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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1919
Page
5
The Boston Equal Suffrage Association will dissolve its old name and join the League for Women Voters. On Oct 3 a supper at the 20th Century Club will formalize the steps. The group will address the food problem with a lecture titled Consuming the Consumer by Mrs. Edward P. Costigan.
In western Massachusetts the campaign for Governor begins with Governor Coolidge ill in bed and Democrat Richard H. Long rushing between towns. The Democratic State committee meets at the Quincy House with a platform debate planned including Irish freedom. John F. McGrath of Worcester will preside at Ford Hall Saturday as speakers, with Long Herbert Walsh and others expected to participate.
Governor Coolidge confined to bed with no report on recovery for a likely attendance at a Brunswick Hotel banquet and the Republican state convention in Tremont Temple. Meanwhile Mr Long tours 20 plus cities delivering speeches from Westfield to Pittsfield heading toward Hinsdale and Springfield before returning to Boston for the Democrats’ activities.
Democratic candidate Richard H. Long assails Governor Coolidge as weak and incompetent in a tour of more than twenty western cities. Long and the Democratic slate spoke in Pittsfield and North Adams, starting in Westfield, with plans to continue speeches through Friday before the Quincy House event and the state convention.
Four year old Ernest son of John Roberts of 313 Franklin street Quincy died instantly when thrown from a motor truck driven by his father after it was struck by another truck yesterday afternoon at Coddard street and Independence venue Quincy. The twin brother John and the father escaped uninjured.
In St Louis on October 1 the national balloon race began after poor forecasts. Ten balloons weighed off at 6 pm with a pilot balloon starting ten minutes earlier. The first to start was Captain E J Marschentz piloting the Missouri Aeronautical Society entry.
Lieutenant J. S. Batt and Joseph Torrey won the choice position in the draw for the balloon race entered by the Aéro Club of Massachusetts. Ten balloons inflated simultaneously using 0,000 cubic feet of gas from a St. Louis supplier. The craft likely head north, aiming toward northern Minnesota, then east, near Lake Superior, weather permitting. The Aero Club contestants boast two Gordon Bennett cups and a national race title.
Ppllots identified as members of the Aerial Club of Massachusetts include Mr. Torrey of Worcester and Lieutenant Batt linked to the Ernest J. Goulston advertising agency in the city.
Charles T. Walsh of Randolph appeared before Judge Avery at Quincy District Court on a second DUI in 48 hours. He was sentenced to two months in the House of Correction after a prior two week term, both sentences appealed.
Mrs. Jessie Holbrook Cahill of Quincy wins alimony of 10 dollars weekly from James McClellan Cahill in the Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham Beginning today. She also secures 30 dollars toward legal expenses and asks attachment of real estate for 1000 dollars for support of the two minor sons ages 14 and 17. The couple married March 24 1888 in Boston and have lived in Quincy. Cahill plans to contest the libel with a Boston attorney.
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