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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1921
Page
9
Mie, father of nine, has lived in the same house seven years and always paid rent in advance. He was ordered to vacate after a late September payment, but the Rent and Housing Committee delayed action due to illness in the family and advised awaiting court action. The committee noted the timing amid difficult city conditions.
A special matinee of Douglas Fairbanks' The Three Musketeers is offered at the Selwyn Theatre tomorrow afternoon with doors at 2:30 and showtime at 3. The program includes music by Louis Gott Schalk performed by an 18‑piece orchestra, and a prologue by Edward Knoblock spoken by Lynn Pratt. Evening show remains at 8:15.
Mayor Peters praised a young bean cook after attending Boston baked beans at the Church of the Unemployed. He called the meal the best beans he had ever tasted while accompanied by Urbain Ledoux and 29 down and outers.
Ledoux held a conference at City Hall escorting a large delegation of jobless men and presenting a formal state ment. Mayor Peters addressed the out of work gathered outside and inside the Church of the Unemployed expressing sympathy and pledging effort to improve conditions. Peters then toured the facility, declined a free shave, and left with W Kirkpatrick Brice. A separate note reports Louise Miller adopting Barnard Craine, a 19 year old from Virginia, crying as he heard music reminding him of home.
Miss Harriet A. Varney of Boston testified in the East Cambridge divorce court that she never engaged in improper conduct with travel salesman James M. Carpenter. Judge Hall took the case under advisement after Varney, the last witness for Carpenter, denied the murder charge against her in 1917 and described their brief relationship and related loans and items.
After residents loudly opposed Mayor Peters signing the Street Commission permit for a General Baking Company garage and gas tank on Edgeworth Street, Peters said his signature was not required. Local officials and abuttors voiced opposition as a committee discussed the project amid neighborhood concerns.
Kennebunkport Maine September 16 excitement spreads over reports of ghosts in the Ben Brown House on the Kennebunk road. Arthur Harriman his wife and 14 year old daughter live there for about a year. Since Harriman began nightly duties at the car barn a month ago strange events have moved Mrs Harriman to hysterics and she is under a physician’s care in Kennebunk for severe nervous prostration.
Philadelphia mayor urges that the unknown American soldier be brought from France to lie in state at Independence Hall before Arlington interment on Armistice Day. He asks War Secretary Weeks to route the body via New York, noting similar honors for earlier wars and promising escort, decor, and wreaths from state governors.
Funeral services for Lieutenant John Early aged 25 youngest member of the Wellesley Board of Selectmen will be held from St John Church Wellesley Hills Monday morning. Early died of heart disease in Columbus Ohio prompting tribute to family tragedy two months after mother Sarah D Early was killed in Boston by an automobile in front of Eleanor Early.
Jacob Lane a 21 year old Chambers street resident was locked up by Inspectors Claffin and Alexander on an Indictment for assault with a revolver and robbing Mrs. Mary Wolfe of 38 Ivy street of 700 dollars she had drawn from the bank last July 26 to pay taxes. She says he followed her into her home and at pistol point took the money she was holding overnight because the tax office was closed.
Everett boards cut the city tax rate by 30 cents this year to 30.60 per 1000, down from 30.90 last year. Total assessed valuation rises to 44,304,525, an increase of 3,449,475 over last year.
The Raymond Syndicate of Boston files equity bill to stop Samuel Raymond of Chelsea from using the name Raymond's for a men's furnishing store at 908 Washington Street Boston. Counsel James R. Flanagan says the mark has 20 years rights and is known across the state and neighboring states as a symbol of low prices and full refunds. The defendant is about to open the business.
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