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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1921
Page
3
A resident of Tesla street Jamaica Plain named Rivest pretended to guide traffic and halt infractions before being stopped by Special Officer Campbell. He was arraigned in West Roxbury District Court and fined 50 dollars, the payment suspended if he refrains from further traffic policing.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company petitions the department of public utilities seeking authority to condemn about 73 000 feet of land in Lechmere Square Cambridge to establish a transfer station between subway and viaduct trains and to use Third Street from Bridge to Cambridge Streets. A second petition requests eminent domain to acquire 80 000 feet for a Braves Field station with shelter and approaches along Commonwealth Avenue for passenger transfers between east and west bound cars.
Assistant District Attorney Henry P. Fielding and his son John H. Fielding hauled a 55 pound cod in the Gypsy of the Savin Hill Yacht Club off Boston Light. The fish fought for 15 minutes before being brought aboard, the elder Fielding noting it was the first such strong fight in his 20 years of cod fishing.
Elmer H. Nickerson of G company 16th Infantry First Division A E B F lay in state two days at the town hall before burial. The Morris Light Post 71 A L conducted services in the town building with Rev Joseph Montgomery officiating. Nickerson’s brother Private Charles E. Nickerson served on the firing squad and Bugler Frank H. Barnett played taps. After lowering the casket, the flag was presented to the soldier’s mother as Auxiliary and legion members escorted the body to the grave.
The body of Herman E. Langsam of Roxbury arrives in Hoboken and will be brought home for a veterans affair on Sept 18 under the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Langsam, 26, served with the 102d Field Artillery and died at Verdun Oct 31, 1918 after crossing with the 26th Division. He earned the nickname Heimie among Post employees and was active in sports and office work before enlisting. Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert lauds Langsam as one of the best men in France alongside Lamb and Harpell.
Secretary of the Navy Denby named a six captain one commander special board to try Lieutenant George Marvell after a permanent court martial found no offense. Marvell refused temporary command of the O 4 at New London citing engine condition, protested, and was charged with conduct prejudicial to good order and discipline for criticising superior officers' judgment.
A right of way suit unfolds between Edward Porter of Holbrook and Harry Knights of Randolph. Master Frederick G. Katzmann of Hyde Park presided a court session at the Porter home to hear witnesses unable to attend Boston sessions. Knights says Porter drives his car over Knights land damaging produce, while Porter claims Knights does not own the land and the road is crucial to his $30,000 estate.
William Baxter Myers, president of the First National Bank of Bethlehem, Penn., died in Philadelphia from sleeping sickness after three months of illness.
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