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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1920
Page
5
Actor Walker Whiteside argues the bedroom farce taints stage ethics and public taste likening it to alcohol’s harms. He cites plays such as Up In Mabel's Room Twin Beds Parlor Bedroom and Bath and urges censorship and rewrite toward safer, legitimate comedies.
The Massachusetts State Art Commission held its first post noon meeting. Walter Gilman Page was elected chairman and Charles E. Grecow secretary. Governor Coolidge reappointed these leaders along with Cyrus E. Dallin and H. Dudley Murphy. Frederick W. Coburn named new member for a five year term.
Alice Letourneau testified in the Superior Court seeking 10000 damages for breach of promise to marry Israel Dupere former wholesale liquor dealer. She said she wed William Pateneaude in 1895 but he died out West. moments later Pateneaude entered the courtroom.
Miss Letourneau testifies of a 15 year courtship with Dupere starting in 1902 and a claimed $4300 handed over for a home. She details gifts including a fur coat and diamond rings, says Dupere promised marriage after his mother’s death, and reveals past relationships and a declared but disputed marriage.
A brief look at how storage batteries charge car and train lights via axle generators. Exide pioneered the first car and car-lighting batteries and now supplies power for submarines, city power stations, telephones, street vehicles, and mining locomotives, backed by the oldest and largest battery maker.
John J. Ready, 55, of 44 Tremont Street, was killed instantly about 9:30 p.m. while using a short cut to the city center at the Carltonville yards of the Boston & Maine railroad. A foundryman, he is survived by his wife and five children.
Representatives of the Boston Elevated and Eastern Massachusetts questioned the authority of the public utilities department to compel the installation of safety equipment devices for one man cars on roads operated by public trustees.
Eastern Massachusetts employees press to discontinue 30 one man cars lacking safety devices. Counsel Carlton cites lack of department jurisdiction while Mulcahey and Vahey argue the board can regulate safety rules for street railway passengers and workers. Chairman Attwill concedes possible doubt but supports department power to issue safety rules.
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