12 Sep 1921
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1921
Page
1
President Harding spoke at Atlantic City during sabbath activities visiting the oceanside area. He attended church and addressed veterans of the Fifth Division A E F and joined a walk among boardwalk crowds.
Victor F. Nelson a 22 year old convict who escaped Charlestown State Prison four months ago surrendered to Warden Elmer Shattuck in Boston yesterday afternoon He had been at liberty sev eral days attending theatres and moving about city streets before his voluntary surrender and re arrest.
After visiting Chelsea Baptist Church with Mrs Harding and guests the President spoke to several hundredth Division veterans gathered in front of his hotel. Standing on a chair he urged former service men to aid in solving peace problems as they did in war. There is nothing too good in America for its veteran defenders.
Mrs. Guy Spiker once Emily Knowles and mother of Perley Spiker's child disappears. The affair in early 1929 drew wide attention as Mrs Perley Spiker sheltered the girl. later she married Perley's brother, Guy.
President Harding, offered solid gold service by the Ritz Hotel, declined the use of the gold plates and asked for regular dishes. The hotel had kept the set as a prized possession for a distinguished guest since its purchase.
Nelson, appearing calm in a youths fashion, walks into the gloomy reception room of a prison to begin a three to five year sentence for assault and robbery of a Back Bay manicurist on Oct 19 last year. He is flanked by Thomas Mott Osborne and several newspapermen. He signs a remarkable document stating his return is a protest against abolishing the Mutual Welfare League at Portsmouth naval prison where he served two terms.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks plan a private car ride in Boston and Cambridge this afternoon after a 4:30 p.m. appearance at the Selwyn Theatre. Their route from Arlington Street to Cambridge will be kept secret to avoid crowds.
American League results show Boston 3 New York 1 in the first game and New York 65 Boston 1 in the second. Detroit beat Chicago 5 to 1. Washington edged Philadelphia 7 to 6 in 10 innings. National League includes New York 11 Brooklyn 8, St Louis 10 Chicago 5, Cincinnati 4 Pittsburg 1. Eastern League features Worcester 4 Albany 1 and Hartford 5 Bridgeport 1 with Hartford 4 Bridgeport 0 in the second game and Springfield 3 Waterbury 2, plus early scores Springfield 6 Waterbury 3 in the first game.
Forecast suggests showers today with fairly good weather tonight. Temperatures are not expected to rise much, keeping it cool and breezy overall.
John Constantis, owner of a refreshment stand on Atlantic Rocks, rescued Emil Burke aged 17 of Day Street Whitman from a strong undertow off Nantasket Beach. It was his fifth rescue from drowning in three years, underscoring the peril of the area’s shorelines.
Constantis of 2192 Shawmut Avenue Boston who runs a business at Nantasket summers helps Burke a Whitman youth in peril during a surf test. A stranger dives after Burke but is pulled ashore exhausted as 600 spectators watch. Constantis reaches Burke in a dory and pulls him to safety before ambulance transport to the Metropolitan police station emergency room.
In a sensational case linked to early Hollywood, Virginia Rappe dies following a gin party in the defendant's rooms. The suspect, abruptly arrested, told a nurse he had overpowered her as authorities prepared formal charges.
Police recovered about seven thousand dollars in loot from recent burglaries. Brookline Boston and Weymouth officers found six thousand dollars in a West End room and one thousand dollars in a South Weymouth barn. The haul may help solve numerous apartment-house burglaries.
Paris September 11 AP negotiations completed in Paris enabling an American syndicate to acquire the vast Hapsburg estates valued at over 200 million dollars. Syndicate members include Charles J Sabin J Leonard Replogle Frank A Munsey Thomas J Felder and lawyer Samuel Untemyer represented the group Archduke Albrecht acted for himself his father Archduke Frederick his wife Isabel and six sisters.
Average temperature yesterday was 66 degrees with scattered readings across the day. Morning lows hovered near 62 to 69 while evening highs ranged from 63 to 69 with a peak around 69.
Mary Clexton McConnell unveiled a granite boulder memorial yesterday showing the likeness of her husband. The dedication honored his service to friends and men under his command, recalling his voyage across the ocean and his sacrifice in France.
A memorial procession in Uphams Corner for Captain Joseph W. McConnell, Boston lawyer and head of A Company, 101st Infantry, killed at St Miciel, drew 400 uniformed men. The day included park ceremonies and eulogies by General Edwards General Logan Judge Michael J. Murray and others.
Fatty Arbuckle allegedly tied to a Boston blackmail gang episode. Reported two years ago he was caught with a young woman in a Boston hotel and forced to pay for silence under threats. Other suspected exploits across cities are noted in gossip.
San Francisco dispatch notes Roscoe Arbuckle, rivaled by Chaplin as a film comic, yet privately known to gay motion picture circles in Los Angeles and New York as a true Bohemian.
Forecast for New England and nearby regions calls for showers Monday and partly cloudy Tuesday with moderate temperatures. Winds shift from east to southeast in coastal areas, with unsettled conditions across the Middle Atlantic and Great Lakes regions and local rains in Montana.
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