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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1916

Page

10

Boston's Beauty Girl departs for New York amid farewell crowd

Miss Catheryn V. Devine, 16, Dorchester, named Boston's most beautiful girl, left South station for New York at 16 oclock after a send off by admirers. Aunt Margaret McGivern chaperoned. Beauty Judge Standish Willcox and City Hall officials attended. Mrs. James II. Devine stayed behind due to an accident but will join in New York tomorrow.

Catheryn V. Devine Dorchester Boston New York Margaret McGivern Standish Willcox Bay State Express James II Devine Hub Willcox

Fishing and shipping update from Boston harbor

From present indications fish will be scarce with only two vessels arriving yesterday. The Commonwealth brought in haddock cod and pollock while the Ruth carried haddock hake scrod and pollock. Wholesale prices cited for haddock cod pollock and cask. A new auxiliary fishing schooner, Acushia, will replace Pontiac wrecked last October. A French steamer Baggitanoloads flour for the French government and leaves for Havre. Bubonic plague disinfection noted in French port. Mont e and Macona sailings described with cargoes and dates. Christmas toys cargo and stowaway Jose Vahos mentioned. deportation appeal denied.

Commonwealth Ruth Haddock Essex Ernest Parsons Handkerchief Shoal Marseilles Irance Hoosac Decks Charlestown Havre Hudson Bay Line Morrison Louisiana Southern Pacific Line Monte New Orleans South Boston Grove Cardenas Matanzas Cuba New York Macona Boston Buenos Ayres City of Macon Savannah Germany Barber & Co Chester Penn United Fruit Timon Long Wharf Havana Port Limon C. R Joseph Bosich Brookline Jose Vahos San Mateo Washington the Department of Labor

Pa Van Loon Feels Family Busy with Early Christmas Shopping

Pa Van Loon notices his relatives rushing to complete Christmas shopping ahead of time. The note invites readers to see next Sunday's Post for a featured comic.

Pa van Loon

Turkeys Sell Next Week At 35 to 40 Cents A Pound

Marketmen report fresh turkey supplies and prices set to 35 to 40 cents per pound for next week. Flour prices show a slight drop with minor market change, while fish and produce costs rise on limited arrivals. Eggs fall to 64 cents, oranges 29 to 40 cents per dozen, salmon up to 35 cents per pound, lettuce 10 cents, spinach 30, and sweet potatoes five cents per pound. Meat prices listed: top round 28, rump 38, lamb forequarters 15, legs 20, roasting pork 20, sliced bacon 25, fresh chickens 30, boneless sirloin 28, hamburg steak 15, frankforts 17.

Florida Finnan

Shipping News: Fleet of Kanawha To Norfolk and New York

A long list details shipping arrivals and movements including fuel ship Kanawha Kennedy and multiple vessels from Marseilles Gibraltar and Boston to Norfolk New York and Philadelphia plus schooners tugs barges and steamers proceeding via Cape Jellison New York and Havana with numerous tows and ports.

United States Kanawha Kennedy Rockland Naval Course Kandahar Purcell Calcutta Baggitano Marseilles Gibraltar Prince George Simms Yarmouth N. S el Monte White New Orleans Tuscan Rogers Norfolk Coastwise Stromberg Newport News Harvey H. Brown McLean Bunker Hill Colberth New York Belfast Rawley Bangor Dingley Linscott Portland City of Gloucester Linneken Gloucester Sarah L. Davis Machiasport Nelson Y. McFarland Perkins Erwin J. Luce Webster Rockport Mass James Woolley Pierce Plymouth W. R Rose Elk W Garden Salem Philadelphia Cumberland Svendsen Baltimore Mercury Wall Searsport N. T. No Boylston Pocono Cape Jellison Charles T. Gallagher Huey Sandwich Albany Juno Simpson Maryland Vesta, Foote Lynn Portsmouth P. O’riorden Pruett Scituate Start Point Liverpool Boston Clan Sinclair Cape Town Limon Port Limon C. R Havana Wershaw Cretan H. F Plum Island Lehigh Perth Amboy N. J W. H. Yerkes, Jr Mary Horan Cheektowaga Sewall Point Leader S. Tit Sadie Ross Sharon Nottingham Port Johnson Newburyport Neponset Newport R. I S. T Murrell Annie

Harwich Land Disappearing as Bluff Crumbles into Sea

The Massachusetts Waterways Commission faces a petition to protect real estate in West Harwich and summer colony residents from coastal erosion. A recent southerly storm severed a 15 foot wide bluff section several hundred yards long, washing it into the sea and threatening the entire seaside settlement.

West Harwich Massachusetts Waterways Commission

Harwich Officials Consider Petitioning Over Bluff Erosion

Harwich selectmen and a Waterways Commission engineer surveyed a ravaged bluff and concluded that pursuing a petition is the appropriate remedy to address the erosion risk.

Harwich The Waterways Commission

Warrant Refused in Manslaughter Case Over Boylston Street Tragedy

A manslaughter warrant for Nicholas Rose, motorman of the Elevated train, was refused after eyewitness testimony in Police Court regarding the death of J. Austin McKeeman, assistant cashier at the Georgian, at Boylston street station on Wednesday night.

Nicholas Rose J. Austin McKeeman Boylston Street

Whaleback Floated but Quickly Sinks Near Cape Cod Canal

The whaleback steamer Bay Port, refloated by tugs after running aground Wednesday evening in the Cape Cod Canal, sank about a mile from the strike site yesterday morning. Officials fear the vessel will be a total loss.

Bay Port Cape Cod Canal

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