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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1921
Page
8
Citizens committee announces a Dort touring car giveaway contest. Read the terms, estimate how many miles the car will travel on its gasoline, and you may become the owner of a premier automobile value. Submission details and entry instructions follow.
Harvey W. Church confessed to two murders in Chicago as part of snatching a $5400 Packard car. He described luring Bernard J. Dougherty and Carl J. Ausmus to the basement, using a revolver and a baseball bat, slashing Dougherty’s throat, and disposing of bodies in a hole and off a bridge. He led detectives to Adams, Wisconsin, with his mother present.
Twenty thousand in Somerville witnessed the name change from Recreation Field to George Dilboy Field in memory of Greece born hero killed at Belleau Wood on July 18, 1918. A 6000 person parade, 500 Greeks with flags, and speakers including Brigadier-General Charles H. Cole and Rev. Daniel E. Desmond marked the dedicatory exercises.
The Frogs Ponder block scene features Mr. Deveney plucked from an early grave by pneumonia treatment at Relief Hospital. His clothes burn in a delousing plant fire while townsfolk stage a mock burial and fashionable display. Deveney, amused and alive, jokes the town will want to buy him as he leaves.
Charles H. Wells shot his wife Eleanor and her lawyer A Louis Altemeyer in what investigators describe as a dramatic record roundup. Wells, also known as Antonow Kutas, is identified as an educated Austrian who lived in Dedham paying a cooperative bank loan and had recently bought a piano for his children.
In Marblehead on Sept 11 the schooner America, famed racer and first to win the trophy named for her, departed with a submarine chaser for Fall River en route to Annapolis. There she will be handed to the government for preservation at the Naval Academy.
Bells rang as the famous yacht left anchorage after a visit to the port. A planned Manchester trip was abandoned due to thick weather. The S. C. 408 with the America in tow reached Sandwich at 8 15 p m and tied up for the night. It will pass the canal at 9 a m. Hungarian troops have reoccupied Burgenland forcing refugees into towns along the Austrian border.
Several thousand parishioners attended the mission opening at Mission Church Roxbury as four weeks of Redemptorist services begin in anticipation of October’s golden jubilee. High mass marked the official start with Rev. Andrew J. Gunning as celebrant and Rev. Joseph P. Leddy and Rev. Father Murray in deacon and sub-deacon roles.
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