Mothers' Wages Debate Draws Wide Protest
Boston women across suffragists anti suffragists clubwomen and social workers denounce Mrs Alice Hubbard plan to pay mothers wages as charity pauperization and impractical The discussion follows her Paine Memorial Hall speech urging state support for motherhood through wages or salaries with varied endorsements and cautions from prominent reformers.
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Alice Hubbard
Boston
Paine Memorial Hall
Post
Henry Preston White
Massachusetts Society
George W. Perkins
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Mrs. Hubbard
Mrs. Perkins
Lost Love of a Policeman Wins $500 Award
Mrs. Katherine F. Silver of Revere sued John J. Shanahan, a Revere police officer, for $10,000 heart balm and won $500 after the jury deliberated briefly. She testified he professed undying love and repeated devotion over five months, while Shanahan denied any engagement or future marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine F. Silver
Revere
John J. Shanahan
Silver
Shanahan
Kathryn Silver
Eleanor
Equal wages for mothers redefined as family pay
A speaker argues not for charity but for wage equality within the family. She urges higher male wages, then assigning half remaining earnings to the wife after family costs, framing housework and childrearing as essential labor deserving payment by the family.
German Paper Urges Huerta to Quit to Restore Order
The Tageblatt editorial favors General Huerta stepping down as provisional Mexican president, saying his retirement would restore order and protect German interests. It notes support for Admiral von Hintze's advice to accept American proposals and warns Europe about Monroe Doctrine influence in Mexican affairs.
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Berlin
Huerta
Mexico
Tageblatt
United States
Paul von Hintze
Europe
Harvard Cattle Panic Roars Through Boston Subways
A herd of steers on a route to Brighton abattoirs roamed Harvard Square causing chaos as crowds fled into the subway station yard fences and stores. Law student Henry Rainey rode the chaos paying a nickel to enter the turnstile and later found the ride worth the fare.
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Harvard
Brighton
Harvard Square
Henry Dwight Rainey
Craigie Hall
Craigie
Rainey
Post
Boston
Plan to guard finances as new currency system nears
Washington Nov 18 both Democratic and Republican wings of the Senate banking and currency committee considered means to protect the country against possible financial stringency when the proposed new currency system goes into effect.
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Washington
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Amendments Set Cash and Reserve Rules for Transition
During the transition to new federal reserve banks the Democrats approve deposits in regional banks using commercial paper for half the required reserve. An amendment allows treasury and bank notes to be counted as reserves. Republicans and Hitchcock push a stricter plan where banks start with 1 percent reserve, increasing by 1 percent every six months to reach 5 percent.
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Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Hitchcock
Schmidt Trial to Open Today
Hans Schmidt will be placed on trial in General Sessions Court before Judge Foster tomorrow. He confessed to killing Anna Aumuller, dismembering her body, and disposing of the remains in the Hudson River. Insanity is expected to be his defense.
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New York
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Hudson River
Foster
General Sessions
Schmidt
Hamilton resigns as deputy collector after 16 years
Oliver M. Hamilton deputy collector of internal revenue for 16 years resigned yesterday effective upon the retirement of Collector Gill. He was appointed by the late President William McKinley.
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Oliver M. Hamilton
Internal Revenue
Gill
Mr. Hamilton
William McKinley
Meagher Will Granted by Suffolk Court
Judge George of the Suffolk Probate Court allowed the will of Thomas Meagher who kept the cigar stand at the State House. Michael F. Meagher contested the document as a court officer. The estate valued at $3000 goes to his second wife with an appeal planned to the Supreme Court.
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George
Suffolk
Thomas Meagher
State House
Michael F. Meagher
Supreme Court
Noted Doctor’s Cold Cure Formula Promoted By Globe
An old newspaper ad promotes a winter health tonic claiming to break a cold in a day and cure coughs. It urges using Globe Pine Compound with glycerine and whiskey, plus a catandir preparation for indigestion, sold by Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of Chicago.
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Globe Pharmaceutical Laboratories of
Chicago
Hall Boom for Worcester Republican Chairman Bid
Worcester Republicans arrived in Boston with strong support for Frank Hall as state committee chairman. The talk shifts from William F. Garteelon to Hall, who could please Representative Washburn and boost party progress. Congressman Gardner reportedly favors Frank Seiberlich, though Seiberlich is not a candidate.
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Worcester
Boston
Frank Hall
State Committee
Hall
William F. Garteelon
Robert Washburn
Republican Party
Gardner
Frank Seiberlich
Seiberlich
Councillors narrowly escape as streetcar crashes their car
President Thomas J. Kenny and Walter Ballantyne of the Roxbury City Council were barely uninjured when an Upham's Corner streetcar struck their automobile at Dudley and Clifton. The collision tore off a running board and windshield while the front vestibule glass shattered. Councillors were touring streets with Headmaster George E. Murphy of Hugh O'Brien grammar school to inspect for student welfare.
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Thomas J. Kenny
Walter Ballantyne
Dudley
Clifton
Roxbury
George E. Murphy
Hugh O’brien
Upham
Dudley Street
Booths to Reunite in New York Meeting
Bramwell Booth, commander in chief of the Salvation Army, and Ballington Booth, head of the Volunteers of America, will meet in New York. They have been apart since Ballington Booth split from William Booth 17 years ago. Bramwell Booth plans a family visit without consolidation. He will return to England after the New York meeting.
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Chicago
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Ballington Booth
Volunteers of America
New York
William Booth
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School St
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden, N. J
James Montgomery Flagg
Next Sunday Post
Teinert Victor Store
Arch Street
Franklin and
Milk Streets
New England
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M. Steinert & Sons Company
Victor Victrola XVI
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