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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1914
Page
13
European buyers began acquiring American wheat amid wartime risks. The British government guarantee against losses on ocean transport opened the way for further purchases of millions of bushels under contract to English ports.
Wheat advanced to 3 5-8 cents a bushel and closed 2 1-2 to 2 5-8 higher as other staples rose. An exporter called today’s grain market news good except for foreign exchange issues delaying purchase of foreign bills against foodstuffs. The Chicago Board of Trade planned to urge the U S Treasury to buy 25 to 40 million dollars of foreign exchange to aid grain exports and asked Wilson to press Allies to declare foodstuffs not contraband of war. A new clearing system and margin reductions were proposed to reduce tied capital to net differences only.
President Peter J. Nelligan of the Board of Aldermen became the youngest Acting Mayor in Massachusetts, taking charge of Cambridge city affairs during Mayor Good's vacation departure for East Yarmouth.
The Rev. Arthur Valley leaves Maplewood Congregational Church for Taftville Connecticut to lead a larger church. The Rev. Lyman Y. Rutledge moves to the Harvard Street Unitarian Church in Cambridge starting September 1. Rev. Ralph Bray will oversee summer services at Christ Church Andover on August 15 and 16. The Rev. Ernest G. Guthrie will shift from Burlington Vermont to Union Congregational Church Boston in September. Clarence M. Fogg of Methuen, fresh from Newton Theological Institution, will pastor Cherryfield Maine starting September 1. Summer religious services are held at Mothers Rest Revere Beach under Arthur Peabody.
William L. Shearer Jr vicepresident and treasurer of Paine Furniture Co is detained in Europe by the war He intended to sail on the Imperator last Saturday but could not leave port and wired Boston that he has secured emergency accommodations on the Laconia which is scheduled to sail this Saturday
Friends report Chelsea Mayor Edward Willard and family along with Joseph M. Curley in Europe during the war. Cards from Lucerne show plans to sail home from Paris, but Hamburg America line sailings are cancelled, forcing a possible stay as the conflict continues.
Cambridge drug stores described as dollar bar rooms at a hearing before the legislative recess committee. Speakers urged less state interference in municipal matters and a proposed shift of license control from the Board of Aldermen to a five member special commission.
The United Irish League of Boston Acknowledged a receipt of 14328 toward the Irish National Volunteer Fund at a meeting at their headquarters. Michael J. Jordan presided and said no further action until England clarifies its stance in Europe. Humphrey O'Sullivan reported Ireland has ample volunteers despite rumors of shortages.
Work begins immediately on the new Our Lady of Good Voyage church in Gloucester replacing the burned structure last winter. The project will cost about 80000 dollars with plans for completion. Also reports note clerical assignments and a parish fundraiser event by East Boston Sacred Heart parish youth planning a dance for the annual picnic and field day.
The longtime author Louis Joseph Vance starts his new serial Sheep's Clothing in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine. Readers are urged to not miss the first instalment.
French reservists and active soldiers in Boston began leaving the city yesterday. They plan to go to Montreal to board the first steamer home as soon as they settle their affairs. Applicants at the French consulate showed up in small groups to leave names and learn obligations, with some underage youths turned away.
The Boston area reports 45 Franconia crew and officers among mobilized reservists at the British consulate on Atlantic Avenue with others at the Russian and Austrian Hungarian offices. French mobilization orders direct all men of the 1914 class to report to the French consular offices in Boston or the New York consulate.
Clinton August 4 Peters F Ward clerk of Fitchburg police court was arrested on a charge of manslaughter after his car struck and killed George Bart lett of Lancaster in Depot square. Ward was released on bail of 2000 dollars.
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