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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
5
More than 400 Progressives gather at Esther Hall Malden to hear Charles Sumner Bird advocate a living wage and fair play for workers. Attendees cheer with flags and umbrellas as Bird enters and addresses the crowd.
Across the street from Progressive festivities a Republican smoker held in the Auditorium. Speakers included Charles Underhill and Herman Hormel. A Progressive rally followed with Alvan T. Fuller presiding and Matthew Hale Charles Sumner Bird and Charles A. Cox speaking against amalgamation with Republicans. Bird urged living wages and fair labor treatment while Hale predicted a doubled Progressive vote next election.
Louis Coes Page president of L C Page Publishing and former partial owner of the Boston Nationals appeared in Municipal Civil Court as defendant in a suit by Alexander F Moore of New York. Moore seeks $1500 on a check Page gave to the Elliot gambling house manager on Forty first street New York claiming to be a holder for value without notice of the original consideration.
The Associated German Choral Societies through Edward J Bromberg notified Mayor Fitzgerald that they will hold three concerts on the Common in July August and September in response to his request.
The Senate will vote today on the Foss veto of the light and power bill which carries the key railroading control principle permitting twice the bond issuance relative to stock. The current law allows an equal amount.
By a vote of 108 to 8 yesterday the House rejected the bill from the recess committee on municipal finance. The measure would have let mayors appoint assessors and selectmen in towns elect them, with the tax commissioner’s approval required.
The Senate yesterday rejected a measure to require an eight hour workday for employees in paper mills and other factories with shift schedules.
A bill requiring parties to a marriage to swear there is no legal impediment passed to be engrossed in the Senate yesterday. An amendment set the effective date as January 1 1914.
A Washington DC firm promotes Orrine as a curable treatment for drunkenness with two forms No 1 powder and No 2 pills. It claims complete confidence in results and a money back guarantee if no benefit, available at Riker Jaynes Drug Stores and by request for a booklet.
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