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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
6
Plans for the Yankee Division benefit performance to raise 200000 dollars for a YMCA club house in Boston were completed last night. The event, the first of the Yankee Division offensive, will be staged Sunday night at the Colonial Theatre.
A large charity program in Boston teams top theatre stars including Julia Sanderson Otis Skinner and the Canary company backed by the 102d Field Artillery Band. Governor Coolidge and officials expected, with 56 orchestra seats for wounded YC boys. Public auction tickets today 2 to 5. Salvation Army fundraising and a Dollar-A-Woman drive mark the event.
A new Air Friction Carburetor from Dayton Ohio claims to cut gasolene use by one third to one half, boost power 3 to 50 percent, allow slow high gear cruising, and enable Ford and other motors to start easily in cold weather. Some report 45 to 50 miles per gallon. The firm offers 30 days trial, and seeks local agents. readers urged to contact Boston Post with car make and address.
State officials say the Massachusetts war bonus of 100 dollars and Congress issued 60 dollars to World War I service members are not income and need not be listed in sworn tax returns. It is uncertain if national tax officials will share this view, but belief is they will exempt both bonuses from taxation.
Officials explain double taxation during wartime and differences between national and state income taxes. Massachusetts residents face far fewer state tax requirements than national ones, with 234000 paying the national tax last year. The change shifts more responsibility to young earners, as minors earning 1000 or more must file their own returns this year, relieving parents of that burden.
City Collector Deland launches a drive against tax delinquents owing $10,000 or more. A compiled list of individuals and corporations from 1918 and 1919 tax rolls will be sent to the mayor for possible newspaper publication. Advertising of property sales for nonpayment begins January 15, with $6,964,459 in 1919 taxes due and $1,916,596 for 1918.
The Y Wakefield Lynn line of the old Bay State system will be discontinued within a week due to Saugus residents refusing a $4000 repair levy. Riders lose trolley service. jitney buses may replace street cars, while Wakefield Arlington cars extend to Saugus to serve Water Street and Woodville areas.
Miss Alexandra Carlisle wife of Dr. Albert Pfeiffer of 483 Beacon Street Boston announces her candidacy for district delegate to the Republican national convention. She starred in The Country Cousin and led in Caliban Cambridge is her legal residence basis for the 8th district. The Pfeiffers own a Lexington country residence Banda Farm.
The new Americanism committee of Mayor Peters opens offices in City Hall annex Room 306 next Monday. Chairman Alexander Whiteside outlined initial work as clerks will be hired to handle office tasks.
Washington officials of four big railway brotherhoods and the shop crafts allied with the AFL will pursue a cooperative buying, production and distribution approach to curb high living costs after failing to secure further wage gains or DOJ anti profiteering relief. This move is seen by some as delaying demands for wage increases until the experiment's outcome.
Plans for an all American farmer labor co operative commission have been announced as the scheme advances from the Chicago farmer labor conference held in November. A Chicago conference is set for February 12 to 15. Warter S. Stone, grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, serves as general treasurer, with other railway employees officials in the commission.
Two members of the new Boston police force resigned yesterday and another was discharged. No reason or identities were released by police officials.
An old advertisement urges parents to feed Dr True's Elixir to children after party excesses. It claims a safe herbal formula for constipation worm expulsion and lists worm symptoms. A testimonial from Mrs Wm G Bonin of Caddo Oklahoma praises twelve years use.
New York January 7 The American steamship reported en route to Bermuda in distress is identified as the Thala owned by the Nacirema Steamship Corporation. She sailed from Norfolk December 27 bound for Gothenburg carrying Galveston cargo. Earlier reports called her the Harney leading to confusion.
In Annapolis on January 7 Captain J D Siiverson Jr of Baltimore city proposed three resolutions aimed at driving against prohibition. The measures seek recall of Maryland's prior ratification vote, a November referendum if recalled, and urging the President and Congress to submit the amendment as a national referendum.
Mel Trotter evangelist denounces sins of body and spirit and calls for capital punishment as the cure for nervousness leading to murder. He declares forgiveness only through Christ and criticizes morbid sentiment toward murderers in a fiery Tremont Temple sermon.
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