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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
7
Suffolk county pushes its quota for a national Roosevelt memorial fund aiming at 5 million dollars. In two days, 3000 subscribers pledged about 22000 dollars as Massachusetts plans a 300000 dollar contribution by Monday night per chairman Guy Murchie.
Suffolk county fund boosting events set for Saturday tag day and Monday Roosevelt rally at Symphony Hall. Boston activists including fire commissioner John R. Murphy and Cardinal O Connell praise Theodore Roosevelt and a youngster Malvin Grant contributes a quarter toward the memorial. Prominent speakers from Massachusetts and New York attend the noonday rally at Liberty Hall and a Shubert Theatre troupe performs. 2500 Boston women will canvass Greater Boston for 60000 in tag day funds with 2500 volunteers urged to join.
Thirty six men were appointed to the new police force yesterday and last night assigned to stations. They were sent to Lagrange street East Dedham street Dudley street Field's Corner and Back Bay stations.
An elderly Boston veteran recalls enlistment rejections by Navy and Army, then service in Palestine with the tank corps. He describes his experiences in Egypt and Jerusalem, wartime life, and a vow to fight again, while vividly recounting dances, cabaret shows, and grim conditions.
Providence October 22 The famous Marsden J Perry library has been sold to a Philadelphia dealer for more than 600000. The collection, renowned for Shakespeare works, includes the only known copy of the 1619 first collected edition printed by Thomas Pavier and William Jaggard. Perry bought it in 1902. its value is listed at 100000.
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