Commission urges tighter control on narcotics in Massachusetts
A six month inquiry by the Commission to Investigate the Use of Habit Forming Drugs blames unscrupulous physicians and druggists and lax laws for rising narcotic use in Boston and the state. It proposes state level control of dispensing, license revocation powers, felonious drug selling, and custodial treatment, noting about 60 000 addicts and listing occupations of those seeking drugs. Dr Frank G Wheatley of Tufts Medical College chairs the panel with Abraham W ebber and Hermann C Lythgoe as members.
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State Department of Health
Abraham (. Webber
Suffolk County
Commonwealth
Strengthen Narcotic Law Enforcement and Controls
The commission criticizes current narcotics laws as inefficient and proposes clear definitions for terms like “obviously needed for therapeutic purposes” and stronger penalties. It urges simplified pleading forms, broader licensing powers, tighter control of narcotic drugs, regulation of syringes, and enhanced institutional treatment and statistics collection.
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State Department of Health
Commonwealth
Public health warning against dangerous cough cures
A warning urges avoiding cough syrups labeled as containing morphine heroin codeine chloroform and other narcotics. It promotes Father John's Medicine as a safe alternative free of dangerous drugs and alcohol with long standing success.
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Parole Board Seeks Special Release Plan for Short Sentences
The Board of Parole asks the Legislature to authorize special permits letting prisoners serving less than life be released from State prison if likely to live orderly lives. The proposal suggests keeping such offenders on parole until they reach the maximum sentence term.
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Lourie Back in Court on Arson Charge
Simon Lourie was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Criminal Court on arson and insurance fraud charges after being brought back from New Jersey. He reportedly left Boston during the arson probe last summer and is held on seven thousand five hundred dollars bail.
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Harvard seniors face post loss after vote recount
Dean Roscoe Pound and Professor William B Munro disclosed that 26 votes were wrongly voided in the Harvard senior election. The recount ordered by the Harvard Student Council may overturn several election results and could strip winners of their offices.
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Lnegal
Harvard
Roscoe Pound
Harvard Law School
William B. Munro
Harvard Student Council
War Debts Reach 49 Billion As War Proceeds
Federal Reserve Board estimates the rise in national debt for Britain France Russia Germany and Austria Hungary at 49.455 billion from the war’s start to late 1916 with Austria Hungary only to May 1916. It notes the total excludes war costs funded by taxes and other revenues. Britain’s debt stands around 15.164 billion in November, up from 3.45 billion in March 1914.
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Great Britain
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Russia
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Federal Reserve Board
Divers Work to Raise Sunk Tug Metropolitan
Divers attempted to lift the tug Metropolitan which sank at the Metropolitan Coal wharf near North Chelsea Bridge early yesterday. Captain William Canning suspects a sea-valve failure. firemen Benjamin Channing and John Rose narrowly escaped as the vessel sank in forty feet of water.
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Metropolitan Coal
North Chelsea Bridge
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Benjamin Channing
Border Street
East Boston
John Rose
Glendon Street
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Channing
Volunteers of America Winter Home Fire Damages Building
Fire from an open fireplace yesterday damaged the Volunteers of America Winter Home for Children, formerly the Mayo estate and a Reading landmark. The loss is estimated at 3500 dollars.
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Mayo Estate
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