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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1920
Page
13
A touring car carrying 100 quarts of bottled in bond whiskey stops at Newton Centre. The driver seeks storage at a tailor's garage but mistakenly leaves the car in a cobbler's garage. The cobbler notices the unfamiliar vehicle, informs police, and prohibition agents seize the liquor. The driver did not reclaim his car.
Former French premier Clemenceau left Paris for Marseilles to embark for India. He will spend several weeks hunting in the Himalayas.
National Thrift Week for 1921 will be observed from January 17 to 23. A meeting of cooperating organizations in New York approved the dates. Represented groups include the American Bankers Association Treasury Department national real estate boards and youth organizations. Adolph Lewisohn of New York was re elected chairman of the association.
Beatrice T French of Boston petitions for permanent separation from Towneley T French of Boston claiming desertion on May 31 1912 and seeks alimony. A similarly named man is listed as a food inspector at the State House living at 65 Pinckney street. Tufts Harvey Campbell act as counsel.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels argues the League of Nations would commit the United States to world wide prohibition if the league is adopted. He addressed the international congress against alcoholism in Washington and cited covenant section 22 as supporting this interpretation.
Debate erupts among prohibition leaders over how Section 22 of the league covenant requires Terr itories under US Britain and France to enforce prohibition while critics spotlight opium trade. American women pickets protest at the Pan American building as Sir Auckland Geddes observed.
Mrs Bertha Do Moore longtime registry employee in Worcester was appointed second assistant registrar of deeds by Registrar Daniel Kent and confirmed by the Board of County Commissioners. The $2000 yearly salary raises her earnings by about $200 annually.
Beginning next Saturday the Atlantic avenue Elevated between Dudley street and Sullivan square will be discontinued. The Boston Elevated system announced that service was seasonal and will run 10 minute headways via the Washington street tunnel to North station Atlantic avenue and South station with shuttle North to South during rush hours.
Federal Officer James R. Gillan and Patrolman Elias Soares confiscated 576 quarts of Old Crow whiskey valued at 6912 on the steamer Mohawk of the Fall River line. Six cases were bound for Old Colony Furniture and six for Fall River Hardware marked floor covering and hardware, shipped from New York. A stray truck appeared but the driver fled.
An officer believes the liquor was consigned to a Taunton man after a rapid departure. No local furniture or hardware company bears the name marked on the boxes, suggesting mislabeling or concealment.
Worcester court heard Margaret Stanley 36 from Merrick Street say it is worth $10 to slap your ice as she slapped John Allen recently. The judge agreed it was worth something but set the price at a $20 fine.
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