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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1920
Page
15
The Cambridge school committee adopted a new salary scale for teachers retroactive to January 1 1920, funded by 276000 dollars and adding 2.10 to the city's tax rate next year. Increases varied by position, with higher boosts for high school heads and department heads and larger raises for elementary, kindergarten, and arts staff.
Roxbury observation recounts a grandmother crediting Dr True's Elixir with saving a dying child. She reports the medicine cured and even a worm expulsion, claiming long term success across generations. The ad-style testimonial promotes Dr True's Elixir as a family laxative and worm expeller available at all dealers.
Boston reports 514 new influenza cases and 16 deaths from 9am Sunday to 5am today, plus 24 pneumonia cases and 13 deaths in the same period. Only 85 flu cases developed yesterday. statewide 2002 cases over 48 hours ending noon yesterday.
Officials note Thursday and Friday spikes due to storm disruption. Dr Woodward says storm effects are over and reports return to normal. Cities listed with case counts include Haverhill 188 Fall River 68 Pittsfield 67 Springfield 64 New Bedford 56 Somerville 64 Cambridge 49 Lynn 44 Worcester 44 Needham 37 North Adams 36 Mald en 33 Winthrop 32 West Newbury 30 Lenox 27. A bill to create licensed attendants would broaden nurse access at about half the cost of full nurses. The plan aims to supply home care aides in sickness with public authority endorsement.
During the hearing doctors, nurses and others generally supported the idea of nursing regulation but opposed creating a new titled “IL A.” Instead they favored a graded system of nurse qualifications with pay scales. Critics warned the plan would harden access for smaller hospitals and hinder care. The committee will draft a new bill to classify nurses and address concerns about a licensed attendant.
George J. Burchill aged 3 of 34 Garrison avenue was killed instantly after slipping from a roof at 744 Washington street while shovelling snow. He fell fifty feet to the sidewall and landed on his head. The accident occurred last night as he shoveled the roof.
Guy Spiker and his English wife arrived in Baltimore at 10 15 pm greeted by Mrs Cora Spiker wife of Perley Spiker widely linked to a famous transatlantic romance. The trio and the baby were quickly whisked away to an East Baltimore street home amid onlookers.
Edwin F Atkins of Boston sent a letter from Cienfuegos Cuba confirming a new 38000 gift to Harvard’s local endowment. This brings his total subscriptions to 125000 and acknowledges a 62000 contributor note. He designates 25000 for unrestricted use and 100000 for tropical research and economic botany. Funds tally show Boston 4690890 New York 4006095 outside 3242650 total 11938636.
The American Association Baseball league approved a 168 game schedule at its Chicago meeting. The season will begin on April 14.
The Old Dominion liner Princess Anne lies wrecked and slowly sinking on shoals off Rockaway after a storm battering from stem to stern. Only the first and second officers remain aboard as shipping officials fear loss of the cargo if weather does not improve.
First Officer Charles W. Barker led a skeleton crew of 44 as the steamship began tearing apart. Passengers and crew were evacuated by police boat, while Barker and Second Officer William Heath faced mutiny with drawn pistols. Coast guard later helped, and a power fishing sloop carried men and baggage to Sheepshead Bay pier. The ship remains mostly submerged with cargo valued at $1,000,000 under threat of looting as railroad authorities stand guard.
Oral railroad administration orders strike action to begin before Saturday after wage demands from last summer. Mr Barker said the orders have gone out and would take two to three days to cancel.
A 10 member committee leaves for Washington to negotiate with the railroad director general as a nationwide strike looms. The action targets wage increases and a uniform coast to coast rate for workers including storehouse laborers stationary firemen stationary engineers steel bridge workers cinder pit men and oilers. The strike dates back to last July and follows a six month wait for cost of living relief. The Brotherhood vows to press demands regardless of federal injunction and pledges funds to win the strike.
Julian Arnold United States commercial attaché at Pekin spoke to Boston Export Round Table about China’s rapid commercial development and vast opportunities for American investment. He highlighted rail and transportation needs, the scope for a major railroad to access central resources, and the chance to open Asia with American funds. He noted 100 millionaires in China ready to join with American capital, while the central government’s reach remains incomplete and provincial authorities still hold sway.
The Rev. Benjamin F. Benoit, oldest French Baptist missionary in New England, died in Providence at 67 years old from influenza. Born in St Anne Quebec in 1848, he was ordained at Webster Mass and served as general missionary for Massachusetts before postings in Worcester and Putnam. He came to Providence in 1916.
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