17 Nov 1921
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1921
Page
1
Phoenix Arizona November reports Roy Gardner a mail bandit who escaped McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary guards under fire continues pursuit. Gardner was serving a Pacific duty sentence when he fled authorities.
In Washington Secretary of Labor Davis warned eggs and Thanksgiving turkey may rise ahead of holiday demand. He blamed warehouse storage practices for price hikes and noted turkey could reach as high as 79 cents per pound in the capital.
For the second time in a month John A. McDonald, manager of the Jenney Gasoline Company station at Stuart and Berkely streets, Back Bay, was held up. A single robber demanded hands up and took $18 from the cash box and $4 from McDonald’s trousers. Police are seeking a second suspect in a prior October 15 robbery.
Fifteen year old Widward Sherman of 22 Fulton Street Medford was struck by an automobile in Back Bay yesterday and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with internal injuries. Doctors believe he will recover.
In a high profile clash Suffolk County figures Attorney General J Weston Allen and District Attorney Pelletier face the full Supreme Judicial Court bench in open court. The court will hear Pelletier's bid to delay the hearing on the attorney general’s case until January.
Montreal dispatch recalls Takahashi, future prime minister of Japan, who as a youth was sold into servitude in a California mine. A labor agent transported him, leaving him penniless in San Francisco before the Japanese envoy Prince Yuakura intervened, purchasing his freedom and funding education. He later rose to become Bank of Japan president and longtime finance minister.
Lewis Phyllaire, arrested for the murder of Merle Sheppard on Sheppard’s farm, pleaded guilty in circuit court to first degree murder in Owosso Michigan and received a life imprisonment sentence.
The Washington conference moved to agenda items on China as menacing armaments policy is examined in committee. U S backing is noted as part of the session.
In Attleboro on November 16 the tax assessors Walter J. Newman Harry B P Carpenter and Thomas E McCaffrey asked Mayor Brady for a private room in City Hall to conduct hearings. They complained public labeling as robbers thieves and dishonest persons and the mayor referred the request to the City Council amid rising tax rate complaints.
Mrs Bertha Morrison filed for 10000 against Miss Effie A Curwen of Franklin New Hampshire claiming alienation of her husband's affections. Morrison spoke to a Post reporter at her home 54 Union Park last night.
On November 16 in New Bedford the Portuguese steamer Sao Vicente carrying 4000 tons of coal was found to hold a larger bounty of contraband liquor. Inspector Finnegan and eight customs men seized a wagon load of fine spirits, marking the port’s biggest liquor seizure from any visiting vessel.
Yesterday's and historical temperature figures are listed for Thompson's Spa with recorded highs and lows. The page shows 88 as a high, 40 as a low, and various time-stamped readings, plus averages for yesterday and a year ago.
Yesterday's social experiment at Copley Plaza saw wives and daughters of Boston's aristocracy run the hotel for charity. The event drew a gorgeous display of color and feminine pulchritude, described as unexampled and a substantial business success.
In Kansas City, on November 16, Isaac Devons welcomes a new citizen, Isaac Jr., with a litter of five terrier puppies, six Belgian hares, one calf, and three Maltese kittens. The event is described with lighthearted tone and local color.
The record notes key World War I events including the Anglia being sunk by a mine and German light cruisers driven back by British warships off Heligoland. It recalls Pershing's army moving toward the Rhine in 1917 and a year ago Ukrainians evacuated Kiev and surrounding towns.
New England and Eastern New York expect rain and warmer conditions Thursday with clearing and colder air Friday. A strong disturbance lies east of Newfoundland moving eastward while Atlantic pressure remains high. Winds along the coast from Sandy Hook to Hatteras are fresh and southerly with rain and thick weather Thursday.
Today and tonight expect unsettled, warmer conditions with periods of showers. A breeze may pick up as winds become breezy, bringing a slight chance of gusts.
A curious pact alters fortunes for a group of friends who share in a mysterious agreement. The article hints at names and dates but preserves a neutral tone while detailing the implied outcomes.
A Vermont youth Terence O'Brien left the hills to seek fortune in the West. He joined two fellow travelers of the same race to pool chances of success. The plan to divide any future winnings among the trio surfaced yesterday in a New York Surrogate Court filing by the man's daughter.
Clarence H. Williams a 41 year old African American man was sentenced by Judge W C Wait in Pittsfield Superior Court to eight to 12 years for the killing of Louis C Decker a 66 year old Stockbridge gardener. The jury found manslaughter after considering the case starting at 2 pm and deliberating until 3 40 pm The Commonwealth had asked for a second degree verdict and Williams maintained his innocence defending his conduct.
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