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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1911
Page
10
Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Mrs. Annie Kimball of 41 Summer Street Everett from her boarding house since last Monday night. Friends fear for her safety after she left her seven year old daughter Ruth and no word has been received.
A 35 year old woman, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, with dark complexion, left a home in Stated city after saying she would buy clothing for her daughter. She had little money and left her belongings behind after moving to Mrs. Lucinda Jewell on Summer Street April 4. She previously worked for Frank Ryan on Myrtle Street and was described as of excellent character. The case is under police investigation with no trace found.
A local advertisement invites shoppers to Starrs for a neat, pretty, durable dress at a trifling cost available Friday or Saturday. The notice emphasizes affordable fashion and weekend shopping.
The house passed the anti injunction bill to be engrossed by 137 to 67 and substituted the employment bill for the ways and means adverse report by 107 to 80. The injunction measure would grant juries in some contempt cases and faced criticism from Olney Elder and Storey. Montague of Boston offered an amendment on injunction cases. it was rejected 67 to 9. The employment bill proposes a $100000 highway appropriation, though opposed by the ways and means committee. The roll call lists dozens of lawmakers voting yeas and nays, with a later amendment setting a five foot five inch fireman height, supported by Underhill and Somasney.
The House stood with Governor Foss by passing the Senate amendment to the firemen height bill, meeting the governor's objections. The measure advances with the revised language.
A trust company tax bill, aiming to tax bank department deposits at the local rate, passed to be engrossed on a voice vote. Supporters include national banks citing deposits moved to trust companies. opposition argues trust firms are less favored and deserve exemption.
Attorney Frank Zottoli questions the practice where municipal judges sign warrant applications after hearing unsworn witnesses. The form then goes to the clerk for the complainant to swear to truth. He argues judges cannot delegate swearing to a clerk. The district attorney’s office studies the law as three clients await Superior Court action.
Richard Phillips of Philadelphia was held for the grand jury on a charge of using the mails to defraud. He waived examination and pleaded not guilty. In default of $1000 bail he was jailed in East Cambridge. He allegedly defrauded George M. Newgent of 18 Boylston Street of $200 over rights in a patent trolley retriever.
Providence R I April 18 Those hoping for action on the woman’s suffrage bill in the House were disappointed as the measure was filed away on the calendar and laid on the table indefinitely likely to be revived next year.
Dr. F A Washburn of Massachusetts General Hospital reports the daily cost of illness at 2.52 dollars, up from about 1.50, driven by expensive instruments, food, and higher care standards. He notes the poor are spared hardship as costs are borne by lack of payment rather than denial of treatment. He forecasts further rises and cites convalescent hospital costs at 1.12 dollars daily.
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