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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
2
Senate debate centered on the administration revenue bill focusing on corporation and wine taxes. Many amendments were defeated including proposals to exempt subsidiaries from corporate income taxes.
Ohio Attorney General Edward C. Turner urged school authorities to arm truancy officers with paddles or switches as needed to curb juvenile crime. He argued it is better for children and society for schools to supervise rather than rely on criminal courts.
Vermont National Guard units 293 enlisted men and six officers depart Fort Ethan Allen en route to Eagle Pass Texas to join the Vermont regiment on the border. Commanded by Captain S S Hyland the force includes a 53 man machine gun company. Reverend Francis L Beal named new osteopathy college president succeeding Dr Wilfred E Harris who died after wounds from an assault at the Hotel Westminster.
A large barn, silo, wagon shed and about 150 tons of hay burned at John Dudley’s West Road farm in Adams. Three horses were saved as fire lit the mountainside for a mile. Police call it incendiary. loss estimated at $8000.
Two Oklahoma sisters Ruth C Upham and Evelyn A Upham will marry Boston University Theological students in a double ceremony next Tuesday. Rev James C Watson and Rev Horace F Patton, both from Oklahoma, will wed the sisters at Boston University Theological School. The couples met while students at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr D N Armstrong of New York for the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis began a search for a Massachusetts town of about 10000 with an acute TB situation. Dr Eugene R Kelley of the State Department of Health joined in Norwood to review the case as a potential site for the project funded by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Other towns such as Norwood Framingham and Ipswich were considered by a sub committee before a selection is made.
Democratic candidate Frederick W. Mansfield addressed about 250 people in Quincy vowing to fight the Quincy Bay sewage problem if nominated and elected. He also spoke in Randolph reviewing his record and current issues.
A man named Jack Blank arrives in Boston with amnesia and no memory of his identity or family. Doctors at the Psychopathic Hospital will try to recover his past, with Johns Hopkins possible as an option if tests fail. He recalls towns and faces but not his name or origin, and he seeks any clue to who he is.
Chicago reports tentative plans for a second Middle West speaking tour by Charles A. T. Hughes with stops likely in Illinois Indiana Michigan around Sept 17. Beveridge is slated to speak in Chicago Oct 6 and Roosevelt may tour Central States later in October in Indiana Iowa Missouri Wisconsin and South Dakota.
A surrogate's decision in New York frees more than $500,000 from the state transfer tax. The estate of the late Mrs. Laura S. Rockefeller gave $425,518 to the Rockefeller Foundation and $75,000 to the Bureau of Social Hygiene, which the state contended should be taxed as private business uses under their charters.
Federal Judge Landis ordered impounding deeds worth more than $2 million that would transfer property to James B. Ward, attorney for Ledward W. Morrison, as inquiry into the missing funds resumed. Morrison was evasive about checks paid to Ward for several amounts.
Henri Joseph Harpignies, famed painter, died last night in Privé France at age 97. The French artist, born in 1826, was celebrated for landscapes and plein air scenes influencing generations of painters.
A large fire in a Sperry Flour Company warehouse in South Vallejo California destroyed wheat valued at 200000 and caused total losses estimated at 500000. The blaze occurred on August 29.
Lawrence today details a death as Tony Kerpluck, 23, of 314 Market Street, was found in the North Canal after reportedly slipping from the railroad bridge last night at 2 oclock. His chum Homo Fedor told police the story and delayed reporting the incident.
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