Revere Tenants’ League Targets Landlord Profiteering
The Revere Tenants’ League fights alleged remodeling schemes to evict tenants. The inspector of buildings and the city law department back complaints. Meetings are planned at Walnut School Hall and a hearing before the Commission on the Necessaries of Life may follow next week with Mayor Adams involved. Alexander Marcus leads the league vows to continue until profiteering ends.
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Revere
League
Alexander Marcus
Melrose
Recipe for Betterment of Women Says Kate Upson Clark
Mrs Kate Upson Clark spoke in Pilgrim Hall urging women to shed their surgical reputation and pursue better health through a new mode of dress. She named health education courage religion and sincerity as the foundation of true personality.
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Kate Upson Clark
Pilgrim Hall
New Thoughts on Women as Personalities and Dress
Mrs. Clark discusses female individuality and authenticity, arguing women should drop stiff modesty and adopt natural dress to express character. She notes men excel in sincerity, urges education and religion to shape personality, and highlights will as a key stimulant for personality.
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Clark
Will
Opposition to 25 percent state employee bonus proposed
A letter from Thomas W. White supervisor of administration argues against a 25 percent bonus for state employees for year ending November 30 1919. He says department heads favor the bonus to protest mandatory selection from classified civil service rather than open market. At a hearing heads cite retention issues due to higher private sector pay. White notes the ways and means committee has generously approved increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Public Service
Thomas W. White
White
Ways and Means Committee
Bond drive for Ireland honors Countess Markievicz
Workers in Boston and across Massachusetts conduct a special drive to secure subscriptions from women. The event is Countess Markievicz Day, honoring the Irish Sinn Fein figure and Britain’s first woman MP who declined to take her seat.
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Boston
Countess Markievicz
Sinn Fein
Crowley Family Subscribes to Irish Bonds in Local Appeal
From the Cigarmakers Union No 97 led by William Collins and Henry Abrahams the County Limerick Association contributed 250 for Irish bonds while the Crowley family of 297 Ashmont Street Dorchester is listed as 100 percent family with household subscribers totaling 110 in Irish bonds indicating strong local participation in the fundraiser.
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Cigarmakers’ Union
William Collins
Henry Abrahams
County Limerick Association
James Crowley
Ashmont Street
Dorchester
Crowley
City considers Great White Way lighting for Jamaica Plain
The City Council approved Councilman Donoghue's measure urging Mayor Peters to study installing the Great White Way street lighting along Centre Street Jamaica Plain from St. John Street to Greenough Avenue.
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Donoghue
Peters
Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
St. John Street
Greenough Avenue
Smith College Girl Stages Several Plays in Brookline
Miss Marjorie Roberts of Smith College organizes multiple college plays. She arranged a recent production by Smith College girls in Brookline and is active in the local younger social set.
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Marjorie Roberts
Smith College
Miss Roberts
Brookline
Hulin seeks intervention in church publishing dispute
Mrs Emilie Hulin of Brooklyn petitions to intervene in the litigation between the publishing society trustees and the Christian Science church directors. She claims representation for herself and about eight surviving first members of the Boston mother church as the matter is heard by Judge DeCourcy in the Supreme Judicial Court this morning.
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Emilie Hulin
Brooklyn
New York
Publishing Society
Christian Science Church
DeCourcy
Supreme Judicial Court
Hulin
Christian Science
Mother Church
Boston
Sulpheri Tablets Promoted as Spring Blood Purifier
A vintage advertisement extols Sulpheri Tablets as a remedy for sluggish blood, skin complaints, and eliminative issues. It claims to purge poisons, improve headaches and rheumatic pain, and cleanse skin, liver, and kidneys with a month of use. Each package is guaranteed and sold by druggists at 60 cents.
Massachusetts Tax Law Test Case Begs Quick Supreme Court Action
Massachusetts treasurer Charles L. Burrill filed in the Supreme Court a motion to advance the test case on the constitutionality of the state income tax law. The move aims to resolve the validity questions before the next distribution due by November 15, highlighting the law's impact on the state and its cities and towns.
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Washington
Charles L. Burrill
Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Ernest P. Dane
Brookline
Mayor veto blocks widow's pension for fireman injuries
Mrs. Edward A. Shea widow of a former Boston fireman was denied a pension by Mayor Peters who vetoed the City Council resolve. He argued the department records show the extent of the injuries.
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Edward A. Shea
Boston
Merrimac Street
Peters
Campaign mobilizes women for Irish bond drive in Boston
State campaign committee arranged a women led canvass to urge office workers and housewives to subscribe. Stenographers of Irish extraction in Boston’s financial district pledge to call on five women each. Returns from De Valera Day show large subscriptions statewide. Ward 14 reports 2435 and Roxbury Mission Church district nears 28000. Medford rally yields 1015. Loan leader subs reach 100.
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Boston
Financial
Moynihan
Brockton
Thomas Clarke
Countess Marktevicz
Ward 14
Dennis F. Reardon
Mission
Roxbury
Thomas A. Niland
Ward 1
Medford
Charles T. Daly
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Bond Drive
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Jamaica
B. U. Kappa Phi Alpha
Emerson
Boston University
Emerson College
Kappa Phi Alpha Fraternity
Live Kennedy
New England
Miss Marjorie Roberts
Kennedy
The
Live Store
Summer
Bay State
Burrill
Harry Decison
India
Rose Brothers & Co
Lancaster, Pa
United States
Physical Culture Magazine
Bernarr Macfadden
Alfred W. McCann
T.B
Harry B. Galatian
M. D
Carl Easton Williams
M. J. Reiser
Hawley Streets
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