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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1922
Page
13
The public service committee reported leave to withdraw on a petition requiring a public hearing before veterans on police forces may be discharged or removed from the State Boston or Metropolitan Park police.
Warden Shattuck of the State prison will discuss prison conditions in Charlestown at an illustrated lecture. The event is Sunday evening February 19 at Romsey Street Congregational Church Dorchester. The public is invited.
Reports from local committees of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to the State headquarters show many communities have met and exceeded quotas, with some still working to reach totals. Subscriptions by mail keep arriving from Massachusetts and New England, with checks from California and New York. Anyone wishing to be represented may send subscriptions, large or small, to Massachusetts State Headquarters, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 101 Tremont Street, Boston.
Pork prices are advancing with roast pork, pork chops, and hams up from last week. Analysts expect a further increase as demand remains steady.
Mrs Edyth Macintosh widow of Robert Monroe Macintosh becomes heir to his estate. The will drawn ten years ago leaves her thirty thousand dollars cash and the residue of the estate after other bequests. Mrs Harriet N Macintosh receives ten thousand dollars. A ten thousand dollar trust is set for son Robert Jr until age thirty. Smaller sums go to sister Lilie M Donald and brother Edgar B Macintosh.
The market lists pork, lamb, beef and produce prices with varied cents per pound for roasts chops hams and sausages. Also notes current fiction The Little White Frock by Stacy Aumonier as a top year story coming in the Boston Sunday Post and room for signs about egg freshness and butter from Vermont and New York.
Retail prices show cod haddock and flounder at 8 cents per pound. Spawn cod tongues cheeks and salt cod 20 cents. Lemon sole tur bot and perch priced at 5 cents. Western salmon 80 and 86 cents, halibut weakfish smelts and shrimp 36 cents, striped bass bluefish 40 cents, and Spanish mackerel also 40 cents per pound.
Chairman Hull of the national committee launched the Democratic Congressional campaign in the Middle West in Indianapolis. He condemned Republican policy as aimless and inaction driven, accusing leaders of falsehoods and broken promises while the people seek relief. He referenced Lodge and Newberry in criticizing party leadership.
Cummings C. Chesney of Pittsfield Massachusetts received the Edison medal at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers tenth annual convention. He is chief engineer and general manager of General Electric's Pittsfield plant and invented an alternator transmitting 220000 volts in commercial service and tested to 1000000 volts.
Springfield on February 16 saw Tait Brothers, among the largest milk distributors in the area, implement a two cent price reduction.
A dated advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as fast relief for colds and grippe. It claims doses every two hours up to three clear nasal passageways, stops running nose, eases headache and feverishness, and costs only a few cents at drug stores. It adds the product acts without aid and tastes pleasant.
Ten year old Josephine Bressett of Proctorsville escaped alleged cruelty at home by saving 52 cents for a half fare to Rutland. She reached the depot frightened, told police of abuse, and was taken in by the Salvation Army and later the Red Cross for care.
War Department announces 29 awards on bids for 1,200,000 pairs of surplus trench and field shoes. Of 943 bids received, 123 rejected as nonconforming. Average price paid per pair by successful bidders is $1.83.
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