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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1921
Page
3
The costly furnishings from the Slocum road house of Charles Ponzi will be auctioned on October 26 at 10 38 a m by trustees. The furniture and rugs reportedly cost over 50 000 and will be auctioned to the highest bidder. The estate has been returned to former owner Charles Engstrom after payment of the purchase price.
Cambridge begins its 75th year with three days of events starting tomorrow. Morning church services and an afternoon mass meeting at the Cambridge Common kick off the celebration. A grand parade Wednesday will include about 35,000 participants.
At Sanders Theatre Harvard Professors Thayer and Hart and City Librarian Cummings speak at a public meeting Tuesday evening. The anniversary ball is at Cambridge Armory. Vice President Coolidge to attend Wednesday parade starting Porter Square and reviewed on the Charles River Esplanade with a banquet for invited guests. A 10 mile road race begins at Cambridge Y M C A at 3 pm and band concerts occur citywide. Chief Marshall Robart notes six parade divisions and many prizes for floats.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti of Plymouth has been moved from Dedham jail to Charlestown State prison to resume a 12 to 15 year sentence for assault with intent to murder the White Shoe Company paymaster at Bridgewater, pending the Supreme Court decision on his first degree murder verdict in the Slater & Morrill case.
Mrs Mollie Kessell told Judge Callahan in Suffolk Divorce Court that modern liquor under the Volstead act makes her husband foolish. She said the couple wed 22 years ago and that for 12 years he has heavy drinking, only sobering briefly to begin another spree. She called him wild and foolish and questioned the judge on how a drunken man acts. The judge did not commit itself.
A Cambridge fire captain was crushed beneath lumber during a large blaze. He died on the operating table after rescue at Cambridge Relief Hospital. Boston apparatus and Somerville crews aided the fire fight with Chief Walsh directing efforts to protect nearby factories.
A massive blaze engulfed poles and wires of the New England Telegraph and Telegraph Company near a lumber yard. Explosions and winds hampered firefighters as buildings including Corcoran Plumbing, the Russell Auto plant, and a Sterritt yard dwelling burned. Firefighters rescued injured occupants and tracked missing crew, while Tech students aided in saving freight cars and R O T C sheds.
Final plans are completed for the annual police parade on Wednesday. A thousand officers will march in line, with every other of the Hub's 1800 bluecoats on duty. Police leaders promise a proud sight as the force presents a strict, machine like display with no gum chewing or greetings among ranks.
A tale traces a route along Commonwealth Avenue and nearby streets ending at a Back Bay restaurant where a counter man slashed Pard with a carving knife as he reached for money. Pard is said to be at Charlestown navy yard. Colonel Marix clarifies he is not a Marine and notes Pard was briefly a Marine but dishonorably discharged.
Leon Pard, formerly ousted from the marine service and lately with the Shipping Board, appeared in Central Court on a charge that he attempted to rob a till, according to Patrolman Reagan’s complaint.
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