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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1917
Page
7
A daily rise in the fund for the 101st Infantry is noted with named supporters including James White David Stoneman Edward Lynch Henry Hornblower Miss Faulkner Allen Arnold Co Frank R Briggs and others. The total contribution stream marks strong community backing for the unit.
The Senate approved the war tax bill by 69 to 4 after four months of work and sent it back to the House for conference. Key conferees were Senators Simmons Stone Williams and Penrose Lodge. The bill cuts back on publishing taxes and postage while maintaining income and war profit taxes. The measure includes new rates on income, war profits, liquor, tobacco and utilities with variations from the House version.
Viscount Ishii head of the Japanese Mission arranged to receive a delegation from New York on Wednesday morning. The mission will tour the East visiting Philadelphia Newport Boston and return to Washington by September 19.
More than 600 milk drivers in Milk Drivers Local 308 anticipate pay envelopes today revealing a five dollar weekly raise from twenty dollars. Working hours are not expected to change. Affected firms include Elm Farm Milk Company Dorchester D Whiting & Son Charlestown Acton Farm Somerville Co Brigham Company Cambridge Oak Grove Farm Roxbury and several smaller contractors.
First Lieutenant Fitzsimmons of Kansas City, a member of the Harvard unit, was killed when German airmen bombed an American hospital in France last Thursday. He was recommended for promotion to captain on the day he died.
Missouri congressman introduces a bill to place Fitzsimmons’s name on the military roll as if he had lived. The first American officer to die in the war, his record would receive the promotion for life. Pershing’s War Department report confirms the deaths from a Sept. 4 bomb attack at Base Hospital No. 5 in France, listing Fitzsimmons and three wounded privates.
The Boston City Council refused Mayor Curley's $50,000 plan to reconstruct the Broadway bridge, insisting funds be raised by taxes rather than a loan. Vote split saw Ballantyne Collins Hagan Ford and Wellington against, Attridge McDonald and Watson in favor. A substitute proposal to use unexpended public works funds was discussed amid contention.
A municipal hearing reveals the reserve fund has dwindled to 32900. The session discusses budget gaps and potential measures to replenish city finances. Expressions of concern surface from council members and residents.
An old advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle laxative for infants and children. It claims the product relieves stomach waste congestion without narcotics and notes a fifty cent price with a free trial bottle by writing to Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
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