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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1921
Page
3
Leandra, an enigma accused of eclipsing Bluebeard and Henry the VIII in a string of murders of women who loved him, will appear for trial in the Seine et Oise Assizes at Versailles on Monday, over two years after arrest on charges of killing 11 wives and fiances.
The Landru case unfolds in Versailles with 26 charges and exhibits including a stove said to hold bodies of missing women. Landru’s defiant replies puzzle magistrates as police admit no corpus delicti yet. He calls himself a man of honor refusing to reveal what he knows.
Manchester New Hampshire resident Frank Clough dies early today from the effects of drinking moonshine.
Mrs. W. P. Curtiss of New London writes to Tyrrell Hygienic Institute praising the J. B. Cascade Nature Treatment. She says she suffered nearly four years and now can move about after using the product to cleanse the digestive tract and relieve constipation indigestion stomach troubles biliousness and headaches.
Chairman Johnson of the Salvation Army Drive Committee urged the community to convert sentiment into dollars to support a $200000 maintenance fund for use during the coming year.
Boston rally urged $200000 goal to sustain Salvation Army work. Johnson says sentiment exists in business and community. to meet deadline about $30000 must be raised daily. Doughnut fundraisers planned at hotels and churches highlight the effort with donors urged to send contributions to Allan Forbes or the Drive Headquarters in Devonshire Street.
In Philadelphia on November 6 the special commission on deaconesses announced that admission of women to the diaconate in the Episcopal Church has been approved in principle. A new canon and a prayer book service for ordination are proposed, with deaconesses limited to charitable and missionary work, hospital service, and social duties.
Storm clouds loom over British politics as a potential hiatus in Irish peace negotiations threatens to flare. Ulster's stance in the Sinn Fein talks with the government could determine whether the talks proceed or stall.
The piece reports on cabinet discussions looming tomorrow and two lengthy talks between Sir James Craig and Prime Minister Lloyd George about enlarging Ireland's constitution and frontier delimitation. It notes Sinn Fein and British terms under review and hints at possible coalitions if a settlement fails.
The heaviest exodus to Europe is expected late this month and early December as many seek jobs abroad. Steamship lines add sailings from Boston with ships Patria Cunard Assyria and others bound for Azores Marseille Liverpool and Londonderry. The Dec 5 to Dec 8 departures mark first Boston arrivals to Irish shores since Oct 18 1914.
Nov 6 in New York a guest at the Biltmore in room 218 captivates staff and guests. Kurruba, a mummy about 25 inches tall and weighing six to eight pounds, allegedly a former South American tribal chieftain. Senor Juan Krateil of Lima, Peru shares the suite. a letter from American Museum of Natural History supports the mummy’s authenticity as a unique specimen once much larger.
Ryichi Nakaka killed Premier Takashi Hart but investigators believe he acted as a tool in a plot. A well dressed unidentified man seen fleeing Otsuka railway station at the murder scene is the prime suspect as the conspiracy’s instigator.
A New London lightering crew arrived at Half Moon Shoal in Nantucket Sound to offload cargo from the four masted schooner Gladys M. Taylor which drove aground in a gale yesterday. Efforts continue to drag her back to deep water. The schooner remained grounded tonight in the same position.
Marie Louise struggles to win approval from a wary family as she adapts to married life. Lea narrates the wife’s strategies and resilience in this readable magazine piece from the Boston Sunday Post.
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