Constitutional Convention Votes to Submit Question to People
The convention voted yesterday by 126 to to submit the question to the people on borders, water power, mineral and other properties.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
2
The convention voted yesterday by 126 to to submit the question to the people on borders, water power, mineral and other properties.
Richard H. Long charged at Worcester rallies that Colonel William A. Gaston personally gave 1000 to the anti initiative fund. He said Gaston’s law partners and associates contributed amounts totaling part of a 47000 campaign fund raised by bankers brokers and lawyers. Long cited official secretary of state records and spoke in Webster Southbridge Uxbridge Blackstone and Millbury.
Butler employees enjoyed a Nantasket trip Tuesday with a shore dinner by J F Young. They sang patriotic songs, swam, bathed, and watched a handicap swimming race between Thomas Linehan and J A Macneil, with Linehan prevailing. The event was organized by Thomas F Young, a 30 year Butler member.
Federal agents raided the Offices of Issues and Events a weekly publication barred from the mails, a manufacturing plant and three German American business sites in New York seeking to trace alleged expenditures of German propaganda funds.
DOJ agents raided offices in Philadelphia Reading Lancaster and Chicago to seize records of propaganda collections and expenditures and anti American literature. Targets included Berkshire Knitting Mills Textile Machine Works Narrow Fabric CompanyReadings and associates Rudolph Pagenstecher William Kaupe and Charles H Unversagt with ties to Ferdinand Thun and Harry Janssen.
Brigadier-General W. A. White will speak as principal speaker at a large rally at the Parkman bandstand in Boston Common at 8 o'clock tonight. This is his final appearance in Boston before he and other officers of the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission depart for the front, with drafting of British subjects into the American army to start after September 28.
Secretary McAdoo stated the next Liberty Loan will bear 4 1 4 percent interest. He argued that raising the rate would be ridiculous and imply Americans must lift themselves by their bootstraps.
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