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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
7
The fifth and sixth divisions of the Atlantic fleet arrived at Newport Illinois today and will stay until Monday before moving to the Southern drill grounds. Admiral Hilary P. Jones commands the fleet with the U S S Despatch acting as flagship. The fleet expects to return on October 9 for overhaul.
In South Gloucester New Jersey a chicken killed for Mrs EdWin Bloome’s supper yielded a $3000 diamond engagement ring in its craw four months after it vanished. The discovery followed the bird’s sudden draw for food, ending a long loss for the Bloome family.
Seven students from the University of Illinois and Northwestern University completed a 68 mile row across Lake Michigan in 23 hours reaching St. Joseph Michigan. The voyage marked the first recorded oar voyage of its kind though a leak forced one rower to bail from early on. Four men remained aboard at all times. Paris considers red stone street crossings after tests. New York reports a 15 year old boy sentenced to Berkshire Industrial Farm for repeated candy thefts.
In the Harvard Library’s treasure room a copy of The Poetic Works of Coleridge Shelley and Keats, Leigh Hunt’s own, is valued for its autographs and Hunt’s notes. Presented by Mrs. James T. Fields, the volume contains letters from Coleridge and Shelley, Keats manuscripts, and Hunt’s underlined passages. Fields notes the book’s links to Hunt’s Imagination and Fancy and to his influences in English poetry.
Commander R. C. Hilliard, construction officer at Charlestown Navy Yard, was ordered to Newport to take on the role of construction officer for the Atlantic Fleet.
International smuggling plot believed uncovered after customs seized two packages of diamonds worth over 100000 dollars. Purser's clerk Ernest Potvin left ship Zeeeland from Antwerp with 347 cut diamonds wrapped in oil paper. He is held as material witness as investigators pursue arrests.
Jeremiah Williams of Somerville, crewman on the Elmer EF Gray, drifted in a dory for three days after going adrift Aug 2 in a fog. He survived on raw fish and scarce water until the schooner Rellance rescued him 50 miles southeast of Highland Light. He arrived in Boston's Fish Pier aboard the Rellance and is reported well.
Hawin L Pride, an public accountant, says the United State Housing Trust books cannot yet be finally reported but he has enough information to inform the grand jury. Assistant District Attorney Kinney and Inspector Towle discussed evidence to be presented as several victims are summoned Friday. Earlier audits showed bank assets of 69 cents and a former treasurer admitting false entries.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce rented offices faced a tenant protest over steep rent increases voted by Chamber directors. Flour, hay and grain dealers occupy the building, with claims of up to fourfold rises in 12 years since mergers. A basement office rent jumped from 20 to 84 dollars per month.
The American Chemical Society urged Congress to enact a selective embargo to protect America's organic chemical industry from German influence. The call followed Francis P. Garvan's charge that German dye interests control some lawmakers and plot against U S security. An unrelated note mentions plans to sink a shaft 7000 feet in a South African gold mine.
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