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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1919
Page
2
Frederick Orin Bartlett, the Cambridge author, will present Now as the Boston Sunday Post Magazine’s next featured first told tale to appear next Sunday in the magazine section.
State Guardsmen halted a botched break in at Patrick Long’s store 194 Main St Charlestown. A spectator fired three revolver shots and a rifle hit a fleeing suspect, David Meskel of Somerville wounded in the right thigh. Leo McCarthy and Joseph Levy arrested. arraignment set in Charlestown Court.
Today features Cardinal Mercier mass and receptions at O Connell residence and Faneuil Hall. He attends Harvard and Brighton events, lectures, and a Boston College Y M C A class opening amid civic and club meetings across the city.
In New York, Oct. 56, Typographical Union No. 6 members who quit for “vacations” in sympathy with a strike by pressmen and feeders refused to return. At a crowded Big Six meeting they vowed to stay off the job until their demands and those of the other unions are met, defying President Leon F. Rouse and officials who ordered a return to work.
The conflict ending decree states that the British railway strike is settled and that the workers will return to duties as soon as possible following negotiations.
The National Union of Railwaymen agrees to call off the strike as government renews negotiations. Wages stay at the current level until Sept 30 1920 with a minimum 51 shillings weekly wage and no victimization of strikers. Work resumes immediately and talks proceed to year end.
Nine year old Fren Yanucpi of 31 Lewis Street Everett was bitten by a dog yesterday afternoon while at play in his yard. The dog leaped for his meat sandwich as the boy tried to protect it and bit his arm. He was taken to a physician where the wound was cauterized.
An advertisement touts Hosford's Acid Phosphate as quickly beneficial for headache sleeplessness deranged digestion and nervousness claiming rapid relief and improved calm.
Colonel Townsend Dodd commander of Langley Field Virginia and early aviator was killed at Bustleton Field near Philadelphia while flying a DeHaviland from Langley to New York. A mechanic companion was uninjured. Dodd served in France as chief of staff for the air service of the first army and led units in the Pershing expedition in Mexico.
In Brockton on October 5 the tack makers union, on strike since August 6 for $9 daily, held a mass meeting and unanimously voted to continue the stoppage.
Harvard workers pursuing Boston’s share of a 15 250 000 endowment will push to raise at least five million dollars and deliver an excellent report at the major meeting in New York at the Harvard Club.
The Boston alumni report endowment fundraising of 1 005 000 dollars with New York as the only rival city. The Greater Boston district notes 25 000 dollars from non graduates and solicitors report rising support from other colleges. A progress meet is planned in Boston with Thomas Nelson Perkins and Robert H Gardiner Jr chairing events.
A Martin bombing plane en route from Bolling Field to New York crashed on landing at Bustleton Field Penn injuring Major M S Davis the ranking officer. Lieutenant J E Colt broke an arm Captain Howard Douglas was slightly hurt two other crew members uninjured all from Bolling Field.
Funeral services for Arthur Wainwright head of H C Wainwright & Co took place yesterday afternoon in Forest Hills Cemetery chapel The Rev Howard N Brown pastor of Kings Chapel officiated The ushers included Charles H Tyler Parkman Dexter George H Doty William ID Revere Richard F Parker J Dudley Clark John S Curtis Charles H Taylor Jr Gordon Dexter William G Farrell and Howard Peckham
A 17 year old girl calling herself Jeannette Mullins was held in 3000 bail after allegedly holding up and robbing Herbert Boyd at gunpoint in New York. Two men charged with aiding her were also held. Twelve dollars were recovered.
Mrs Ada V Tuohey of Coral avenue Winthrop wife of George Tuohey wrestling promoter was thrown from her horse on the shore drive when the horse frightened by a passing automobile blowout. She sustained slight injuries.
Ward L. Johnson, longtime mathematics master since 1918, has been appointed headmaster of Mill Brook School in Concord.
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