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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1910
Page
3
The mayor elect Fitzgerald and the new City Council may terminate the $1,900,000 Edison Lighting contract and pursue a new deal. A Common Council special committee reports the five year contract signed by Mayor Hibbard lacked Board of Aldermen authorization.
A report to be presented to the new City Council within weeks flags a review of street lighting contracts. The special committee will compare lighting prices in Boston with other cities and suggest savings possible with Mayor Fitzgerald’s authority to renegotiate.
Sonny Smith, charged with the murder of Frank Miller, sat in the sheriff s office as his two Creek Indian sons fled justice. He volunteered to hunt them down and bring them in, asking for permission to go. The sheriff, wary of risks, allowed him to act as a special commissioner to pursue the fugitives in the swamps and hills.
A community endures grumbling as Sonny Smith arrives with two sons and kin to declare his presence. He claims he has pursued a 'cold blooded' murderer through swamps near Arkansas and Muskogee and vows to stay and fight the case, despite local suspicion.
The article describes pastors urging a beef boycott and packers delaying shipments of livestock and dressed meat to create shortages at major centers. It notes stock could be bought, killed, and iced at packing points without entering general distribution and mentions forthcoming attention by Chicago’s grand jury inquiry into packer instructions and executive confidences.
In Heidelberg Germany on January 30 inquiries failed to confirm the report that Dr Frederick A Cook was staying at a local sanitarium.
Leominster council of the Knights of Columbus will hold a no meat banquet in A. O. U. W. Hall to protest high prices. The menu includes noodle soup olives vegetable salad chicken halibut salmon peas and many sides. Michael J. Dwyer of Boston will discuss Moore songs and poetry, with J F Hayes and T F Ward among attendees.
The Rev. Frederick A. Wiggin, Unity Church pastor, said in a sermon that the boycott targets government officials not the high prices or the combines, accusing officials of failing to use law power and noting many representatives act as agents for the combines.
William Craig and other Brookline figures dismiss the beef boycott as a farce while noting prices. Marketmen T H Dyer and J Birney Kempton describe supply and demand effects, predicting higher beef prices and shifts in eggs and butter later in the season.
Rev. A A Berle urged Shawmut Congregational Church listeners to adopt mass cooperation to counter high prices. He argued united action forces minorities to yield and warned that financiers cause more harm than the poor, shaping crime by economic distress.
The Warren Avenue Baptist Church preacher said the beef boycott aims to spark Congressional and legislative probes into high living costs. He cited deaths from price-induced hardships in Brooklyn and New York and questioned evangelistic meetings’ effects on youth.
A reader objects to the Brooks memorial image in bronze and urges the editor to publish further space for critique. The writer argues that the public is already discussing the statue and seeks continued discussion in the paper.
Thousands of Bostonians joined a meat boycott to curb rising food prices. Hotels and cafes report lower steak and chop orders while waiters note meatless meals and a surge in vegetable and fruit purchases. Organizers plan union outreach and pledge drives, claiming wide public enthusiasm.
LondonJanuary 30 Premier Asquith travels abroad with Chancellor Lloyd George closely following. Politicians rest on their arms and debate lines of battle for the new Parliament. The mood favors conciliation and compromise over radical change in Lords and government policy.
Conservatives propose a cross party cabinet and a two year truce on party questions while a royal commission reviews fiscal policy and tariff reform. Lords reform faces broad support with limits on veto power and a move to curb hereditary voting. Cabinet reshuffles include McKenna, Haldane, Burns, and Churchill with raised salaries.
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