Profits of Retailers and Middlemen Under Scrutiny in Boston
Authorities in Boston and Massachusetts cities investigate profits of retailers and middlemen handling foodstuffs to expose prices paid by retailers for farm and packing house products. The campaign aims to reduce high living costs and show wholesale-to-retail margins amid price fluctuations in potatoes eggs pork and canned goods. Major Swanton and Colonel Hart prepare government plans for 14 retail food stores while posts on Army stores and storage rules are discussed.
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Boston
Massachusetts
H Cc. L
Bay State
Army Base
South
Elmer E. E. Swanton
Hart
Washington
Army
Quartermaster-General’'S Department
Post Office Department
Hurley
South Boston Army Base
The
Public Health Council
State Commissioner of Health
A. L. Parker
Boston Fish Pier Company
Mr. Poole
Commonwealth Ice Company
Hopedale Leads in Thrift Stamp Per Capita Sales
Massachusetts reports show Hopedale tops per capita thrift and war savings stamp sales with four dollar per person. The list of leaders includes Gosnold Bedford Mills Hawley and Scituate, with towns ahead of cities in total per capita sales.
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Massachusetts
Hopedale
Bay State
C. R. Burlingame
Statistical Bureau, Savings Division
First Federal Reserve District
Gosnold
Bedford
Millis
Hawley
Scituate
Nightly Struggles in a Tent on a Nova Scotia Campaign
In Chapter XV the narrator recalls cramped canvas beds and freezing June nights in Nova Scotia. He envies Eddie’s warmer sleeping-bag pockets and recounts Eddie's nightly care with leadership notes, liniment, and songs to ease fatigue as they share a lonely frontier bivouac.
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Nova Scotia
Eddie
Alice in Wonderland Read During Woods Visit
The narrator and Eddie retreat to a wooded camp and plan nightly reading. A copy of Alice in Wonderland is found on the table, leading to suspicions about the real nature of Eddie's religious reading. The next morning reveals an unexpected turn in the tale.
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Eddie
Alice
Edie
Two Officers Die In Plane Collision At Souther Field
Americas Ga Aug 28 Lieutenant John K. McRae of Washington State and Private Robert A Brook Newman Ga were killed when two planes collided at an altitude of 750 feet at Souther Field this afternoon.
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Americas
John K. McRae
Washington State
Robert A. Brook
Newman
Souther Field
Wheeler Palmer Wedding in Roxbury
Miss Edna Jeannette Palmer of Dorchester married William Harrison Wheeler 24 of Cambridge at Bethany Baptist Church Roxbury with Rev. Isaac Higginbotham presiding. Groom a Harvard graduate and law school alumnus. best man Captain Herbert B. Wheeler. flower girl Barbara Wheeler. couple to reside in Cambridge.
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Edna Jeannette Palmer
Dorchester
William Harrison Wheeler
Cambridge
Bethany Baptist Church
Roxbury
Isaac Higginbotham
Edgar F. Palmer
Harvard College
Harvard Law School
Herbert B. Wheeler
1Lth U. S. Infantry
Minnie Conn
Brookline
Barbara Wheeler
Pope Highlights League Of Nations In Provincetown Talk
Frank H. Pope spoke at the Town Hall on prophecies of the Great War and the need for a League of Nations. He argued isolation is impossible for the United States and emphasized international collaboration to secure civilization and prevent future wars. The talk drew a large, attentive audience.
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Provincetown
Frank H. Pope
Town Hall
League of Nations
Mr. Pope
Pork and grain take small slump in Chicago market
The $15 nog appears in the Chicago stockyard as the high cost of living victim’s purse grows thinner. Provisions grain live cattle and sheep slump, and meat products on the Board of Trade fall sharply, though the retail market does not reflect the declines.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Cup for Harry Hooper by Hooper A C Boston Members
The Hooper A C of Boston will hold a field day at Fenway Park on September 1. In a morning game the club plans to present Harry B Hooper with a loving cup, presented by John T W Manning president, with 12 club members assisting. In the afternoon the Hooper A C baseball team will contest a championship game at Soldiers Field.
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Hooper A. C
Boston
Fenway Park
Harry B. Hooper
John T. W. Manning
Hooper A.C
Soldiers Field
Reading a French Novel in a Camp Refuses Translation
A narrator battles a French translated novel in a remote camp where Eddie gobbles pages nightly. The scene contrasts English and French worlds with a duchess in the tale and the need for humor, patience, and camp order during weeks of sun and storm.
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Eddie
Gentle Alice
White Rabbit
To Be Continued in Tomorrow's Post
A reader notice states that the ongoing story will continue in tomorrow's Post and will likewise be carried in the Daily and Sunday Post on successive days until the complete report is finished.
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Tomorrow’s Post
Daily
Sunday Post
Irish Victory Fund Receives Wide City Donations
Contributions to the Irish Victory Fund are announced by John H. H. McNamee of the Prudential Trust Company. Donations from Boston parishioners and club members total hundreds of dollars, with numerous individuals listed and the Knights of St Finbar confirming a large additional subscription.
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Irish Victory Fund
John H. H. McNamee
Prudential Trust Company
Quilting Beed Up South End Caper Ends With Probation
A South End quilting bee ends with Arthur Murphy caught under a quilt at the police station after stealing a quilt and alarm clock during a quilting night. Murphy avoids harsher punishment on probation if he repays or replaces the missing items.
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South End
Sarah Ames
Quilty
Arthur Murphy
Officer Quilty
Mr.Murphy
Central Court
Justice
Mumphy
Survivors of Elmir Roberts Reach Hub
Captain J Jorgensen and 11 crew members of the four masted American schooner Elmir Roberts arrived on the North Land after the ship blew up a week earlier from a lamp explosion. They were landed at Yarmouth on Wednesday by the Roseway after their lifeboat drifted two days and nights. they saved only their clothes as flames spread rapidly.
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J. Jorgensen
Elmir Roberts
North Land
South
Yarmouth
Roseway
North Atlantic
Ten More Bar Men Arraigned in New York War Prohibition Case
NEW YORK Aug 28 Ten more saloonkeepers and bartenders were arraigned on charges of violating the war time prohibition act. All were held under bail for a further hearing.
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New York
Fruit-a-tives promote relief from rheumatism and pains
Verona reader W M Lampson claims years of rheumatism and side and back pain improved after using Fruit-a-tives. He reports strong health gains and notes price 50 cents per box, six for $2.50, trial size 95 cents, available at dealers or by mail from Fruit-A-Tives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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Verona
W. M. Lampson
Fruit-A-Tives Limited
Ogdensburg
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