Governor Foss Faces Criticism Over Cold Reception
A House committee of 40 led by Representative William H. Gifford visited Governor Foss to seek appointment to the Fish and Game Commission. The governor reportedly avoided meeting them, passing by the outer office stairs and leaving through a side door without acknowledgment. Lawmakers called the treatment insulting to the Legislature and demanded an explanation.
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Foss
William H. Gifford
Pop
Fish and Game Commission
Messenger Reed
Frothingham
John McCarthy
Boston
Runaway Horse Wrecks Paul Trainor’s Leg on Cornhill
Patrolman Francis Trainor of Station 2 was pinned between a milk wagon and a dray on Cornhill yesterday morning. He was treated at Relief Hospital and discharged after injuries were dressed. The horse and wagon, owned by John W. Davies of 190 Friend Street, had run away.
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Francis Trainor
Cornhill
John W. Davies
Friend Street
New Way of Curing Corns Gets It Puts Your Feet in Clover
Advertises GETS-IT as a painless corn cure. Claims no digging, slicing, or blood loss. Promises corn removal without pulling, priced at 95 cents a bottle from EB Law & Co Chicago and available at Boston stores.
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EB. Law& Co
Chicago
Ill
Boston
Speaker Joseph Walker A Republican Governor Candidate
Sidewaly Snapshots presents Speaker Joseph Walker as a bustling Republican gubernatorial hopeful. The portrait highlights his public prominence, progressivism, Brookline residence, New Hampshire farm, Jersey cattle herd, fox hounds, country club ties, and three sons with two college plans, noting Brown University graduate status and simple democratic tastes.
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Walker
New Hampshire
Jersey
Brookline
Brookeline
Yale
Williams College
Brown University
Brown
Foss Wins Tax Reforms in Senate Vote
Governor Foss secures unanimous Senate passage of tax reforms. An income tax constitutional amendment clears 29 to 0, and a forestry tax amendment passes 30 to 0. The income tax would let the Legislature set rates on personal intangible income, replacing local stock and bond levies. The forestry amendment aims to relieve growing forests from local taxation to boost forestry.
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Foss
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission Rules Clarified
Washington July 6 The Interstate Commerce Commission announced rulings limiting its jurisdiction over damages from telegraph message errors. It holds the long and short haul clause does not apply when the intermediate point is abroad, or when origin and destination are in the United States with a foreign intermediate point. Mileage books traded for ads cannot be used on interstate travel. Interstate lines may carry free or reduced rate property for county authorities.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
United States
Oil Trust Control To Stay Despite New Jersey Split
New York July 6 reports say Standard Oil of New Jersey will reorganize into 15 to 20 separate firms, each in its own territory, while overall control remains unchanged. Subsidiaries accused of monopolizing trade would operate independently. Earnings not expected to be affected.
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OIL Trust
New York
Standard Ol Company of
New Jersey
Howev
Chinese banker to attend London bankers conference
Pekin July 6 Chen-Chin Tao vice president of the Taching government bank will leave for London to join the International Bankers Conference regarding the 50 million dollar currency reform loan to China. American Minister Calhoun will push stronger consular representation on the Yangtse Chiang to assure American manufacturers a share of materials for the Hukuang railroads whose construction would start in about four months.
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PEKIN
Chen-Chin Tao
Taching Government Bank
London
China
Calhoun
Washington
Governor Fights For Teacher Pay Bill Compromise
Governor Foss backed by Senate action, veto threats color a tug of war over a mandatory raise for elementary teachers. The McMorrow compromise sets staged 10, 20, and 25 cent raises with annual caps on school funding, directing funds toward salaries and building repairs while preserving tax levy limits.
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Foss
Senate
McMorrow
Lomasney
Saw fly pest devastates spruce in Maine woods
Augusta Maine July 6 alarm over saw fly damage to spruce in the north woods prompts Maine pulp wood firms to seek State agricultural aid. The insect’s egg laying by a two edged ovipositor wounds twigs, often killing branches and threatening large spruce tracts akin to periodical cicada damage in other states.
