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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1915
Page
9
Meats show a rising trend in retail markets while flour remains steady. Fruits and vegetables are plentiful with berries peaches watermelon and green corn at low enough prices to preserve. Beef prices have increased with rump steak 45 cents per pound and rib roast 22 to 25 cents.
A long price listing shows fresh lamb legs and loins at 22 cents a pound, pork and ham prices, broilers chicken and duckling rates, eggs from Best Eastern and Western sources, various seafood including mackerel and salmon, and abundant fruit and vegetable prices with boxes, pecks, and pounds cited. Names of items and unit prices are given throughout.
Hyman Liebman found guilty of first degree murder for throwing his 7 year old daughter Sadie and 5 year old son Samuel down an air shaft 60 feet to the basement. Girl died. boy left crippled for life. Liebman remanded to the Tombs while sanity is considered.
Life convict Melvin Bessey aged 62 was pardoned by the Governor and council at Thomaston Maine. His son Alfred of Brighton delivered the pardon papers in person and Bessey broke down when informed. He planned to travel to Brighton to live on his son's farm for his remaining days.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt met with Progressive party leaders in Southern California on July 29 before returning East. He said the meeting’s substance was confidential and declined to discuss details.
Strange happenings plague the Tech biological department at 30 Trinity Place with thumps dry bones rattling and unseen movements. A 10 cent mouse trap and a hunk of cheese crack the case as professors and biologists investigate the bug spirit mystery.
In a campus lab a postage stamp escapes and a cheese baited mouse trap springs, yet no mice appear. Dr. Ingham and janitor Charles McClaren report four giant cockroaches in the trap, mocking the idea of a simple rodent problem.
Frank Carroll alias George Humphrey alias Joseph Hart of 97 Henley Street Charlestown faced Commissioner Hayes charged with stealing eight pounds of zinc and a brass hydrant wrench from the Charlestown navy yard. He is held on $500 bail awaiting action by the federal grand jury.
Mrs Zora E Johnson, alleged to be the widow of Henry M Flagler, was indicted for first degree grand larceny by the New York grand jury. She was accused of taking 800 from Frank J Mahoney by promising to share inheritance funds.
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