State budget proposal seeks 34 million in new appropriation
The Ways and Means Committee filed the State's second annual budget totaling 34,944,664.22 dollars for the coming year with 32,317,373.70 for general purposes and 2,127,290.52 for the metropolitan district. Cuts from the Governor's figure focus on supplies, reflecting changing conditions. Last year’s budget was 28,138,164 but expenditures rose to 36,585,062.81, making this year’s plan about 4.5 million smaller than the previous year's total.
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Legislative Committee On
Ways and Means
Garry
Commonwealth
Enlistments in Navy Reach New Weekly High in 1637
Washington reports enlistments in the navy for the week ending Feb 6 total 1637, the highest weekly figure since voluntary enlistments resumed in December. The total to date reaches 9077 with the Eastern division leading at 863. New York tops cities with 205 and Boston follows at 112.
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Washington
Navy
Navy Department
New York
Boston
Hayes Healing Honey Ad with Free Chest Cold Salve
An old advertisement touts Hayes Healing Honey as a throat remedy and cough cure priced at 35 cents. Each bottle includes a free Pen o Trate Salve for chest and head colds.
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Hayes
Adud
War Department opens missing men columns in army hospital papers
Washington February 10 An unofficial channel for locating missing in action soldiers has been opened by the War Department through hospital papers. Relatives are advised to write to The Port of Missing Men, Surgeon General's office Washington, or to the newspaper at the nearest army hospital. Inquiries will be circulated among papers and may be seen by comrades who can provide new information.
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Washington
War Department
Surgeon-General’s
Port of Boston Hindered by Roads and Rates
Railroads and steamship lines operating in the city hamper the port of Boston. Without improved docks and wharf transportation facilities and fair ship rates for New England merchants there is little chance for a bigger and better port.
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Boston
New England
Boston port expansion debate draws business leaders
At a Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange meeting in Boston, officials and experts urged railroads to improve facilities and government aid to expand the port. Speakers including Josiah Quincy Elbridge Anderson and Joseph OConnell highlighted overcrowded rail lines dock delays and the need for belts, lighterage, tubes under the harbor, and a coastal terminal near South Boston flats to streamline imports.
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Boston
Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange
John Martin
Exchange
Josiah Quincy
Elbridge R. Anderson
Joseph F. O'Connell
Austin H. Decatur
Rotary Club
Mr. Martin
H. H. Wiggin
Terminal Wharf Railroad & Warehouse Company
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Quincy
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Mayor's Committee For the Development of
Martin
Anderson
Commonwealth Pier
J. J. Starry
New England Dry Goods Association
H. F. Barber
Pilgrim Publiity Association
Edward G. Stacy
O'Connell
State urged to buy Cambridge subway for Boston Elevated plan
Boston officials push for state purchase of the Cambridge subway at about 9 million dollars to end rent payments to the railway and tunnel leases. A legislative hearing at the State House will hear supporters and opponents from the metropolitan affairs and street railways committees. Chairman James F. Jackson will outline actions since June 1918, with a map for a two zone system and five cent fares centered on Boston City Hall, as trustees Powers Stevens and Miller, and attorney Barnum attend.
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Boston Elevated
Cambridge
State House
James F. Jackson
Board of Trustees
Public Trustees
Boston City Hall
Samuel L. Powers
John F. Stevens
Stanley R. Miller
H. W. Barnum
101st Ammunition Train Pictures Show
Mothers and families of the 101st Ammunition Train 26th Division are invited to view train pictures at the First Corps of Cadets Armory Columbus avenue and Ferdinand streets next Saturday evening February 15 at 8 o'clock. Rev D D Hoagland will recount experiences from the France service. The event, organized by Mrs William J Keville, aims to raise funds for a homecoming reception with free admission.
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101St Ammunition Train
Corps of Cadets
Columbus Avenue
Ferdinand Streets
D. D. Hoagland
Hyde Park
France
William J. Keville
Keville
Pickering Will Entrusts Harvard With Public Bequest
The will of Harvard College physicist Professor Edward C. Pickering filed in East Cambridge Probate Court leaves medals diplomas and scientific instruments to Harvard. This is the sole public bequest. Executor named is Solon I. Bailey.
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Edward C. Pickering
Harvard College
East Cambridge
Pickering
Solon I. Bailey
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