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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1921
Page
5
A special demonstration by the state polio officers known as the state constabulary will be held in Framingham on Friday November 18 at 1 30 p m Governor Cox will attend and the public is invited Exhibitions include motorcycle riding drills mounted and dismounted drill first aid treatment and other features of the officers work.
Eight investigators from Boston New York and English universities will sail from New York to Cerro de Pasco Peru to study how the human body adapts to low oxygen at high altitude. The team includes Harvard Medical School and Rockefeller Institute graduates led by Joseph Bancroft of Cambridge University. The research aims to shed light on heart and lung diseases and may interest aviators.
An intruder burst into a shower bath in the women's gymnasium as Grace Bennet a senior was bathing. The splash startled her and she screamed bringing campus students and police to search the campus, but no trace of the intruder was found.
Mariners report serious damage to the Breakwater Light foundation between Newport inner and outer harbors. Submarine N-4 rammed the granite blocks after steering gear jammed, tearing chunks from the wall. the submarine itself sustained minor damage.
In this city on Monday Marshal Foch was elected State commander of the American Legion and held the post for an hour before resigning due to leaving the state and country. The article also presents his “order number one” as state commander, under the name Ferdinand Foch.
In a dated order from the Legion Headquarters Office of the Department Commander General F. Foch calls all Massachusetts veterans who served under the American colors to enroll in the American Legion. He praises wartime efforts, stresses unity and peace goals, and urges veterans to join and carry on in the Legion.
Boston mayoralty battle sees candidate John R. Murphy first to use wireless broadcasts. He will visit the American Radio and Research Corporation plant at Medford Hillside to deliver a speech as other candidates also plan to use the new method to reach voters.
Paul Godley, noted wireless inventor, sailed for England aboard the Aquitania to represent the United States in next month’s Trans Atlantic wireless tests for amateurs. He carried a receiving apparatus described as the most powerful yet designed.
Winchendon activity reports two kills and a dozen good hunts on day two of the fall hunt. Dr. R L Davis of Woonsocket won the daily pot by killing a dog fox ahead of his hounds Punch and Nemo before eleven. Cr H Courtney of Maynard took second with a fox killed around three in the afternoon.
Charles B Hawes author of The Mutineers and The Great Quest and editor of The Open Road will speak at The Bookshop for Boys and Girls and the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union on Some Old True Tales of the Sea. Henry B Boston Sheahan will introduce him and several authors will share remarks about their new fall books.
Seven percent of Packing Room Workers' Union No. 8, ironers and related staff at the Allen Goller Jeighton Company, walked out yesterday over corporate relocation plans from Lynn to Boston. The walkout follows broader labor tensions in the Shoe City as firms shift operations elsewhere.
The French line steamship Maryland of 3906 tons was rammed by the Japanese Fukuyou Maru and sank at the Firsh street wharf in New Orleans. Dock officials say a steering gear break on the Fukuyou Maru caused the collision in about thirty feet of water.
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