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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1917
Page
6
A Mainis farmer writes to the editor detailing rising costs, low crop yields, and delayed fur, milk, and hay prices. He cites weather, animal predation, and labor costs as pressures, argues profits lie between producer and consumer, and urges more farmer voices in print.
The Land Court under Judge Davis denied Sarah I. Scully’s bid to lift the Dana restrictions on land near Dana Street and Massachusetts Avenue. The 1835 setback and use limits bar trades such as tanners, bakers, and smiths. Judge Davis noted the area remains residential despite apartment buildings and offices nearby.
The Chicago Nationals released Arthur J. Shay a Boston semi professional shortstop to the St Joseph club of the Western league. Scott Perry a pitcher bought from the Atlanta club of the Southern league was turned back to Atlanta.
The Middlesex School baseball team faces Boston High School of Commerce this afternoon on the Middlesex diamond in Concord. The game pits local programs against each other as they vie for wins this season.
More than twenty candidates seek the Suffolk county sheriff post left by the late John Quinn. Gov McCall plans to appoint a Democrat, arguing a Republican choice could spark fall opposition. Potential contenders include Edward Graves, J Mitchel Galvin, John A Kelcher, Timothy Buckley, Daniel Whelton, Guy Murchie, Edward McLaughlin, Edward McSweeney, William McNary and James Powers with backing from local and state figures.
Nine fishing schooners lying idle for six weeks due to crew strikes sailed yesterday with Portuguese substitutes. Vessels H. L. Marshall Ralph Brown Mary F. Sears Elsie G. Silva J. M. Marshall Albert W. Black Mary DeCosta Mary J. Sennett Edith Silveira carried 6 500 pounds of svrad. Boston fish trade shows sharp drop with 19 vessels reporting 875 620 pounds of groundfish in the week ending Thursday night versus 48 arrivals and 3 198 590 pounds a year ago.
Hanover N H April 13. With the baseball schedule canceled by the new military training course the athletic council will set up eight or more teams. Each team will be assigned to a company of the Dartmouth unit.
The Chicago Nationals cut their roster to 35 players by releasing outfielder Merwin Jacobson and pitcher Lynch to the Toronto club of the International league. Jacobson joined from New York in the Zimmerman trade last year.
The Arlington High School nine versus Salem Normal School at Salem was cancelled due to bad weather. Arlington's alumni game scheduled for this afternoon will be played in June instead.
A chaotic report notes a meeting discussing plans for a beach show. It mentions judges, an exhibit, and potential use of facilities, with unclear references to Avon and a Burnsdale location. The text is garbled and hard to follow.
A survey of recent novels highlights Zephine Humphrey’s Grail Fire set in Vermont with Francis Merwin and Eleanor Ramsay, plus New England tales by Helen M. Martin and Sidney Nyburg. Other notable works include Those Fitznergers, Too Much Efficiency, The Triflers, Jan and Her Job, Louisburg Square, and The Chosen People among diverse chapters of love, ambition, and regional life.
The text recalls Pepys noting German engineers proposing ship sinking devices in 1662 and 1663. It also cites Stephen Graham's 1916 discussion of Maxim Gorky urging Russia to abandon mystic melancholy and adopt businesslike pragmatism.
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