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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1922
Page
3
The obituary notes the death of Mrs. Catherine A. Duffey widow of Arthur Duffey and mother to Arthur Duffey the world record holder Besiden her son, and mentions four daughters including Miss Mary Winton and Mrs W O Louser of Stinston Woodman.
A solemn high mass of requiem will be sung in the Church of Brighton on Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock. Interment will follow in New Calvary Cemetery.
Rev William A Granger president of the New York State conference of the Baptist Church collapsed and died of heart disease during morning services at the First Baptist Church of Vernon. Two physicians attending the service said he died instantly.
Pittsfield reporters say Postmaster Clifford H. Dickson vanished after auditors flagged a nearly $20,000 shortage. Federal officials seek a warrant in Boston District Court while Elks and fraternal funds are questioned. Whiskey stock and missing funds add to the mystery as investigators close in.
John Larkin 21 of Tre mont street South End, awaiting a three month Deer Island sentence for auto theft, leapt from a window and fled across Shirley Gut before being pursued by Officer George A. Nelson and Winthrop police. A chase via Winthrop Road and Beach Station ended with Larkin trapped at Winthrop Beach station and taken into custody at gunpoint. The morning disturbance drew local residents as wagons rattled and shots rang out. The piece closes noting a Ben Ames Williams story in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
An advertisement warns against washing a child’s hair with usual soaps and shampoos that contain alkali. It promotes Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure greaseless and inexpensive. Usage involves two or three teaspoonfuls in a cup of warm water.
Phi Beta Kappa will debate an active program for liberal education at its Cleveland council meeting. An anonymous donor offers to add one tenth to all funds raised over five years to boost active work in colleges and high schools. Funds may sustain the central New York organization and memorialize the founders at William and Mary.
A call emphasizes the urgent need for a coherent organization both inside and outside colleges to champion liberal education and unite supporters in the cause.
In Manchester on September 10 John Figaro aged 48 died from gunshot wounds sustained in an alleged accidental shooting when a six year old boy dropped a shotgun. Figaro lived at 3 Bridge Street and died en route to the hospital in a police ambulance.
Unclear text indicates a fatal shooting involving Louis Travato and Paulino Santana. A six year old Travato died after a shotgun discharge. Police seek a suspect who fled into woods. A summer incident referenced alongside Atlantic liners and a claimed total of about $15,000,000.
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