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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
2
Massachusetts' Minimum Wage Commission faced strong attacks and stout defense at a legislative social welfare hearing. The bill seeks to grant the commission power to enforce its findings.
In the shadow of the Cathedral yesterday afternoon two men assaulted Miss Margaret R. Kenney, a bookkeeper for the Union Laundry Company, and escaped with a bag containing 713.61 dollars.
Professor Robert H. Fife of Wesleyan University Middleton Conn endorsed the President's attitude in the German crisis at the New England Alumni banquet at the Ven-dome He urged an amicable settlement of the differences with Germany and spoke as a native German by birth
Miss Julia OConnor of the Telephone Operators Union urged broader power for the commission to enforce minimum wage edicts amid factory resistance. Margaret Fitzgerald backed retail workers while George H. Wrenn pressed for stronger wage orders. Henry Sterling supported the bill, A E B Lunt opposed as unconstitutional, warning the law worsens conditions for inefficent workers.
President Matthew C. Brush of the Boston Elevated last night lauded youth at the English High School 1911 dinner at the Plaza Hotel. He praised the senior in business who dares to act as youth, calling dynamite out of mere youth and endorsing young men who own up to their missteps.
The Massachusetts State AFL executive council accepted the resignation of John P. Meade of Brockton as legislative member and chairman. Henry Sterling of Somerville was appointed to fill the vacancy, with John MacDougal of Haverhill named chairman and Sterling secretary after Worcester convention pressure.
Miss Natalie Whitwell offered her home at 409 Marlboro Street to the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness for emergency headquarters. Mrs Barrett Wendell, head of the organization, said the offer will be immediately accepted. Over 200 new volunteers joined the active corps in three days and applications keep arriving, necessitating extra space.
Miss Kenney was robbed of a payroll bag while walking from International Trust Company on Milk Street to the laundry office on Albany Street. Two young men jumped her at Harrison Avenue Wareham Street, wrested the bag, and fled. The bag containing $3 in bills $1.58 in change and trinkets was later found behind the City Hospital rear wall. robbers remained at large early hours today.
Harry Riska of 2016 Stith St. says a simple home mix cures cigarette addiction. His recipe uses water, Muriate of Ammonia, Varlex Compound, and Pepsin, taken three times daily with no taste or odor.
Dr Lewis Baker answers reader questions offering five grain arbolone tablets for fat reduction and three grain sulfate tablets for constipation linked blood issues. He notes damp hair and itchy scalp with dandruff respond to a suitable topical or regimen, warning that several months of treatment may be needed.
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