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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1914
Page
3
Ernest Moore of Arlington president of the Boston Market Gardeners Association stirred a Massachusetts State Board of Trade session at the Vendome with remarks on the price gap between dealer and consumer for lettuce, highlighting profit concerns.
Later President Moore told reporters that farmers get no cents a box for lettuce and dealers charge 8 to 19 cents per head. The discussion followed by John A. Schererle on efficiency methods and included a query to Lucius C. Smith about price differences. Moore noted dealers act human when profit appears. The executive council studied forestry policy and Boston banking plans and rejected the post office bill and a law holiday for New Year’s Day. state forestry officials outlined current work to protect forests.
In a four-year review the Finance Commission accuses Mayor Fitzgerald of payroll overexpansion and improper appointments while praising contract advertising. It urges limited nomination signatures, defends charter reforms, and notes tax hikes and debt control by the Council. The report endorses some reforms but warns against returning to old practices.
The commission praises the city council in some areas but faults its handling of department appropriations. It notes perfunctory hearings and insufficient study, while crediting efforts to curb mayoral extravagance and rising debt. The report urges charter changes raising nomination signatures and limiting filings with forged-pledge penalties.
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