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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
2
Henry B. Endicott the state food administrator lauded Massachusetts hotel men for supporting meat and wheat saving campaigns. He noted November savings of 3,000,000 pounds of meat 926,960 pounds of flour and 125,775 pounds of sugar, urging customers to participate loyally.
The food administrator cites slow customer education as a hurdle. He notes Britain and allies lost 33 million cattle since the war, and America must raise wheat shipments from 88 to 220 million bushels. Endicott reports November savings of 3,181,790 pounds of meat and 8,446,855 pounds of fish. vows enforcement and a reckoning for profiteering competitors.
Boston hotel leaders report heavy losses due to new meatless days and higher overheads while stating they back Hoover's food conservation. At a Massachusetts Hotel Association quarterly meeting at Copley Plaza they conveyed ongoing financial sacrifice is for patriotic ends and pledged cooperation with the national food conservation effort.
Ralph L Power editor of Special Libraries spoke to the library class at Boston University College of Business Administration about what military personnel want to read. He urged discarding attic material with no value and noted a demand for pocket size volumes by authors such as Mark Twain O Henry Kipling Seeger Frost Masefield and Marsham.
Governor MéCall traveled from Boston with Rhode Island Governor Beeckman to address the Town Criers' Institution of the Board of Trade. Beeckman invited MéCall to speak on Massachusetts wartime efforts after returning from the European war zone.
An Italian youth from Arlington named Sabato Spino sought to enlist in Britain but, aided by a passerby, found the recruiting station at 44 Bromfield Street. After examination he chose to join the American army, declaring he is American with first papers.
Miss Katherine A. McMahon of the Red Cross civilian relief committee returned yesterday after nearly a month's work in Halifax. She says the city is well started on the road to reparation and upbuilding.
In Whit Bridgewater on January 3 a blaze after 6 am consumed a barn and stable housing nineteen cows two heifers two horses a Scotch collie and a car along with farm gear. Mrs Cheney awoke to the fire and alerted neighbors while the dwelling was saved by firefighters.
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