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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1916
Page
3
Mary Curtis and Julia Hammer met on Dover Street in a tenement where drink flowed. Curtis cut Hammer's hat repeatedly until destroyed. Hammer reported the loss to police. Curtis was charged with malicious mischief in Central Court and given one month in jail.
John L Kadra was found guilty of breaking and entering the residence of Supreme Court Judge William C Loring at 2 Gloucester Street Back Bay. A diamond breast pin valued at 100 dollars and a gold watch worth 25 dollars were stolen. Kadra faces sentencing Thursday.
Norton K. Crosby a prominent South Boston druggist arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital on crutches to undergo surgery to remove a machine gun bullet that shattered his hip nine months earlier on an Armenian battlefield. Earlier at a battlefield hospital surgeons argued the leg should be amputated.
United States officials issued a warrant for Shawmut Bank messenger Edward Therek held in Miami on charges of embezzling 20021.80 dollars. His wife is accused of aiding and abetting. Grand jury presentation planned. extradition on hold until evidence is reviewed.
Congressman Richard Olney 2d told a 25 member Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage delegation that he is confident the federal amendment granting women the franchise will pass. The group, led by Mrs. Thomas H. Gray Jr of Brookline, included Mrs. Agnes H. Morey and Miss Marian McGaw.
In Massachusetts on union work, Miss Katharine Morey of Brookline and others spoke to Congressmen, urging belief in the national amendment. They presented reasons supporting the measure and urged action.
The ceremony for a Lexington descendant of Captain John Parker and Theodore Parker will take place at 2 30 P M in the Lexington First Parish Unitarian Church parlors. George G Meade Post 119 G A R, of which Parker was past commander, will lead services. Flags remained at half mast in tribute.
Richard F. Delehanty of Roxbury received a three year sentence in the Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge for breaking into a Cambridge haberdashery on Oct 6. He was arrested Oct 24 by Patrolman Bourget while attempting another break in at the Harvard Cooperative Society in Harvard Square. the latter charge was placed on file.
Mrs John Peterson of Dorchester was seriously hurt yesterday when her husband swerved to avoid children on Nantasket avenue Hull and crashed into a telegraph pole. She was thrown through the windshield and struck her shoulder on the pole.
Judge Morton schedules next Saturday hearing on United States Attorney Andersons petition to discipline Attorney W Edwin Ulmer over a malicious charge against Henry Warner referee in bankruptcy.
Major Crosby, with the Seventh Armenian Regiment, held an informal reception at 717 East Fifth Street after returning from active duty. He recounted extreme combat experiences including saving two children who survived by eating dead animals in Van province. Crosby was wounded by a machine gun, with a shattered hip, and faces possible amputation but will undergo local surgery.
Colonel Edward L. Logan denied charges by 10 privates and a sergeant that state pay of 8.40 per man for Framingham service was kept by officers. He said El Paso votes directed turning funds to company treasuries for comforts. Eighth and Fifth regiments said money was given to men then to funds. Ninth Regiment kept funds for the company. The protest reached Governor McCall's staff. Adjutant-General Pearson suggested officers misinterpreted the Framingham duty as regular service, leading to the fund transfer.
The fishing smack Electric Light owned by the Bay State Lobster Company of Boston wrecked on rocks off Cape Porpoise Maine. Captain Burns and two crew members were brought ashore unharmed. The vessel had run lobster trips between Boston and Friendship and is a total loss.
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