Senate Tariff Debate Moves Ahead Amid Tax Proposals
Senators from both parties outlined positions on the Underwood Simmons tariff bill with calls for record votes and amendments. Key figures Simmons Cummins Smoot Burton Gallinger and Root pressed for changes while projected revenues and free-list imports were analyzed amid wage strike tensions in Hyde Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simmons
Cummins
Smoot
Burton
Gallinger
New Hampshire
Root
Stone
Maine bribery revelations rock State politics in 1918
Prominent Maine figures including Dr George L Crockett Thomas Thomaston and Martin M Mulhall surface in a sweeping confession detailing vote buying and patronage schemes. Knox county official Philip Howard vows grand jury action while rockland and thomaston residents react with fury and demand accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockland
Maine
George L. Crockett
Thomaston
Martin M. Mulhall
Haines
Fernald
Philip Howard
Knox County
Post
Dr. Crockett
Senate
Washington
Frank B. Miller
Knox County Committee
Littlefield-McGillicuddy
The
Post Tonight
Littlefield
Congress
Crockett
Haines-Fernald
Sea Lion Captured After Chaotic Cambridge Street Chase
A male California sea lion, about three years old, was chased through Cambridge streets by Pierce and Riley for over an hour. The crowd chased and ducked as the slippery animal broke a cellar window, dodged recapture, and finally was moved to the nearby Aquarium in South Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Williams & Son
First
Charles Street
Harvard University
Mr. Sea Lion
Pierce
Riley
Mr Sea Lion
Commercial Street
Sea Lion
Charles and
First Streets
Cambridge
Mr. Williams
Alexander
Andrews
Kelley
Boston
Pearce
Aquarium
California
Pacific
Atlantic
New England
Charles River
Fisk
Eastport
Maine
Stamford
Connecticut
Sumer
Chauncy Streets
Bescatahet
New York
Wall Street
Daniel Drew
Drew
Bristol
Fisk, Belden & Co
Erie
Sai
Senate Begins Debating Underwood-Simmons Tariff Bill
Report of finance committee members on the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill submitted in Washington. Formal Senate consideration started but was brief due to Chairman Simmons' absence on account of a family death in North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallinger
Sutherland
Stone
Finance Committee
Senate Committee
Washington
Senate
Simmons
North Carolina
Mrs Mackay Seeks Social Spotlight in Portland Lease
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay has leased the former home of ex Mayor Adam P. Leighton in Portland amid rumors of her estranged marriage. Her husband sails for Europe with their three children on the Imperator, June 2, and Mrs Mackay, a noted beauty and social leader, may bring Portland into the limelight socially with future events under her guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence H. Mackay
New York
Adam P. Leighton
Portland
Europe
Imperator
Mackay
Katherine Dyer
Newport
Tenants Flee as Fire Destroys Park Square Tailor Shop
About 50 tenants in the Walton building at 26 Park Square and 186 Boylston Street were ordered out around 8:46 last night when a fourth floor tailor shop owned by J. Pearlis caught fire. Flames and smoke drove residents to the Park Square fire escape. 25 people were guided to safety by firemen. The blaze, confined to the tailor shop, caused around $800 in damage. The six story brick building houses offices. citizens were kept back by the Back Bay sergeant as investigators searched for the fire’s cause. Pearles had already left the building.
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Hyde Park
Watts
B. F. Sturtevant
William M. Doyle
Damon Street
Doyle
Boston
Mass
George W. Mathews
Harold L. Stanley
Opera House
Louis F. Post
Walton
Park Square
Boylston Street
J. Pearlis
Kneeland
Back Bay
Pearles
Petition for Resignation of Revere Police Chief Circulates
Citizens circulate a petition demanding the immediate resignation of Captain Claire I. Chainey acting chief of the Revere police department following the Lynnway Club liquor raid at the Point of Pines Wednesday night directed by Walter T. White, chair of the Board of Selectmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claire I. Chainey
Revere
Lynnway Club
Point of Pines
Walter T. White
Board of Selectmen
Chainey Defends Policy Against White's Raid Threats
Captain Chainey states no resignation and vows to press charges if White resigns. White plans to seek Metropolitan police aid to raid Lynnway Club and other venues amid liquor enforcement clashes. Lieutenant Hawkins notes a pending search warrant and liquor seizure valued at $3000 kept at Revere Beach station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Captain Chainey
Selectmen
White
Chairman White
Metropolitan Police
Lynnway
Chainey
Lieutenant Hawkins
Revere Beach
Leutenant
Frank McPeakes
Metropolitan
Grand Central Broadway Cen tral and the Ladies' Staircase Tragedy
A Boston Post tale traces the 1872 killing at the Ladies' Staircase in the Grand Central Broadway Central era. It chronicles Fisk and Gould’s Erie waterings, Tweed politics, and high finance as influential Boston figures shaped the era. The piece teases the full tragedy’s outcome to be continued tomorrow.
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Grand Central Hotel
Broadway Central
Fisk
Fisk and
Gould
Erie
Tweed
Sweeneyan Connelly
Misryle
New York City
Albany
Eldridge
Erie Company
Sunday Post
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Democrats
Internal Revenue
Treasury
United States
Foss
Governor Foss
Mr. Post
James O'Connell
National Metal Trades Department
A. F. of L
O. L. Preble
Pattern Makers’ Association
Labor Post
BY Paul Waitt
Mr. Haines
Mulhall
Waterville
National Association of Manufacturers
Muthall’s Committee
S. J. Kimball
Benjamin York, Jr
Damariscotta
John Toomey
Bath
Richard T. Leader
Lewiston
Seth Carter
Auburn
Maine Central Railroad
John P. Swazey
Sewell
Elks’ Club
Benjamin York, Sr
Swazey
York
Independence League
Chicago
William R. Hearst
Cambridge Street
Trip
Snow
Thos. Snow & Son
North Market St. Opp
Faneuil Hall
Mrs. MacKay
Beecham
Ropa
Carter
Massachusetts Breweries Company
Hawley Street
Telephone Main
Boston Post
Alfred Henry Lewis
Stokes
Rockefeller
Morgan
Carnegie
Hetty Green
Pownal
Vermont
van Amburg
Jay Gould
Eldridge Laving
Pike Opera House
Twenty-third Street
Eighth Avenue
Fisk-Gould
Eric
Opera
Antony
Cleopatra
Antony of
Mansfield
McClure
Josephine Mansfield
Ing
Figk
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