favoring his attendance on Sept 7, seen as Brazil's Fourth of July, to demonstrate friendly foreign relations through personal contact.
Jefferson L Harbour 65 author and lecturer of Dorchester will marry widow Bertha V Borden 0 Fall River this week at the Fall River Congregational Church. Marriage filings appear in Fall River and Boston. Harbour recently faced tragedy when his daughter Alice I Harbour 26 a stenographer killed herself after learning her lover Albert Ayer was married.
In the city on May 22 Joanna T Dancey widow of Frederick Dancey and daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth Sullivan. Funeral from 486 Brookline Ave Friday May 26 at 8 am Requiem high mass at 9 at Mission Church. Relatives invited. In Watertown Walter A Ford Jr beloved son of Walter A and Lilian Luck Ford of 14 Royal St burial in Holyhood Cemetery, Brookline. Burial private.
A man fell from an attic window at 20 Creighton Street in North Cambridge while placing a window screen. He landed on a roof gutter, sustaining a fractured left arm and back injuries. he was taken to Cambridge Hospital for treatment.
The Baptist Ministers Association of Greater Boston voted to admit Elizabeth Campbell of Boston to fellowship with the body at Chipman Hall. Her admission grants full voting privileges and the right to address the group on any issue under discussion. The Rev. E F Merriam stated that women preachers would have all ministry privileges and that sex was eliminated by the action.
Governor Cox writes to the Secretary of War Weeks urging that rifles be allotted to veterans organizations in Massachusetts for military funerals. He notes 278 American Legion posts 66 Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and 63 United Spanish War Veterans encampments and requests suitable rifles be supplied to each post that desires them.
City Council approved the mayor's order for $10,000 to purchase two automobile ambulances for Carney Hospital. The appropriation will also fund remodels to house the new vehicles, replacing long-used horse-drawn ambulances at the South Boston hospital.
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