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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1921
Page
2
A National Tar Company still exploded and caught fire in the waterfront yard off Beacham street in South Everett. Flames rose up to 100 feet. four alarms were sounded and damage was listed at 800 dollars.
Registrar Frank A. Goodwin declined to approve a Boston City Council ordinance setting a 15 mile per hour limit on the Harvard Bridge end. He ruled loose boards and rattling planks do not make the bridge unsafe for normal speeds, leaving the measure unapproved.
Chief Thomas A. Qualey of the Medford fire department reported to Medford City Hall that his pay was missing from the payroll. The dispute pits the fire chief against the mayor as the Board of Aldermen allegedly confirms Qualey as chief while the mayor refuses to acknowledge him and withholds his salary.
The list of leather tones includes black tan light cordovan castor alum num chestnut brown French gray navy blue Russia calf silver flesh. Prices are set at 3.50 and 4.00 per pair for this sale.
Jay C. Tyson an 18 year old colored resident of 210 Dover Street South End narrowly escaped lynching on Atlantic Avenue at noon yesterday and will appear in Central Court to answer assault and battery with a dangerous weapon with intent to kill. Jesse Sudds a 29 year old colored resident of 114 West Newton Street who sustained a knife wound in the lower back will testify as a material witness.
The soldiers relief department the public welfare department and the institutions department reported higher unemployment demand since the year began saying conditions are worse today than at any time this year.
Tyson owed his life to a group of longshoremen who cut his bonds and hid him from an angry mob that planned to hang him on an Atlantic avenue girder. Police inquiries yielded little as hundreds watched while the victim fled with aid from his own race.
Harry Shanley a Canadian war veteran and World War II hero did not appear as expected on Thursday. His 15-year-old wife waited in the Hotel Richwood with their infant, assuring the child that he would return while hiding her grief behind a calm facade.
Henry McKenna reports July payments of about 62500 to unemployed World War veterans. January costs were 24600, with March aiding 2733 men and the latest month detailing 3732 veterans on relief rolls. Commissioner Hardy notes a 33 percent rise in demand since last March. Institutions Commissioner O'Brien cites peak patients at Long Island Hospital and Almshouse for this period.
J H C Macbeth of the wireless firm in New York says the mysterious signals noted on Marconi's yacht likely originate from another planet rather than Earth. A Marconi spokesman in London notes the impulses, though untraceable to source, might have come from this planet.
A two alarm blaze last night gutted Edward L. Cashman's warehouse near the New Haven railroad tracks between Cross street and Furnace avenue in Quincy. Loss estimated at 8000 dollars, with twenty tons of hay also destroyed. Cause reported as spontaneous combustion.
Shanley, who married at age ten after saving his life on a Belgian battlefield, has vanished after claiming he would end it all. He reportedly can pass objects through his skull and planned a stage act and lip reading demonstration. An extradition warrant from New York cites clothing theft valued at $146.
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