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Augusta
Great North Woods
Maine
State Department of Agriculture
New England
Three Masted Schooner Carrie Acknam Afloat After Shoreing
Vineyard Haven reports the three masted schooner Carrie Acknam went ashore off Cape Pogue Nantucket South early today. The revenue cutter Acushnet punched her afloat this evening and her crew appeared unharmed.
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Vineyard Haven
Carrie Acknam
Cape Pogue
Nantucket
Acushnet
Taft's Alabama row tests Hitchcock vs Hilles for political adviser
A factional clash over Alabama GOP leadership pits Postmaster General Hitchcock against Secretary Hilles as Taft weighs who should advise the administration. Barker backs Long for state chair with Hitchcock's knowledge while Hilles and Booker T. Washington back Thompson. Taft faces an embarrassment regardless of his pick.
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Washington
Alabama
White House
Taft
Hitchcock
Hilles
P. D. Barker
Mobile
Peter M. Long
Booker T. Washington
J. O. Thompson
Hold Woman's Assailant Held After South Bay Jump
Thomas Duffy, who caused a stir by leaping into the South Bay Wednesday night after stabbing his cousin Mrs. Joseph Middleton at her home 15 Davis Street South End, is held for the grand jury in 2500 dollar bonds.
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Thomas Duffy
South Bay
Joseph Middleton
Davis Street
South End
White Named State Auditor
Senator John E. White of Cape elected State auditor to fill Turner’s vacancy by joint Legislature vote. White received 1382 votes, defeating Rep Lincoln Breckinbridge who had 105. Weaver Sherman and John Cogswell also received scattered support. White, president of Martha's Vineyard National Bank, served in the House in 1905 and is in his second Senate year.
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John E. White
Cape
Henry E. Turner
White
Lincoln Breckinbridge
North Adams
John Weaver Sherman
John H. Cogswell
Lynn
Martha's Vineyard National Bank
Senate
Elmer B. Potter
Worcester
Herbert W. Burr
Boston
Charles A. Dean
Wakefield
Breckinbridge
Theodore Sorenson
East Boston
Michael O'Leary
Sharon
Dean
O’leary
Gen Wood to Inspect Forts on New England Coast
General Leonard Wood chief of staff will depart Washington for an inspection tour of coast artillery posts in New England. He plans visits to Portland Boston and Portsmouth NH with Major Hagood, and will not return before sailing to Panama on July 10.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Army
Portland
Coast Artillery
New England
Boston
Portsmouth
Hagood
General Staff
Coast Artillery Corps
Wood
Panama
Residents oppose new Mattapan cars on Columbia Road line
Mattapan residents protest the Boston Elevated Companys new prepayment cars saying they are too warm and cumbersome for a short line and have displaced the Columbia Road Mattapan cars. A petition to reinstate the former Federal square to Mattapan service and create a transfer station at Franklin Park is planned with a potential indignation meeting if ignored.
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Mattapan
Boston
Columbia Road
Franklin Field
Electrically Survey for Mt Washington Rail Line
A corps of civil engineers under Vice-President McHenry of the Boston and Maine began a survey of the proposed electric railway route to Mt. Washington. President Charles S. Mellen aims to replace the cog railway with an electric line. Engineers hope the road will be operating next summer.
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Fabyans
N. H
Corps of
Civil Engineers
McHenry
Boston & Maine Railroad
Charles S. Mellen
Boston & Maine
Mt. Washington
Gates Improves After Illness in Paris Hotel
July 6 report says John W. Gates, the American financier staying at a Paris hotel, is improved after a sequence of operations prompted by his health troubles.
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Gates
Paris
John W. Gates
Calendar Girl claims top spot in fat reduction method
Marjorie Hamilton, famed as the Calendar Girl, promotes a natural fat reduction treatment that she says eliminates double chins without drugs, starvation, or harsh exercises. Letters from physicians and users praise rapid weight loss, with claims of 14 to 37 pounds lost in weeks and no skin sagging, while offering a free book via mail.
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Marjorie Hamilton
America
J. Cunningham
Portland Ave
W. L. Schmits
Montevideo
Minn
Jessie King
Europe
Walter Robinson
Eliza LaVelle
Harbilton
Bae
Luite
Colorad
Denver
Colorado
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