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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
12
Faneuil Hall market closed at 3 yesterday due to heat. Local veg supply was plentiful except lettuce at 10 cents a head. Cabbage was abundant and often 2½ cents a pound, while potatoes dropped in price.
Lemons rise to 60 cents as green and yellow beans remain plentiful. Wholesale prices show green beans 50 cents and yellow 75, both five cents a quart retail. Texas onions, beets, and crookneck squash abundant. cantaloupes advancing. native tomatoes and green corn appear. Yesterday's prices include green apples 12 1 2 cents a quart, peaches 46 and 70 cents per 21 2 and 5 pound basket, pineapples 60 cents, cantaloupes 13 cents, lemons 60 cents a dozen, blueberries 23 a box, blackberries 23, currants 12 1 2, plums 15 and 20 cents a dozen, pears 35. Potatoes 42 cents a peck. Beets and carrots 5 cents a bunch. cucumbers 6 cents a pound. peas ½ cent a peck. celery 20 cents a head. Hothouse tomatoes 15 cents a round. native tomatoes cheaper elsewhere. Onions eight pounds for 25 cents. yellow turnips 4 cents a pound. corn 40 cents a dozen. No major changes in meats or dry groceries. dairy steady. Fish abundant. poultry shipments diminished by heat.
The pet French bulldog Trixy, owned by Mrs. Robert N. Chapman of the New Winthrop Hotel, was buried after dying from heat. Two physicians were summoned but could not save him. Trixy, nine, weighed seven pounds, with a costly casket, and his sire Nikole Gammin valued at $10,000 in Paris was exhibited.
Washington Aug 2 The Shipping Board prepares to seize all American tonnage as wartime needs grow. President Wilson also ordered steel exports to Japan halted unless Japanese vessels are diverted to war uses.
The Shipping Board is expected to reveal a commandeering program within days authorizing the seizure of ships by the President and likely returning vessels to owners for operation. The government aims to influence trade routes via charter control while lowering ocean freight rates. Norway and Holland may release tonnage for allied use in exchange for food shipments.
All meetings scheduled yesterday on Boston Common were postponed because of the heat. The Knights of Columbus war fund rally was deferred. About £200 was raised during the day. Women connected with the organization will set a new tent beside the current one to help raise funds, headed by Mrs. Robert T. Allen of Dorchester with support from prominent Catholic women.
The Medford Board of Aldermen filed in Superior Court at East Cambridge to compel architect Michael A. Dyer to disclose the name of the Alderman he says demanded payment for influence on remodeling plans for the central fire station.
The First Regiment Field Artillery seeks horses immediately. Merchants are asked to contact Herbert S. Allen at Fort Hill 3889. A government inspection board will meet Tuesday at the Commonwealth Armory to supervise horse purchases. Requirements: geldings, no whites or trays, 5 to 6 years old, 15 to 16 hands, 1100 to 1350 pounds.
Chief Peter Niven of the Boston Caledonian Club leads a Scotch Day fundraiser in Greater Boston at Caledonian Grove tomorrow. The picnic and games aim to boost the Red Cross relief fund for Scotch soldiers abroad, with receipts partly donated and contributor buttons awarded to supporters.
Walter F Reb OConnell longtime instructor for the boys at the Concord Centre playground has joined the Hospital Corps in Concord on Aug 3.
Evangelist E. L. Cardey told Berkey street tent listeners that upon death all consciousness ends. He argued that Christian scripture rejects heaven as immediate afterlife and calls the belief a relic of heathenism. He announced Sunday’s topic as Is the Kaiser the anti Christ.
Delegates endured a week of heat and stifling heat in an ill ventilated chamber. They voted to adjourn until morning after about three hours in shirtsleeves. At noon the convention halted for the day and the House followed with no afternoon session.
Special memorial services for Harmon Tushnell Craig son of Mr and Mrs John Craig Boston actors will be held Sunday at 4 pm in the Church of the Advent Boston He was a Harvard student before serving as an ambulance driver in France and was killed in action by a bursting shell News of his death reached his mother as she returned from visiting him in France.
Philip Margolis of 120 Ash Street Chelsea died at Frost Hospital from a hammer blow after a clamp-screw loosened a rag-picking machine in Samuel S Vinal's shop 85 Spruce Street Chelsea. The hammer flew off crushing his skull as he operated the machine. he was 30 years old.
Remonstrants at a Dorchester City Hall hearing alleged fraud in gathering signatures for a petition to move a picture house in Codman Square. They tied the case to Marks Angel, dubbed junk king and ally of Mayor Curley, and urged Mayor Curley to reject the permit, citing rumors of favoritism toward Angel and others close to the mayor.
Ex Alderman Patrick Bowen backs the project as Mayor Curley opens a public hearing to verify facts. Curley cites a Corporation Counsel ruling that a license cannot be denied if building laws are met while exposing alleged misrepresentation by petition circulators. He takes the matter under advisement after pros and cons are heard.
Red Cross dietitian Mrs Elbert A Harvey told Woman's City Club members that a breakfast can be nourishing without eggs or meat if it includes fruit cereal and toast. She listed minerals protein starch sugar fat fiber and vitamins from various foods and advised balanced menus and simple flavors.
Ottawa reports WW Hanna food controller recommends mandatory rationing across Canada with two meatless days and two baconless days weekly. Caterers serving twenty five meals daily would be required to provide non pure wheat bread, with penalties to be fixed by the government. War needs and aid to allied nations justify the plan.
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