Hostility Means Defeat To Party
George W. Wickersham urged at Merchants Club that hostility to the League of Nations would doom any party at the polls. He argued objections to the covenant reveal partisan bias, praised Wilson's compromise, and traced the league’s aims and sovereignty limits with emphasis on Republican leadership in arbritration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Wickersham
United States
Merchants’ Club
Paris
League of Nations
Wickersham
Governor Coolidge
Peters
Hopkins
Dartmouth College
Ellery Sedgwick
The
Atlantic Monthly
L. A. Coolidge
Middlesex Club
James T. Williams, Jr
Transcript
Richard Hooker
Germany
France
Rhine
Wilson
le Temps
le Journal Des Debats
Cary Grayson
America
League
Orlando
League of the Nations
Teuton
Senate of the
Italy
Brazil
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Hay
Root
Maine War Baby's Father Killed in Action
Bath residents mourn Private Isaac Marshall Giles who died in the Argonne on October 3 1918. His infant son Marshall Winfield Giles was born May 27 1918, the day his father embarked for France. The mother is Mrs Esther Gray Giles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath, Me
Isaac Marshall Giles
303D Heavy Field Artillery
Bath
Marshall Winfield Giles
308D Field Artillery
France
Marshall
Giles
Argonne
Baby Giles
Esther Gray Giles
Deaths in England Exceed Births in 1918 Quarter
Deaths in England and Wales surpassed births in the last quarter of 1918, with 241,218 deaths to 161,775 births. Influenza accounted for 98,998 deaths, marking the first time deaths exceeded births since registration began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
Wales
Hotels to pay 10 per hour after 11 for liquor sales
The Licensing Board announced that hotels inns and cafes must charge 10 an hour to sell intoxicating liquors after 11 o'clock during the two months grace period ending July 1. Other licenses renew monthly while druggists paint dealers and chemists sixth and seventh class licenses to deal in alcohol for medicinal and mechanical purposes remain at 1 per year.
Licensing Board Challenged Over 12 O'clock Permits
Hotel keepers unite over the monthly 12 o'clock permit ruling, paying $710 for May and June under a first class license plus permit, with renewals set May 1 and monthly rates listed. Several proprietors doubt public sentiment will move President Wilson to rescind the July 1 closing order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
James M Blackmer Dies in Somerville
James M. Blackmer, longtime Boston and Maine railroad employee, died suddenly of heart trouble in Somerville on Monday. The family and railroad community mourn his loss as a devoted worker and local resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Blackmer
Somerville
The
Boston & Maine Railroad
Martin Lomasney Faces Galvin Clash In Ward Politics
Young men, political fervor, and rival factions mark a Ward leadership battle between Owen A. Galvin and Martin M. Lomasney. Lomasney, once a petitioner after the Wells death, defends a librarian case where he refused to kiss the librarian and secured a reinstatement for a young woman worker. To be continued in the Daily and Sunday Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donovan
Taylor
Galvin
Fitzpatrick
Owen A. Galvin
Martin
Martin M. Lomasney
Michael F. Wells
Wells
Mr. Lomasney
Ward 8
Wadlin
Mr. Wadlin
Daily and Sunday Post
Longtime B and M clerical staff member dies in Somerville
Morning at 28 Rush Street Somerville ends with the death of a B and M clerical staffer after a year of poor health. He was 17 years with the North Station unit and a member of Soley Lodge Masons and the Anchor Club. Funeral set for 2 30 this afternoon from his father James L Blackmer’s Lexington home at 229 Massachusetts Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rush Street
Somerville
North Station
Blackmer
Soley Lodge of Masons of
Anchor Club
James L. Blackmer
Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington
Massachusetts Oil Distribution Bills Heard by Joint Committee
The joint committee on agriculture and public service heard arguments on bills to regulate oil distribution methods in Massachusetts. Representative Haley of Rowley spoke for a bill seeking recodification of milk laws with copies to be sent to all parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joint Committee On Agriculture and Public Service
Massachusetts
Haley
Rowley
Milk safety and packaging bills before legislative committee
Officials and lawmakers debated several measures including a central Boston milk station, stamping milk containers with production dates, a 24 hour freshness rule, and creator liability for unopened wholesalers. An amended bill to ban opaque glass in industrial windows drew mixed support from industrial city representatives and opposed by multiple scientists and technicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman C. Lythgoe
State Department of Agriculture
Boston
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
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the Bovinine CO
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New York
J. B. Judkins
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Merrimac
Mass
Packard
Peerless
Cadillac
Chase & Sanborn
Dee
Maine
KE. W. Grove
State House
Gqhandler & Go
Tremont Street
Georgette
Moted
Elvira Franco
Mitchell, Woodbury Co
Atlantic Avenue
Comee
Royal Noritake China
Ees
Jardinieres
Nippon China
Hanese Very
China
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