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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1919
Page
10
A legislative inquiry opened into food quality at the Rutland State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis after patients balked at meals on May 11. Grievance leader Ralph Balcomb testified of hash overload, poor milk supply, and minimal sugar since the war, while officials denied misconduct and pledged hearings.
About 200 patients charge Dr. Ernest R. Emerson, superintendent, with seeking to pad a personal economy at the expense of patient health and lives at the institution. The accusation centers on misaligned priorities and potential harm to care.
Paris labor unrest widens with 500000 striking workers in France, 200000 in Paris metal trades. Subway doors shut and lines halted after nightlong vote. Strikes spread to sugar refineries coal mines auto industry and department stores. Transport staff join in solidarity.
The Harvard faculty of arts and sciences endorses a four year program requiring a general examination to test retained knowledge. The plan, long debated in Cambridge, is now definitively settled and to be implemented.
Harvard College reshapes its degree requirements for the class of 1922 and beyond. Students must complete 16 courses including four in a single field and four in distribution, plus specified courses in history literature and science and a general examination before graduation. Military science counts toward distribution but cannot be the concentrating department.
Two trips of mackerel and several trawlers supplied the wholesale fish trade with a sizable quantity. Higco from the South delivered 6000 pounds of mackerel while Helen B Thomas contributed 10000 pounds. Olivia added 3000 pounds. Groundfish included 10000 pounds of scrod 1150 pounds of halibut 122000 pounds of haddock and 45500 pounds of cod. Over 10000 pounds of live lobsters were landed by Fannie Powell from Clark's Harbor N B. Wholesalers priced haddock 31-4 to 6 steak cod 61-3 to 7 market cod 31-2 and steak pollock 61-2 cents per pound.
The report lists ships arriving including U S cutter Tallapoosa and steamers Scythian Brown City of Benares Leslie Lam, from Cuba and New York, plus tugs and barges. It also notes battleship Rhode Island and cruiser North Carolina sailing from Brest and Yarmouth, with several vessels bound for Norfolk Portland and Philadelphia.
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