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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1916
Page
11
A large gallery of women trade unionists and social workers watched as the Senate yesterday voted down a bill to limit women and children's labor to eight hours daily.
Senator Ho ward IF. McLaughlin sought a substitute for an adverse committee report. Female supporters praised the bill while the young Boston Senator urged it. Moments later the measure was defeated on a roll call by one vote.
The Senate saw a 17 17 tie until Senator Clark of Brockton returned to vote against the bill. Hays won reconsideration of a banking bill that would bar directors from profiting off bank loans, and several Sunday law proposals were killed. A comfort station at King's Beach Swampscott was debated before third reading, while a national banks trustee bill passed to enactment. In the House, liquor transport amendments faced adjournment, and the anti vaccination bill plus prison cell sharing limits were defeated for the year.
Arlington's new finance committee of two for 1916 will review town warrant articles and report to the town meeting with recommendations. Moderator John G. Brackett announced the slate listing Clarence A. Moore Frank A. O'Brien William G. Hadley Peter F. O'Neil John J. Barker Frederick W. Dickson Charles B. Devereaux Herbert E K. W. Ekmark Theodore P. Harding Charles H. Higgins Arthur A. Lawson Loren W. Marsh W Irving Middleton Charles S. MacMillin Claude A. Palmer Walter A. Robinson Charles W. Tilton Francis J. Whilton William Fairchild Luther H. Bateman Carl H. Bunker.
A profile of young author Joseph Ernest and his story A Grabber of Goats appears in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine. The piece notes the work’s themes, publication plans, and Ernest’s early literary path.
The Boston Criminal Bureau welcomed Sir James Hammerslee of England to Pemberton square but he is also identified in police records by aliases such as Lieutenant Thomas H. Churchill and others. Authorities say he has signed checks under numerous names including Charles Hammond and John E. McGinnis.
John H. Canavan of Cambridge, famous for check swindling in Boston and New York, was arrested in Lynn by Inspectors Burr and Concannon while posing as a friendly visitor. A local woman helped police with the identification after spotting his deceit.
Wolf's on corner Hanover and Portland Streets offers window banners and today through the week hundred of bargains in new Spring apparel for men women and children.
Police say Canavan admitted accumulating crimes dating to 1909 including diamonds furs automobiles bought with counterfeit payments and a string of minor offenses. He traveled overseas twice since December and, aided by his Brighton chauffeur, faced officers in Lynn as investigations spread from Cambridge to Boston area police stations.
Edward Letton a disabled man known in the South End was arrested on the charge of stabbing Herbert Barry of Methuen in the stomach with a dirk. Barry was brought to City Hospital after being captured fleeing a crowd. an operation followed. Letton said taunts by Barry provoked the attack.
Vice-Chairman Edward N. Hurley of the Federal Trade Commission told the Boston Commercial Club that price cutting demoralizes entire industries. He urged intelligent cost knowledge, proposed data gathering from manufacturers, and said government and trade groups must help standardize and stabilize markets to keep the nation competitive abroad. General Hugh Bancroft led the meeting with open discussion following his remarks.
A speaker praised Germany's cooperative approach to becoming a world economic power and urged the Federal Trade Commission to promote better accounting practices. He cited troubling U S figures: 2 000 of 260 000 firms struggle financially, 100 000 earn nothing, and most firms lack depreciation, cost knowledge, or systematic pricing, leading to arbitrary pricing based on competition.
Miss Natale Blaisdell daughter of the late Ralph Blaisdell is engaged to Earl Weidner organist of the Malden Universalist Church. Blaisdell a Malden High School graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and is known as an amateur actress living with her mother at 795 Salem Street.
A second attempt to burn the three story apartment house at 198 200 Congress Ave Chel Sea aimed at a firebug. Fires on the second floor in unoccupied units fed by oil soaked waste were found as firemen arrived. An earlier Jan 27 attempt involved three fires on the second floor. Feb 2 saw a hole drilled in a water pipe flooding the first floor. Owner Antonio Messacoppi is out of state.
Edward Sharp Jr reports his car stolen from in front of Brookline Town Hall while votes were counted. Police were alerted by Lieutenant Bartlett, near the scene. The meeting discussed a $25,000 land purchase beside Reservoir Lane near the Boston and Albany railroad, for an incinerator site, and $21,000 for building erection. The articles were referred back to the Board of Selectmen for a future meeting.
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