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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1922
Page
3
Edwin J. Pride, certified accountant, investigated the New Tingland Milk Producers' Association accounts to determine farmer earnings. The report shows farmers lose money on every quart of milk produced.
The piece notes rising farm abandonments in Massachusetts tied to low milk prices paid to farmers who receive about 4½ to 6.69 cents per quart while Boston dealers gain 12½ to 15¼ cents. District Attorney O'Brien began an investigation after a publicity surge over a recent price rise. The New England Milk Producers Association lists thousands of members across several states and Canada, while a Turner Center System cooperative marketing effort grows under Capper-Volstead guidance to unite producers against powerful marketing firms controlling terms of sale. The report attributes the exodus of Massachusetts producers to market barriers dominated by large corporations.
City Councillor Francis J. W. Ford urged District Attorney O'Brien to present to the grand jury next Monday the case against Attorney General J. Weston Allen. The demand was made at a Roughan Hall rally in Charlestown during Ford's campaign. In Dorchester last night Councillor William J. Foley pressed O'Brien to reveal his stance on backing a Democratic nominee.
Health officials from Harvard Medical School announced that a stray dog that bit 4 year old May Eddie of 29 Willow Avenue Somerville was rabid. The bite occurred Thursday in Central Square Cambridge and the girl will receive Pasteur treatment to prevent infection.
Standard Oil, Gulf Refining, Texas Company, and Jenney Manufacturing cut retail gasolene to 7 cents a gallon, tank wagon to 25 cents. This is the first retail cut since July 15 despite three crude oil cuts, with no immediate explanation for the crude refined price gap.
Benjamin F. Wood, music publisher of Newton, died July 19. His will filed in the Cambridge court allocates about $200,000 estate with gifts to employees based on years of service, a $20,000 charity fund, $10,000 to Maine General Hospital, and private bequests to relatives and friends. The Wood Company in America and England is named in the will.
A Gloucester letter to the Post defends Captain Henry Larkin and the Mayflower, praising the American Race Committee’s mixed Boston and Gloucester leadership. The writer rejects jealousy claims, urges cooperation with the committee, and says Gloucester will back the Mayflower as a true American fisherman in the elimination race.
Mrs. Graziella Esposito testified she heard seven shots at about 6:45 on January 2 and saw a shadow as Michele Scarpone, living at 20 Unity Street, was killed leaving for work. The trial of seven men for Scarpone’s murder continued as questions over police notes and their admissibility in court were debated before Judge Dubuque.
A narrator visits Intervale and the North Conway Public Library to view Benjamin Champney’s paintings and notes his summer studio on Bromfield Street, Boston. The piece recalls Champney’s sixty years of memories, his Mount Washington scenes, and a fleeting sight of a cross formed by cloud and mist over Mount Washington.
Boston Chamber of Commerce campaigns for the aviation field fund report 19 days left to raise 481 dollars plus seven new donors. New contributions include Everett Morse and Charles A Morse at 359 each Henry A Morse and Anonymous at 200 each Charles F Ayer 10 and A Friend 32 bringing total to 7389 dollars.
NEW BEDFORD August 4 The girls pictured helping their father Manuel S Corey of St Rockdale avenue demolish the 75 year old Cannonville chapel at Rockdale avenue and Kempton street. The chapel was sold for removal due to widening the avenue and Corey plans to use the lumber to build a bungalow.
The service at St. Pauls Cathedral tomorrow will be broadcasted by the Shepard stores radio telephone broadcasting station. Mr John Shepard has connected his radio room with the Cathedral and installed receiving instruments to transmit the service sermon and hymn singing to amplifiers. The morning service begins at 11 o'clock.
Summer exposure leaves tan redness and roughness and freckles. The text promotes meteorizer wax as a gentle option that absorbs the surface skin overnight. Apply a thin layer to the face at night and remove with warm water in the morning. A mercorized wax product at the drug store is suggested for a week for daily improvement.
Unemployment insurance and state action to stabilize business were urged at the Wellesley Industrial Conference. Speakers argued pensioning unemployment via business managers, a cooperative insurance plan, and measures to reduce unemployment. Henry Dennison described his firm’s reserve fund. Professors Commons and Hoffman discussed systems in Wisconsin and England. W. W. Bingham cited psychology in hiring and efficiency.
Henry L. Shattuck of Lowell argues unemployment is an unmitigated evil and calls for financial provisions plus cooperative measures to combat it. He notes England's unemployment insurance offers only doles.
A substantial portion of Britain’s half million tons for the United States is en route with at least ten steamers headed to Boston and many more chartered to load for the Portland Norfolk area. The ships already bound for Boston carry about 400 tons of fuel.
Cambridge offices taxed to capacity as election papers arrive for state offices. Candidates include district attorney nominees Arthur Reading James Brennan John Glynn and William Andrew plus Mrs Anna Tillinghast filing for Senator second Middlesex district and others for state committee and representatives. Frederick W Dallinger faces opposition from John Daly and Francis Roche.
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