Petition to Oust Service at Cost Act Targets Boston Elevated Rail
Charlestown residents file a petition seeking to strike down the Service at Cost Act charging unconstitutional provisions. They allege the city would bear excess taxes to subsidize dividends and that the Boston Elevated Street Railway faces deteriorating tracks and cars, with unsafe conditions and insufficient service. The petition names twelve signers and claims broad taxpayer harm if the act stands.
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Boston
Boston Evated Street Railway Company
Governor Hunts Jobs for Soldiers in Boston Drive
The Boston effort to employ returning service members reports actions by Edison Electric, Common United Shoe, William Filene's, and Bethlehem Steel. Major firms pledge to rehire veterans and create openings, with Mayor Peters personally visiting companies to boost reemployment. Public meetings on the Boston Common push soldier job hunts.
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Edison Electric Company
Guilford
Ware
Common
United Shoe Corporation
Bruner
William Filene
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Parker
Peters
Thomas G. Plant Company
City Hall
United Drug Company
Fred T. Ley Construction Company
Boston Consolidated Gas Company
Boston
Army
Parkman
Boston Common
Motor Service
Bread lines feared as unemployment grows across cities
Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor testified before the House immigration committee, presenting reports from 21 cities showing over 135,000 unemployed. He warned that bread lines may appear in every industrial center before May 1 if immigration restrictions are not enacted. Cities listed include Detroit 56,000. Philadelphia 10,000. San Francisco 15,000. Denver 1,750. Pittsburgh 10,000. and more.
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Charlestown
James J. Mellen
Tremont Street
Michael W. Collins
Monument Street
Peter F. Kelly
Bunker Hill Street
Frank H. Dillon
High Street
William R. Nicholls
Everett Street
James M. Doherty
Bolton Place
Bernard S. McMacken
Bunker Fill Street
Augustine S. Quinn
Decatur Court
Patrick Kelly
Pearl Street
James F. Sweeney
Mystic Street
Edward J. Moore
Medford Street
Washington
House Immigration Committee
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Bridgeport
White Star service flag spreads across New England
Governors and state officials across New England endorse replacing blue stars with blue-rimmed white stars on service flags to mark ex servicemen rehired. Leaders in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts endorse public shaming of employers who do not rehire veterans while flag changes roll out in state houses and city halls.
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New England
Orssilor
State House
Maine
New Hampshire
Weemont
White Star Service
John H. Bartlett
Edwin C. Bean
Post
Art Milliken
Army
Navy
Colors
P. W. Clement
Vermont
Montpelier
Rhode Island
Joseph L. Gainer
Providence
Holcomb
Connecticut
Hartford
Massachusetts
Bay
Coolidge
New York
West
War Cross Hero Gets State Job
Sergeant at Arms Thomas F. Pedrick announced Wallace C. Day of Springfield as a messenger for the House of Representatives. Day, a Croix de Guerre veteran wounded several times, is years of age and was chosen to fill a vacancy intended for a war service man.
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Thomas F. Pedrick
Wallace C. Day
Springfield
House of Representatives
Day
Pedrick
Bargain Goods in Stock Items and Prices
A list of assorted women's accessories and small items with listed values. Includes skirts, hats, umbrellas, hot water bottles, bag frames, scissors, dust caps, linen, envelopes, rosaries, novelty ear drops, back combs, pins, and lingerie clasps with prices ranging from under a dollar to about two dollars.
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Vila
Ward
Ae Hill
Seteemes
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Burrill
United States
Commonwealth
Chandler
Wort
Paris
N.B. Hartman
East 39Th St
Chantilly
Hartman’s
Hartman
Flesh
Ecru
Cadet Voile
Hartman’s Price
Hartman's Price
Price
Duchess
Nevertear
H ’S Price
Cox
Shepard, Norwell & Co
Shepard
R. H. Stearns & Co
Maynard
Hotel Touraince
Hart
Whipple
Parker House
Young's Hotel
Ll. P. Soule & Co
Soule
Montreal
D. Watson & CO
Martin
Augusta
Jordan Marsh Company
Georgette
Silk
Avcona
Redfern
Planet
O.ciccessesus Tear
Oxford
Colworth
India Lawn
Eane
Joses
Woeren
Ong
Oka Axminster Hall
Bse Greene
Lee
Uae
Chambray House
Gingham House Ie
Rses
Hamburg
Erin
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