Simmons Amendment Seeks Negotiations by President on Allied Debts
Senator Simmons proposes amending the refunding act to let the President conduct negotiations instead of the Treasury Secretary. The measure bars cancellation or alteration of principal or interest and forbids swapping bonds with other governments. It also restricts postponing interest after July 1, 1923 unless new governments endorse or guarantee.
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Washington
Simmons
Democrat
North Carolina
Treasury
Terest
Senate Finance Committee
Extra Session of Divorce Court Opens in Suffolk
Due to overcrowded divorce docket in Suffolk County Superior Court an extra session will open Monday Sept 12. The last day to mark cases for trial at the special sitting is Aug 23. Several hundred cases including contested and uncontested will be tried and it is estimated to take five weeks to dispose of them.
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Suffolk County Superior Court
Federal Reserve Bank Opens Major Vault Door Haul
A tempered steel block weighing 86 000 pounds was moved through Boston as a door to the new Federal Reserve Bank vault at Franklin Oliver and Pearl streets. The vault will weigh 1275 tons when complete, the largest in New England. Fourteen horses hauled the volume with rollers under it, the team led by W S Rees of 721 2 Sudbury Street. Two more doors remain to be brought from the freight yards.
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Boston
Financial District
Federal Reserve Bank
Franklin, Oliver and
Pearl Streets
New England
South Street
Freigh Yards
W. S. Rees
Sudbury Street
Moonshine Found In Baby Carriage In East Cambridge
Julius Gomes of 2038 Cambridge street East Cambridge is held on 300 bail after an illegal selling charge. Police claim a stakeout yielded a pint, a warrant followed, and a search of a baby carriage uncovered a gallon of moonshine and a bottle of milk.
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Julius Gomes
Cambridge Street
East Cambridge
Gomes
Captain Leahy
Willie Gomes
Congress Warned by Mellon on Spending and Taxes
Secretary Mellon told the House Ways and Means Committee that federal expenditures must be cut by over 250 million dollars in the current 4.55 billion dollar fiscal year to avoid higher taxes. He warned legislators to pursue reductions or face tax increases.
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Washington
Congress
Mellog
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Mellon Estimates Tax Burden With Revenue Gap
Under estimates of federal outlay this year presented by Mr. Mellon the amount to be raised by taxation would total 8.83 billion dollars while he also estimated that current revenue laws would yield 260 million dollars less than that figure.
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Mellon
Mondell urges tax reform to cut levy and repeal excess taxes
Rep. Mondell of Wyoming argues expenditures are higher than last year and endorses a plan to reduce the total tax levy by at least 600 million dollars. He favors repealing excess profits tax and income surtaxes and replacing with a simple 5 percent flat tax on corporations. He doubts the need for any other major levy and opposes stamp or automobile taxes.
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Representative Mondell
Wyoming
Would Tax Cats to Protect Them Letter to the Editor
A reader argues against exterminating cats and suggests taxing cats like dogs to reduce strays. The writer also calls for penalties for abandoning cats at resorts and condemns cruelty to helpless animals.
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Sir
Flora T. Neff
Humane aid urged for stray kittens and animal rescue
Taunton resident Howard C. Walker urges cities to establish humane societies to protect stray and injured animals. He laments cruel acts by some, notes the efforts of the M. B. P. C. A., and expresses a wish to fund greater rescue and disposal services for kittens and other animals.
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National Blank Book CO
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Union St
Rossi
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Taunton
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BEND
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Sanam
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