Women Seek New Social Morality Across Nations
June 6 report by Dr. Katharine B. Davis on European feminist trends. She outlines efforts in Italy France England and Scandinavia toward broader rights in marriage motherhood and citizenship. Delegates from Europe and the Americas prepare for a September New York convention to debate future social morality and marriage models.
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Katherine B. Davis
Bureau of Social Hygiene
Edith Hale Swift
Boston
Social Morality Committee
War Work Council
The
National Board A Wirettaky
Europe
Italy
Turin
England
Dr. Davis
Scandinavia
Davis
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
America
John
Mary
G. B. Shaw
State House Briefs Highlight Senate Actions and Public Bills
The Senate rejected a Prescott proposal for a joint session to discuss killing an emergency preamble. Nichols motion for a joint session on property tax classification was adopted. A judiciary committee report opposed a bond filing requirement for auto owners to cover injuries. Mahoney prompted a “next General Court” vote on Boston Finance Commission reforms. Registrars salaries tied to district population moved to third reading. county treasurers same step. Public Service Commission dismissed Bird Street grade-crossing relief petitions. Gas and Electric Light Commissioners allowed 10 gas firms to keep current prices. House Ways and Means held a hearing on Cambridge subway purchase at up to 8 million with lease terms at 0.5 percent above Commonwealth bond rates.
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House Committee On Ways and Means
Cambridge
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Commonwealth
Marital breakup ends after costly New York court ruling
Virginia Blair Reeves Warner, once Miss Harris, sought an annulment of her secret 1917 marriage to Henry H. Warner. The 21 year old stepped daughter of Commander Archibald Parsons paid 15 dollars an hour for 10 hours of a Supreme Court referee's time to undo the union. Alfred Townley’s report urged annulment. Warner described a life of secrecy and unshared marriage amid social pressures and financial strain.
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Virginia Blair Reeves Warner
Archibald L. Parsons
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Society Bud
Washington
Philadelphia
Supreme Court
Henry H. Warner
Hog Island
Warner
Harris
Cathedral School
Corcoran School of Art
Alfred H. Townley
Montclair
Mer. Lavelle
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
St. Andrew's
James P. Heaton
Stevenson Praises Broken Blossoms at Colonial Theatre
Stevenson hails D W Griffiths latest creation Broken Blossoms as the heart happiness while it runs at the Colonial Theatre in town.
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D. W. Griffith
Colonial Theatre
Advue
Society Wife Secrets Revealed In Trial Testimony
Attorney A Parker Nevin questioned Mrs Warner about living with her husband as a test of affection. Warner admitted the marriage was a test of endurance of his affection for the society girl. Mrs Laura Blair Parsons testified she learned of the marriage this year and that her daughter wished to end being kept a secret wife.
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Marguerite
Helene Wittenberg
Warner
New York City
New York
Washington
Wyoming Avenue
Philadelphia
Miss Repplier
A. Parker Nevin
Church Street
Laura Blair Parsons
Senate passes rehabilitation bill for disabled veterans
Washington June 6 The Senate adopted a Kenyon bill aiding about 4000 disabled veterans with vocational rehabilitation. While training they may receive monthly stipends up to 75 dollars, with married and single rates specified. The measure, backed by Secretary Glass, moves to the House.
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Senate
Kenyon
Republican
Iowa
Federal Board For Vocational Education
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Glass
House
Fitzgerald Seeks Way to Cut Wheat Price
Representative Fitzgerald of Boston introduced a resolution in the House asking the agriculture committee to draft legislation allowing the Food Administration activities to be taken over by the Agriculture Department. He urged the secretary of Agriculture to reduce the consumer price of wheat to a level based on world supply and demand, with the U S government absorbing the loss between guaranteed prices and world market price.
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Fitzgerald
Boston
House
Committee On Agriculture
Food Administration
Department
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
One Hundred Condensed Novels in the Post series
The Post will publish a sequence of one hundred condensed novels starting May 1. Tomorrow’s entry is Little Women by Louisa May Alcott with a condensation by Carolyn Wells, followed by daily titles and condensers through June 15, featuring works by Dickens Kingsley Sand George Eliot and others.
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The
Post
Carolyn Wells
Tomorrow’s Post
Miss Wells
Meg
Beth
Amy
Laurie
Richard Carvel
Winston Churchill
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
United States
Dickens
Sara A. Hamlin
Charles Kingsley
James B. Connolly
Consuelo
George Sand
Irving Bach
Eastern Massachusetts Railways hearing on fare rates
Trustees of the Eastern Massachusetts Railways Company held the first State House hearing on a fare schedule under the service-at-cost act of 1918. Mayors solicitors and officials from affected communities attended to protest further fare increases and seek local funding for their areas.
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Eastern Massachusetts Railways Company
Bay State Street Railway Company
State House
Homer Loring
British Drive Bolsheviki From Alexandrovsk
British forces bombarded Alexandrovsk on the eastern Caspian coast and forced a Bolshevik evacuation as air units dropped bombs on the town in Trans Caspian territory. Advices from London report the retreat under British pressure.
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Alexandrovsk
Trans- Caspian
Caspian Sea
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