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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1920
Page
5
At sunset tomorrow the Jewish world begins Rosh ha-Shanah marking 5681 in the Hebrew calendar. The month of Tishri hosts the New Year festival Yom Kippur fast and the Sukkot harvest, underscoring its great religious significance.
Reform element marks the first day of Tishri with services in temples tomorrow evening and Monday morning. Many orthodox Jews unaffiliated with congregations will attend, filling temporary worship spaces across the city for the two day New Year observance.
L W Newcomb of 139 Cambridge St Springfield reports Dr True's Elixir improved his health with no more hospital visits. He praises relief from pain and dark circles and notes his wife and others say he looks better. The ad claims the laxative worm expeller benefits thousands and urges continued use.
Chaplain M I Sedar oversees religious services in state penal institutions with help from Joseph Brin and M I Robinson. E S Goulston funds special holiday meals. Rabbis Levi Abrams and Gold lead services at Temple Israel and Adath Jeshurum with choir contingents.
Joseph Brusak, an eighth grade student at Washington School, lives at 27 Minot Street West End. For two years he sold papers at the Elevated North Station entrance and spends summers at public baths with friends, widely known for pep and cheerful greetings from passersby.
Mrs. Honorah Ryan, wife of Captain James L. Ryan of 3 Drexel Terrace Lynn, veteran of two wars, was arrested in Baltimore on desertion charges. She refused to believe the letters accusing bigamy in police hands are true.
Captain Ryan 42, a long-time military man, will be brought to Lynn by Inspector Donaghue and arraigned on a desertion charge after disappearing from Lynn. He reportedly married a New Jersey ferry clerk, with police tracing him to New York and Baltimore amid claims of bigamy denied by his wife.
A three-alarm fire gutted the William F. Lacey Company carriage and repair shop at 575 to 681 Rutherford Avenue Charlestown. Firemen faced falling timbers and live wires but no injuries were reported. Loss estimated at about 20000 dollars as paint and oils fed the flames.
The visit of Eamon de Valera to Boston may reinforce dock strikers at the port with a few regular longshoremen still at work. Only two gangs, 40 men, loaded the Cunard steamer Anglo Mexican for Glasgow, delaying departure and costing the company about 2500 dollars daily. Progress remained limited on the Cretic, while the Caledonian and Mississippi saw limited activity with unions and crews. Grain loading continued on the Wigmore after 24 hours idle.
Eleven year old Stanley Zubrucka ran to a neighbor’s house where eight year old Bennie Balusharaka pulled a family pistol from a bureau and fired twice. Stanley was shot in the leg and grazed in the thigh and was taken to Relief Hospital. Bennie’s parents corrected him, and Stanley remains cheerful at the hospital thinking up more ideas.
The opening of Europe in Battle and Flame at the Circus Grounds Huntinton Avenue is moved to September 18 due to the scale of preparation. Rehearsals continue under skilled direction as organizers promise a monumental outdoor pageant depicting Europe’s history with fireworks and chariot racing in a distinctive Boston entertainment spectacle.
Harold Peters, brother of the Boston mayor, completes a voyage in a two master schooner. He and companions reach St Nazaire, France after leaving Boston via the Azores in 17 days. Arrival date September 6 is noted by Roger Griswold.
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