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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1921
Page
2
Police chase ends in capture of Frank Wilkins who used a borrowed flivver to hold up twenty women in two hours. He fired on detectives in a running pistol battle before being trapped in a blind alley and jailed. Victims identify him as the assailant amid a citywide flood of alarm calls.
The Paul Rader religious meetings at Boston Arena tomorrow will be held at 10 30 A M 3 P M and 7 30 P M The afternoon session focuses entirely on divine healing with a special emphasis on healing.
The Executive Committee of the Public School Association re nominated Frances G Curtis of 28 Mt Vernon Street for the Boston School Committee. Secretary Charles Foss said Curtis has served nine years on the committee and focuses on health and wellbeing of children and ongoing school improvements.
New wage and working agreements between the International Longshoremen's Association and steamship lines in deep sea trade at the port of New York and vicinity were signed with Shipping Board involvement. The new scale, effective October 1, offers 65 cents an hour with $1 overtime for a 48 hour week, replacing prior 60 cents and $1.20 for a 44 hour week.
Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma declares she is not for special women’s legislation nor for prohibition. She opposes the Shepard-Towner bill and says women should take office if they can. Robertson, once anti women’s rights, embraced citizenship and notes men are shaped by their mothers. She questions universal political participation and urges women to attend precinct meetings.
A Boston ceremony honored a fearless woman famed for performing male tasks in her era. Theodore Roosevelt called her one of America's finest women and urged duties in precincts before criticizing elsewhere. She rejects prohibition and follows her missionary father’s example.
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