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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
5
Markets yesterday showed higher prices for seafood and staples. Cod and haddock traded around 12 cents a pound, apples 30 to 50 cents a dozen, eggs 69 cents a dozen, rump steak 38 cents, lamb chops 30 to 38 cents a pound, and onions and root vegetables seven cents.
Flour bids eased by 2 cents with Pillsbury at 11.25 per barrel. Spinach 20 cents peck, lemons 25 per dozen, Florida oranges 80 cents, white potatoes 4 cents peck, sweet potatoes seven pounds per quarter. Yesterday's quotations include bluefish 30 cents pound, butterfish 20, mackerel 25, salmon 380 cents, fresh shrimp 25, boiled shrimp 35, whitefish 30, scrod 15, spawn listed.
A long catalog of market prices including eels at 8 cents per pound and turf fish at 18 cents. It lists produce from lettuce at 7 cents a head to onions at 7 cents a pound, with many fruits and meats including oranges 29 45 and 60 a dozen and fresh turkeys 35 to 60 cents a pound.
Senator elect Herman Hormel pushes a bill to authorize the State House Commission to erect furnish and equip an executive residence on state land as a reproduction of the old Governor Hancock house, creating a governor's mansion.
Cardinal O'Connell marks his 57th birthday with 9 o'clock mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Attended by Rev. William J. Finnegan and parish clergy, he will bless the congregation. The League of Catholic Women presents a silk canopy for processions of the Blessed Sacrament. Feast of the Immaculate Conception adds cross veneration at 3 and evening services at 7:30 with rosary sermon and benediction.
Two vessels expected at the Charlestown navy yard today are the Arethusa and the Kana wha. The Kana wha, displacing 14,500 tons, will undergo final inspection and trial spin, while the Arethusa arrives from Port Arthur Texas with an oil cargo for the yard.
WEST ACTON plans a town wide Christmas Eve song service with Mrs. Alice Worcester Weeks in charge. The first rehearsal is set for Sunday night in the vestry of the Baptist Church.
After darkness the Shubert Theatre in Boston reopened with You're in Love a musical comedy by Rudolph Friml and Otto Hauerbach. Arthur Hammerstein produced the revival and assembled strong principals and chorus. The show features a simple plot and witty situations with a notably fine Friml score.
A light comedy opera centers on Georgiana who falls for shy Hobby Douglas. A one year marriage contract set by her domineering aunt Mrs Payton tests the couple before they wed. Marie Flynn stars with Richard Taber, joined by May Thompson, Burrell Barbetto, Florine Arnold and Al Roberts in a bright score and engaging performances.
The article notes a group of youthful women with notable good looks and a lively entertainment program. It promises a prosperous stay for visitors during the holiday season as the act unites charm with a robust showmanship.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell spoke to about 100 students and faculty at Tower Court WelLet College on Spanish American literature. She read Spanish American poetry and praised the beauty and commercial value of the language. She announced that a department of Spanish American literature will be inaugurated at the college and urged students to enroll.
Two National Guardsmen Corporal Harvey A. Edwards of Brooklyn and Private Daniel Dresser of New York rode a motorcycle from McAllen Texas to Albany in 14 days carrying a message from Major General John F. O’Ryan. They failed to deliver it to Governor Whitman as he was out of town.
San Antonio December 7 6767 National Guard troops on border duty including New York units at Pharr and McAllen designated by General Funston to depart under War Department orders. 5000 to 6000 troops slated for release. Massachusetts Ambulance Company No 1 El Paso among those designated to leave.
Short circuiting of electric wires caused a basement fire in the residence of Allan Forbes president of the State Street Trust Company at 70 Beacon street Back Bay yesterday afternoon. Damage was slight.
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