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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1920
Page
3
A new price is announced for granulated sugar in packages with this year's crop at 17 cents a pound and clarified sugar at 19 cents. The cold weather pushes up prices of perishable vegetables and fruits as well as fish and meats, especially lamb and ham.
Short legs of lamb are 42 cents per pound, kidney lamb chops 6 cents, shoulders 25 cents, hams higher at wholesale with retail rising. Potatoes at 75 cents per peck, root vegetables scarcer and pricier. Groundfish up 3 cents, cod haddock flounder 15 cents. Eggs fall. best grade five cents lower per dozen. Butter steady but likely to decline.
Little Walks About Boston highlights Anne Bradstreet as the first New England poet and a lovable figure. It notes her lineage including Rich ard H. Dana Wendell Phillips and Oliver Wendell Holmes, her father Governor Thomas Dudley, and her marriage to Simon Bradstreet. It covers her Boston years Cambridge Ipswich Andover, the 1650 London printing, later Boston edition, and critics from Cotton Mather.
Professor Charles D Bray long time Tufts mechanical engineering chair dies at his West Somerville home from pneumonia. His wife Mrs Bray died a week earlier. Born in Valley Falls Rhode Island, he graduated Brown University in 1854 and served in the Ninth Rhode Island Volunteers during the Civil War. He held the Tufts chair for 99 years before retiring in 1908.
Advertise a remedy claiming to ease cold symptoms by using Father John’s Medicine. The copy promotes quick relief and frequent dosage instructions with generic health claims. The message targets consumers seeking over the counter relief.
Pan American financial congress convened its second general session with William G. McAdoo presiding. Dr John Bassett Moore outlined the International High Commission's work while Argentina requested US banking law changes to allow South American bank branches.
Berkshire juror William E B Curtis trekked from Mt Washington to Great Barrington in 12 miles through snow drifts up to 10 feet. He left at 3 a m, hiked to South Egremont, rode a train to Pittsfield, and reached court just before it convened, finding a toe frozen in the cold.
Charles D Mitchell a leading humorist will headline a new installment of Follies of the Passing Show titled According to the Ads to appear in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece showcases his witty satire and popular appeal in the current period.
In New York on January 20, the minimum fair price list from Federal Food Administrator Williams estimates a destitute man would need 53.69 dollars for a full outfit including suit and overcoat, with a wife needing 76.94 dollars for similar wardrobe, and little boys at 20.43 dollars for suits, overcoats and shoes.
Maine women prepare to watch the Republican and Democratic State conventions in Bangor City Hall at the end of March. Though suffrage remains undecided, they will attend in large numbers to learn about politics and gauge the proceedings.
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