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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1922
Page
16
The Revere Lodge of Elks to dedicate new chimes on September 10 at the clubhouse. A large clock in the living room drives the chimes and, for 46 seconds, switches off all lights in the house. The event marks the lodge’s 13th anniversary with a ceremonial observance.
Worcester September 7 Col Eaton Gibson aged 48 who led the Worcester unit of the Sixth Division Organized Reserves announced his application for retirement due to physical disability. He has served many years in the army and resides in the city.
Four seasoned men William Bowers John Connel Thomas Buckley and Frank P Elliott long time shop mates at the Bristol Street fire department repair shop say they can work at the forge for 40 more years and challenge younger smiths to prova. The veterans recall horse drawn equipment and old tales of blazes while dismissing motor gear as lacking the old fun. Elliott the youngest joined in 188 after the others started years earlier.
A humorous domestic adventure story titled The Way Wives Are by Lu cien Cary will appear in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece promises lighthearted reflections on married life and the quirks of domestic routines.
In Owosso Michigan Justice Hugh Nichols sentences Migay Thelma Crisler a 19 year old to 10 days in county jail after she pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for masquerading as a man. Crisler started work in Durand claiming better employment opportunities for men.
Perley H Ford of Sanford was elected commander of the Maine department of the American Legion as its convention closed in Lewiston. The group adopted a resolution urging a modern hospital in Maine for tubercular ex servicemen and women and that the government keep wounded and disabled veterans in Maine for treatment. The Maine auxiliary elected Mrs Frank M Hume of Houlton as president.
Two painters were seriously injured when staging on the third floor of a house at 2 Shirley Street Roxbury collapsed throwing them to the ground about 39 feet. John Bearracchi 41 Holden Street Hackett 58 Chandler Street South End were taken to City Hospital. Bearracchi suffered a deep scalp wound and multiple injuries Hackett fracturing a leg and sustaining internal injuries.
Morris Goldstein found an unlocked door at 26 Warren Avenue Chelsea and reported the home had been entered and ransacked while the Zaff family were visiting Philadelphia. The theft amount is undetermined due to prior similar incidents and absence of the residents.
After a lapse of 25 years William H. Harrington of 628 Bennington Street East Boston located his brother John of Clyde River Maine yesterday. An advertisement in a Portland paper seen by a friend led to the reunion.
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