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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
11
A man named Brewster was pinned under a car on crossing tracks when his machine skidded. John J. Mahoney and Edward Sweeney, workmen nearby, freed him. A Texas-based note mentions a women’s group called the Ribs lub.
In Washington on September 28 the Senate cleared the way for debate on the Republican tax revision bill. Reading of uncontested committee amendments to the House bill finished and contested sections on income taxes corporate levies and transfers will be argued tomorrow. Senators McNary King Simmons Smoot and others outlined amendments likely to reshape the bill with higher rates on corporations and the wealthy. The chamber approved most stamp and tobacco taxes and provisions to speed tax claim settlements and create a tax simplification board. The Senate also authorized the Treasury to issue 500 million in short term notes for funding victory notes and indebtedness certificates.
Two automobiles were wrecked so badly they had to be towed away from Wyoming avenue and Main street in Melrose yesterday, but no occupants were injured. John W. W. Lawson of 155 Magazine street Cambridge driven south on Main street collided with I. Austin Hutchins of 16 Federal street Salem coming from Wyoming avenue.
Mrs Elinor Fraser Conant wife of Charles B Conant died Sunday night and was laid to rest yesterday afternoon in Cambridge Cemetery. Services were held at her son Louis F Conant’s home 28 Gurney Street Cambridge with Rev Asaph S Wicks officiating. The pallbearers included three Conant sons and John Slayter. Burial followed in the family plot. Floral tributes came from church groups and the Boston Post editorial staff.
The Washington conference on unemployment will begin considering a general emergency relief program Friday, five days ahead of plan. Reports from committees on unemployment statistics employment agencies and registration emergency public works and construction will be presented as progress continues.
Tonight and Saturday will be music carnival nights at the Strand ballroom on Huntington avenue. Eddie Schell's Orchestra from Pemberton Inn played last Tuesday with Miller's Strand Jazz. Walter Johnson will conduct his orchestra in person and show New York dance music styles. Frank Miller features Rudolph Starita on xylophone solos. Saturday Art Tornquist's Orchestra and Frank Miller's Jazz will perform. A special dancing exhibition and European bakers will be offered in the ventilated room with a circular floor, claimed as the finest in the state.
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