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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1919
Page
6
Springfield reports Stephen Pardella, 14, stabbed through the lung during a snowball incident on the Connecticut River bridge. Pardella was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The assailant fled. four youths were involved, three attackers plus Pardella and a companion.
Newport reports Cuddington Point deeded by the city to the government as an addition to the naval training station. The government pays $190,000 and the city $50,000 for the tract already hosting a large navy cantonment. The 1880s vote to give Coasters Harbor Island helped establish the nation's first naval training station.
Secretary Glass appealed to Americans to cheerfully pay the higher war taxes effective today under the revenue bill signed by President Wilson. He called it a victory tax to fund a war that has brought the boon of peace.
Taxes operative at once include liquor tobacco soft drinks luxuries like autos pianos candy gum sporting goods slot machines capital stock brokers amusement places taxicabs and other special businesses. The revenue bureau prepares for March 15 returns on incomes excess profits and war profits and the first 25 percent instalment. Secretary Glass appeals to patriotism stating the war must be paid for and urges cooperation in tax collection as a continued duty.
West Roxbury Woman's Club heard Professor Walter S. Athearn of Boston University warn mothers that infants pounding tin pans signify a craving for noise. He urged piano use and safe outlets, urged better child care information from the State Board of Health, and called for church clubs and reception places for youth.
Oblate Fathers will conduct a two week mission at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Women start March 9, men begin March 16 with possible sermons for non Catholics. Lent begins Ash Wednesday and Easter falls on April 20. St Catherine’s Charlestown holds reunion tonight with new pastor Rev Thomas W McCoy. Novenas of grace from March 4 to 12 across several churches. Golden jubilee of Church of the Assumption Hast Boston marked by gala at Sumner Hall with Rev Joseph V Witzgerald directing.
The Rev William M Gilbert pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church Temple Street left last night to fill a month's engagement for the Methodist Centenary Commission in the Middle West He will speak on the Home Survey of the Centenary detailing church challenges in the United States He will confer with city leaders nationwide and is noted for religious social work from Morgan Memorial and First Church
Severe day of street clashes in Prague, capital of Bohemia, as National Guard and students oust anti government communists from occupied public buildings per Berlin’s Lokal Anzeiger.
Senator Townsend of Michigan spoke for an hour to block action on the elections committee compromise resolution for preserving evidence in the Ford Newberry senatorial contest and warned he would read voluminous affidavits before a vote. Chairman Pomerene protested delay and noted some evidence had already been burned.
A resolution by Representative Walsh of Massachusetts orders the President to restore the coast guard to its pre war status as part of the Treasury Department. The Coast Guard had been under the navy during World War I, and the committee reported the measure favorably.
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