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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1917
Page
10
City Council approved a $3 per day minimum for all city service laborers during the budget session. Laborers had been paid $2.50, with Mayor Curley’s $25 million budget proposing the $3 figure. The move followed Council urging a 50-cent boost on motion by Councillor Hagan, who pushed for the higher minimum.
At yesterday's session the municipal committee on appropriations passed salary items for the Mayor, with final approval likely when the schedule is placed before the City Council. Councillor Collins urged lump sum totals to shift decision making from the council to the Mayor, but his motion was defeated 4 to 2 with Ford abstaining and two members absent.
Judge Crosby is to decide this morning whether to enjoin Thirst National Bank of Boston from meeting its board to vote on terminating a trust agreement that controls Coastwise Transportation Company stock until August 1926. Crowninshield argues the move would shift control to interests harming minority stockholders.
The will of Charlotte FE Brown of Lowell filed yesterday in Cambridge lists bequests to the Old Ladies Home of Lowell 7500 to the Battle Home for Aged Men in Lowell 2500 to the Lowell Humane Society 100 to the Freedman's Aid Society of Cincinnati 1000 to the Board of Home Missions Pennsylvania 159 to the Foreign Missions of New York 1500 to the Massachusetts Sunday School Association Boston 99 to Worthen Street Methodist Episcopal Church Lowell 500 to Lowell Day Nursery Association 100.
Owen S. Farley Jr and Harry S. Kelsey urged Mayor Curley last night to establish a $100000 agricultural fund to raise crops on vacant state land. Each donor pledged $200, with similar contributions expected from 48 other citizens as part of the project.
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