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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1912
Page
8
Governor Foss urged sweeping changes in a speech yesterday. He called for dismantling the bread trust and punishing both vote sellers and buyers in New Bedford, while attacking unscrupulous wealth and broad reform measures.
The governor speaks at a formal inaugural in the House chamber with the governor's family present. He urges direct primary reform, initiative and referendum, recall, direct US Senate election, and women’s suffrage, plus tax system revamp and dissolution of the Boston Railroad Holding Company. He advocates municipal consolidation and reciprocal tariff policy to boost Massachusetts and national prosperity.
The governor calls for investigation of a nascent bread trust to prevent law violations and urges reforms to improve Boston’s harbor and transport. He favors stock market permis sion rules, direct US senator elections, and voter choice for President. He also proposes banning campaign advertising and corporate involvement at polls. A note on rapport with Councillor McGregor includes a floral tribute.
Councillor finds desk on Beacon Hill covered with violets and roses sent by friends and business associates as the largest and most beautiful floral tribute yesterday.
In a letter to the editor John M Woods rebuts a petition by N P Hallowell and others opposing the Sherwood pension bill arguing veterans deserve top priority. He condemns critics as out of touch with Mass veterans financial and physical sacrifice, urging extensive relief over other items. Boston Jan 4.
The Board of Government officers and the Advisory Council of the Archdiocesan Union of Boston will meet at Cheverus Hall Boston on Sunday at 2 o clock. All eligible officers and Advisory Council members are expected to attend.
A vintage advertisement claims Pape's Diapepsin digests all foods in five minutes, easing indigestion sour stomach and heartburn. It lists symptoms relieved, warns against misdiagnosing stomach woes, and urges readers to read the formula on the 50 cent cases for proof.
A condensed list outlines reforms and policies including vote rights for women and referenda, against vote buying, ifs on campaigns and spending, and calls to end monopolies. It advocates state oversee of licenses, teachers, and prisons, plus new bodies like a labor bureau and public utilities board.
The Ways and Means Committee will review a sub committee draft on iron and steel tariffs. The plan calls for free iron ore and a reduction from 80 to 35 percent on all steel and iron products, plus adding carpenters tools to the free list. The sub committee members are Dixon, Palmer and Hull. Chairman Underwood called a meeting of Democratic members to discuss the bill with a House presentation targeted for next week. No wool schedule caucus planned yet.
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