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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1915
Page
8
The department will act immediately to purchase the necessary apparatus, with measures to secure funding and expedite procurement. The plan aims to upgrade equipment and improve response capabilities for future emergencies.
The discussion centers on advocating a policy to build up American shipping following the Wilson Shipping Bill. The Boston team will argue for the policy and the Georgetown team will oppose. Boston members include Edward A. McLaughlin Jr of Back Bay, Francis J. Mahoney of Somerville, and Edmund J. Brandon of Cambridge.
A legislative committee on election laws voted yesterday to report favorably a plan allowing women suffragists and their feminine opponents to form political committees under the corrupt practices act.
A legislative resolve restricts political committees handling campaign funds to at least five male voters while allowing women to serve on committees supporting or opposing the woman suffrage amendment. Women must be residents of the state and United States residents for at least five years to qualify.
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association executive board voted to donate the net street sales of the Boston American special suffrage edition to the crippled children fund. The amount, $42, will be given to the newsboys for the fund.
Ng Quay, a 27 Tyler Street merchant, will marry Miss Young Kum Yoke next Tuesday. The two have been engaged since her birth in China eighteen years ago. Quay has met her only briefly during the 18 years of engagement, while living in Boston and she has resided with her uncle Ng Yee Yet of 67 Winthrop Street, Cambridge.
Alfred H. Borden was found guilty of assault on his brother Victor Borden and ordered held on bonds of 800 to keep the peace. He appealed. The fight occurred at the boat yard of Charles A. Borden & Son at 386 Mt. Vernon Street Dorchester where Victor is manager. Alfred admitted striking twice in the face and said the blows were in self defense after Victor kicked him in the abdomen.
The piece by Ellis Parker Butler appears in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine as a lighthearted story. It promises Butler’s characteristic humor and a playful domestic vignette centered on a clock fix with comic twists.
George S. Betts of Malden plans a new organization named the Skyscrapers. Membership limited to men who stand six feet tall or taller, claiming the group will be a model for others worldwide.
Skyscraper Betts declares a fraternal group for tall men. He is 6 feet 6 inches and 225 pounds, seeking long lost brothers to join a club whose dinners will be served in a dining room with lofty ceilings at a hotel.
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