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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1914
Page
7
Dana Wam and Trowbridge Dana a Socialist suffragist and Longfellow grandson, spoke on Tremont and Pleasant Streets last night. He said no one had ever converted him to woman suffrage, noting he was always a believer and born sensible.
Frederick M. Ives, attorney for Edison, warned the Boston City Council that the company’s revised lighting contract offer cannot stay open long and urged action by the August 10 meeting. He cited a backdated contract and $6000 monthly premiums to cover past obligations, while Council member Coulthurst blasted the proposal as municipal insanity and urged repudiation of the deal.
State inspectors A F Roche D H Cleveland and Harry Atkinson said the Union block portion still standing is unsafe for occupancy. Mayor W H Feiker will call a council meeting to appoint a building inspector.
An Austro Hungarian note delivered to Belgrade demands the suppression of the Pan Servian movement and punishment of those involved in the Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassination. It requests a reply by 6 o'clock Saturday evening and was presented in Vienna at 6 pm local time.
Boston officials announce that city babies are thriving with an exceptionally low infant death rate over the past six months. The health board notes broadly fine public health conditions and hints at continued improvements in municipal welfare.
The Board of Health cites a weekly death rate of 11.88 per thousand as a 18 year low, praising the Floating Hospital and the Milk and Baby Hygiene Association. Dr Mahoney attributes good health to cool weather, ample milk, and city physicians efforts to prevent disease, warning about typhoid fever dangers.
Beach and country resorts are noted while physicians of the department announce they will gladly inject anti typhoid serum to all Bostonians who apply.
Former Senator George Holden Tinkham announces candidacy for the Republican nomination in the eleventh district, contingent on ex-Governor Guild not entering. If Guild runs, Tinkham will back him. The race features a Democratic contest between Senator Francis J. Horgan and ex-Representative Thomas J. Fay, with Republicans including Sherwin I. Cook, Daniel W. Lane, and George H. Tinkham. Guild’s potential entry looms large.
John J. Martin president of the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange refused to discuss or issue a statement on his plans for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. A conference with Western and Northern GOP leaders was scheduled for today to decide the matter.
Senator Burton of Ohio says in next Sunday's Post Magazine that there is today more honor and honesty in public life. He contributes an essay titled American Ideals of Today.
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