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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1914
Page
3
Tons of fish flooded Boston markets as supply outpaced demand. Prices for all varieties sunk to the lowest level known to marketmen, affecting both wholesale and retail sectors. Shoppers turn from meat to abundant sea fare in crowded fish markets.
Heavy oversupply at the new South Boston fish pier drives prices down with mackerel six for two cents and butterfish being given away. Halibut salmon and groundfish also available cheaply as dealers export barrels to Europe. Swordfish remain scarce with 17 to 20 cents a pound quoted. Bat fish becomes slogan to curb living costs.
John T. Hayden received an easy sentence after confessing to grand larceny of $18,000 from a soap company where he worked. He said a man with knowledge of his past life threatened to expose him as an ex convict if he refused to join a plan to rob the firm.
Lieutenant Llewellyn Charles Hordern of the Lancashire Fusiliers and Royal Flying Corps died when his biplane dived suddenly near Portsmouth. His mechanician was badly hurt as the motor stopped and the aircraft glided to the ground.
Painter Darius Cobb rebuts the Massachusetts Civic Alliance claim that nudity in the Boston Art Museum harms schoolchildren. He argues art remains pure and that bathing suits are more suggestive than nude statues.
In a Tremont Street studio the artist praises nude paintings and statues as pure, criticizes prudery, and argues that photographs misrepresent art by isolating nudity. He cites museum directors and educators as supportive and notes his own children’s visits without admonition. He asserts art preserves nature’s purity.
July 20 Dr Frank W Doyle of South Deerfield fractured three ribs when his car collided at Nourds corner with a Newark New Jersey auto owned by Charles Carhoff. Dr Doyle and two women friends were driving Moderately fast and failed to slow at the obstructed curve. Carhoff and his wife escaped with minor injuries while the women with Dr Doyle suffered minor burns and a light shaking.
Mabel A. Russell of Boston plans to appear in Superior Court tomorrow morning to charge her husband Halsey W. Russell with contempt for selling $3000 in securities. She says the items are hers and that, on his advice, he stored them with the Malden Trust Company and later removed and sold them knowing of the injunction.
Concord N H July 20 The Supreme Court directs Nashua to pay salaries for both police forces claiming authority in the city The ruling sustains the 1913 act creating a new police commission and allows compensation to officers serving the force while upholding the legality challenge.
Sale offers on ladies hats including French models from own workrooms. Dress and street hats in black and colors, tailored and suit hats, ready to wear hats, and sailors in new block styles. Remaining early spring flowers offered at reduced prices.
A busy sale list features imported fancy suitings and printed crepes with discounts from 23c to 1.00 per yard. Stamped linens, cretonne items, and nursery pillows are offered at sale prices. Boys on the third floor showcase washable knicker suits, Norfolk suits, long trousers, and assorted shirts blouses and ties at reduced rates.
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