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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1915
Page
7
Legislative committees at the State House rejected all bills proposing changes to the Boston city charter and bills for new charters for Cambridge Fall River and Taunton. This action ends charter reform efforts for the current session.
The Senate reported against raises for Boston City Council salaries and against Cambridge and Fall River charter bills while tabling Taunton. A bill to raise medical examiners in Suffolk county appears doomed. House members Mulveny and O Dowd expect a fight when the bill reaches the lower house. A social welfare bill favors limits on women and child labor over time. Ways and Means opposes a State purchasing agent. In House, a battle over the pardoning last year of John A Hall was endorsed for investigation.
The Turmoil presents Bibbs Sheridan and Mary Vertrees in a struggle between two social worlds in Pittsburgh inspired by industrial power. Tarkington blends satire with entertainment to depict ambition, love, and the dawning of a modern business ethos.
Lawmakers discuss overturning a rules committee report on an investigation. The debate includes a plan to abolish the office of assistant assessor in Cambridge and shift poll listing duties to the police department. Representative Washburn of Worcester is noted as proposing the counter to the report.
Truman A. De Weese will speak on The Pulling Power of Publicity and W. St. Elmo Lewis will discuss Creative Salesmanship at the Pilgrim Publicity Association advertisers dinner. The event aims to draw 500 members and guests at the Boston City Club on Tuesday night next.
State police call an inquest into the Malden church blaze to determine its cause amid rumors of arson. Deputy Neal will preside, with the parish house of the ruined church as the likely inquest site next Wednesday.
Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Walter B. Cannon told medical students that sea bathing offers no unique advantages over ordinary cold tub plunges. He argued heat from hot baths cools and relaxes the body and that daily cold plunges benefit most people. Warm baths before bed may help induce sleep and soothe nerves.
Dr Cannon rejects the notion that ocean salt has health properties. He says only the exhilaration from an icy plunge comes as a benefit to bathers.
The Brookline Board of Selectmen report against raising policeman salaries next year. They state the selectmen have long governed the police and should decide pay rather than voters at town meeting, and they do not recommend a salary increase.
Baltic Sea disaster reports the Norwegian steamer Nordkyn struck a mine off Bornholm Island and sank with the loss of all crew. A Copenhagen despatch to Central News confirms the tragedy and total drowning of the crew.
Jesse Straus head of Macy’s in New York spoke at the Boston City Club during the Retail Trade Board dinner on minimum wage and related issues. He argued it is indirect taxation and unlikely to hurt stores, urging moral training and efficiency as welfare work.
Mayor B F Haines of Medford asks Alderman Edward H Larkin to report for duty as a reserve officer by Wednesday. Larkin’s December leave of absence is revoked and he will be assigned to a special day duty in Medford square. The mayor also reassigns street and station duties for Medford’s two sergeants with one month street duty followed by a month at the station.
German military authorities now require each person entering Germany to have an individual passport. A wife or minor child cannot enter on a passport held by a husband or parent. The measure was reported as official government guidance.
Booth Tarkington reviews The Turmoil and James by W Dane Bank. The pieces praise a hard driven protagonist, James Bowden, as a patriotic yet egotistical grasping figure whose ascent ends in heartbreak and a decisive social shift.
The Williamson critique of A Soldier of the Legion describes a tale about Max Doran a U S cavalry lieutenant who learns he is not the rightful heir to a New York aristocratic family. He travels to Sidi bel Abbes joins the Foreign Legion and aids Sanda DeLisle aboard desert journeys. The novel blends local color and Sahara adventures with a focus on exile and identity.
Walter Camp presents Captain Danny as captain of the Manor Hall baseball squad. The book captures college and prep sports life with vivid detail and boy readers will eagerly await the next work. Published by D. Appleton & Co in New York at $1.25.
The north country setting dominates this review of Curwood's novel God's Country and the Woman. It highlights the Arctic atmosphere, psychological detail at a dinner with fruit cake and pickles, and the mysterious plot with Miriam and Josephine. The critique notes a strong Northland ethos and a final revelation that leaves questions lingering.
A Margarete Munsterberg tale follows Peter Loring from a New England boyhood to artistic fame. He abandons family wishes and conventional paths to study in Munich and paint Red Poppies, a vision formed at age six with Virginia Grey as muse. The story blends personal drive with artistic triumph.
Florence Kimball Russell follows cadet Jack Stirling through his junior year at West Point in a 25 year old tale. The book introduces era customs and aims to entertain boys with wholesome manly fiction while boosting the author’s reputation.
A Pillar of Salt by Horace W. C. Newte from John Lane Company is faulted for a slim plot and crude handling of divorce. The heroine Avice, wealthy yet flawed, drifts from marriage to an affair with an unsuccessful writer, ending in divorce and regret as fortunes shift and realism replaces romance. The critique notes contrived psychology and unconvincing saving lessons.
The author argues that the war’s immediate causes lie in commercial treaties tariffs and financial progress. He notes Germany’s tariffs and treaties bolster its position and recalls long ago claims that treaties valued more than indemnity. He warns that Germany and Russia prepared for conflict over treaty renewals expiring within two years and pressed by Germany.
The Edition d Art Company of New York published The European War The Powers edited by R Stroppa Quaglia. The book treats each nation in the struggle with over 600 illustrations showing armament uniforms navies and other features. It weaves history into a narrative offering an interesting and valuable volume.
Beloved Belle K Maniates novel Amarilly of Clothes Line Alley from Little Brown depicts a teen heroine in a large urban family where the mother launders vestments for a church. The light hearted tone recalls Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch and leaves readers eager for more.
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