Players Demand $1000 Increase and Union Admission Push
The report notes players demanding a $1000 raise and a push to apply for admission to the union. It also mentions others planning to quit and cites allies urging caution in negotiations.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1920
Page
1
Living cost highest in Bay State report notes
The National Industrial Conference Board finds Massachusetts costs 10 percent above the 47 other states, driven by rents and taxes, while the Massachusetts Commission on the Necessaries of Life adds local figures. The piece also mentions wage demands from 81 Boston Symphony Orchestra members amid a renewed dispute with the Musical Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Industrial Confernce Board
Massachusetts
State Commission On
National Industrial Conference Board
Boston Symphony Orchestra
The
Musical Union
Boston Symphony
Symphony Hall
Wilson warns on Adriatic pact impact on Versailles
President Wilson disclosed that the allied supreme council has formed and that if the Adriatic settlement goes into effect without U S. participation the United States may have to consider withdrawing the Versailles treaty from Senate consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Allied Supreme Council
Wilson
United States
Senate
America's Cup Race Set For Sandy Hook Course
England and the United States will be friendly rivals for yachting supremacy starting July 15 with the first America's Cup race on the Sandy Hook course. The New York Yacht Club announced the event after accepting Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge via the Royal Ulster Yacht Club of Belfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
England
United States
Sandy Hook
New York Yacht Club
Thomas Lipton
Royal Ulster Yacht Club of
Belfast
Arrests in Framingham Prompt Raids for Freight Car Robbery Ring
Framingham reports nine arrests in a freight car theft sweep with raids spreading to nearby towns. Wives and neighbors of railroad workers are to be summoned for court over receiving stolen goods. Loot including sugar and beans dumped in dumps to hide evidence as officers search homes. One local leader, John S. Willis, died by suicide after the actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Framingham
New England
John S. Willis
Hundredth Paragraph of Coca Cola Profit Declared
Coca Cola Company directors in Atlanta declared a dividend of one dollar a share on the common stock, payable April 2 to stockholders of record March 15. Since Sept. 12, 1919, total business reached 10 million dollars with a net profit of 1 million dollars. S A Austin of New York elected to the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Coca Cola Company
S A. Austin
New York
Eleven Michigan Girls Seek Husbands in Quincy Appeal
Eleven young women aged 18 to 6 from Michigan sent valentines via a matrimonial agency to Mayor Joseph E. Whiton of Quincy. They seek husbands despite railroad delays and describe themselves as devoted, affectionate, or kingly. Some own property or live in a $20,000 house. several expect fortunes, with one a music teacher and others on ranches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Whiton
Quincy
Whiton
Cupid
Valentines
Michigan
President's Stand on Treaties and League of Nations Policy
Officials say the President's remarks were not a threat but a description of a possible US position if drawn into treaties without US input. The League of Nations charter and Versailles are linked in enforcing boundaries, and withdrawal from Versailles would entail reconsidering the Anglo French American pact, an early White House note calls another statement an absolute falsehood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
League of Nations
White House
Flu on Wane in the State
A daily influenza tally shows 1218 cases reported to the State Health Department in the last 24 hours. Boston accounts for 153 cases with 165 in other parts. Haverhill leads non Boston numbers. The 24 hour period also records 24 deaths from influenza and pneumonia totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department of Health
Boston
Commonwealth
Haverhill
Worcester
Lowell
Cambridge
Malden
New Bedford
Amesbury
Lynn
Belmont
Cummington
Littleton
Melrose
Sand Proves Of High Value In Randolph
Percy C. Crockett built a bungalow on North Street with a sandy site. He offered to supply sand for the town to sprinkle main streets in exchange for digging and carting it away. The town would also hire Crockett’s horses and wagon, and Crockett would have his cellar dug and be paid for the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph
Percy C. Crockett
North Street
Crockett
Bill to Punish Rid ing Police Sassing in Boston
James K. Devlin urged a bill to punish disrespect toward police in Boston. The measure would fine violators up to 106 dollars or jail up to six months if enacted by the Legislature. He cited daily insults from street loafers and sympathizers as harming law and order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On the Judiciary
James K. Devlin
Boston
Curtis
