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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
6
The fire prevention commissioner enforces a rule banning smoking in garages. Violators risk license loss and a $100 fine. police are ordered to enter garages, cite offenders, and report to headquarters. Drivers with lit tobacco must extinguish before entering.
Washington June 6 A supplemental appropriation of $492000 for the defence of the Panama Canal was asked of Congress today by the War Department.
Dr. Ben Reitman, imprisoned for distributing birth control literature, will serve as city serologist in Cleveland. The position has no salary and he will commute daily from Warrensville workhouse to City Hall.
At midnight the title commissioner of weights and measures ended as Thure Hanson became head of the new Department of Standards. The change sets the commissioner's salary at 3000 dollars and assigns inspectors to the department.
Naval Seaman William D. Freeman of Texas created a scene on Boston Common injuring a Chelsea woman and biting a provost guard. Officers alerted Central Court showed tact in handling the matter while Freeman taunted the provost guards before his service punishment.
Editors from more than twenty Mexican newspapers and magazines arrived in Washington to begin a US tour arranged by the government. The mission aims to show war conditions and the need to restrict exports of materials vital to the war effort.
Governor McCall former Lieutenant Governor Luce and the Rev Albert Wheelock of Needham will speak at a union Pomona field day at the Kelsey ranch in Lexington. State master Leslie R. Smith will be guest of honor. Forenoon games and sports for children, with speaking and sports in the afternoon.
Jewish residents of Greater Boston organize a week long drive to raise 100000 for the Palestine Restoration Fund. The effort, led by the Zion Association of Greater Boston with David A. Laurie as director, opens with a Sunday banquet at the Hotel Somerset and runs eight days.
Wheat store houses of the Mormon Church in Utah are swept clean for the first time in 20 years to aid American soldiers and allies overseas. The church has turned over more than 250000 bushels of grain to the food administration, drawn from a reserve kept since Brigham Young and contributed by former church members amounting to one tenth of their crop.
In Concord New Hampshire on June 6 the constitutional convention rejected a proposed amendment allowing the Legislature to tax growing timber and woodland at a special rate without a general proportional tax law by a 159 to 122 vote. The convention also rejected a motion to submit all further amendments to special committees and to adjourn to December 3.
Police investigate a $15000 silk theft at the Continental Waist Company on Otis Street. A store room door was pried open and goods are believed to have been taken in a single visit by an unspecified vehicle.
Alonzo W. and Albert H. Perry of Rockland lessees of the Carney Building on Tremont Street faced trial in the Superior Criminal Court for failing to comply with elevator operation and inspection regulations created under the 1913 act. Jefferson I. Morse, the building’s engineer and superintendent, is also on trial for not reporting a prior elevator accident to identify causes and fix the fault.
Charles L. French a Special agent for the Standard Oil Company died yesterday at his home 14 Kirkland road Cambridge after a long illness He was 57 years old Mr French helped organize the Guaranty Trust Company of Cambridge and served as its vice president He was Cambridge Y M C A vice president treasurer of the Epworth M E Church board of trustees and connected with the Cambridge Board of Trade In Crescent Council Royal Arcanum of Chelsea he was a long time member
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