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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1905
Page
4
The House ordered the inheritance tax bill engrossment after rejecting Walker of Brookline's 2 percent collateral tax proposal with a $10,000 estate exemption. Ward defended his bill and, backed by Luce, saw passage by 136 to 67. Senate action may prompt further shelving attempts.
The bill to establish free employment offices in Boston and five other cities was rejected in the Senate by voice vote after a recon sideration move by Senator Reed of Taunton. The roll call showed 15 yeas and 18 nays with a paired vote on the second amendment.
A Roxbury Mass woman reports severe hand cracks and pain from housework. After trying doctors, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for six weeks, experiencing relief and full recovery with one cake and one box.
One night treatment for hands or feet uses Cuticura Soap to wash in a strong hot creamy lather followed by Cuticura Ointment. Dry and anoint freely, wear loose gloves overnight or lightly bandage feet with old cotton or linen.
The public ownership bill to empower cities to take immediate possession of gas and electric lighting plants was passed to engrossment in the Senate yesterday afternoon. It amends existing law to prevent depreciation of property while price disputes are litigated.
Representative Schofield Ipswich and Senator Woods Somerville clashed over a Civil War veterans gratuity measure offering 125 to those unpaid bounties. Schofield urged constitutional validity while Woods warned it creates a dangerous debt paying precedent. House has passed it. Senate ways and means committee now considers.
The committee votes to draft a resolve for an investigation of the English sliding scale used by gas companies. The plan limits the commission to one investigator with two others, while Barker and Schaff oppose the move. Schaff questions whether Boston gas prices hinge on the proposed inquiry, Cole says they do not.
The Scigliano bill to protect North End Italian depositors passed to be engrossed in the Senate 24 to 1 after President Dana initially rejected it. Senator Taylor of East Boston earlier saved the measure by noting 170000 in deposits had been lost in 12 years due to defalcation.
Dr. Austin Peters of the State cattle bureau urges maintaining the tuberculin test and has submitted the decision to the Governor and council. He warns that removing restrictions would allow the State to kill tuberculous cows without appraisal or payment, similar to how glandered horses are treated.
The Norfolk senator's measure to regulate cinema in churches and other public buildings advanced to a third reading in the Senate yesterday afternoon.
Twelve leading members of the Christian Science Church visited Brookline yesterday in autos to inspect potential sites for a new edifice. The group traveled under the guidance of Mrs. Melvin H. Harden and visited several prospective locations.
Sigma Kappa of Boston University presented the play Maidens All Forlorn at Temple Street Church to aid the fresh air fund. Carrie Bemis led the cast with a notable performance while Bertha Barnsdale Elizabeth Linden Maud Meredith and others filled key roles.
Attorney General Parker seeks settlement of the Cotton claim with a resolve that may clash with Governor Douglas’s proposal. The ways and means committee will study both measures, aiming to avoid a Supreme Court dispute over state sovereignty. Parker’s compelling presentation gains support, while Douglas’s plan could draw Republican backing to the attorney general.
State House debate centers on a claimed cat in the meal in a pending measure. Critics say interests backing the gas consolidation push a Shaw Gaston special bill granting a monopoly on Boston to Providence street railways. They seek a special franchise with rights to issue 2.5 million dollars in stock and 2.5 million dollars in bonds.
Mayor Collins backs a tunnel plan proposed by Cambridge Mayor Daly for the Charles River crossing. L road officials have not yet responded. Demolition has begun at First and Main to relocate First Street for the bridge abutment. Rawlins and Morrison shift buildings to Broad Canal. W W Reid Manufacturing is razed.
Three forest fires in Plymouth county renewed the damage from a prior blaze. Indian Pond Kingston blaze started from smoldering stump and was quickly checked. Russell Mills and North Carver fires burned acres and threatened a railroad station. State Forester Akerman called $75 000 a conservative loss with most farmers in Kingston Carver and Plympton affected.
Manuel T. D. Oliveira had the steamship Peninsular of the Insular Navigation Company attached for $3000 claiming health injury from two years in damp quarters in New Bedford. The Peninsular, which sailed from Lisbon with 700 passengers, arrived here Monday and Oliveira, a former passenger, says he was held in unsuitable quarters and is now helpless.
Swampscott May 1. Mrs. Bessie Trask Wyatt denies being forced into marriage with J. H. Wyatt. Authorities claim she is under 14 and that the ceremony bypassed normal channels. Wyatt, 40, and his young wife dispute the allegations and defend their union as happy and consensual.
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