Price of meat soaring as shortages hit local market
Wholesale markets show scarce choice beef, lamb and pork prices jump. Beef retail up a fraction, lamb up three cents, pork up one cent. Western packers accused of holding back shipments to drive costs higher. No Meat Club pushes federal inquiry into cold storage and price fixing, letters sent to Attorney General Wickersham and US District Attorney French. Legislature delays food price investigation pending judiciary order actions.
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William R. Scharton
No Meat Club
Pelletier
Grand Jury
Schartan
United States
George Wickersham
Asa B. French
George W. Wickersham
Washington, D. C
Sir
No Meat Club of
Boston
Wickersham
Washington
O’brien
Joint Legislative Committee On Ways and Means
Ross
Bristol
Committee On Judiciary
Pape's Diuretic Promises Quick Kidney Relief
Hundreds suffer from kidney and back issues until Pape's Diuretic is taken. A fifty cent course is claimed to cleanse the kidneys bladder and urinary system, end backache and nocturnal urination, and provide prompt curative results.
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Pape
Pape, Thompson & Pape
Cincinnat
NO MEAT DIET ADVICE TO EDITOR FROM S P
A reader suggests practical guidance for pursuing a non meat diet amid a meat boycott. Advice covers eating slowly, frugal meals with fruit or vegetables, avoiding meat substitutes, how to use eggs sparingly, proper digestion with parsley or mushrooms, and using nuts carefully with lemon moistening for better texture. Raw prunes and peanuts noted as preventive.
Hoar Urges Law Change to Curb Convention Frauds
Harvard committee on legislation backs a bill to stop fraudulent credential transfers at political conventions and to enable roll calls. Hoar and Van Rensselaer told lawmakers that current law lets ringers pack conventions by forging or misusing credentials, while proposed rules would require caucus certification and forbid transfers. Also noted were grand jury testimony on storage and rail issues, and a New Hampshire inspired model bill.
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Harvard Committee On Legislation
State House
Roger Sherman Hoar
Harvord
Democratic State Committee
Bernard van Rensselaer
Hoar
van Rensselaer
American House
Quincy House
the Commonwealth
Winston Churchill
New Hampshire
Benefits of Cold Storage in New Jersey Food Costs
New York report outlines railroad and poultry trade roles as Hudson county probes into cold storage reserves and common carrier service push prices higher. Rail terminals in Jersey City and adjacent slaughter houses and cold storage plants near freight yards connect supply lines to the elevated cost of living.
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Lackawanna
Erie
Pennsylvania
Swift & Co
Grand Jury
United States
Union Terminal
Jersey City
New York
James Brady
West
Hudson County
N. J
New York Poultry and Game Trade Association
McCumber Uses Restaurant Prices To Boost Farm Wages
Senator McCumber of North Dakota argues to clear farmers of high food costs by citing Senate restaurant prices. He notes sirloin and tenderloin at the restaurant range $1.15 to $8 and $3 to $4 respectively, bread at 10 cents. He claims a steer value of $60 to $80 versus a suggested $2,500, and asserts a loaf price and wheat bushel figures imply farmers should get higher prices.
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Washington
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate
Franck Mass in A to be sung at fourth vesper service
Cesar Franck's Mass in A will be sung at the Union Church vesper service on Columbus avenue tomorrow evening. Mrs. Ross Hall Maynard will be the pianist and Mrs. Georgia Pray Laselle will assist on cello.
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Cesar Franck
Union Church
Columbus Avenue
Ross Hall Maynard
Georgia Pray Laselle
Graves Grain Alcohol Ad From Graves & Sons Boston
Ask your druggist for an 8 16 or 32 ounce sealed package of Graves Grain Alcohol Melvin and Badger sell and recommend it Many leading family druggists sell it not only in Boston but in towns across New England Look for the firm name over the cork in each bottle and on the face label CHESTER H GRAVES SONS Distillers Boston Mass
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Melvin & Badger
Boston
New England
Chester
H. Graves & Sons Distillers
Mass
Cole Picked as Surveyor in Boston Port Field
John M. Cole of Andover a former House speaker is named by some high ranking Republicans as the next surveyor of the port. He could take the post after Jeremiah J. McCarthy’s term ends next June. Cole has aligned with Governor Draper and bridged the rift with Lieutenant Governor Frollingham pending the next election.
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John M. Cole
Andover
Republican Party
Jeremiah J. McCarthy
Cole
Draper
Frothingham
Grand Trunk Blocks Peace in Freight Rate Talks
In New Haven on February 4 1900 the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad may accept higher westward rates from 69 to 75 cents per hundred pounds but the Grand Trunk Company refuses to raise its rate via New London from 65 to 79 cents. A conference of involved lines is planned soon to attempt settlement.
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New Haven, Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Grand Trunk Company
New London
Standard Trunk Lines
Nomination Papers Open For Cambridge Primaries
Democratic nomination papers for Cambridge city offices opened at city committee headquarters. Mayor William F. Brooks seeks renomination against John J. Scott. Eighteen candidates for the Board of Aldermen and twenty one for the Common Council. James J. Casey unaffiliated for assessor. School Board filings include Mrs. Florence Lee Whitman, Henry O. Lacy, James B. Vallely, and Charles F. McHugh.
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Cambridge
William F. Brooks
John J. Scott
Clarence F. Glover
Board of Aldermen
Common Council
James J. Casey
Florence Lee Whitman
Henry O. Lacy
James B. Vallely
Charles F. McHugh
Wireless men protest pro and con at New England meeting
Resolutions adopted by the New England Wireless Society at Youngs Hotel protest the appointment of a National Wireless Commission unless manufacturers and experimenters are properly represented. Congressman Ernest W Roberts of Massachusetts has introduced a bill for a seven member presidential commission with government and commercial wireless company representatives to set rules for wireless use.
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New England Wireless Society
Young’s Hotel
National Wireless Commission
Ernest W. Roberts
Massachusetts
Congress
Ireland Facing a Crisis Press Comments in Boston
Letters and telegrams from Ireland in recent days show a situation far worse than the rack rents era and a potential rise in emigration. US dressed beef is cited as one cause, signaling heightened distress and possible policy concerns.
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Boston
Ireland
United States
Irish crisis urged by Boston Gaelic circle in misery report
A Boston circle of prominent Irishmen in Gaelic circles warns Ireland faces its greatest crisis. Through Martin J. Mulray they describe collapsing west and south conditions, falling farm prices, and American beef and other imports diverted via British contractors. They warn the Liberal budget would tax Ireland $10,000,000 yearly, propose large imports reform, and note protests in Roscommon, Wexford, and Tipperary.
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Boston
Ireland
Martin J. Mulray
United States
England
House of Lords
Roscommon
Wexford
Tipperary
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Game and Poultry
New York City Federation of Women's Clubs
Roger Sherman
Washington St
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McCarthy
Grand Trunk
Magic Foot Draft Co
Dept. D
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Magic Foot Craft Co
Oliver Bldg
Jackson, Michigan
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