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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
2
The bill provides for appointing a special commission to study whether the state should provide old age pensions and to examine insurance against sickness and unemployment, and it was passed to engrossment by the House yesterday.
The Senate is poised to pass the social welfare bill after today’s readings and send it to the Governor for signing. Representative Lawyer of Ware called the measure the year's most important social welfare bill and linked German policy to efficiency. The package includes housing for working people and a funding plan for homestead construction, with the conference committee favoring a increases this year. The House also moved to engross a bill restricting trading stamps, tailoring limits to curb stamping companies and direct issue by dealers.
In a Brookline venue yesterday Mrs. Larz Anderson’s estate presented a fairy play at Weld with Bob White portraying the mischievous bad boy role.
Fairyland, with its fairies witches mermaids and elves, was moved yesterday afternoon to Weld the Brookline estate of Mrs Larz Anderson marking a notable transfer of the beloved attraction for children.
Outdoors under sunny skies 200 guests attended two symbolic dances to aid Wells College 500000 endowment fund. The Witch featured child performers in Weld Garden with Melba Concannon as the bad boy. The Strife of the Sea and Tree Children for the Earth Child, drawn from Forsaken Merman, was staged near the pond with Bertha Godfrey and William Williams in key roles.
Gifts amounting to 83435.75 to Harvard University were reported at the Harvard corporation meeting. Numerous minor appointments were confirmed and scholarships awarded including sabbatical leave for Professor Bliss Perry and lectureship for Rev. Roland Cotton Smith. Cabot and Ware fellowships went to several scholars. genetics research fellow named. Austin teaching fellows named.
Mr and Mrs Edward C Grover of Arlington announce the death of their son Raymond Otg Grover in Morristown where he led the mathematics department at Morristown School. The body was sent to Arlington for burial.
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