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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1921
Page
8
A brilliant meteor lit the sky over Portland at 5 45 am this morning, described by witnesses as a possible fragmented display over the sea, prompting one observer to fear doomsday as the light illuminated the city.
Frank J. Warne, economist for the four railroad brotherhoods, told the Senate interstate commerce committee that railroads are manipulating maintenance expenditures to show reduced net income and justify high freight rates. He testified during hearings into railroad questions.
Syracuse pants magnate Samuel Elman to obtain a divorce decree from Bessie Schmidt Elman pending Supreme Court confirmation. Referee Hodges filed a report denying Mrs Elman's countercharges linking Elman to Minnie Leitch. Elman’s counsel plans to fight confirmation.
Six hundred trainmen on the International and Great Northern Railway resumed work after a walkout on October 22. They return under Federal Court orders and will be on 30 days probation.
Federal Prohibition agents seized two moonshine stills yesterday. A 150 gallon still was found in a Wilmington one family house on Adelman avenue with 50 gallons of whiskey in dis tillation and 150 proof. In North Reading a 180 gallon still was located on Upton street with an electric coil heat source. Henry Chappelle and Hyman Minsky were named as occupants to be summoned for illegal operation of illicit stills.
In Paris on St Catherine Day, thousands of single men faced bold attention from unveiled maidens. The tradition grants eligible women license to pursue unattached men with a festive, flirtatious mood, reflecting wartime shifts in social norms and the city’s mood.
The Hanover Trust Company of Boston appears as principal creditor in an involuntary bankruptcy petition against Conway Clothing Company of 73 Fifth Avenue New York. It seeks $274 016 on two notes and notes that the Boston corporation is in liquidation. Louis Jersacht of Rector Street was named receiver by Judge John C Knox. Wing and Russell handle the case for the Hanover Trust. Several smaller claims were filed against the clothing firm.
A terse Thanksgiving turkey story emerges from New York on November 25. Two Barnard College students share an efficiency apartment with a foldaway bed a disappearing ice box and a kitchenette that converts to a bath room as if echoing a Los Angeles vibe.
A pair of Barnard students buy a live turkey and attempt to kill it with chloroform learned in a chemistry class. They enlist a janitor to dress and chill the bird, then dine out, opting for duck at a restaurant after the incident.
Jeremiah E. Burke, Boston superintendent, states no action is needed in city schools over dress code. He notes girls dress with modesty and propriety, urges sense in attire, and says no protests have occurred. Weather conformity styles are expected to self-correct.
Webster, Nov 25. The Slater strike involving 400 weavers enters a new phase as the board of selectmen orders a special force of two policemen to report for duty at the Slater mills. After recent violence and arrests for assault, homes were stoned and workers accused of intimidation, women pickets led the demonstrations wearing strike on streamers and challenging workers entering or leaving.
David Gordon Lyon a nearly 40 year Harvard professor and longtime director of the Harvard Semitic Museum will retire from the Hancock chair of Hebrew and Oriental languages. He becomes professor emeritus effective September 1 1922.
Two men wearing girls caps robbed John F. Oakes’s grocery at 291 Crescent Street Waltham shortly after 9 20 P M. They used revolvers and escaped with 27 dollars. Police arrested John D. Hughes of Cambridge and Howard B. Wallace of Wat Mt Auburn Street on suspicion and held them at the Waltham station.
Captain P. A. Calor of the two masted schooner Marguerite at Downes Lumber wharf South End lost the middle finger of his right hand while supervising the cargo discharge of Nova Scotia lumber. He stood near the winch as boards were swung to the wharf and his finger was crushed when the rope wound around the winch.
Edward Fitzgerald 14 of Cambridge and Daniel Goodhue 15 of Cambridge were stopped in Syracuse on a flight to Canada. Fitzgerald’s father will bring them home today. Fitzgerald had accidentally shot and killed William Daly 0f 60 Standish Street Cambridge last Saturday in the North Cambridge clay pits.
An old advertisement touts Brom quinine tablets as a tonic laxative and germ destroyer that relieves headaches by curing the cold. It emphasizes the genuine signature of HB. W. Grove and urges customers to contact the promoter.
The Prince of Wales visits Baroda as guest of Gaekwar, Baroda’s powerful ruler with vast resources. The Gaekwar’s wealth and court splendor are noted, recalling Prince Jaisingh educated at Harvard and once a croesus among peers.
The Prince arriving by train to a royal Gaekwad welcome marks a grand display of pomp in India. A gilded barouche glided through decorated streets as thousands cheered the heir to the throne. A battery of gold and silver guns, paired elephants with gilded thrones, and a durbar in Durbar Hall showcased royal splendor.
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