Governor Bates Urges Reforms And Women’s Suffrage
The governor proposes strengthening civil service rules, repealing or enforcing prisoner support laws, and creating a state forester and a single state agriculture department. He favors municipal women’s suffrage, revised savings bank rules, and a metropolitan planning commission. He reports on highway, school, prison reform and annual expenditures, urging expert commissions for fire safety and broader executive control.
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House of Correction
Jones Ends Hotel Travel Dinners and Labor Committee Formed
President Jones of the Senate acts to curb traveling expenses for legislators and to push a rules committee reform. A new committee on relations of employers and employees will craft broad labor and capital legislation as the legislature aims to adjourn by May 20. Ex governors Boutwell Long Crane attend, with Governor Bates's inauguration and election results announced by Secretary Olin.
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Claflin
Washburn
Long
Butler
Ames
Greenhalge
General Court
Great Britain
America
Jones
Senate
Joint Committee On
State House
Frothingham
Boutwell
Dalton
Supreme and Superior Court
William Schofield
John Harold Bates
Dorothy Bates
Bates
Massachusetts
House
Olin
John L. Bates
Commonwealth
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Winthrop Murray Crane
John B. Smith
Doric Hall
Michael J. Sullivan
John J.moore
Tom McCarthy
Hugh Duffy
Sullivan
State faces rising costs to fund insane asylums and debts
The document outlines planned annual increases of about 1.1 million dollars for state care of the insane, shifting more burden to state taxes, while municipalities share the load. It criticizes inheritance tax exemptions and notes net state debt and projected annual expenses, warning of a tax rise unless new revenue sources are found.
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Jast
State Board of Insanity
Commonwealth
Uless
No Specific Cure But Right Living and Scott Emulsion
The advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion as a valuable addition for consumption. It claims heat and fat from cod liver oil and tissue and marrow nourishment from hypophosphites. Regular use within a consumptive’s diet is urged, with a free sample offer from Scott & Bowne of New York.
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Scott
Triple installation of Rogers Post 29 Banks Camp 41
In Waltham on January 17 a triple installation ceremony united F P H Rogers Post 29 G A R Women’s Relief Corps and Gene N P Banks Camp 41 Sons of Veterans. Owing to the lengthy program exercises began at seven o'clock with Post Commander Silas A Barton installing Post 29 officers and Department Senior Vice President Mrs A M Warne officiating for the Women’s Relief Corps. A large number of out of town visitors attended.
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Waltham
F. P. H. Rogers
G. A R
N. P. Banks
Sons of Veterans
Silas A. Barton
A. M. Warne
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Weston
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Concord Reformatory
Reformatory
Lyman School
Chicago
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Framingham
Board of Arbitration
Forest Reservation
Rutland
Board of Agriculture
John Bates
Taterier
Secolin
President Jones
Harold D Dorothy Ates
Papa
W.H.H. Solos
Jqa-Brackett
W.mcrane
John D-Long
Pres. Jones
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Allen
Isaac B. Allen
Wolcott
Sam
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Roosevelt
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Uncle Sam
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Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
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