Committee Urges 50 Percent Tax Rate Increase
The tentative committee conclusion, though subject to revision, shows a majority favoring a 50 percent rise over current rates with limited exceptions.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
4
Raiding Vessel Sighted Near Nantucket by Fishing Schooner
Captain William Price of the Elizabeth King reported spotting what he believes was a German raider about 20 miles south-southeast of Nantucket South Shoal lightship. Description was sent to the first naval district in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
William Price
Elizabeth King
Nantucket South Shoal
First Naval District
Boston
Mysterious armed steamer shadowed Gloucester schooner
Captain Price reported a camouflaged 2600 ton steamer with two high wireless masts approached within 100 feet of the Elizabeth King and ignored his hail. The unidentified vessel, without name or flag, sailed in the transatlantic lane as a German submarine had sunk a Gloucester schooner earlier in the week. Fishermen resumed fishing despite the threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price
Orleans
Cape Cod
Robert and
Richard
Gloucester
Germany
Riga
Italy
Austria
Kaiser Karl
Prince Sextus
Trawler Nearly Encounters German Sub Near Highland Light
The steam trawler Surge reported seeing a German U boat about 12 miles southeast of Highland Light on a moonlit night last Thursday at 11 15. The submarine, about 300 feet long, passed 600 yards away heading northwest without lights. Surge was unmolested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Cod
Highland Light
The Kaiser as I Knew Him for Fourteen Years
An American dentist in Berlin recounts his 1918 interview with Kaiser Wilhelm II at Potsdam. He describes the Kaiser's toothache treatment, the royal shell room, and the ruler's pride in Italian campaign gains amid war strain and hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States
Germany
Italy
Neue Palais
Potsdam
Davis
Kaiser
Moving kitchen truck to tour Boston for wartime food conservation
Boston launches a government moving kitchen on wheels to teach home canning and drying vegetables for winter use. Demonstrations start today at Fern and Holton streets with Mrs Harriet L B Darling and Mrs Margaret Jacobs, joined by a nurse from the Child Welfare Committee. Lectures follow at the Community Health House and Wilson Park with a Saturday parade planned through the business district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Food Conservation Department
Allston
Fern and
Holton Streets
Harriet L. B. Darling
Margaret Jacobs
Child Welfare Committee
Community Health House
Harvard Avenue
Wilson Park
Brighton
Vampers Quit Shoe Union Vote Unsettles Brockton Locals
In Brockton on July 24 members of the Vampers and Stitchers local voted to leave the Boot and Shoe Workers Union and refuse further dues. They warned that any discharge for nonpayment could trigger a strike. Rockland and South Braintree cutters returned to work. A State Board hearing Monday will assign responsibility for the Brockton strike that has left 15,006 shoe operatives idled. Boot and Shoe Workers officials Tobin and Lovely attended a Manufacturers' Association meeting and Tobin will speak Friday night at City Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Vampers and Stitchers
Boot and Shoe Workers Union
Clark Hall
Rockland
South Braintree
State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration
196 Our Boys Brought Home in Week
Surgeon general reports during the week ending July 19, 196 sick and wounded of the American expeditionary forces were brought to the United States for treatment and physical reconstruction at array hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Surgeon-General Today
United States
To be So each day in the Post daily and Sunday
The note lists publication cadence and makes clear the Post prints both daily and on Sundays. It reflects a schedule or slogan about consistent daily editions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Czar's Son Alexis Romanoff Dies in Moscow Despatch
Moscow despatch reports Alexis Rom anoff, former heir to the Russian throne, died of exposure shortly after his father the former Emperor was executed. The report cites the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Alexis Romanoff
Moscow
Berlin
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Hegeman & Co
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Yorrk
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Arthur N. Davis
McClure
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Runo
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Petrograd
Teutons
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Royal Family
Junkers
Schultz
Sparlos Verlenkt
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Vampers
Shoe Union
Wm. Elliott
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U.S
McClure Newspaper
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