Old Colony Trust to Serve as Trustee for Post Clancy Fund
The Post Clancy Fund neared its $16,000 goal with further donations totaling $189.50. Boston police stations contributed with Captain Mathew J. Dailey and Captain Joseph Harriman leading $104 and $45 respectively. The fund will be deposited with Old Colony Trust Company which will act as trustee.
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OLD Colony
Boston
Mathew J. Dailey
Hanover Street
Joseph Harriman
Seaverns Avenue
Jamaica Plain
Old Colony Trust Company
Philip Stockton
Post Clancy
A. C. Ratshesky
United States Trust Company
Edmund A. Whitman
Elder & Whitman
Club Women Meet at Vendome Luncheon in State Federation
Club presidents and members from across the state gathered yesterday at the Vendome for a luncheon of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Miss Georgia Bacon of Worcester, candidate for president of the national federation, was guest of honor and read the official pledge of the General Federation on reducing living costs. Speakers urged thrift and prudent spending to stretch the family budget.
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Vendome
State Federation of Women's Clubs
Georgia Bacon
Worcester
National Federation
General Federation
Jacon
George M. Baker
Helen A. Whittier
Henry Coolidge Mulligan
Women win in divorce pleas in East Cambridge court
Ella M. Peterson of Hudson wins a divorce from Carl A. Peterson alleging desertion after February 1914 marriage. She claims he left in March 1914 to go West and did not return, forcing her to support herself through domestic work. Effie M. Phinney of Malden also wins a divorce from Hebert J. Phinney of Boston, married January 27, 1910, with the husband to pay $10 weekly child support and custody of a minor.
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Ella M. Peterson
Hudson
Hamilm
East Cambridge
Liquor Sale Not a Nuisance in Hart Bar Case
Commissioner Hayes ruled that a single liquor sale does not prove a nuisance in the Hart Bar and Bar Tum case. John Hart operated a bar on Over Street and was charged after a pledge alleged a whiskey sale to federal agents.-bar Tum, whose brother sold whiskey to officers for $10, was held on a $500 bond.
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Hayes
John Hart
Samuel Bartum
Nui‘nce
Bothen
Hart
Barron
Huntington Avenue
More Room for Payers on Incomes
The Internal Revenue Service recognizes three general classes of business enterprises for tax checks. Acting Collector Andrew J. Casey explains these as those engaged in making, those engaged in producing, and those engaged in trading. Income from business and profits from sales and property dealings form a major tax item.
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Internal Revenue Department
Andrew J. Casey
Tax accounting basics and inventory rules summarized
The article outlines gross income definitions for various classes including business services and manufacturing. It details reliance on trading accounts for gross profit, inventories for periods, and what to include in inventory such as raw materials, finished goods, consignment items, and title transfers. It also notes a surge in tax returns with about 500 filers yesterday and 2000 daily inquiries handled by 18 deputy collectors across three rooms.
Daniels Seeks Three Carriers and Four Destroyer Tenders
Washington February 6 Secretary Daniels urged Congress to authorize construction of three aviation carriers and four destroyer tenders. He proposed using Hog Island shipyard fabricated steel to cut vessel costs from 25 million to 11 million dollars. The Navy now has seven destroyer tenders and two more to be completed in two years. By 1920 the destroyer force should reach 298 large ships.
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Washington
Congress
Dantes
Hog Island
Navy
Daniels
Gunman posing as officer robs Roxbury pawnshop
A gunman posing as a police officer robbed Roxbury Loan Co at 26 Washington St yesterday. He shot clerk Jerry Hirshman in the neck after entering with a badge and credentials, then fled after throwing him through the plate glass door. Hirshman was taken to City Hospital with injuries. The suspect planned the crime for Tuesday and Wednesday but was deterred by visitors.
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Washington Street
Roxbury
Roxbury Loan Company
Jerry Hirshman
Hirshman
City Hospital
Roxbury Crossing
Canton Struck by Food Shortage and Snowbound Trains
Canton faces severe shortages with bread and yeastcakes exhausted and meat scarce. The Red Cross feeds 70 men and 15 women stranded in three stalled trains between Canton and Canton Junction. townsfolk shelter travelers in the Town Hall as efforts to move the trains continue.
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Canton
Red Cross
Canton Junction
Snowbound Trains Halt Across Region As Lines Close
Severe winter disrupts service with cars leaving the station platform and cars buried under deep snow. The Blue Hill trolley line is buried and cannot be used. At Canton Junction the New Haven main line was cleared by 3 PM after 18 trains stalled between Meadville and Sharon.
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Blue Hill
Canton Junction
New Haven
Meadville
Sharon
Five Colleges in Air Races Schedule Set
Intercollegiate Flying Association officials set rules for the annual air races to be held May 6 and 7. Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia and Williams plan cross country flights with stops at each campus. Ex army aviators now students from each college include notable names such as Stoward Snotts Yale Sumner Sewell Yale David Ingalls Yale George Vaughan Princeton Lansing Holden Princeton and G Defrost Larner Columbia.
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New York
Intercollegiate Flying Association
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Williams
Exarmy
Stoward C. Snotts
Sumner Sewell
David Ingalls
George A. Vaughan
Lansing C. Holden
G. Defrost Larner
Great Rush to Settle Taxes on 4000 Liens
After three Saturdays of ads tax liens on about 4000 taxable items unpaid for 1918 and 1919 will be sold March 3 in the city collectors office. Publicity caused the largest crowd in the office, with 4000 taxpayers paying $138000. Deland says advertising does not force foreclosures though it raises the home owners’ burden. Owners may redeem by paying the purchase price plus costs and 8 percent interest.
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Frank S. Deland
Deland
Double Funeral for George W. O'Brien and Wife Catherine
A double funeral will be held Sunday at St. Joseph's Church Maplewood for George W. O'Brien and his wife Catherine of 11 Swain Pond Avenue Malden. Both died of pneumonia after influenza, Mr. O'Brien a former Post Office driver for 10 years. They are survived by five children.
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St. Joseph’s Church
Maplewood
George W. O'Brien
Catherine
Swain Pond Avenue
Malden
O'Brien
Forest Dale
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Post Office Department
Lindsays Transferred to Seattle Oversee Volunteers West
Colonel and Mrs. Fred A. Lindsay will leave New England to head Volunteer services west of the Rocky Mountains. They are guests at a dinner tonight in the Volunteer Service Club at 39 Howard Street. Under their four year leadership a service hut serving 47,000 service members and the Roxbury volunteer home were established and expanded.
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Fred A. Lindsay
Volunteers of America
New England
Seattle
Rocky Mountains
Volunteer Service Club
Howard Street
Lindsays
Iiindsay
Roxbury
Children’s Open Air Camp Aids Readings Winter Help
The Reading based camp reports a 40 percent rise in people aided during winter under its administration, highlighting growing support and outreach for area children.
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Reading
Dry counsel in hot return
Wayne B Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti Saloon League, denounced the prohibition amendment attacks by Governors Edwards of New Jersey and Smith of New York at a Democratic dinner in New York. He urged that Americanization and patriotism reach beyond aliens within borders and warned that those invoking states rights will be remembered like nullifiers against federal law.
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Washington, Tech
Edwards
New Jersey
Smith
New York
Wayne RB. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Mr. Wheeler
Andrew Jackson
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Clancy
Matthew J. Dailey
Joseph Marriman
Miss Georgia Bacon
Sertion
Warcraft
Crook
Readville
Steed Cd
Wolf’s
Local Volunteers of America
Jen Nmien
Red
MY Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Silvertones
Norfolk
Hargedon
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