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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1917
Page
9
Joseph Belcher at the College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement in Howe Hall urged that war physicians earn higher honors than generals by alleviating distress in war zones. He lauded the doctor whose presence consoles the severely ill.
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This optical section offers eye testing with modern instruments and expert fitting of lenses. Located on the Street Floor of the Great New Building, it carries frames in styles and metals, goggles for motoring and outdoor use, and patterns in lorgnettes in gold, gold filled, and silver with various designs and prices.
Mrs Bridget Lyons, a city pensioned scrubwoman with over 25 years of arduous service, spoke on her first day of retirement about the value of punctuality and doing work well to avoid job loss.
Mrs Lyons, a widower and mother of twelve, worked as a city scrubwoman from age 25 in Boston, never late for 25 years, earning a pension after decades of service. Her daughter Lorraine aided police in 1915 in a coke pedller raid, highlighting the family’s long community involvement.
Washington June 12 The Senate finance committee moved toward completing the income tax clause and advanced the levy on corporations excess profits as part of the war tax bill to raise more than half of the proposed 1.5 billion dollars in revenue.
Provisions enforcing the committee decision to tax income at source were adopted along with rates. The House retained most surtaxes on incomes over 40 000 and plans to raise about 533 million dollars. Proposals by Senators LaFollette Penrose and Swedge to alter rates face varying support. The committee favors a plan basing excess profits on three prewar years and taxes only corporate incomes above 5000 with about a 20 percent rate. Completion aimed for tomorrow. A minor amendment would exempt foreign government investments in American securities.
Miss Madeline Drury daughter of Mr and Mrs J Henry Drury of 472 Commonwealth avenue married John F Crosby Georgetown 13 and Harvard Law School 710 Fond du Lac Wis The ceremony was at St Bridget's Church Framingham with Rev Maurice A O Connor D D officiating The bride was given away by her father Mrs Clara D Hardigan Providence sister of the bride was matron of honor Bridesmaids were Josephine Duffy Agnes Fitzgerald Irene McCarthy and Helen Drury Best man was Francis H Boyle of Fond du Lac cousin of the groom
President Wilson intervened in the delay on the 3.281 billion war budget and sent the measure toward final passage. He endorsed a naval base at Hampton Roads and the House adopted a conference report limiting the Jamestown exposition site purchase to a price not exceeding 1,200.00. The Senate was expected to concur.
In South Boston a bountiful fish supply arrives with two mackerel fleets the Stiletto and Harvard counting 80 000 and 87 000 fresh fish respectively plus 380 barrels of salted mackerel. Natalie brings 18 000 pounds of flounders and 12 500 pounds of scrod among groundfish receipts. Weather notes mark June 13 as the 1048th day of war in Europe with spring waning and tides rising.
In the past week 21 mackerel arrivals total 1 418 000 pounds of fresh catch and 4216 barrels of salted mackerel. A vast mackerel stock from Cape Shore arrived by steamer from Yarmouth, flooding the local market. Fishers report dense schools from Long Island to Canada, netting a large harvest. Captain John A Hall has relinquished command of the six masted Addie M Lawrence due to illness, returning to Rockland Maine. Captain Johansen of the Alice M Colburn assumes command.
Washington June 12. Student aviators training for the army air service at various colleges have been joined by a number of young officer candidates detached from the 16 officers' training camps, and hereafter a further.
Detachments will be sent weekly from each training camp. Nineteen men from the Plattsburg camp have been sent to Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additional detachments will go next week to Princeton and the five schools already named.
Principal Ernest I Collins and physicians sought the cause of illness that struck 60 senior students and several teachers after a Thursday banquet. Two teachers and 19 pupils returned to class yesterday while five teachers and 40 students remain recovering and expected back today.
An old Cincinnati invention markets a bottle labeled Freezone that promises instant relief for corns and calluses. The ad claims a few drops melt the soreness, shrinking hard or soft corns and even those between the toes, for just a few cents at drug stores.
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