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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
10
Dr. Charles A Beckett urged broad dental coverage in hospitals and emphasized nightly cleaning to prevent tooth decay. He cited a Philadelphia practice with yearly full mouth cleanings, discussed pulp conservation, dietary lime sources, and the role of bacteria and ptomaines in dental decay.
Chief Shannon of Chelsea blocked a planned gathering at G A R Hall for a concert fundraiser for Weinberg of Chicago. About 600 people had gathered, and the event, organized by the Jewish Socialist Territorial Labor Party of America, charged admission with proceeds to Weinberg. The committee lacked a permit and failed to persuade the chief to permit the affair.
Fire swept a wooden stable at 166 London Street East Boston yesterday trapping six horses. Patrolmen Sweeney Barry and John Winston freed the animals as flames confined to the upper part of the structure. The owner is Patrolman Bernard J Sloan and the loss runs about 300 dollars.
At the annual meeting of Boston Lodge Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lawrence H. Sullivan was chosen exalted ruler yesterday.
William M. Whitney declares Governor John A. Johnson the best Democrat for nomination, challenging Bryan support in Boston. The move unsettles Bryan backers as Whitney signals an unpledged delegation possibility and prompts intra-party debate ahead of Denver.
A Massachusetts figure George Fred Williams writes to F. A. Pike of the Bryan volunteers in Minnesota denying New England support for Gov Johnson. He criticizes Johnson’s campaign methods and urges Bryan leadership, predicting New England loyalty to Bryan and Massachusetts delegation backing.
Miss Alice L. Higgins spoke at the Civic Service House under Breadwinners on The Problem of the Unemployed. She outlined remedies like public works and bread lines and warned that every hour we work is part of our life to give away.
Report attacks sewer department for noncompetitive contracts and faulty records. It cites 1200 basins cleaned versus 550, faulty inspections, unsupervised labor, and $1500 paid to contractors for work city employees could have done for $993.24.
Severe criticism of methods in the sewer department, alleging wasteful spending through negligence and inaccurate records. The Finance Commission to Mayor Hibbard and City Council urges reorganizing the branch and reducing inspectors. It reports contracts awarded without competition and losses of hundreds of dollars from such transactions, including basins that do not exist.
The commission found the sewer department lacked complete records and data were inaccurate and misleading. Four districts show 10 inspectors while four have none, inspectors test 3 to 6 basins daily, engineers inspect 160 basins daily, and a fair target is 50 basins per inspector.
The commission faults the department for excessive boarding costs and vague payments. It urges a full reorganization with daily sub foreman reporting, abolishing inspectors, a new basin card catalog, contract bidding, and payment only after inspection to cut refuse removal costs by at least fifty percent.
A touring Top of the World company arrived with a dozen and a half prize collies. Hotels Bellevue Touraine and others refused to house the dogs, forcing the group and their handlers to seek private home quarters in five Boston areas while the remaining dogs waited in collapsible kennels backstage.
Professional safe blowers used nitroglycerine vaseline and soap to blast a third story office safe at the J. M. McCarthy Dry Goods Company on Main street Woonsocket Rhode Island. They seized $2000 in cash three check books and valuable papers and escaped without a clue.
The burglars entered a block adjoining a dry goods house, climbed to the third floor, and forced entry to the tailor shop of T Buckley. They placed a ladder across a six foot alley, bridged to the McCarthy office, and forced its window.
Miss Gertrude Lawson niece of Thomas W. Lawson and daughter of John Lawson of 970 Franklin street was thought badly hurt when an electric car struck her carriage but she is able to be about today. Miss Alice Allen of Melrose street was thrown out and her right leg injured but remains in bed. A careful drinker drinks Ky. Taylor. $1.00 full honest quart. adv.
George Fred Williams backs a slate for the Democratic big four with names from Dedham Fall River Westfield and Boston. The plan aims to push through the slate amid a split over Bryan resolutions and state committee leadership at a Worcester meeting next Wednesday.
Secretary Herman Hormel of the Republican city committee stirs a hornet's nest in Ward 16 with two delegate lists for the caucus Tuesday evening. One slate headed by ex Alderman Frederick F Farwell favors Taft with David son and H Clifford Gallagher as delegates. The other Atwood faction backed by Hormel and H C Gallagher presents delegates without ties to Taft and without restrictions. Ex Senator Thomas W Leavitt publisher of the Dorchester Beacon condemns Hormel and urges Dorchester residents to choose delegates from their own district rather than from South Boston.
In Coal Mine 1 of the Union Pacific Coal Company at Hanna Wyoming between 55 and 70 men perished from two explosions yesterday and last night. The first blast at 5 am killed 18 miners including a superintendent and three bosses. The second blast at 10 30 pm last night killed 40 to 50 rescuers, among them State Mine Inspector D M Elie.
At a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall over 600 workers of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad listened to Vice President Thomas L. Wilson of the International Association of Machinists. He pledged a state matter and possible strike if the road insists on piecework.
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