War tax bill nears final shape in Senate review
Washington Aug 3 the war tax bill revised since May 24 is sent to the printer and ready for Senate debate. It totals about 2 002 000 000 dollars in taxes to meet war expenses with no new bond authorizations. Corporate incomes and individual surtaxes rise, distillers and beer taxes climb, and bank checks and stock taxes are expanded to new bases.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
House
la Follette
Gore
Thomas
Aviator Frederick Davi son suffers spinal injuries in 400 foot fall
Frederick Trubee Davison, son of Henry P. Davison and linked to the Red Cross War Council, fell 400 feet into the water during a hydro airplane flight last Saturday. Surgeons report a spine injury making full recovery likely take at least a year.
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New York
Frederick Trubee Davison
Henry P. Davison
American Red Cross War Council
Gore opposition delays food bill showdown
Washington Aug 3 Conference reports on both the administration food control and food survey bills passed the House with little opposition. They are set for Senate debate tomorrow and likely adoption by Tuesday. Senator Gore may file a minority report, posing the main opposition risk.
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Washington
House
Senate
Gore
Agriculture Committee
Kahn Voices Unified Support for Wilson in Conference Bill Debate
Representative Kahn of California led a patriotic appeal urging united support for President Wilson as the House debated the conference report on the control bill. Opposed measures were limited to a few present votes and a lone negative by Powers after a recommit struggle, with Kahn praising the conferees removing the war expenditures committee amendment and predicting food administration success.
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House
Representative Powers
Kentucky
McLemore
Texas
Kahn
California
Germany
Wilson
Senate
Congress
Army
Navy
Mr. Kahn
Food Administration
War as Gods Laundry: Mother Appeals for Son in Marines
Mrs. Mary J. Lamb told a local exemption board that the war is “Gods laundry” as she explains sending three of her four sons to the army and navy. She notes a sixteen year old son enlisted in the Marine Corps, and that another son serves in the Marines while a third is in the army. Her fourth son, at Notre Dame, is a quartermaster in the Scaron Cadets and too young for service.
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Chicago
Mary J. Lamb
Army and Navy
Marine Corps
Scaron
Notre Dame University
Intentions of marriage filed at City Registrar office
The records list numerous intended marriages with names ages occupations and addresses across Roxbury Cambridge Dorchester East Boston and other Boston area localities. Names include Herman Asperin Esther Gorovitz John Tobin Margaret Wall Benjamin Woolhouse Mary Sheehan Martin Surette and many others with professions such as metal broker elevator operator fisherman and clerk.
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Herman M.asperin
Vernon St
Roxbury
Esther Gorovitz
Boardman St
Cambridge
John J. Tobin
Aspinwall Pl
Haskell
N. J
Margaret M. Wall
Whittier St
Dorchester
Benjamin Woolhouse
Hammouns St
Rosbury
Mary E. Sheehan
Brookline St
John J. Sheehin
Martin F. Surette
Meridian St
Boston
Seretha E. Deviller
Princeton St
East Boston
James J. McNulty
Lenox Ave
New York
Bessie Mulligan
Hallgren
Astor St
Anna A. C. Levanson
Highland St
Joseph Carrosi
Paris St
Edith Oberlander
London St
Abraham Ziskini
Lynde St
Mary Berman
Rockland St
Israel Berman
Carl J. Anderson
Main St
Lynn
Margaret J. Geary
Hancock St
William J. Geary
James H W. Emery
W. Cottage St
Iathryne Norris
Oakatl
Charlestown
Joseph Whitaker
Barrows St
Jamestown
N. Y
Ruth A. Hoyle
Sanford
Wilbur Fowles
Clerk
Green St
Jamaica Plain
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Teamster
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Zeigler
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Sambridge
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Fremont Ave
Sea
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Armaradine
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Edward L. Stevens
Beacon St
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Pond St
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Lake St
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Rexford St
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Brainerd Rd
Allston
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Commonwealth Ave
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Fleet St
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Kurtzfeld
Laconia St
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Ruben Goldstein
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Social Service
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Park St
Newton
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Verner
Maker Place
Thomas H. Phillips
Campbell Ave
Revere
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West St
Hyde Park
Dennis J. Coleman
Harrison Ave
Della M. Sullivan
Boylston St
Dance at Harvard Summer School Ends Series of Dances
An informal Harvard Summer School dance for students was held last evening in the Hemenway gymnasium. The event ran from 8 to 10 30 with the girls in the physical education department organizing and light refreshments served.
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Harvard Summer School
Hemenway Gymnasium
Department of Physical Education
Boston area sixth sense? women admitted to Massachusetts bar
The Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners finds 153 applicants qualified for attorney licensure. Seven of them are women from Greater Boston, with the board to recommend admission to the Supreme Judicial Court on Friday if no objections arise.
