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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1918
Page
7
The 1917 special recess commission on social insurance presented three opposing reports to the Senate, signaling the need for further study before enacting compulsory health insurance. A minority report even urged a five member commission and a $25 000 two year study.
A majority report argues against compulsory health insurance and favors state regulation of clinics and disease prevention, citing tuberculosis and other illnesses as drivers of poverty. It praises preventive health work and suggests a commission study on reform, while minority views back selective health insurance approaches. A separate Boston meeting endorses a flat 8 percent excess profits tax and calls for policy shifts to ease wartime tax burdens and fund bonds.
Private Arthur MacGowan of Westfield married Bertha Hahn of this town today in a ceremony conducted by Rev. J. W. W. Jordan at the Can tional Church. The customary four year rule for license was suspended for the occasion.
Miss Margaret C Gilleland assistant night chief operator at Medford exchange of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company married yesterday afternoon to John F King son of Mrs Jane B King of 42 Manning Street Medford Rev Richard Neagle performed the ceremony in the Immaculate Conception Church Medford.
The original group of Harvard cadets will be graduated and commissioned as ensigns in the naval reserve on February 11. One hundred fifty men now at the Harvard Cadet School for Ensigns will complete final examinations on February 2, with graduation exercises at Sanders Theatre on February 11.
The Commonwealth sues Boston Tax Collector John J. Curley for 75000, alleging failure to collect unpaid taxes or push payment. Attorney General Attwill filed the suit in Suffolk County Court with National Surety Company as co-defendant, targeting Curley as a state official and signaling action against other collectors.
Collector Curley disclosed a suit against him for about 520,000 dollars in 1914 taxes while he warns large Boston property owners and corporations still owe prior year taxes. He notes uncollected amounts dating back to 1890s and 1900s and plans to sell 1916 delinquencies as adverse wartime finances delayed payments.
Portland Maine reports the entire street railway system shut down by a heavy snowstorm that dumped nine and a half inches. City cars operated at 9 am but by noon no wheels moved. Congress Street line hoped to return tonight and other routes by tomorrow noon. Ice floes impeded harbor navigation while trains ran late on mountains.
The schedule for the 1918 Washington and Jefferson football season is published with dates and opponents. It includes Riski, Indiana Penn., Penn State, Westminster, Notre Dame, Bethany, the University of Pittsburgh, Geneva, West Virginia Wesleyan, and West Virginia University, with games at Washington and various away venues.
Privates Michael Dina and Harold T. Andrews of the Engineer Corps, reported missing after American engineers aided General Byng around Cambrai on Nov 30, were killed in action. Their bodies were recovered and buried on French soil. Dina’s father resided in New York and Andrews’ uncle lived in Portland, Maine.
London Jan 16 The Rumanian minister at Petrograd and his entire staff have been arrested by the Bolsheviks the Rumanian legation reports. The arrests are believed to be reprisal for the arrest of Bolshevik agitators at Jassy Romania. The Bolshevik government said on Jan 2 that a committee of Bolsheviks visiting Romania had been arrested and would have been shot unless intervention by Cossacks. Several clashes occurred on Romanian territory between Russian and Romanian troops.
DUXBURY Jan 15 The beach resort crowds find the shore unrecognizable as ice from five to fifteen feet high forms walls like icebergs replacing sand. The long cold spell has altered the landscape creating a chilling seashell of white ice on the coast.
Melrose city laborers were surprised when several fire apparatus rushed in to a yard bonfire of frozen gravel stirred by a brisk wood fire. The workers found it humorous but the firemen want to know who sounded the alarm outside the city yards.
The Rev. James F. Mellyn will celebrate high mass at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Boston with Fr. Lyons preaching the sermon. St Alphonsus Association banquet is canceled due to the war and funds will go to sweaters for service members. Rev. Michael J. Scanlan will lecture on the Catholic Charity Bureau at Notre Dame Academy.
London January 15 The anti suffragists in the House of Lords were rebuffed again when Viscount Halifax failed to push an amendment to the franchise bill proposing a referendum of women on the issue.
The annual midwinter prophetic convention at 160 Warren Street Roxbury has been canceled due to fuel shortages and to aid the fuel administrator. No meeting will be held this season. Rev. Herbert S. Johnson of Warren Avenue Baptist Church plans to rejoin Laymen's Missionary Movement and launch a Feb 1 campaign in the Middle West leading to a large Kansas City convention.
Medicine advertisement claims Bromo Quinine tablets prevent grip colds. Mentions E. W. Grove signature on the box. Price 30 cents.
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