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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1912
Page
3
Reports from Pekin describe extensive looting of shops and homes with clashes between loyal troops and mutineers. About ten looters were executed on the spot. fires have mostly died out. Estimated losses reach 15 million dollars as foreigners seek refuge in the legation quarter guarded by 2000 troops.
Fragment notes someone or something left central districts before morning, with no clear identities, locations, or events to confirm specific details.
Washington March 1 A bill to put sugar on the free list abolishing 53000000 in annual customs revenue and another to extend the present corporation tax to include individuals and partnerships with income of 5000 a year or more were ratified tonight by the House Democratic caucus.
Ways and Means committee proposes a 1 percent excise on earnings above 5000 per year, targeting individuals and partnerships. The measure would raise 50 to 60 million dollars annually while extending the corporate tax. Sugar duties on the free list could drop consumer prices about a cent and a half per pound.
John H. Lee of the D. and L. Slade Company and Luncheon Club of Boston president leads a push for a steamship line between Boston and the Philippines. Local business houses back the plan, citing a large market for New England goods. The drive follows a contract to supply 1,900 pounds of baking powder and a Manila depot shift noted by Major G. W. Ruthers.
An advertisement promotes Eimer & Amend's 281 as a remedy for rheumatism with T Metcalf Co Boston listed as a distributor.
Charles Warren Ldppitt and Edward Aborn Greene of Cincinnati filed a bill in equity in the Superior Court to block Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner and other officers from carrying out a deed to the Society of the Cincinnati. General Hazere Stevens of Boston planned to convey property at Broad and Stone streets Newport. A restraining order remains in force until March 13, with a hearing set on the preliminary injunction. Stevens is treasurer and influential on the standing committee.
Burton Holmes repeated his Rio de Janeiro talk at Tremont Temple last night, praising the Brazilian capital’s beauty. This afternoon he bids farewell to Boston for the season with his "Two Ways Around the World" lecture.
Ever ett P Willis, jailed for aiding his brother Herbert in a Charlestown jail escape bid, reports to East Providence family that the warden told him to ready to leave next week. Rumor swirls Governor Foss may grant a pardon. Herbert Willis sparked a wave of paid holdups in 1898 and died about a year later during an escape attempt.
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