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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1921
Page
2
Elbert H. Gary chairman of United States Steel Corp to depart Wednesday for a one month leisure journey in Mexico with Mrs. Gary and friends. It is described as a pleasure trip.
Noonan's Hair Petrole helps dry scalps and dandruff by nourishing the scalp and hair roots. The product is sold at barber shops for 15 cents per treatment or 1 dollar per bottle for home use from T Noonan & Sons Co at 38 Portland St Boston.
A raid by Sergeants McGee and Flynn from City Hall avenue station at 70 Cornhill Cabaret, a basement eatery, yielded two and a half gallons of whiskey, a bottle of rye essence, funnels, pitchers, whiskey coloring, jugs and glasses. Confiscated items were hidden in a concealed closet behind wallpaper between the eating room and kitchen.
In Barnstable on September 6 Gertrude Butler 21 of Buzzards Bay charged in juvenile court with attempting to attack 17 year old Joseph Andrews the alleged assailant she claims was one of three Cape Verde Islanders who attacked her August 15. Spectators watched as she fought court officers while declaring she would kill the black man.
Miss Butler collapses and is escorted out as Judge Swift suspends proceedings during a heated cross examination by Boston attorney John L. Sheehan. Sensational scenes unfold with deputies guarding the room and repeated refusals to identify the accused.
Charles Richter 18 of 18 Brown Avenue died at Stamford Hospital from a head wound after a confrontation with Special Policeman George Dann at a West Side dance hall. Richter allegedly interfered, seized the officer's club, and struck him multiple times before Dann fired. Dann remains in the hospital under arrest.
Pullman company authorities at North Station voiced disbelief that Mrs. M. C. McBride will recover her three rings valued at 20 000 dollars believed left in the Pristina coach. A detective agency reported no new leads and the porter denied knowledge of the jewels. Officials noted the rings would not fit through the sink waste opening. Mrs. McBride has returned home to St Louis.
No word reached the local prohibition office on a report that Federal Prohibition Commissioner Roy A. Haynes and F C Yel lowly of Washington would visit Boston Friday to outline a new drive against bootlegging in New England. Harold D Wilson says Haynes may come later, but he doubts a visit this week.
Mayor Peters approves a $185,994 contract with Leighton- Mitchell Co for a new elementary school at Lubec and Porter streets East Boston to be completed in one year. Plumbing heating and ventilating work is not included in the price.
The Rhode Island Company receivership is ordered terminated by Superior Court Justice Renner. Receivers must deliver about 1,070,000 in cash and all books to United Electric Railways Company. The Rhode Island Company, formed to take over major trolley lines, filed for receivership January 30, 1919.
More than twenty priests escorted the body of the late Rev. Francis O Keefe from the rectory to the church for wake services. A parish guard of honor watched through the night. The funeral sermon will be delivered by Rev. Thomas R McDonough of the Cathedral.
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