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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1922
Page
2
A brief item notes why two Boston friends failed to break our banks at Albany and Atlantic City during the month. The line hints at gambling play and timing as the reason for losses. The fragment suggests streetside gambling culture and short wins and losses within a single month.
The excerpt notes the team lacked adequate reserve funds. It suggests the remedy is to regain financial stability to endure the ongoing “splits” until the final three card turn is reached. The text centers on the financial constraint hindering their advancement.
In a Boston sting, James Yearly of Detroit Philadelphia and West and South schemes with accomplices to pitch a fake shell game to Stearns Freedman and Inspectors Haggerty Towle. Yearly demonstrates the rigged play using a hidden hole card while Dr Arthur A Lawrence orchestrates the setup. The ruse collapses when officers infiltrate the con and arrest the players.
Miss Lucille Brenner of 90 Browne street Brookline earns laurels as having the most beautiful bobbed hair in New England. Her natural French curls and chestnut brown bob are noted by Wellesley college mates where she studies graduate work. Brenner is an accomplished pianist trained under Mme Helen Hopkirk and supports charity entertainments in Brookline. The article also notes a study claiming science as the poorest paid profession.
A final bid to halt moving Parker Hill Hospital patients to Chelsea Naval Hospital arrives with Col. C. R. Forbes visiting Boston to study conditions. Rep. Gallivan arranged the review. Dr. Joel Goldthwait urges government fairness and restoration of Parker Hill to care for chronically needy veterans in Boston.
C F Laupiat Jr a Boston booksellers committee member says only two books have been removed from sale in five years Simon Called Peter and Gargoyles. He notes the committee was formed years ago and includes Richard Fuller Boston Booksellers Association president and Harry Gould of the New England News Company.
Miss Hildur Orup daughter of Hjalmer N. Orup of South Main street receives notice of a two year appointment as secretary to the American consul in Stockholm Sweden. She has served four and a half years as chief signal officer in the War Department in Washington and transfers to the State Department for the Sweden post. She will sail from New York on November 20. Miss Crup graduated from high school in 1916.
London November 19 The new Parliament opens tomorrow with the Labor party likely to be recognized as official opposition leader contenders include Asquith Lloyd George and Clynes Parliament will be opened by King George with a brief royal speech promising to ratify the Irish constitution by December 6 or the Anglo Irish treaty will lapse Debated in fewer words than usual due to the deadline.
Esther Walsh of Canada and Manchester NH faces Central Court for a $200 check forgery scheme using names David or Henry Hinckley. She remained in detention after failing to obtain bail. She previously worked for the Hinckleys in Worcester Street lodging houses and stayed at Keefe's Hotel in Boston.
Elizabeth Jordan introduces The Blue Circle a love and mystery serial to run in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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