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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
9
Prices stay high through Christmas week with many delicacies costly in Boston markets. Australian lamb is six months younger than native lamb this season, legs and loins cost 3 cents a pound less than American lamb, and eggs and turkeys are available for less than last week. Striped bass arrives in plentiful supply.
A lengthy list shows varied prices for fish vegetables fruit and meats with notes on recent changes including eggs turkeys and apples. The piece also advertises next Sundays Post comic section featuring Muggsy Willie Gasolene Gus Dolly Dimple and the Tiny Tads for readers.
Funeral services for Edward H. Nichols were held at his residence 97 Sewell Avenue Brookline yesterday. Prominent business associates attended. The Rev Willis P Odell of St Mark's M E Church officiated. Hymns Abide with Me and Jesus Lover of My Soul were sung by the Pilgrim Male Quartet. Ushers included Fitzroy Kelly Chester S Stoddard Thomas L Perkins George A Gleason James H Shapleigh and Sidney L Burr. Interment followed at Forest Hills Cemetery.
Harvard observed its Christmas service in Appleton Chapel last evening with the college choir and Radcliffe choir under Dr. A. T. Davison Jr. The program featured Scripture readings and Christmas carols, held after the college Saturday closing.
New York December 18 The annual report of the Union Pacific Railroad Company shows a profit of about 59 million dollars from sales of Northern Pacific and Great Northern railway shares and about 16 million dollars from Southern Pacific holdings totaling roughly 75 million dollars in profit.
Rumors swirl around the Stenographers’ Benefit Association meeting at Perkins Hall 11 Boylston Street. Officials debate whether male stenographers should join the group while inviting nonmembers to the Christmas tree event.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire seven workers were buried when a trench collapsed in a brewery yard. Salvatore Serra was suffocated before rescue. Afalo Sziengke was hospitalized and thought to be dying. The others escaped with minor injuries.
Secretary Bryan says the time given for former President Zelaya to leave the United States has expired. Zelaya’s Washington attorneys telegraphed in New York asking when he plans to sail for Barcelona after extradition proceedings on murder charges were dropped.
Cincinnati police court issued sixteen warrants for men alleged to have participated in the spring street car strike violence. The warrants stem from an assault on a car on May 1 when debris including cement barrels stones and steel pieces was hurled from a building above the car carrying non union workers.
A rare set of Benjamin Franklin printed law books sold in Philadelphia to the New York State Library for 415 dollars. The 17 folios, dated 1759 to 1764, were from Robert F. Skuteh of Baltimore and are cited as premier Franklin papers.
Washington December 18 the Democratic legislative machinery runs smoothly as the currency bill moves toward final passage in the Senate The last opposition amendments are voted down and Senator Owen begins presenting Democratic amendments meant to perfect the measure, adopted without strenuous protest.
In the House Speaker Clar and Majority Leader Underwood said the measure would go to the President and be written into law by Monday or Tuesday at the latest. An adjournment resolution would grant Congress a holiday recess until January 12 after the bill passes. Informal talks in both houses narrowed key differences as Senator Hitchcock and Republicans failed to push their ideas.
John Purroy Mitchel, mayor elect of New York, announced that he cannot fulfill duties as an after dinner and after breakfast mayor. He said he cannot respond to all invitations while attending to city business.
Concord jury awards Andrew G. Stewes two thousand three hundred dollars for the loss of three fingers in a suit against the American Woolen Company filed in Concord.
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