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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
28
Boston Elevated railway patrons will decide if the 10 cent fare set for July 6 remains, rises, or falls after a three month trial. Trustees reveal eight grade levels from 13 cents to 4 cents based on business volume.
The article details a tentative eight to ten cent fare policy for the T line, amid deficits and state debt. Trustees warn against drastic changes, with a three month 10 cent rate to test receipts and patron response, while pondering potential reductions to eight or four cents. Government budget frictions trigger night sessions in Congress, delaying several appropriations and prompting quarrels over funding for the Employment Service, Army, and D C measures.
Washington dispatch reports blockades in Congress stopped leaders from enacting the remaining appropriation bills required for the new fiscal year and then recess until next Tuesday.
Nearly 3000 Chelsea service men were decorated by the city with a World War Veteran button in Gordon's Theatre. Mayor Melvin B. Breath and the Welcome Home committee presented the badges as William E. Murdock chaired the ceremony. A vaudeville show and community singing preceded the speeches.
Irish republic president Edward De Valera praised the Massachusetts and New Hampshire welcome as wonderful. He thanked officials and citizens for the receptions and urged gratitude for the Fenway Park mass meeting. He spoke personally to bench and bar committee members of the Irish Freedom Fund before leaving for New York aboard the Knickerbocker Express.
President De Valera lauded police inspectors for protecting him during his Boston stop after Manchester New Hampshire talks. He expressed gratitude to Massachusetts New Hampshire crowds and the American public for sympathy with Ireland. He outlined plans for a 5 billion Irish bond issue and delayed his cross country itinerary until President Wilson’s return.
Mourners yesterday enjoyed a new beverage craze called Calamity Cocktails as prohibition losses weighed on mood. Andy Dombers of the Hotel Lenox, famed for a Suffragette Sip prize in 1918, revealed a 30 cent recipe combining grape and orange juices lemon juice lime juice grenadine syrup black molasses ginger ale and cold tea.
An American officer and three enlisted men were killed and two wounded near the Sudian mines on June 22 after Americans pursued Bolsheviki who had captured an officer and four men while fishing. Reinforcements were sent to regain the captives as unrest spreads along the Sudan railroad.
Clarice Serreira five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Manuel Serreira of 134 Gorham Street was fatally injured when struck and run over on Gorham Street near her home shortly before 9 o'clock tonight by an automobile driven by Harold I Tibbetts of 27 Wedgemere Avenue Winchester. The child was taken to St Johns Hospital and died shortly after arrival there.
No enterprising journal has taken steps to secure an ex heavyweight champion to present his version of the impending altercation for the title at Toledo. John Arthur Johnson will have to find out the why and wherefore of what happened from his remote retreat over the border.
Lamont Rowlands testified that he never acknowledged Mrs Mary Baker Eddy has passed on citing Christian Science belief in no death He said he does not know his age and that church manuals and trust deeds govern his trusteeship He accused directors of pressuring staff and undermining the Monitor while noting conflicts between the church manual and deed of trust and urging fidelity to the trust instrument.
Two Gaston School pupils from South Boston earned honors for perfect attendance. Dorothy M. Mahoney never missed a day in eight years, and Elizabeth D. Conlon never missed in six. Both excel academically and stayed active in school events, with Mahoney portraying a Red Cross nurse in a school pageant. Principal Josephine A. Powers praised the scholars and their example.
TOKIO reports Japan will send reinforcements to Vladivostok comprising a brigade of infantry and a company each of cavalry and engineers. The move follows Bolshevik activity in Siberia and attacks on Japanese contingents, causing casualties.
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