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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
7
Chief Justice Rugg in an opinion handed down yesterday upholds the income tax law of 1919 chapter 314 as constitutional. He notes inequalities exist but argues no tax system perfectly apportions public expenses by ability to pay, and such disparities are inevitable in any rational taxation scheme.
The court discusses the 1919 act distributing income tax revenue among Massachusetts cities and towns. It says the statute departs from prior tax laws, edges toward constitutional power, but the General Court’s control over municipalities is not transcended. It notes taxation remains local for most property and that revenue can substitute for state-held funds without violating the doctrine that a district cannot be taxed for another.
An unsigned note, believed from the I W W, threatened Mayor Thomas Fairweather of Des Moines. Police guarded his home and City Hall after the note arrived late Wednesday. Authorities link the warning to recent I W W threats to leave Des Moines.
Miss May Wolf, 26, of 14 Waverly Street, Evinthrop, was struck yesterday afternoon while walking on the reservation opposite 122 Huntington Avenue by an inbound Jamaica Plain electric car. She was taken to the City Hospital after examination by Dr Encolar Hibbard.
An old style advertisement for Hayes Healing Honey boasting throat healing and cough relief. Includes a 35 cent price and a free Grove’s Open-Trate Salve offer for chest colds head colds and croup with each bottle.
The Women’s Auxiliary Board of the Scots’ Charitable Society hosts an annual concert and charity ball in Paul Revere Hall. The program features a pageant titled Demobilization of Service Flags with Miss Letitia Kelly leading, aided by veterans in multiple army uniforms as guard of honor. Highland Vipers and a full military band provide music, followed by Scottish folk songs and dances before the charity ball begins. Mrs. P. H. Lawson of Brookline chairs the committee.
Geneva reports a plague outbreak in Constantinople dated Nov 9. The International Red Cross acts to rush serum to the Red Crescent to aid the Turkish capital and the wider Near East as the disease threatens the city.
New England division chapters report progress in the third Red Cross Roll Call. Bath Maine and Durham New Hampshire finish their campaigns, surpassing membership quotas and completing national fund goals. Division totals near one million dollars. state memberships listed include Massachusetts Rhode Island Maine New Hampshire Vermont and others.
Rev W W M Partridge of Academy street South Braintree filed a claim for 65 dollars against the city stating a heavy revolver he carried as a volunteer officer during the police walkout wore a hole through his coat. Total rioting claims now total 130000 dollars.
A British steamship City of Manila arrived at Commonwealth pier in South Boston at 5 last night with a rare and costly cargo from India including elephants twin Frieda and Paul prized for breeding. The consignment, valued over 100000 dollars, features a tiger named Kitten a host of leopards panthers Himalayan bears 300 monkeys and 40 birds. Sixty animals died during voyage but the rest will be unloaded today and sent by train to New York.
Paris reports a slight improvement in coal supply as arrivals increase and larger plants are fueled for three to four days. Gas and electricity restrictions remain in force.
James J. O'Brien, active Knights of Columbus worker and Elm Hill Council secretary in Dorchester, receives the Casey medal for overseas service with the order.
An advertisement touts Bayer as the genuine aspirin trusted by physicians for eighteen years and millions of users. It instructs to say Bayer when buying, seek the Bayer Cross on packaging, and notes small tin boxes of twelve tablets and larger options from druggists.
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