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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1918
Page
12
A short note states that ice cream is food when eaten for nourishment and not food when eaten for amusement. The Boston fuel conservation department provides the official distinction to help retailers decide when ice cream qualifies as nourishment versus entertainment.
Boston fuel conservator Robert B. Stone ruled that ice cream may be sold as food only under nourishment circumstances. Saloon, liquor, and candy stores may face closing hours, while many small shops struggle to interpret the food versus amusement distinction. Officials hailed department fairness and cooperation from utilities and retailers alike.
Ayer plans to urge a 9 p.m. curfew for all children under 16 in Ayer Littlton and Shirley. Elizabeth R. White announced the measure at Camp Devens group meeting led by Dr. Endicott Peabody with about 30 attendees. A petition was sent to selectmen. enforcement would incur a 3% fine and two blows on the fire alarm as the signal.
A Teachers' Advisory Council was formed Friday afternoon at the superintendent's office by the presidents of 15 women teachers' clubs of Boston. The one-session school day was the topic of the discussion. Officers elected: President Miss Cora E. Bigelow, vice president Miss Julia Sullivan, secretary Miss Annie Niland.
A Swiss despatch reports Nazi authorities forbidding socialist newspapers to be sent to German soldiers as part of prohibitions on socialist propaganda in the army.
J Frank Chase secretary of the Watch and Ward Society testifies he never asked Morris Rosenberg or anyone to frame up the Revere House as a public nuisance suit proceeds. Evidence includes Rosenberg's testimony of an alleged $150 offer and Chase's denials under cross examination.
Three workers from the Boston Consolidated Gas Company collapsed from a gas leak on Washington Street and Regina Road yesterday. Patrick Jennings, 48, of Dorchester Avenue. John Ferguson, 42, of Kimball Street. and Patrick Hughes, 52, of Linden Street were rescued by two passersby and survived.
The Rev. Mer. Arthur Stapleton Barnes chaplain of Oxford undergraduates will speak tomorrow afternoon at Avanelly Glass TM-44. Boston College senior class members will usher and John J. Martin president of Exchange Trust Company will preside. The lecture is hosted by the Alumnae Association.
Camp Devens braces for a nationwide war risk insurance drive aimed at protecting families of every Army and Navy member. The slogan Every man insured and insured to the limit opens the local push tomorrow morning as New England's national division takes part.
Washington Jan 18 Official word says a second Negro division is forming in the National Army using surplus Negro units from the National Guard and drafts. The 98th will include two infantry brigades nearly ready though its regiments remain scattered at organizing camps.
The Royal Theatre in Stuttgart has been closed by government order as part of coal saving measures. All other royal theatres in Germany are expected to follow with similar closures.
Amelie Leonard a former nurse and convicted thief is reported missing from Grafton Hospital for the Insane since last October. Sightings in Boston noted as police and detective bureaus intensify efforts to locate the elusive criminal identified as often in this city.
A notorious patient vanished without a trace from an asylum and escaped again five years after an earlier fake bed dummy departure. The woman, once a nurse with thefts totaling about $30 000, threatened a notable figure and faced suspicions over patient deaths. Authorities track her usual haunts as they search for her location.
Benjamin F. Peterson, a Westfield carpenter and father of four, is drafted into the national army at Camp Devens. His family will get 73.50 monthly in government and state allowances, with 30 dollar private salary split as 15 for him and 58.50 for his wife, plus child allowances.
Senate military committee endorses radical changes to U S war machinery. Bills would create an all powerful three member war council under the President and appoint a director of war munitions to oversee production and policy.
The Senate debated a bill creating a director of munitions and prepared to introduce a war council measure. The committee backs administration approval, with three presidential appointees forming a council above the Cabinet to direct war policy. Senator Chamberlain plans swift Senate action next week.
In a department store altercation between Raffaele Nardone and Giovanni Vizielli, Nardone kicked Vizielli after repeated pranks over tools and jokes. Central Court fined Nardone $380, paid promptly, allowing him to return to work.
A special 7 15 p m service at Trinity Church Newton Centre honors men at the front. Names on the parish honor roll in service will be read and requested prayers by name rank and unit invited. The rector will speak on Keeping Step at Home with organ and violin music by Mrs Allen Hubbard.
The article notes widespread confusion about whether taxpayers must file a federal income tax return. Officials report a flood of questions by mail, phone, and visitors to the Internal Revenue office at 185 Devonshire Street as people seek guidance on filing requirements.
A reader asks about who must file a federal return in 1917 and how exemptions apply. The article explains filing thresholds for single and married individuals, explains dependents, and covers various scenarios including vessel sales profits, a son supporting a family, and bonuses paid in 1916 or 1917. It clarifies that 1916 vessel profits are taxed to shareholders for 1916, and a bonus is income in the year received.
Collector John F. Malley said Massachusetts will mail federal return blanks to all corporations as soon as received from Washington. Personal return forms for higher incomes and employer information forms for salaries and rents over 800 dollars will be distributed on arrival.
Harvard will operate on Mondays for the next ten weeks as a legal holiday, since most university buildings in Cambridge are government owned and must stay open for academic functions, showing agreement between the college and government officials.
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