Boston Councillor Demands Coal Price Cut To 10.60
City Councillor Frank Ford alleges the Boston fuel committee failed the public by allowing coal to be sold at 11 per ton. He argues the temporary 10.50 to 11 rise was not lifted after summer and demands a final price of 10.60 to preserve fair profit and restore competition. Ford cites prior dealer-set prices and asserts the commission protects dealers over residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Storrow
New England
Frank Ford
Boston Fuel Committee
Ford
Storrow
Boston
Mr. Storrow
Profit Motive Behind Dealer Coalition In Coal Trade
A passage argues that allowing incompetent smaller dealers preserves their role to support larger, efficient dealers. This arrangement supposedly enables big coal firms to widen profit margins and reap enormous profits from coal sales.
Seven Cent Fare Controversy Tied to Gaston Firm
Richard H Long campaigns in South Boston Dorchester Roxbury and Brighton with a slate of speakers charging that the seven cent fare for the Boston Elevated was shaped by the law firm Gaston Snow and Saltonstall led by William A Gaston. He accuses the firm of steering contracts and obscuring wasteful spending in the Cambridge tunnel deal and Hugh Nawn Contracting Company relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Vahey
Boston
Dorchester
Roxbury
Brighton
Long
Gaston
Massachusetts
Elevated
Greater
Gaston, Snow & Saltonstall
William A. Gaston
Hugh Nawn Contracting Company
Army seeks 7 billion for 1919 expansion plans
The War Department asked Congress to provide 7.247 billion dollars in addition to prior estimates to fund an enlarged US army program. It envisions nearly 4,000,000 American soldiers in France next summer and another million in training at home, raising the 1919 army total to over 24 billion. Hearings begin tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
War Department
France
Dr. Charles H. Winn Re-Elected Medical Examiner
Dr. Charles H. Winn of Mission Hill Roxbury has been re elected medical examiner of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters. A Harvard Medical School graduate, he has served on the St Elizabeth Hospital staff and on the United States Board of Examining Surgeons for Pensions. He is chief examiner for eastern Massachusetts at Etna Life and holds multiple medical society memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Winn
Mission Hill
Roxbury
Order of Foresters
Harvard Medical School
Por. Winn
St. Francis Court
Winn
Massachusetts
Etna Life
Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters
Yale to Run United States Artillery Training School
Anson Phelps Stokes announces Yale University will host the only artillery training school connected with any American university. The Yale army laboratory school will train men for laboratory positions in field base and mobile hospitals and mobile laboratories abroad. Yale will also be the center for signal corps work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Anson Phelps Stokes
Yale University
Yale
Yale Army Laboratory School
Signal Corps
Pageant Planned by Massachusetts Schools for Liberty Loan Drive
At the State House a conference between the New England Liberty Loan committee and Massachusetts public school music supervisors resulted in plans for a pageant by school children tied to the fourth Liberty Loan drive. Oct 12 is likely the pageant date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State House
New England Liberty Loan Committee
Supervisors of Music of
Public Schools of
Massachusetts
Mansfield accuses Long of boodle in Democratic nominating race
Frederick W. Mansfield charged at Salem, Lynn, and Peabody rallies that Richard H. Long sought to buy the party nomination and run a doodle campaign. Judge Riley boasted Long would spend $100,000 to win the gubernatorial nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick W. Mansfield
Salem
Lynn
Peabody
Richard H. Long
Judge Riley
Long
Mr. Mansfield
War time political battles and hospital needs cited
The discussion centers on campaign finance by Mr. Long with war contract wealth, a costly nationwide operation, and the impact on Massachusetts politics including Parry and Walsh. Colonel Gaston urges more hospital beds for wounded soldiers, noting 129 600 Massachusetts men in service and the need to expand beds as thousands may require care through 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biz
Gaston
Massachusetts
United States
Robert Brigham Hospital
John W. Decrow
Hach
Massachusetts State Guard
Call for Massachusetts to Build a Thousand-Bed Postwar Hospital
A speaker argues for immediate state construction of a thousand-bed hospital near Boston to care for returning soldiers. He says existing facilities are strained and government hospitals alone cannot meet needs, urging state funding and federal support to establish long term care and reeducation for injured workers. He cites Peter Bent Brigham and Parker Hill as models and warns of doctor shortages affecting stay-at-home populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Parker Hill Hospital
The
Elks
Massachusetts
Boston
Gallivan Defends Loyalty Test At Dorchester Rally
Congressman Gallivan addressing rallies in Savin Hill Bow Doin Hamilton and Dorchester streets defended his loyalty record amid attacks from his opponent. He argued that only one vote opposed war with Austria and praised Senator Lodge for defending America against pro German pressure during the war vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savin Hill Avenue
Bowdoin
Hamilton
Field’s Corner
Dorchester Street
Broadway
Gallivan
Austria
Boston
House of Representatives
America
Germany
Congress
John J. Curley
Frank Seiberlich
City Hall
Washington
Lodge
Massachusetts
Snow Brief Drops in Watertown Briefly
Snow fell in Watertown today for almost an hour but melted as fast as it fell.
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Watertown
S. D
Senator Lodge Attacks Howe Over Pro German Propaganda
In Washington on September 17 Senator Lodge criticized Frederick C. Howe, federal immigration commissioner in New York, calling his writings pro German propaganda as he spoke against Wilson’s rejection of Germany’s peace feeler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frederick C. Howe
New York
Senator Lodge
Wilson
Germany
Howe Attacks War Books As German Propaganda Claims Cited
Senator Lodge denounces Howe for Why War and a Harper's article as contrary to Wilsonian ideals. He notes books banned from soldiers libraries, including works by Vierick Munsterberg Goldman, and accuses Howe of German propaganda influencing officials and military libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
Harper’s Magazine
Wilson
Baltimore
Lodge
Baker
George Sylvester Vierick
Hugo Munsterberg
Emma Goldman
France
Congress
Flier Chief Killed in Fall
First Lieutenant Robert S. Gillette of Hartford Connecticut chief observer of the second provisional wing and Second Lieutenant Edward C. Davidson of Elizabeth New Jersey flight commander 190th Aero Squadron were killed when their machine spun and crashed. Gillette was a Harvard Law student and a Plattsburg graduate from August 14 1917.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Robert S. Gillette
Hartford
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Mr. Ford
U. S. Army
Goodyear
Dr. Hubbard
Chase & Sanborn
DR. Winn
M. C. C. F. Examiner
Pageant
Mansfield
Parry
Edward P. Barry
David I. Walsh
United States Senate
Barry
Walsh
South Dakota
East
Bagdad
Port of
FLIER
Lieut
Gillette
Davidson
Texas
Magnolia
Georgette
Bolivia
COATS
C. Crawford Hollidge
Temple Place
Tremont Street
Chandler & Co
Panama
Serge
Hercules
Colona
John ‘Alden
Wm.Elliot
Campbell’s
Eee Intemost
United States Food
Union St. Somer
Canal St
Yma
Summer St
Washington Joie
Tremont
Bromfield
Boston Y. M. C. A
Boston Y. M. C
Huntington Ave
Tel
Back Bay
Bates Hall
Eral Wiliam Crozier
Dept
United States Army
A. Mitchell Palmer
William Openham & Sons
Madison Avenue
New York City
Horiesbourn
West 42d Street
Joseph F. Guffey
Bureau of Sales
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