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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1922
Page
8
A husband attempted to end his life after a quarrel with his wife by going to a bedroom and turning on the gas. She found him, called an ambulance, and he was taken to a hospital where his condition was described as not serious and he and his wife later reconciled.
Patrolman Hardy Russell pushed a democrat wagon with Chief Pollard guiding as Joseph Dolan lay drunk in Armory street. Dolan was later booked on drunkenness after being found unconscious. The procession headed to police headquarters without a horse, ending near the Town Hall under a palm-leaf shade.
Joseph Ambrosio and Benjamin Ponto are brought before Central Court on alleged intent to steal after a window was broken at 88 Court street United Cigar. Two youths, Nathan Tanzar and Hyman Lipman, both 14, helped report the incident and aided police circling Devonshire street near City Hall station. Officers Bird Lombard and Manjoy located the youths and defendants.
A War Department sale invites buyers to bid on surplus medical and hospital supplies, with options to purchase a single item or many, and the chance to acquire hundreds of other lots at one’s own price.
Large groups of the Boston and Albany striking shopmen will return to work today under Willard Warfield memoranda. Local leaders expect a break in the broader strike situation affecting the New Haven and Boston and Maine railroads.
Boston & Maine and New Haven system federations began speaking tours from Boston to brief shopmen still out on the strike. A reply from New Haven executives to a conference request about Baltimore peace terms was expected today. Boston & Maine earlier said management is not interested in the Willard-Warfield memoranda and that no dispute exists.
C P Franciscus national president of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks spoke at Faneuil Hall urging Boston postal workers to join and support the group. He criticized the Federation of Postal Clerks for opposing the bill and highlighted a private senate committee hearing that helped save the act. Thomas F Slevin and John J Barrett joined him, with Edward P Sullivan presiding as Branch 5 Boston head. The speech focused on eliminating unnecessary night postal work and turning the plan into a national law.
The Boston joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers renews wage scales with over twenty local manufacturers. Boilermakers Lodge 585 reports dissatisfaction over iron workers encroaching on boiler makers. Telephone workers discuss secession in Lorimer Hall Tremont Temple. Railroad Station Employees plan issues at Puritan Hall. State and local employee unions anticipate a lively 1923 convention with talks by officials and lawmakers. Boston Lodge 97 reports wage agreement with New Haven railroad and withdrawal of board petitions.
Veteran Boston actress Kate Ryan Nolan, famed in the old Boston Museum days, rests at Trumbull Hospital Brookline with little change in condition as reported last night.
Mrs. Allen E. Cole of Gorham won the final Ford in the Boston Post Ford a Day contest after reporters located her in Whitman. The crowd gathered in Gorham as the foggy mountain drive with the banner car ended, and Cole plans to use the car to boost her health and visit family in Massachusetts.
Police and state fire officials probe a suspected incendiary fire that caused about 500000 in damage in Atlanta on Sunday. Discovered early by a passerby, the blaze began in the Kress building and spread to the McClure and Eiseman’s blocks as firefighters responded with full apparatus.
The Shawmut Tribe Pawnee Tribe and Babooste Council IO R M held a joint day at Rainsford Island aboard the Monitor. They hosted games for women and children including a 60 yard dash, three legged races and wheelbarrow events to benefit the city institution and hospital. The Pawnee beat Shawmut 15 to 6 in a ball game. George J Plett chaired the organizing committee with local aides.
At 3 30 am a car carrying five men and three women sped from Hurd's Corner into backyards and across lots. Needham officers fired to halt the vehicle, injuring a tire and gas tank. The intoxicated driver, using another's license, was arrested by Newton police after crossing into their jurisdiction.
Miss M. Helen Campbell of 22 Barton Street Somerville has been appointed supervisor of physical education in the Somerville public schools. A graduate of Sargent School in 1922 she is a well known young woman with a strong reputation as a physical instructor. Her studies emphasize physical education for children.
Hundreds waited at Commonwealth Pier for the steamer Cretic from New York to carry passengers to Mediterranean ports. Among the hopefuls a group of nine Italian boys watched from the harbor front, the only glimpse of America they were allowed to see.
Nine young stowaways hid aboard the Cretic in Naples and arrived healthy in Boston. Immigration officials halted their plans, and today they begin the long voyage back to Italy. The ship docked at Commonwealth Pier after a delayed departure from New York, with many passengers awaiting freight and harbor officials monitoring the scene. First cabin travelers include Mrs. Ethel Morse and several Misses from Boston along with Rev. Jose Jeardins of Fall River.
A Sewell Ford story titled Sally Sees It Through is featured in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine, highlighted as an anius ing adventure. The piece showcases Ford's narrative style and promise of a complete serialized tale for readers.
Cleveland reports that Babe Ruth and his wife claim Dorothy, their year and a half old child now with Mrs Ruth in New York, is their own. Fellow New York Americans are puzzled by the assertion and had suspected Dorothy was adopted when first seen at the Polo Grounds weeks ago.
Players claim Babe Ruth supported Mrs Ruth's assertion the child Dorothy is not adopted, arguing she gave inconsistent dates and places for the birth. Col L'Hommedieu Husted doubts the rumor of an affair, suggesting adoption, while Ruth says the report is too ridiculous to comment. Harry Weber relays Ruth's past remarks and notes the infant's care history in Baltimore.
Arthur J. Arel of North Cambridge was arrested after an alcohol influenced crash at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Bigelow Street Cambridge wrecking both vehicles. The machine operated by William A Forbes clerk of the Cambridge District Court was damaged.
In South Bend Indiana on September 24 Harry Poulin a local clothing salesman will take the witness stand in his own defense. He faces a paternity charge brought by Mrs Augusta Tiernan wife of a Notre Dame law professor alleging he is the father of her third child.
Chicago reports that six federated shopcraft unions will obey the injunction as interpreted by their lawyers while pursuing an appeal over the restraining order. Donald Richberg says officials will seek a definition of permissible actions without contempt. Court of appeals will hear the case. Supreme Court possible.
Michael Parkus a 32 year old boarder at 135 Broadway South Boston is at Relief Hospital with a badly lacerated right forearm after his arm was caught in an ice machine while working in the Hotel Essex kitchen.
A porch chat recalls Edith and Bob learning about Puddine a rich moldable dessert. Edith discovers it saves her wedding table by offering flavors from chocolate to vanilla and enabling pies and ice cream. The ad promotes Puddine from Geo. Wm. Bentley Co. Boston.
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