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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1920
Page
3
Retail prices show potatoes at $1 a peck and green corn at five cents an ear. Fruit and vegetables are plentiful with blueberries 40 cents a box and melons 18 cents each. Meat and eggs vary, with lamb chops cheaper and eggs up to 9% cents a dozen for top quality. Butter near 65 cents, fish prices largely unchanged.
At 9 a m the Ausonia council Knights of Columbus hold a field day with a parade in North End and dedication of a home for Italian children on Gahm estate Centre street Jamaica Plain. At 9 30 a m the Knights of Pythias begin a pilgrimage marking the tercentenary of Pilgrims to Provincetown aboard the steamer Dorothy Bradford.
The Customs Clerks' Association denounces salaries at this port noting that of 533 local customs workers only 29 earn at least 2200, 43 percent make 1200 or less, and only six earn 4000 or more with four being presidential appointees. The union cites retirement penalties and long service ages while federal figures hover around 2.5 percent for retirement costs as discussions with Congress proceed. William E. Russell and William J. Sleep discuss pending bills to raise pay for Customs staff during a Maine vacation stop.
The Kebukku, a tank steamer that departed New York for Port Lobos on July 2, was thought to be the unidentified vessel blown up off the New Jersey coast. A message received today confirms she is safe and well.
A portrait series highlights enterprising newsies in Boston who sell the Post each morning, their faces already familiar to readers who buy the paper daily.
Bennie Baransky a Hanover street news merchant adheres to a seven hour workday motto Work while on the job His routine starts soon after breakfast and the rising business rush since he began 13 months ago has required him to hire several assistants in the West End vicinity to help run his Barton street stand
Dover, Me July 30 Edward Lapoint arrested at Sebec tonight and brought to county jail here charged with the murders of his wife Gladys and mother-in-law Mrs Annie Crosby Higgins at Sebec late today. Both women shot with a rifle amid alleged separation over remarriage. Lapoint had earlier faced a charge of beating his wife and was under bonds to keep the peace.
In Sebec Maine Bert Lapoint accosted his wife at her parents home and tried to persuade her to reunite. He then took a rifle from Lewis Livermore’s farm, bought cartridges, and returned as his wife her mother and two children were present, with the boy later saying his father shot both women.
Firefighters from Engine 1 rescued a cow that had fallen into an old well on a Woburn farm. Captain Patrick H. Flaherty rigged a rope and derrick to retrieve the animal, which remained munching clover. Separately, searchers found William E. Cadwell, a boy who had been missing since morning after blueberry picking in thick woods near East Woburn.
Thomas F. Ward of Jamaica Plain, assistant engineer of the Boston fire department, was charged with receiving stolen property in Central Court yesterday. The case was filed without a finding by agreement of counsel after Ward admitted buying goods from strangers and disposing of them to friends and fellow firemen, with restitution made.
John R. Johnson aged 38 of 328 Paris Street East Boston died after a 100 foot fall from a roof at North Station while employed by the Boston Bridge Works Company. The incident occurred yesterday on the tracks.
Fairhaven July 30 An appeal to New York police to trace an identified coal barge and find a second wooden box similar to the one that held a woman's right leg found floating in the Acushnet River. State police were ordered to Fairhaven as third day developments in the floating limb mystery unfold. District Attorney Joseph T. Kenney took personal charge of today’s investigation.
New Bedford patrolman locates 19 year old Jeanne Devorst near her home at 109 Holly Street, ruling her out as the killer’s latest victim. Irene Silvia, 15, last seen July 1 dancing with a sailor at Acushnet Park, is now under police focus as a possible missing person linked to a coal barge bound for New York.
After hours of arguments in the court martial of Philip I Rome Worcester wealthy young businessman charged with desertion for not returning from South America in 1917 the army board adjourned to confer and is believed to have reached a verdict. The decision awaits Brigadier General Edwards and will be reviewed by the judge advocate general in Washington. An appeal on jurisdiction may be possible in federal court if the verdict is against Rome.
The Public Utilities Commission issued an inter locutory order authorizing a flat seven-cent fare on Connecticut trolley lines starting August 8. The seven-cent zones cover roughly three miles from city centers, with other zones about two miles long at six cents each.
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