Two Cent Gas Tax Proposal Discussed in Massachusetts
Edwin S. Webster, chairman of the Commission on State Administration and Expenditures, spoke before the Legislative Council in Perkins Hall about a two cent gas tax for highways. He said the commission’s bill to combine state departments could save the state nearly $3,000 annually.
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Massachusetts
Commission On State Administration and
Edwin S. Webster
Legislative Council
Perkins Hall
Commission proposes major state office consolidation and tax shifts
The Commission on State Administration and Expenditures would keep the Governor and several offices while reducing 25 departments to 15, cutting personnel and saving about 2.7 million dollars annually. It also urges abolishing the state census, raises motor truck license fees, and imposes a two cent per gallon gasoline tax with local refunds, plus raising the weekly sanatorium fee from 7 to 9 dollars.
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Commission On State Administration and Expenditures
Secetary
Mr. Webster
Webster
Slumming Party In Boston Disturbs Social Norms
Miss May Cashman of Hyde Parkway and Leslie Cotter of Orient Heights join a fashionable slumming party through Boston. The outing features vivid urban nightlife, a playful scavenging for thrills, and an odd note about a sick grandmother asking for a drop of brandy.
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May Cashman
Hyde Parkway
Leslie ‘Cotter
Orient Heights
Boston
International Seamen's Union Holds Open Convention
In Chicago 30 delegates from all nations with organized seamen will attend the annual convention of the International Seamen's Union opening tomorrow.
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Chicago
United News
International Seamen's Union
30 Days in Jail Price of Meal
In Calais Maine on January 12 Roy Barney of Pembroke and James McDonald of Eastport both 19 years old, penniless and cold, entered Bovards restaurant to eat. They were given a meal but could not pay and were later sentenced in municipal court to 30 days in the Machias jail.
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Calais
Roy Barney
Pembroke
James McDonald
Eastport
Bovard
Machias
Plenary Session This Week Now Improbable
Washington dispatch reports that the naval treaty talks and Shantung negotiations were refined but no plenary session is expected this week. The Big Five finished the first revision of the naval convention and sent it to legal experts for redrafting. a final treaty could be prepared for an executive session of the full naval committee on Saturday or Monday.
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Washington
Associated Press
Ful Naval Committee
State prison bill filed to fund new facility near Boston
Senator Lewis Parkhurst introduces a bill for a new state prison costing 2,000,099 dollars. A three member commission including the correction commissioner would select a site within 50 miles of Boston and allow adjoining agricultural land for inmate work to improve air and freedom beyond Charlestown.
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Lewis Parkhurst
Winchester
Boston
Charlestown
Training Station Site Open for Veteran Rehabilitation
Newport Rhode Island January 12. On urgent recommendation from former Governor Livingston Beeckman the naval training station in Newport will be considered as an available site for the care and rehabilitation of World War I veterans who have been disabled.
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Newport
R. I
R. Livingston Beeckman
Naval
Woman Poisoned After Veronal Mistake
Mrs Minnie Watson aged 40 was treated at City Hospital after veronal poisoning she said occurred by mistake. She gave 462 Massachusetts avenue as her address and was admitted after taking the drug thinking it was another medicine.
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Minnie Watson
Massachusetts Avenue
City Hospital
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