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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1919
Page
9
The Senate Ways and Means Committee reported favorably on a bill raising the income tax rate on professions trades employments and business to 24 percent for 1919 and 1920. It also backed a bill taxing street railway companies only on real estate replacing that with a 6 percent tax on net income.
After lengthy debate two dog bills failed. Nastings proposed substituting a bill from an adverse committee report, but support was weak and the vote was 7 to 13. Colburn offered a substitute to tag dogs and shift enforcement to a State officer, which died 16 to 21. A bill for free clinics and registration for the feeble minded advanced to a third reading as the Senate moved to engrossment.
Governor Coolidge backed a bill authorizing $6000 to Judge Albert Hayden of Roxbury and $2000 to Representative Leland Powers of Newton for damages to property from recent bomb outrages. The move follows claims they were attacked owing to public duties. Boston housing bill faced sharp criticism with Senator Mahoney condemning it as harming the poor and rooted in high profile philanthropists at tea parties delaying action.
The Fishermen's Union of the Atlantic in Portland told 300 local fishermen to join the strike now active in Boston Gloucester and Provincetown. Vessels arriving will have crews walk out and halt fish cargoes, potentially pulling New York fleets into action and closing Eastern seaboard fishing. Sword fishermen intend to quit too, while four vessels delivered swordfish but no groundfish was landed.
Despatches from Vienna say Hungarian Bolsheviki detachments push into lower Austria with about 5000 troops around Altenburg and Neustedler Lake and are believed to aim for Vienna and Neustadt.
The Boston Shoe Style Show opens at Symphony Hall on July 14 for four days, displaying women’s fall boots in new models. Nine inch fashion height favors one tone lace ups with long vamps and high Louis heels, plus some contrast tops and stitching.
Hoboken N J July 10 Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel G R Harrison 22 second lieutenants members of the last class graduated from West Point today boarded the steam ship Leviathan which Saturday will carry them to France to study scenes of the big battles on the western front.
The House of Representatives approved the exemption bill on a 138 to 68 roll call, sending it to a third reading. The measure reallocates income tax revenues, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars from residential areas to industrial cities and high real estate value areas. Also notes vacations for Rev. William Henry Pettus and Rev. Austen Kennedy de Blois with church closure until Aug. 31.
A taxation committee proposes amending income taxes by raising exemption from 2000 to 1000 dollars and taxing the excess at 12 percent. Rent as compensation is counted as income and US salaries are exempt unless other income exists. Joint judiciary panel also seeks license requirements for bombs or explosives with penalties.
The Rev C Arthur Whitehead becomes pastor of Grace Evangelical Church East Everett. Union Congregational in West Rutland holds July People's Hour with themes Jacob battle for partnership with God and Samuel the Patriot Priest. Rev Josiah P W Dickerman from Washington DC preaches Sunday morning. Frederick J ay assists and leads open air Sunday evening on Whats Your Name. Rev Edward T Sullivan preaches at Cathedral Church of St Paul Sunday with French Bastille Day observance and Marseillaise hymns. Prayer Meeting at Park Street Congregational tonight discusses The Rivers of God. Sherrill P Smith of Episcopal Divinity School to lead St James Church Clarendon Hill on Aug 17.
Paris July 10. Marshal Foch directed by the council of five to notify Polish troops to cease action in Lithuania. The Bulgarian treaty will come up for consideration on July ?. An inter allied commission is named to discuss Rhine occupation with the German delegation after talks with Marshal Foch.
Boston friend report the marriage of Miss Eileen Malone of 46 Chandler street Boston to J. J. Hanon of San Francisco. They wed in Toledo Ohio on July 5. Malone served in the Red Cross Ambulance Corps in the war and later in the Red Cross bookkeeping department at 1000 Washington street. Hanon recently returned from overseas service with the 9st Division, mostly California men. They will reside in San Francisco after a wedding trip.
A 37 millimetre one-pounder gun was received yesterday by the army recruiting office at 3 Tremont Row and will be placed on exhibition before the recruiting tent on the Common. The weapon resembles a blunderbuss and sits on a modern gun carriage. It was used in Keance just behind the first line trenches to demolish concrete.
A concise report notes key placements and strong points in the opposing line. It highlights strategic positions and areas of resistance observed by forces on the frontline, indicating where enemy defenses are most prepared and where gaps could be exploited.
July 10 New York report notes the Manitou arrived with 98 officers and 2106 troops plus six civilians. Lt Col Walter J. Scott led the troops home. Lt Ethan Armstrong cites French propaganda about living costs as driving thousands of U.S. doughboys to marry French farmer girls near Marne Valley and Champagne.
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