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Greater
Boston
Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners
Supreme Judicial Court
Helen I. Binning
Peace Street
Providence
R. I
Helen Cashman
Adams Street
Milton
Ellen F. Geogan
Fullerton Avenue
Whitman
Bertha F. Wockberg
Blue Hill Avenue
Gladys Johnson
Washington Street
Wellesley
Ethel F. Levy
Crawford Street
Roxbury
Rebecca Thurman
York Street
Dorchester
Dorchester Brothers Drawn in First Double Draft Quota
Robert Hootstein is among three Dorchester brothers selected in the first double quota of the military draft. The piece notes two Dorchester families may enlist three brothers each.
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Robert Hootstein
Dorchester
Samuel Hootstein
Aero Club plans Foreign Service Committee for American aviators
The Aero Club of America will establish in Paris the Foreign Service Committee of the Aero Club of America to aid American aviators. Bert Jansen Wendell and Augustus Post will organize and oversee welfare, with funds provided by the club.
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New York
The
Aero Club of America
Bert Jansen Wendell
Augustus Post
Paris
Foreign Service Committee
Dorchester Families Face Callups for Three Brothers Each
The Hoar and Hootstein families of Dorchester may each supply three young men to the national army under the first double quota. Hoar brothers aged 27, 24, and 22 hold numbers 185, 133, and 165, with two in business and the youngest willing to serve. Hootstein brothers, ages 27, 25, and 21 hold numbers 93, 112, and near 450, with two seeking exemption and one set to enlist, all described as physically perfect.
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Hoorstein
Dorchester
Hoarsteins
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Watson, Hallett Co
King Street
John G. Hoar, Jr
William F. Hoar
Charles H. Hoar
Frederick J. Hoar
John
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
William
Billings & Co
Charles
National Shawmut Bank
Europe
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Michigan Avenue
Samuel
Joseph
William Hootstein
Washington Street
Roxbury
Samuel Hootstein
Dorchester Avenue
Robert Hootstein
Boston
Robert
Bill Hood
Bob Hart
Hootstein
Joseph Hootstein
Williaam
Heflin Attacks Mason and Britten Led to Expunged Record
In Washington on August 3 Representative Heflin of Alabama denounced Representatives Mason and Britten of Illinois over conscription. The exchange grew personal, prompting expunging of Heflin’s remarks from the House record by a 190 to 122 vote while the targeted members were absent.
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Washington
Heflin
Alabama
Mason
Britten
Illinois
Here to Boom Trade with South America
J. W. Sanger, advertising investigator of New York and newly named commercial agent for the U S Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, arrives in Boston to meet local merchants about advertising in foreign markets. He plans a tour through principal U S cities and then to South America seeking advertiser input to learn Latin American conditions.
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J. W. Sanger
New York
United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Boston
United States
South America
Sober Up For Good
An ad describes the Neal Treatment claiming to erase alcoholic poison in three days and end cravings. It offers home treatment, confidential consultations, and no charges for initial advice.
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Neal
Neal Institute
Reign of Terror in Oklahoma Reported
Bands of Negroes, tenant farmers and Indians aim to defeat the selective service law in Oklahoma. They have spread terror in three central counties, partially destroyed two bridges, abandoned crops, cut wire communications, planned raids on ranches and stores, and threaten to burn all district bridges.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Williams
Rioting Bands in Oklahoma Counties Threaten Security
Governor's aide favors civilian patrols over National Guard as Seminole Hughes Pontotoc counties organize posses. Sheriffs and prosecutors marshal local forces to confront rioters. Band names include Working Class Union with about 30 members and I. W. W. agitators plus the Jones family group.
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Seminole
Hughes
Pontotoc
Armed men depart to quell South Oklahoma disturbances
One hundred armed men with large ammunition left Okmulgee on a special train at 8 o'clock for the scene of anti-draft disturbances in South Oklahoma. A call for men came from Saskawa at 7 30 p m.
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Muskogeer
Okla
Okmulgee
South Oklahoma
Saskawa
96 Years and Three Months of Charlotte Freeman’s Birthday
John E. Dunn three months old shares in observance of Mrs. Charlotte Freeman’s 96th birthday at 15 Waters Avenue Everett. Family from New England joins six children 20 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Freeman knits Red Cross head bands keeps to daily routine reading Observant Citizen and current news.
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Charlotte Freeman
Waters Avenue
Everett
New England
Freeman
Everett man travels 2500 miles to face draft rules
Dennis T. McGuigen, 24, of 17 Waters avenue Everett, traveled from Rosetown Saskatchewan Canada to learn if he had been drafted. He learned he lacked a US registration number and received 3342 as a registration marker awaiting a red ink number from Washington. He says he is ready to be classified and if called will serve.
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Dennis T. McGuigen
Waters Avenue
Everett
Rosetown
Saskatchewan
Canada
McGuigen
City Hall
C. R. Russell
Russell
Washington
William
United States
Osborne assumes command at Portsmouth Naval Prison
Thomas Mott Osborne, former Sing Sing warden, takes charge as commander of the Portsmouth naval prison in uniform. He pledges to follow Secretary Daniels wishes and repair the men for reentry into service, while noting potential discipline changes if welfare program ideas prove unsuitable. Osborne had previously volunteered at the prison, performing coal shoveling and ice cutting chores.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing
Portsmouth Naval Prison
Naval Reserve
Osborne
Daniels
Welfare League
Naval Prison
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