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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1919
Page
21
Fitchburg police warn of a slick swindler offering a get rich quick plan. For a $60 investment he guarantees $500 profit from paraffine sales via house-to-house canvassing. He tried to recruit a prominent merchant but fled before police arrived.
Groundfish receipts near 25,000 pounds were landed by eight Italian power boats, led by Two Brothers with 5,000 pounds of soles and other fish. Tugs Boston arrives with coal barges for Boston, and Madawaska from Calcutta-Colombo docks at Mystic. Passengers aboard Grecian include Mrs B Calvert. Hydrographic notes warn of sea obstructions, wreckage, and a derelict. The Manuel Carragal sails for Ingramport to load lumber. Lake Otisco due Aug 11 with 17,000 bags of sugar, followed by Lake Copley from Guayabal.
The column lists ships arriving from Provincetown to North Dakota and Rockport to Suez with multiple steamers and barges, followed by vessels from New York to Portland and Lynn bound for various ports. A second line notes that destroyers Stribling Israel Bell and others have sailed.
Portsmouth vessel McDermot lists steamer connections from Liverpool North Land and Yarmouth to Baltimore City of Augusta Savannah Ontario with Norfolk links. Towing craft include I W Roebling Paoli Cadosia Hopatcong Luzon and Frances Scully Scully Rady and Harry bound for New York.
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