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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1917
Page
9
Directors of the National Association of Coal Operators met with Dr. Garfield the fuel administrator in Washington to discuss his planned controls on the coal industry. No statement was issued, but Garfield was expected to outline his policy after finishing work as wheat price committee chairman.
Operators show division on submitting to Wilson price scale pending Dr. Garfield's plan. They left Washington and will not return unless summoned. Some favor changes in the scale to address price inequalities as Garfield hopes to issue a policy statement tomorrow.
An advertisement targets readers with heart trouble and circulatory issues urging heart first treatment. It promises a free 50 cent CARDIANI bottle and heart health booklet by sending name and address to Department 6194 East Hampton Conn. The copy claims the product is non habit forming and safe, with quick symptom relief after illnesses.
The Cambridge Community Canning and Drying Station in Central square shows exceptional success under Mrs Lillian A R Pratt. Operated by the Cambridge Committee of Public Safety food conservation committee, Mrs Walter Burke chairs and oversees the station. Cambridge women may attend next week on all days except Monday, bringing their own produce to learn canning and drying methods.
In recent days Dr Garfield reviewed the Federal Trade Commission recommendations on a scale of retail prices. The focus is on assessing how price guidance might impact consumer markets and business practices.
Lewis A. Wallon 62 prominent Boston insurer and Hull summer resident was thrown from and run over by an electric train on the Nantasket branch of the New Haven Railroad yesterday. He lies in serious condition at Dr Sturgis Hospital, with physicians saying recovery is unlikely due to age. He was senior cashier at John C Paige & Company on Kilby Street.
Patrick McGuire, long considered Middlesex county’s oldest man, died in Hopkinton at 104. Born in Ireland he settled in Hopkinton 75 years ago and remained active as a farmer until a week before his death. He credited his health to abstaining from tobacco and liquor.
John Huskins of Dorchester faced Dorchester Municipal Court after being charged with giving short weight in a delivery to Patrolman William Hanrahan’s wife. He was fined five dollars and appealed. The ice plus tongs weighed 20 pounds, but the ice alone should have weighed 20 pounds.
Beef and lamb remain costly with limited supply and anticipated price rises. Sirloin roasts cost 45 cents per pound and sirloin steaks 50, rump 60, top round 45, bottom round 35. Lamb legs fetch 30 to 35, hindquarters 30 to 35. Fresh Eastern pork drops to 35 cents from 38 in the past week.
Fowl sellings range from 30 to 33 cents a pound for various birds, with roasting chickens at 85 to 40 and broilers 85 to 388 cents. Eggs, butter, vegetables, fruits, and fish show mixed shifts. butter up a cent per pound, eggs from nearby henneries at 65 a dozen, Maine eggs 58, Western 45. Fresh vegetables abundant with lettuce 16 cents a head, beans 6–10 cents quart, corn 20 cents per dozen, onions five pounds for 25, tomatoes 7 cents a pound, apples two quarts for 25 cents, and various fruits like peaches still high 40–60 cents per basket. Dry groceries unchanged with sugar at 12 cents per pound.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company must accept Public Service Commission terms and contract to build a subway station in Arlington Street or face reporting to the Governor and Council. The commission requires rent at 12.4 percent of net cost, matching other subway leases, with the Governor and Council as final appeal.
The Schoolhouse Commission secured 82 000 square feet of land on Louis Pasteur avenue in the Fenway as a site for the proposed Latin school and to protect the High School of Commerce. Seven of nine new school buildings planned to open this year will not be ready due to labor troubles and material delays. Only two projects will be ready: the Boston Trade School on Parker street at 280 000 dollars and the nine room addition to the High School of Practical Arts costing 460 000 dollars.
Congressman George Holden Tinkham urged Secretary of War to ask Congress to reimburse Massachusetts 15 375 dollars 52 for protecting bridges on main railroad lines during the current war. Massachusetts troops were paid from state funds after being ordered by War Department officials.
Police corrected a mistaken report that Brockton resident Thomas Barnes drove the car that struck and killed Miss Rose Ossimedicki of Dorchester. Investigators found Frank M. Keefe of Allston operated the vehicle that struck her with the running board, throwing her against Barnes’ car. Keefe's cooperation and police inquiry clarified the fatal incident.
Somerville Chief of Police Kendall refused a prospective groom's request for one or two cases of beer at a Sunday wedding reception in Columbian Hall West Somerville. He cited Somerville as a no license city and said no liquor may be brought into the city, forcing the reception to be held at the bride's parents' home.
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