Rising Market Prompts Urgent Inventory Push
In a rising market buyers seek gains while supply lags with gloves scarce and demand rising. Dealers report cautious optimism as prices edge higher and stockouts persist in key categories.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
7
In a rising market buyers seek gains while supply lags with gloves scarce and demand rising. Dealers report cautious optimism as prices edge higher and stockouts persist in key categories.
A women's sweater shop reports fresh arrivals from the west including chamois vests at 7.50 and chamois shirts at 12.50. The Century Girl negligee with metal lace cape is now in town ahead of the show. Also in stock are Porto Rican baby items with hand drawn work and Normandy boudoir caps on the third floor in lace and Georgette crepe.
A. Francis Harrington public administrator leads a search for money and jewels hidden by Heinrich Jakober at 92 George Street Roxbury. Bank books and bonds totaling 16200 found. authorities seek relatives as Jakober’s sister is believed dead and his daughter is hospitalized. Funeral planned for Thursday at Mt Benedict Cemetery.
The Sunday evangelistic committee could not report a full total for the Billy Sunday offering. The known amount given to Mr. Sunday before departure plus church collections may not exceed about $53,000. Tremont Temple led with a $1500 check. other churches contributed smaller sums or did not report. The executive committee agreed to continue the campaign and to support ushers and door keepers, YWCA follow up with shop girl and student groups, and a $0.05 lunch program at Park Street Church yielded 30,000 meals with a $50 deficit. Salaries for workers in Boston totaled over $6000, with the financial report due next week.
Washington January 23 reports troop movements at the southern end of the U S line as War Department orders begin the withdrawal. Once these shifts finish, the main body is expected to move north.
Officials disclosed that the pullback from El Valle and Colonia Dublan carries national significance and is ordered from Washington. They avoided timing hints for a général northward move and did not confirm any immediate plan to withdraw Pershing's forces. After failed talks with Carranza, the administration signals future steps through action rather than statements.
Official dispatches report Villa and Zapata joining forces for operations against de facto armies. About 5000 men are concentrated near Chihuahua for a Villa campaign in the north. Carranza’s rejection of the Atlantic City protocol shifts settlement responsibility to the first chief with U.S. oversight to protect American interests.
Harvard will vote today on universal military training under the Harvard Crimon. Graham Blaine of Taunton and Charles Coolidge of Boston will go to Washington as delegates to testify before the Senate committee on military affairs and report the straw ballot outcome.
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