Revised dog laws at hearing on state house bill
Massachusetts residents plan to attend a State House hearing as the agriculture committee reviews a consolidation and revision of dog laws. The proposal sets stiff penalties for owners who fail to kill dogs that attack livestock, includes license fees of 2 dollars for males and 5 dollars for females, and allows seizure and sale of dogs with owner remedies, while barring sale for vivisection.
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Massachusetts
State House
Committee On Agriculture
Special Commission
LAW HOLDS FOR MAIL WAGONS IN MASSACHUSETTS
Supreme Judicial Court Justice Braley ruled that United States mail wagon drivers must follow highway vehicle rules. The decision came on appeal from the trial of Fred L Closson who was charged for driving on the left side of Commonwealth Avenue, arguing compliance would have made him 35 minutes late.
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Braley
Supreme Judicial Court
United States
Fred L Closson
Commonwealth Avenue
Closson
Bumkin Island Sailors Marooned After Ship Breaks Down
A letter from Bumkin Island dated February 23, 1918, describes the Viking breaking its propeller on a Thursday morning. With 600 sailors unable to leave for liberty and Eastern Steamship quoting $1000 for a short trip, most could not pay, forcing the men to spend the weekend on the island. The writer asks the company to cut the price.
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Viking
Bumkin Island
Battery Wharf
Eastern Steamship Company
First Naval District
Liberty
Bomkin Island
Sabine to discuss aviation in war and aero photography
Harvard professor Wallace C. Sabine will lecture on aviation's wartime role with emphasis on aero photography. The talk at Cambridge opens the Harvard war series ninth lecture and follows his recent visits to allied battlefronts. Open to Harvard faculty and students only.
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Wallace C. Sabine
Harvard
Cambridge
Sabine
Boston bill seeks to end one day in three rest rule
A bill to allow the Fire Commissioner of Boston, with the Mayor’s approval, to set hours for firemen for the duration of the war effort was heard by the committee on cities at the State House. The event featured remarks by Albert Mehlinger and a dinner addressing local civic concerns and Red Cross work.
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Boston
Committee On Cities
State House
Albert Mehlinger
Mal
Copley Square
Huntington Avenue
Gulesian
Red Cross
Mrs. C. Co. Ely
Boston Metropolitan
The
A. H. Cullis
Back Bay
Calvin FE. Coolidge
Channing TH. Cox
Captain Goode
Station 16
Association
M. Ti. Adamo
D. N. Palmer
Morton J. Dodge
M. Ti. Gulesian
England
London
Sheffield
Minneapolis
Thomas D. Lavelle
Boston Firemen
George A. Flynn
Fire department reform debate sparks wage and staffing clash
Supporters call the bill a war measure to standardize wages and hours and curb political favors in the fire department. Opponents warn it creates hardship for personnel, while advocates cite Boston's high fire losses and looming vacancies as reasons for reform.
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Francis N. Balch
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Uniting Great Streets Aimed at Huntington Avenue Area
M H Gulesian president of the Huntington Avenue Improvement Association states two projects will next be considered. The Dalton street extension linking Huntington avenue and Boylston street and the Stuart street extension from Irvington street to Eliot and Washington streets are key to improving planting ton avenue.
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Dalton Street
Huntington Avenue
Boylston Street
Stuart Street
Irvington Street
Eliot and
Washington Streets
Tlantington Avenue
M. H. Gulesian
Students Not Draft Exempt
Washington Feb 26 The War Department says college students in military training units within draft ages are not exempt from the selective service act. Members are not obligated to accept reserve commissions and thus cannot be enlisted or granted exemption or deferred status. Officers were told to withdraw certificates claiming student membership for deferred classification.
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Washington
War Department
Fixes Price for Matzots and Warns Loonchrooms
The federal food board warned several New York lunch rooms they risk losing their food supply for violating war time meatless and wheatless rules. It also set 13 to 14 cents a pound as a fair price for matzots and urged Jewish consumers to insist on these prices for Passover bread.
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New York
Federal Food Board
Grip Follows the Snow: Grove’s Cough Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts grip prevention with LAXATIVE BROMO QUININ tablets. It promises timely use to prevent grip and features E. W. GROVE as the box signature in a period ad style.
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E. W. Grove
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Bamlin
Fido
France
America
Anne Eite
Murad
Prof
Bill
Filene
Hunt
Ington Avenue
Martin E. Adamo
Huntington Avenue Association
Filene’s
Jersey
Serge
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