Pelice
Devlin
Dining Car Conductors Win Eight-Hour Day Award
The Brotherhood of Dining Car Conductors reports Walker Hines has issued an eight hour workday award retroactive to February 1. Conductors will receive time and a half for overtime for working days, with 1800 members seeking overtime pay back to January 1, 1918 when government operation recognized eight hours as a base day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brotherhood of
Walker
Hines
Rail Ownership On Final Trial As March Return Looms
New York Feb 17 The return of railroads to private ownership on March 1 will put private operation on its final trial, says Herbert Hoover in his inaugural address as president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. He also assails government operation of railroads or shipping as wartime socialism experiments with many objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Hoover
Women Honor Suffrage Pioneers At League Session
The League of Women Voters in Chicago honored over a hundred suffrage pioneers and key workers. Carrie Chapman Catt received a sapphire pin while Jene Addams Mary Garrett Hay and Mrs. George Bass were awarded certificates of service. More than $40 000 was raised to support the league’s work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
League of Women Voters
Carrie Chapman Catt
Jene Addams
Mary Garrett Hay
George Bass
Hoover Says Competition Best Replacements Political Appointments
Mr Hoover argues no political appointment scheme can beat competition in picking talent and character. He notes that both shipping and railways benefit from skilled personnel trained in competition, and even government operation of these industries remains unsatisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
World War I Era Events and Anniversaries Listed
List of anniversaries for George Peabody and Charles Emery Smith. Mentions Germany rejecting an American protest over sinking neutral ships in a war zone in 1915. Notes German advances into Ukraine and a general strike along the Rhine with thirty thousand on strike in Ruher industry. Reports treasure taken from Trieste restored by Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Peabody
Charles Emery Smith
McKinley
Germany
Ukrainia
Russia
Ruher
Rhine
Barcelona
Spain
Trieste
Austria
Weather Forecast For Boston And Northeastern US
Forecast shows unsettled conditions in Boston area with local snow. Northern New England to see snow Wednesday and Thursday with colder temps. Southern New England cloudy with snow possible Wednesday, fair Thursday and cooler. Strong southwest winds off the Atlantic coast. Storm warnings issued from Delaware Breakwater to Eastport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Washington
New York
New England
Atlantic
Sandy Hook
Hatteras
Lower Lakes
St. Lawrence Valley
Delaware
Eastport
Atlantic Coast
Weather Note Indicates Freeze Expected Tonight
A brief weather report notes light snow or rain today with some thawing, followed by a hard freeze expected overnight.
Yesterday's Temperature Report from Thompson's Spa
Average temperature yesterday was 26 degrees with a high near 40 and a low around 8. The record notes 6 a.m. readings and comparisons to last year with an average of 32.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thompson’s Spa
Gloucester schooner Fannie Parsons in distress at sea
The coast guard cutter Gresham rushed from Boston toward Georges Bank where the Gloucester fishing schooner Fannie Parsons with Captain Walter Goulart and a crew of 20 is drifting helplessly in heavy seas and in danger of sinking. The trawler J W McLean reported the plight after reaching Gloucester harbor yesterday. The schooner displayed distress signals as the trawler crew found her rudderless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
Gresham
Boston
Georges Bank
Big Gloucester
Fannie Parsons
Walter Goulart
Bay State Fishing Company
J. W. McLean
Sinking of the Prescott in winter gale near open sea
The schooner Prescott was wrecked after a tow from a trawler failed 18 miles offshore in a severe winter gale described by Captain McLean as the worst of the season. The Wave could not launch a rescue. last sighted, the Prescott floated at the mercy of the storm. Owned by Carton Pew Company of Gloucester, Captain Antone P. Goulart of Gloucester resided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Softon
McLean
Prescott
Fannie I. Prescott
The
Carton Pew Company of
Gloucester
Antone P. Goulart
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Symphony Men
Ote AY
Henry Cary
CN Rat Raan
Bay State
U.S
Adriatic
Frederick P. Cabot
Historic International
Ulster Y. C. Con
Will
Herbert L. Baldwin
Post
Bers
Gale& Kent
Custom Tailors
Court ST
SEA Grill
Canal ST
Trimount Cooperative Bank
Lemont
Back Bay
Brattle St
Brattle Sq
NEW “Jazz” Orchestra
U. S
Standard & Mercury
New Bedford, Mass
Fifth Avenue
Triangle Motors
Boylston St
Mass. Ave
M.C
Thomas White
New Haven
Rail Ownership
Washington St
Y Soulston
Brockman & Howard
C-T-Brink
Masa
A. M
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