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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1918
Page
12
A committee from the Boston Chamber of Commerce retail trade board will travel to Washington next Tuesday to meet the federal fuel administrator. They seek a revision of closing hours so stores may stay open six days a week for seven hours daily.
The Boston board forms a six member committee including F Alexander Chandler and Louis K Liggett to travel to Washington next Tuesday. They will coordinate with New York Chicago and Philadelphia committees to press for changes in fuel curtailment policies and possible 25 percent operation reductions. Windows may be lit for one hour before sunset but administrator Storrow cites grave shortages.
Chicago Jan. 2. Police say John Dell Claude alias John King a sailor at the Great Lakes training station confessed to the murder of John Henry Becker one of the jackies on Nov 10 and to numerous assaults and robberies of other jackies Becker lived in St Louis.
Allegations that a Russian consul in New York issued Russian citizenship certificates to foreign born men at eight cents each were read to the district draft board by Charles E. Hughes. The letter said holders sought deferred classification as aliens through the certificates.
Locally grown vegetables were plentiful yesterday in the Boston produce market. The Boston office of the United States Bureau of Markets issued a statement detailing farm produce in the market and its prices.
The Bureau notes celery and lettuce are plentiful with celery at 1.75 to 2.25 per dozen bunches and lettuce 0.75 to 1.25 per 18 heads. California celery at 1.25 to 1.40 per dozen. Hubbard squash abundant with over 50 000 pounds, prices 2.12 to 3 cents per pound, higher for fancy Blue Hubbards. Shipped in spinach green beans and hothouse tomatoes scarce and costly. Near zero weather reaches Texas and affects southern supplies for two to three weeks.
Charles B. Peakes of Weston, former treasurer of the F. E. Atteaux Company, Inc., was found guilty of larceny from the firm totaling about 10 900 and sentenced to the State prison at Charlestown for four to seven years.
The Massachusetts Council on National Prohibition gathered $20000 toward a $50000 goal at three Boston meetings led by William Jennings Bryan. He urged beerless days and praised Boston as a beacon, while Dr. P A Baker of the Anti-Saloon League injured his hand during a talk. Former Governor John L Bates presided as the Salem Cadet Band played.
President Wilson to issue a food conservation proclamation as Hoover outlines the 1918 program. A cable from Lord Rhondda warns allies need 75 million bushels of wheat. Hoover says the US will export only saved grain and expects the people to meet the wartime need.
A 9 year old girl, relative of Harvard President Lowell, barely survives a fire at 12 Fairfield street. Flames engulfed her sick bed until a nurse shifted the bed to safety and stomped out flames affecting other occupants after an overturned kerosene lamp sparked the blaze.
Papers pass conveying to the First Church of Christ Scientist the Glover estate at Massachusetts Avenue and Waterhouse Street in Cambridge for a church building. The church, formed in 1999, has met at Brattle Hall and intends an imposing structure matching other local churches.
Two South Boston husbands were sentenced by Judge William J. Day for neglecting family support. John F. Slattery received six months in the House of Correction, while William J. Hinchey was given two months.
The Brookline Civic Forum will be addressed on The New Map of Europe tomorrow night at 8 o clock by 8S K Ratcliffe associated with the Manchester Guardian. Due to coal shortage the forum will close the season at St Mark's Church Park and Vernon streets.
Contributions surged at a Boston Y M C A luncheon as 100 plus men and team captains left City Club with enthusiasm to push total gifts beyond 100000. An anonymous 2500 gift and many small subscriptions followed, while Dr Alexander Mann urged ongoing support to sustain moral social and intellectual uplift at home and abroad.
The fund now stands at 262 672 95 with yesterday’s returns of 15 687 55. The largest individual subscription noted is 1 000 by Washington B Thomas as church directors sign on to the drive.
A Hartford Connecticut reader credits Father John’s Medicine with easing a child’s severe bronchitis and night coughing after other remedies failed. The letter highlights no alcohol or dangerous drugs and urges others to try the product. Signed by Frank J. Dalton.
Mrs Florence List of 96 Homer Street East Boston claims the longest hair in East Boston measuring 63 inches and weighing ten ounces on the scales. She reports headaches lasting six weeks at a time due to the weight and says she uses no tonics or artificial hair growers, trusting nature to take its course.
The painting titled Madonna and Child at P B Duffee's studio was not pronounced by Cardinal O Connell as one of Raphael's masterpieces. Reports claimed the Cardinal reviewed Father Glodt's research but he has made no study or assurance regarding the painting's authenticity.
Leroy L Betts was convicted by a federal jury of conspiracy to embezzle steal and purloin government property while working on the U S S Covington during its conversion to a troop ship early last fall.
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