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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1920
Page
3
Boston merchants vow strong opposition at city hall hearing on Thursday as Mayor Peters proposes a 1 percent gross sales tax to raise city revenue. The Retail Trade Board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce with leading firms met to discuss the plan and its potential impact on consumers.
The Supreme Court again failed to rule on the constitutionality of the prohibition amendment and the enforcement act. Recess begins next Monday until May 17 with final arguments underway. The court plans to adjourn for summer in early June, hoping a decision on dry legislation comes next Monday.
Doubt arose about Mayor Peters being at City Hall as he suffers a severe cold. He was missing from his desk yesterday and advised by doctors to rest for a couple of days.
Joseph Martin of Providence was held without bail on a charge of assault with a loaded revolver against Miss Alice Morrison of Providence. Morrison, to whom Martin had obtained a license to marry, was critically wounded with multiple bullet wounds at the hospital. When identified at her bedside she named Martin. steam from his truck radiator burned him during the incident, and Garido received first aid before transport to Carney Hospital.
Patrick Garido a 21 year old chauffeur of 60 Robbins street Cambridge is treated at Carney Hospital for head burns after steam escaped while he removed a cap at the corner of B Street and West Broadway South Boston yesterday noon.
Chicago police linked seven hundred robberies totaling over half a million dollars to Harry J. James the silk mask burglar. James was killed after firing on the Town Hall station wounding two patrolmen. Investigators found a private warehouse with art rugs jewels and more and a card index listing the loot for each robbery.
Senator Lodge opens Senate debate on the peace treaty and the League of Nations arguing proposed pooling of belligerent war debts and U S responsibility for Germany's rehabilitation. Senator Hitchcock calls the report preposterous while Lodge cites Paris proposals and Brussels talks as evidence of risk to the United States.
Five year old James Rinchcruse was killed on Broadway Lawrence when struck by an autotrack truck driven by Clyde Lambert of Water Street. Eyewitnesses say the boy darted from the curb into the vehicle path and Lambert swerved to avoid him. Brilliant straw hats with ostrich feather accents were visible in the crowd.
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