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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1919
Page
5
New York dated Sept 19 Mayor Hylan disapproves of executive members of 15 city employees unions seeking a central council and AFL affiliation. He orders attention to employees causing trouble with the aim of abolishing their positions.
The letter criticizes certain city employees for time wasted on agitation and reading newspapers. It orders immediate action to abolish their positions in next year’s budget while urging the board of estimate to consider salary increases for deserving workers.
STOCKHOLM Sept 19 Sweden is to receive five million tons of coal annually from America under an agreement with American exporters, per Dagens Nyheter. Freight charges will be about $25 a ton, but Sweden welcomes the arrangement as coal shortages grow under British restrictions on shipments from Germany.
At East Boston the steamship Osa watomie from Antwerp turned over a Spaniard, Gonzales Gerardo, 24, to immigration authorities for aiding by fellow countrymen in stowing aboard the liner just before it sailed for Boston.
The East Cambridge divorce mill, active since last week, granted 12 uncontested divorces yesterday as a high weekly total. Desertion by a party cited in most libelants as the cause for separation.
Charles H. Brown testifies he lived in fear of his wife who threatened to kill him and dumped boiling water on him when he refused money. He alleges cruelty as the ground for divorce, joined by several other separations including spouses in Boston Somerville Natick Lincoln Waltham Wakefield and Cambridge with various desertion or abuse claims.
At a Lowell meeting the Ministers' Union adopted resolutions praising Governor Coolidge for his stance on the Boston police strike. He was lauded as a man who feared God and no other, and the State of Massachusetts should be thankful.
Mrs. George Williams of Hemenway Street Back Bay and her daughter Miss Madelyn Williams resemble each other closely and are often mistaken for sisters. Miss Williams studied at the New England Conservatory. Both are active war workers and served as Red Cross Auxiliary workers during the war.
A long list of couples filing marriage intentions with names ages occupations and addresses across Boston and surrounding towns. Includes Arthur C Buell and Helen T M Tiffany, William H Abbott and Irene M Bailey, and many others from varied trades and neighborhoods.
Joseph Desaubelle formerly with the Boston Terminal Company was arraigned before a U S commissioner on four parcel post theft charges. He pleaded not guilty and was held in 500 for a hearing September 26.
Poughkeepsie Sept 19. Vassar College receives a 100000 gift from Mrs Blanche Ferry Hooker and Mrs Queenie Ferry Coonley of Greenwich Conn for a new alumnae house to be built on Rock Lot campus site.
The Federation of Jewish Master Bakers planned a boost to bread prices but a Fair Price Committee sub committee decision, chaired by Louis Marshall, prohibits the increase. About 1,000,000 Jews in Greater New York are affected by the ruling.
The Milton Co operative Bank will formally open its headquarters at 544 Adams Street East Milton on Monday evening after receiving a charter. It plans to issue over 3200 pledged shares and is led by John J Gallagher as president with Alan R Ham and George W Eaton as vice presidents and Thomas P Connor as secretary treasurer.
Miss Rae Nicollette, a detective, testified in Harlem Police Court that she bought love powder from Mrs. Rose Campagnaro at ten dollars an ounce and saw an instalment book of Harlem buyers. Campagnaro said the powder would win a husband, and magistrate Cornelius Huth set a three hundred dollar bond to end the trade.
The final session of the Maine Woman's Christian Temperance Union in Rockland elected officers led by president Mrs Althea G Quimby of North Turner. New officers include Vice President at large Mrs Alice M Bigney Greenville and recording secretary Miss Alice M Clough Winthrop. Delegates to world convention are Quimby Stickney Stevens Leavitt and Shapleigh. Delegates to national convention include Mrs George H Allan Portland and others from Auburn Augusta Lubec and Wilton.
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