Seek to Hold Off Gas Price Boost
The United Improvement Association has filed in the Legislature a bill to bar gas price increases until the Massachusetts Board of Gas and Electric High Commissioners acts. The move follows a recent rate increase by the Boston Consolidated Gas Company, seen as influencing the association’s action.
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United Improvement Association
Massachusetts Board of Gas and Electric High Commissioners
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Boy Prefers Boston Home Over Texas With Mother
William E. Leland Jr., 15, told Superior Court Judge Wait he wished to live with his father William H. Leland and Mary A. Leland in Boston rather than move to Texas where his mother teaches. The boy plans to attend the Institute of Technology. Mrs. Leland divorced about two years ago on cruelty grounds.
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William E. Leland, Jr
William H. Leland
Mary A. Leland
Wait
Superior Court
Boston
Texas
Institute of Technology
Uric Acid in Meat Brings Rheumatism
Rheumatism is linked to excess meat and uric acid in the blood. In damp cold, skin pores close and kidneys work harder. Four ounces of Rad Salts daily for a week may aid elimination. Jad Salts offer a grape and lemon lithia drink to ease symptoms.
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Gude
State fuel order tightens closing hours across state
The State fuel administration orders 10 pm closings for offices, stores, theatres, and public venues starting Monday January 14, with lightless nights and limited heating. Banks and schools face possible exemptions or delays as railroads adjust schedules and saloon policies remain undecided.
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State Fuel Administration
Labor leaders hail universal eight hour day in Massachusetts orders
Boston union leaders view fuel administrator eight hour day as war emergency measure that will become permanent. President McGrady says it guarantees shorter hours with no pay cut, boosts worker health and efficiency, reduces overhead, and benefits both organized and unorganized labor while advancing postwar social progress.
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Massachusetts
Organized Labor
Boston
Howard Fp, McGrady
Boston Central Labor Union
Railroad Brotherhoods
Wilson
Cascarets Cure Bilious Aches and Constipation
When bilious and constipated you suffer headaches and bad colds. Cascarets restore balance without gripe or next day upset unlike salts or calomel. Safe for children and adults, they act thoroughly and cannot injure.
Labor union fears wage cuts under shorter workday plan
Richard W. Garrity of Boston Local 77 says a coal saving from reducing saloon hours is negligible as pipes must stay warm. He warns shifts may rearrange and threaten employment if dealers cut costs to cope with higher overheads and taxes.
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Boston
Richard W. Garrity
Moving Picture House
Scrubwomen protest heat cutoff burden in day work shift
Boston scrubwomen who clean office buildings at night fear a rule cutting heat will force daytime work. Ellen Aylward, widow with three children, says the change will disrupt their schedules and threaten to push many out of their jobs, as most already work days and nights to support families.
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Boston
Scollay Square
Court Street
Ellen Aylward
Advisory Committee to Consider Closing Hour Change
Portland Maine January 9 State Fuel Administrator James C Hamlen said the advisory committee would meet tomorrow to consider action similar to Massachusetts The move may be forced until supplies improve Thirty six carloads of soft coal arrived tonight for the state fuel administrator and will be distributed on Thursday Thirty carloads of anthracite coal are en route
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Portland
James C. Hamlen
State Fuel Administration
Massachusetts
Suse Hamlen
Theatre managers protest forced theatre closings in Boston
Boston theatre managers vow major job losses and millions in fallout as the fuel administrator orders all theatres and moving picture houses to close at 10 PM nightly starting Monday. The Boston Theatre Managers Association voiced the condemnation at a meeting in Tremont Theatre led by president John B Schoeffel.
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United States Fuel Administrator
Boston
Boston Theatre Managers’ Association
John B. Schoeffel
Tremont Theatre
Theatres threaten closure over Storrow edict protest
Boston theatre managers gathered at the State House to plead for modifications to Mr. Storrow s 10 o clock closing order. Secretary Cobb promised to take the matter to Mr Storrow, with a conference expected today. Managers warned of mass layoffs, reduced tax receipts, and curb on cultural life as unions prepared to press lawmakers in Washington.
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State Fuel Administration
Worcester
Fuel Administration
State Fuel Commission
Howard Noble
Brewers’ Association of Massachusetts
Storrow
State House
Mr. Storrow
Fred BE. Wright
Park Square
Cobb
Boston
Howard Smith
Wilbur, Shubert
Majestic
Plymouth Theatres
Wright
Musicians’ Union
Dempsey
Boston Central Labor Union
Massachusetts
Washington
Storrow Seeks Immediate Coal Supply for New England
Boston financier James Storrow warns the coal crisis on the northern Atlantic coast is critical. He asks the government to withdraw a coal steamer Crowell order or suspend northern newspapers, urging more ships from Hampton Roads to New York Baltimore and Philadelphia to rush coal to New England.
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New England
Boston & Maine
Crowell
Atlantic
Hampton Roads
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Coal Arrivals Pile Up for Boston as Rail Shortages Hit
About 14 000 tons of anthracite coal reached Boston by rail yesterday with several trains held at distant points. Two trains of soft coal also arrived while a 40 car train is expected today. Water shipments added 14 871 tons with a dozen tons stalled offshore set to reach by Saturday. The Newton and Malden colliers delivered coal to the New England Coal and Coke Co in Everett and will depart for the South today. Overall week totals suggest around 40 000 tons of barged coal on the way, much of it anthracite.
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Boston
Maybrook
Albany
New England
Newton
Malden
New England Coal & Coke Company
Everett
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