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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1919
Page
14
The Retail Trade Board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce warns stores about a swindler using a fake C. O. D. scheme. He arrives with a package claiming to contain electric light bulbs from a supplier, asks for payment, and leaves with cash after the package is found empty. Police in several cities have pursued him.
The Boston Lodging House Union plans room-rate increases from 25 cents to 1 dollar weekly across the South End to fund higher costs while aiming to stamp out low-cost lodgings. President Mrs Sarah Goddard says actions seek better conditions, not pure price hikes, with 250-plus member lodgings affected and safeguards for lodgers and landladies alike.
Thirty one men passed the recent bar examinations and will be recommended for admittance to the bar by the State Board of Bar Examiners on November. The list includes Archibald E. Baker Allston Curtis F Bardwell Hatfield Max K E Bernkopf Cambridge J Francis Cross East Braintree Carroll F Daiute South Braintree Joseph H Davis Malden Bernard Ginsburg Boston Edward E Gordon West Medway John A Griffin Boston registry of probate Murray F Hall Cambridge Jacob J Hamburg Chelsea Edward E Hanlon Dorchester John J Hartigan Boston Bartlett Harwood Boston Raymond T King Springfield Harry Mason Marlboro Edward A McLaughlin Boston John M Noonan West Springfield Charles C Peterson Cambridge Julian D Rainey Boston David Rines East Boston Louis B Sensale Revere Edward P Shaw 3d Brookline John B Shea Chicopee Falls Philip S Smith Leicester Wilford L Spencer Natick Eugene J Sullivan Taunton Maynard C Teall Cambridge Patrick H Tenney Wakefield Grafton L Wilson Cambridge Herman F Wohlschlagel Boston
Edward L. Saliba of 270 Oak street and George Tibshersney of 29 Elm street, former A E F divers, applied to Mayor Hurley for letters of identification to secure passports for their sweethearts left in France. The brides Blanch Mar pot Bordeaux and Estelle Journot Par Planchieres Les Dijon await reunion and marriage plans hinge on Lawrence’s arrival of brides. Saliba was wounded and cited for bravery in the Argonne and Chateau Thierry.
Mrs. Fred Eaton of Crescent street fears her husband Engineer Fred Eaton and his son Harry Eaton of Portland are victims of the Key West storm. The pair sailed on a boat plying from West Bridgewater to Havana with coal cargo. The ship was due in Havana on September 12.
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