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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1919
Page
8
Officials summoned men and women to appear at the State House after imperfect weighing and measuring devices were discovered in their establishments. The action signals prosecution to the full extent of the law for sales to customers and use of improper dimensions.
Civil servants and families flee the Schleswig region daily for interior Germany. The International Commission works on plebiscite arrangements and plans for district administration as voters decide if areas stay German or join Denmark.
Merchants and property owners along Tremont Street between Boylston and Scollay Square join theatrical representatives and others in a morning protest before street commissioners against converting the stretch into a one way thoroughfare.
Opponents warn a one way regulation could wreck Tremont street business. A hearing opens at 11 following a Retail Trade Board meeting that proposed widening Tremont and nearby streets by taking narrow land from the Common mall.
Mrs. Ethel Andrews and Francis Whitney, both of Holliston, died after a car crash that injured six people returning from a dance. Andrews died minutes after impact while Whitney died at Framingham Hospital. Police traced the six aboard the vehicle to the intermission excursion.
Mrs Herbert J Gurney chairs the Federated Women's Clubs of New England conference in Portland with the board of officers in session.
Mrs. Herbert J. Gurney of Wollaston Massachusetts was elected chairman of the conference of the boards of officers of the Federations of Women's Clubs of the New England States. Mrs. Robert Smith of White River Junction Vermont was elected vice chairman and Mrs. E B Harriman of Laconia New Hampshire secretary treasurer. The nominating committee included Mrs. Myrtle I T White Maine Mrs. W H Hoffman Connecticut and Mrs. Frederick E Dowling Massachusetts.
He thinks tram transport of school children to the dental clinic is no longer practicable and advocates two automobile buses funded by municipal appropriation. He urges city action to provide the buses through a public budget.
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