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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1922
Page
13
Impossibility of agreement in the Winchester school dispute over transfer of colored children led to postponement of cases in the District Court. Parents are charged with keeping children from school. The case resumes next Tuesday. Attendance Officer Nathaniel N Nichols requested the postponement.
A 1900s style advertisement urges dyspeptics to use Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after meals to relieve sour stomachs and indigestion. It claims relief from heartburn belching and gas after rich foods and promotes a 60 cent box available at drug stores.
Bluenose selected defender of the International Fishermen’s Cup after two windless test runs off Gloucester. Trustees award prizes totaling 3000 dollars and hand custody of the cup to the Boston Post for transport to Gloucester for the 1922 series. Captain Angus Walters selects 25 crew members for the defense as the ship sails toward Gloucester with 99 net tons and 154 gross tons.
Gloucester prepares for the 40 mile elimination race among four schooners Henry Ford Yankee Elizabeth Howard and L A Dunton scheduled for Columbus Day. Crowds gather along the waterfront as crews prepare ships under favorable weather with U S government vessels entering the harbor to support the event.
Report details a missing coal carrier seen sinking two miles off Cape North Bay St. Lawrence during a west gale. Lloyds agent Zwicker and witness ex-councillor McNeill describe a two-master with one funnel amidships, but fog and visibility hinder identification.
A woman who signed the Crown Hotel register as Lady Archibald Hamilton of Scotland and sold hand painted goods for disabled British war veterans vanished after settling her bill and a tense protest that drew a police detective, authorities report.
After a tense press night the woman identified as Lady Hamilton refused to meet reporters saying her body was not found in the Atlantic near Gloucester. She had stayed at a Providence hotel since Sept 22, met by Fred Mansfield and Spencer H Over, with Du bois denying knowledge of her presence in Providence.
A detective from police headquarters was sent to question Lady Hamilton after she claimed to be bothered. She vanished into the mist carrying her handbag, thwarting the inquiry.
Miss Ruth Nelson of Brockton identified John B. Salvadori as the man who passed her a counterfeit three dollar bill at the Brockton Fair. Lieutenant Guerin and Secret Service Agent Cooper secured the identification. Police believe Salvadori distributed two counterfeit fivers in New Bedford before his arrest and he remains held on nine counts of counterfeiting.
One automobile was badly damaged and three others slightly damaged when a car driven by William M. Prine skidded on wet pavement in front of the Y M C A on Washington Street Quincy. The crash set off a chain reaction, striking parked cars. no injuries were reported.
Stefan Orpal of 6 Middle Street faced district court on a charge of illegal liquor keeping. Associate Justice Wilbur F. Rowell sentenced him to four months in the House of Correction, applying one month for alleged witness lying. A separate case saw Mrs. Mary Lessard fined $200 for a first offence against prohibitory laws.
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