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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1922
Page
12
Gov P Baxter accepts invitation to preside over a debate between Oxford University and Bates College in Ton Me. on September 18. The match-up pits Oxford against Bates with Baxter slated to oversee the proceedings.
Bates of Delta Sigma Rho favors a board of judges while the English team wants audience selection for the winner. Two Oxford members are here with a third joining them. A pre debate banquet is planned. The note ends with a remark on ancient jewels before 6000 B C.
The Boston Election Commission recounted ballots at Faneuil Hall with gains for Peter F. Tague inclining by five votes while Thom as F. Green dropped 13. In Ward 13 Wallace flipped 14 votes to regain advantage over Curley who dropped 28. Other precincts showed minor shifts including Cashman up 10 and Driscoll down 1, as recounts extended into the evening with lighting issues delaying full totals.
Louis Ferulo a East Boston man engaged in a staged liquor deal with undercover officers from the liquor squad at the East Boston courthouse The officers posing as civilians arranged to buy a gallon of alcohol Ferulo offered a 19 proof bottle valued at 10 dollars The setup led to Ferulos arrest and a case in East Boston Court continued until September 22 with 200 bail posted.
Three men were shot at a christening party in Post Longmeadow near Springfield. Samuel Penette and Michael Napoli are in the hospital on the dangerous list with abdominal wounds, Petro Gimnognart of Bristol Conn. injured by birdshot to head and body. Police, aided by state officers, pursue suspects after a general fight preceding the gunfire. Gimnognar was found wandering in the city early today.
After two inmates fled Deer Island Prison, authorities tested every cell bar and found four heavy bars to a cell of Connecticut Jack Coughlin. One escapee, Paul Randall of 11 Garland Street, was captured in a cornfield. he faced two and a half years for auto theft. Charles Warner of 21 Park Avenue, South Weymouth, also escaped and faced 18 months for breaking and entering.
Lava from the itiago crater at Masons Arroja flows as the volcano erupts near Managua Nicaragua threatening nearby fields and crops. Officials report lava destruction spreading through the surrounding area.
Reports say Randall and Warner escaped to the island and that the security search revealed four cut bars in Coughlin's cell. Officials fear Connecticut Jack would attempt any plan as searches and patrols intensify around Shirley Gut during the manhunt.
Ezra M. Hubler, 18, fled Lancaster with his brother's wife just before a planned September 19 wedding. He took $1365 from his father to pay a home, bought two Los Angeles movie trip tickets, and vanished with Mrs. Joseph Hubler. Police issued flashes. the pair were detained in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Rev. Edward W. Hall rector of St. John the Evangelist and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were killed in a midnight shooting. Police probe continues with three days of inquiries by two county authorities and 40 mystery sleuths. motive and suspect remain unknown.
The minister was laid to rest in Brooklyn after funeral services in a picturesque church where he served as rector for 10 years. Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, his widow, attended here and followed the body to New York. No arrests have been made, but many inquiries are underway led by unofficial sleuths from New York and Philadelphia. Detectives discard prior theories and seek to confirm if the murders occurred at the scene.
Reports say a fishing rod and tire tracks were found near a trampled area in New Brunswick as detectives pursue leads. A bridge tender heard screams and later shots late Thursday night and early Friday morning, with two bodies found nearby.
British naval reservists living in Vancouver British Columbia are being called up for service. Orders from London require them to report at once. Officials with Mesopotamia and Near East experience are instructed to ready themselves for overseas duty.
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