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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
12
The widow of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, relatives, and business associates say the signature Col. Theodore Roosevelt on a $69,000 note in Emma Richardson Burkett's name is a forgery.
In general sessions Mrs. Burkett, arrested last July for forgery after presenting a claim to the Roosevelt estate, faces extradition cases and witness testimony. The panel hears that the colonel never prefixed his title to signatures seen, while Mrs. Roosevelt and others deny encounters with him at the 1913 Republican convention in Chicago.
The Right Rev Arthur W Moulton Bishop of Utah will deliver the morning sermon at the Cathedral Church of St Paul on Sunday October 9 He formerly served as rector of Grace Church Lawrence preached at St Pauls during that period and was an early war chaplain attached to Base Hospitals 2% and 15 He earned a medal from Orleans for distinguished service and duty with colonel rank in the French army He also helped settle the Lawrence strike.
L L McMaster of Wakefield a leading merchant and former board of selectmen chairman is elected president of the newly formed Wakefield Chamber of Commerce. The meeting drew over 200 attendees who gave him a tumultuous ovation. The group aims to organize business and civic interests and provide reliable information on public affairs.
American Legion officials urged Massachusetts Representatives in Washington to introduce a bill barring flying the flag after sunset. They scored Boston hotels and downtown offices for flag display after dark citing etiquette noting flags should be raised at sunrise and lowered at sunset. In East Boston the colors flew from a school building for over five weeks.
Three men drifting in a disabled power boat outside New York harbor were rescued by the steamship Nantucket, traveling from Boston to Philadelphia, after several hours at sea.
New York October 6 United News Giulio Gatti Casazza arrives from Europe and says time and public opinion will decide Caruso's successor. He notes there are no fixed Caruso roles and while many aspirants exist he cannot choose the successor as manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company.
In Holmwood England a band of women collect fleece from farmers wash dye spin weave and sew their own clothes within a cottage industry style kept unit.
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