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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1921
Page
21
New Haven residents contend Thomas J. Walpole Jr. was the last U S soldier to die before the Armistice, killed on Armistice Day in an outpost engagement. The French government plans a monument, while the American Legion surveys for competing claims.
Two years after being a high school student in a Southern town Tom Douglas climbs to Griffith studios to act with a major star in Oh Jo. He has appeared in Foxs Foot Balls with Estelle Taylor and Sinclair Lewiss Free Air. At nineteen his screen career has just begun with three pictures and growing promise.
William Farnum resumes acting in a Fox film directed by Herbert Brenon. The project name is not announced. This marks Farnum’s first time in makeup for eight months.
Charles Urban, president of Kineto Corporation, signs an agreement with Motion Picture Theatre owners to distribute 17,000 theatrical chats nationwide. The program will feature text only educational messages, official documents, and government policy notes as a weekly miniature magazine. Old South Theatre screens the first chat Permanent Peace.
Hazel Keener, winner of a $1000 beauty prize in Iowa, joins Geerg DeMille's stock company. The note suggests beauty contest winners easily transition into the movies.
Penny T and Roxbury correspondents relay cast and pronunciation notes for silent films. Norma and Constance travel to Hollywood to pursue pictures, while others remain active on stage or in current productions. A reader clarifies Meighan pronunciation as Meeran and several names note current engagements in the industry.
In Attleboro District Court Mary Morrow 210 pounds admitted chasing her husband Joseph who wore a stovepipe hat with a “Hurrah, I’m a free man” placard. He claimed she beat him and struck him with a Cologne bottle causing four stitches. Judge Hagerty continued the case to November 26 and set $200 bonds for both parties to keep the peace.
Prosecution scored at the removal hearing of Captain Herbert Gordon of the Cambridge force as Chief McBride overruled a bid to strike 46 pages of Supreme Court evidence. The session centered on the Catherine E K Lord divorce case and Gordon’s conduct during a raid on a Cambridge apartment.
The Chamber of Deputies discussed appropriations for a naval increase as Spain faced budget considerations. Key officials and lawmakers weighed the costs and strategic needs during the November session.
Mr and Mrs George Harrington longtime Lexington residents celebrated their first wedding anniversary yesterday in the community.
John R. Murphy declared that Charles S. Baxter runs for mayor to aid James M. Curley. He cited Baxter’s past backing of Curley and alleged attempts to interfere with the Boston Finance Commission during Curley’s mayorship. Murphy spoke at rallies in Ward 328 and Ward 26 and at East Boston headquarters on Tremont Street.
Brigadier General Edwin B. Babbitt commander of American forces in the Canal Zone received the Legion of Honor from Marshal Foch in Washington Today the award highlighted his service in World War I and allied cooperation.
Nov 17 locusts devastate most of the Santa Fe Province, a vital agricultural region, causing widespread crop damage and alarm in Buenos Aires reports.
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