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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1921
Page
2
London November 27 Airplanes flying at altitude with oxygen and electric warmth could soon link London and New York. Major-General Brancker told the Women Engineers Society that machines now prevent horsepower loss in thin air and that high speed turbines are being tested, with success near.
In formal wear, a man's jewelry draws notice and Krementz sets are favored for correct evening taste. Full dress sets range from 7.50 to 17.50 dollars and tuxedo sets from 4.50 to 11.00 dollars. Krementz pieces are sold mainly in higher end shops.
A wind toppled a pole with feed wires on Brattle street near 160 Brattle in Cambridge, blocking traffic for hours. Pedestrians narrowly escaped injury as a touring car, a truck, and a second car collided with debris. Police diverted traffic while an emergency squad cleared the wreck. fire alarms were briefly silent.
A trolley crash left ten injured as Boston bound cars collided. Victims include Rose Doucette 21 Wakefield cut by glass Nancy Doucette shaken and cut Dennis Lilley 27 Wakefield with possible leg fracture Mary Aldrich 17 Stoneham chest injuries and head cuts Albert Aldrich bruised James P Fallon 62 Montvale cut James Fitzpatrick 48 Arlington cut Elizabeth Hutchinson 60 Wakefield unconscious John Devil Malden street commissioner severely cut.
Robert M. Moore, a noted criminal lawyer, died from injuries after an automobile collision near Ninety-sixth Street in New York. Driver Joseph Dempsey was arrested on a homicide charge.
Boston and surrounding towns report a sweeping sleet storm from Nashua to Rochester with up to a foot of snow in some hills and eight inches in Portland. Temperatures range from 22 to just below freezing as travel slows, poles crash from ice, and port sailings are canceled while crews cope with frosted rigging and frost bite.
A horse chestnut tree fell on 59 Forest Street Roxbury last night, blocking the street and tearing wires. Police on Dudley Street began cutting the tree in half and clearing debris. Wires down across West Roxbury disrupted lighting between Grove Hall and Dudley Street. Afternoon poles collapsed at Grove and Center and at 84 Walter Street, delaying telephone service and causing near misses for pedestrians.
The Filomena bound for mackerel left Gloucester with skipper Orlandi Frank and two brothers Dominic and Michael, plus Battista Lofata. They were last seen 8:30 pm hauling nets between Thatchers Island and Eastern Point near the Antonio Randzoo boat. Coast Guard and Charlestown radio errors reported mistaken landings and a 40 man boat near Thatchers Island.
At Radcliffe Book Mart 607 Boylston street a crowd of Radcliffe girls sought to represent Morrison Compton McKenzie vanity title. Gertrude Reid attracted attention with bobbed hair as photographers caught her smiling before a philosophy class. The event funds the college.
Police and military with small armored cars patrolled Belfast in the morning but withdrew in the afternoon. Three men shot and wounded a Unionist named Hayes, taken to a hospital. A tram car was held up in the Old Park district and the conductor robbed.
Three young men from Greenwich Village were arrested after a village restaurant shooting affair near Navy Square. John Gillen, a clerk, was killed and his companion Elizabeth Seeley was wounded in the incident.
Miss Marjorie Thayer leads Back Bay committee for a rummage sale to aid the Baby Hygiene Association on December 7 and 8. Prominent local women back the effort hoping large attendance boosts finances and surpasses prior attempts.
Washington November 27 Post master General Hays announced that marriage will not affect the status or rights of women postal employees. Previously an unmarried woman who became a postmaster after marriage faced reappointment or a new civil service exam. The new ruling allows a married woman postmaster to continue in office without reappointment or examination.
London reports an aged Durham coroner John Graham paid tribute at his second wife’s funeral and then placed a wreath on the next grave for his first wife Jennie. The inscription recalls nearly 86 years with Jennie and happiness with his second wife.
London officials ban a costly British film depicting the late Earl Kitchener as the dupe of a British officer and a spy allied with Germany. The British Board of Film Censors likely to bar its nationwide showing.
An advertisement portrays a tired slouchy man in need of a lift and claims bad blood causes rundown conditions. It promotes Gude's Pepto Mangan as a daily blood builder that removes poisons, improves blood color, and brightens eyes, available in liquid or tablet form from druggists.
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