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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
20
The Boston market district reports acute sugar shortages while flour limits persist at one bag per customer. Condensed milk is scarce and vinegar is in short supply. butter rises two cents per pound. Turkeys fall to 40 to 45 cents, lamb cuts and ham prices shown. eggs and butter see notable moves as weather slows shipping.
On the Chamber of Commerce floor 4736 bales of Australian greasy wool were auctioned to Boston New York and Philadelphia buyers. The sale under the British Government pledge to relieve the wool shortage raised funds for the Red Cross with a first lot bid by Textile Alliance Inc. for 1.50 per pound and later sold to William G Gaunt of Bradford for 2. Lot 135 of 15 bales Geelong Melbourne greasy first fetched 1.10.
Letter from Second Lieutenant E A Dowd of the 101st Field Artillery praises the careful treatment of Army horses during sea transit. He credits medicines from the charity and notes the horses landed in excellent condition, with officers like Dr Kingston also praising the care. He urges ongoing support for the Army Horse Relief Fund and mentions feeding birds during cold weather.
Patrolman William Harrington saved Francis Maley a 90 year old resident of 125 F Street South Boston from a blaze shortly before midnight. Harrington, at a police box opposite the home, alerted the fire department, forced entry through a window and carried Maley to safety into a neighbor's home after finding him unconscious from smoke.
Camp Devens Jan 3 Enlisted men selected for the officers training school to open Jan 7 will not be commissioned after the course ends April 6. They will be returned to their present ratings in the companies they leave next Saturday at noon. Schenectady area soldiers, whose barracks burned Tuesday night, were given personal toilet kits tonight by a Boston woman who arranged a kit for every man in Building 27 of the Y M C A after learning of the fire loss.
Mrs Annie Sherwood Hawks author of I Need Thee Every Hour died of heart disease in Bennington Vermont at 83. Born 1835 in Hoosick New York she wrote from youth and became a renowned gospel hymn writer with works translated worldwide and lasting influence.
Thomas McLaughlin 40, unmarried, was found unconscious in bed at 33 Woodbine Street Roxbury yesterday from escaping gas. He died later at City Hospital, and lived with his sister Catherine McCloskey.
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