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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
3
A package containing $1000 in cash was stolen from an American Express Company truck at Pittsfield Union Station between 1:50 AM and unloading time. The truck supervisor saw the package on arrival but it vanished during unloading. Express and railroad detectives with local police are investigating.
Massachusetts dairy farmers anticipate a new crisis from regulations restricting milk sugar and shortening. They estimate 100000 quarts of milk will be left on their hands daily as supply exceeds demand. The table compares costs of old style milk bread and Hoover war loaf showing small per unit price differences.
Nearly all Boston bakers adopt the new war bread before the official rollout next Monday. Delegations of farmers bakers and Massachusetts food administration officials meet in Washington with Herbert Hoover to argue that milk reductions will hurt dairymen and bakeries. They cite a daily loss of hundreds of quarts of milk and an estimated statewide consumption of over 100 000 quarts in bread production with skimmed milk diverted to other uses including casine for paper gloss.
A card catalogue at Boston Public Library in the west gallery of the fine arts department lists thousands of periodicals received by major libraries and many well equipped special libraries nearby. The guide, being prepared for publication, helps locate publications across libraries.
Mr and Mrs James Duncan formerly of Burlington Vermont were arrested Thanksgiving night on charges of using the mails to defraud. They appeared before Judge Morton in federal court and were held to await grand jury action before being returned to Cambridge jail.
President Lowell of Harvard received a telegram from Dr. Hollis Godfrey of the Council of National Defence in Washington advising technically skilled students not to enlist now but to wait for the draft. The wire notes that War Secretary Baker aims to use each student’s specialty in the army, giving Harvard tech students a favorable opportunity by waiting.
General Pershing reports twelve American soldiers wounded on November 30 while engineers with British forces aided Byng near Cambrai. One man later said to be killed in despatches, but Pershing lists no names of the dead. Wounded are eleven seriously and one slightly. emergency addresses provided for families.
Policy holders at the Equitable Life Assurance Society head office in New York cast 16 000 ballots in person and by proxy on the plan of mutualizing the society. The State superintendent of insurance conducted the election and the result will be known in several days.
Representative Randall of California today introduced a bill to make the national capital bone dry. The recent prohibition law did not prohibit importation of liquor for personal use.
Plymouth county town representatives withdrew their protest against Public Services Commissioner Macleod seating on the Bay State cage. Macleod denied pre judgment and read remarks before the Street Railway Club, noting the accusations were based on a magazine article, not an address.
An appeal from G. W. Edwards of 2 Wilmore Street, Ntlington Heights invites fast amateur teams in the state to send game applications.
Oakland Hockey Club of Somerville seeks schedule games for the upcoming season. Officials invite inquiries from rival teams and leagues to arrange scrimmages and regular matchups at local rinks.
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