Mayor Delivers Annual Boston Message On City Growth
Mayor Fitzgerald presented his annual address before the incoming city government in a floral City Hall setting. He urged raising city laborers' pay, keeping the East Boston tunnel open all night, creating a finance commission, and building a new city hall. The ceremony featured numerous floral tributes and a large حضور of women relatives among attendees.
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Boston
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Aldermanic Chamber
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Old Fort
Dorchester
New Haven Road
Boston & Albany
Inaugural Compare: Baltimore Boston Street and Public Works
The piece contrasts Baltimore and Boston on street paving quality and public spending. It notes Boston per capita sanitation costs at $4.02 vs Baltimore 11 cents, higher education spendings, and differing shifts in public facility investments highlighting Boston’s extensive urban expenditure and Baltimore’s lower allocations. Baltimore ranks low in assets but high in per capita outlays for some services.
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Washington
Chicago
United States
Inaugural Remarks by Mayor Fitzgerald 1906 07
The mayor outlines fiscal restraint borrowing less than all but one in twelve years. He cites tax cuts, highway loan payments from taxes, personal property taxation for corporations, and a publicity bureau from the year. He seeks legal powers on street franchises gas lighting, new City Hall action, wage increases, and reform of building laws and county taxes while urging better railway accommodations and consumption relief.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
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Boston
Boston & Albany Railroad
Commonwealth
Police Department
Licensing Board
Fire Department
Finance Commission
Mayor Fitzgerald Urges Fiscal Reform and City Improvements
In his inaugural address Mayor Fitzgerald emphasizes Boston's large unused borrowing capacity, calls for remedial state legislation, and outlines plans to reform taxation, transit, water front, and public hospitals while highlighting assets and debt per capita and pushing for a new city hall and Sunday work policy review.
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Boston
State House
Boston College appoints Rev William P Brett to ethics chair
The Rev. William P Brett S J of Boston is named professor of ethics and political economy at Boston College. A former Boston boy and noted speaker, he previously led roles at Georgetown University and Loyola College and has held the Jesuit House of Studies in Woodstock Md. He succeeds Rev Thomas I Gasson S J as president.
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Boston College
William P. Brett
Gasson
Brett
Boston
United States
John A. Brett
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Quincy School
Jesuit Society
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Holy Cross College
Worcester
Woodstock College
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Vienna
Innsbruck
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Loyola College
Jesuit House of Studies
Woodstock
Reward of Honesty in New York Drug Trade
A New York firm J Milhau and Son at 183 Broadway gets free advertising for honesty after placing a sign We Give You Just What You Ask For. The New York Journal praises the firm and warns against imitation products. Father John’s Medicine touted as a trusted remedy for lung troubles and consumption for 50 years.
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New York
New York Journal
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Thomas M. Babson
Michael W. Norris
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Thomas A. Whalen
John J. Murphy
Frederick H. Temple
William H. Hayes
Garrett W. Scollard
Isaac Rosnosky
John J. O'Callaghan
Board of Street Commissioners
Arthur W. Dolan
David B. Shaw
William J. Welch
Father Daly
Joseph O'Kane
St. Louis
Solomon
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