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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
4
In yesterday's downtown markets demand for strawber r ies and green peas rose while flour potatoes and beans fell. Flour dropped 50 cents a barrel to 15 dollars. Dried beans California pea beans yellow eye and kidney slipped to 19 cents a pound. New potatoes fell to one dollar a peck and old potatoes to 90 cents.
Local markets in Faneuil Hall and nearby areas list fruit and vegetable prices for the season. Sugar back to nine cents a pound, lemons 30 cents a dozen, lamb 88 cents a pound, fish plentiful, best tub butter 48 cents, eggs 45 cents a dozen, strawberries 26 cents a box, green peas 1.16 a peck, tomatoes 20 cents a pound, and beans 19 cents a quart. Radishes expensive this year at four cents a bunch.
A July market rundown shows watermelons at steady supply, several fruits priced per unit by size, and oranges and grapefruit high. Shellfish availability remains strong with mixed oyster, clam, and fish prices listed, including codfish 19, haddock 12, mackerel 18, and lobsters 45 cents.
The Floating Hospital for Boston babies began its second voyage last night, anchoring in the upper harbor after departing for Pemberton on its first trip of the season. Dr. Warren R. Sisson serves as resident physician this year, bringing experience from Johns Hopkins. Dr. Paul W. Emerson, formerly with Children's Hospital, joins as a visiting staff member.
The Rev John S Moses newly joined St Paul Cathedral will lead the noon service at 12 10 today Dean Rousmaniere will preach at 11 am on Sunday July 1 Father Huntington will preach at 730 pm The afternoon service is paused for summer and will resume September 16 A daily devotional at Diocesan House 3 Joy street runs Thursdays at 430 under the Boston Group Fellowship of Reconciliation an interdenominational effort. Edward B Bartlett of Boston Universitys religious education department has been named assistant religious secretary of the Boston Young Mens Christian Association succeeding A D Nigholls who is serving the summer war camp work near Little Rock Arkansas.
A State Board of Health report announces three new infantile paralysis cases in Vermont tonight, two in Montpelier and one in Barre, bringing the statewide total to 24. All but one case remain in Washington county.
In Laconia New Hampshire Miss Alice Black Richards head teacher at the school for feeble minded was found dead from a throat cut in a lake shore cottage. Assistant matron Miss Elizabeth Sussa and teacher Miss Dorothy Davis were seriously wounded. Police held Morris P Bradford a manual training teacher who urged their arrest.
Bradford 28 turned himself in after police found Miss Richards dead and Miss Sussa and Miss Davis badly injured at a cottage on school grounds. He had invited the women for supper then fled by canoe to the station as detectives learned of the call to Dr. Baker, superintendent of the school, who had been contacted prior to the arrival.
Robert Hunter Jr a lineman for New England Telegraph and Telegraph Company fell 20 feet from a ladder at a new building 224 Malvern Street He was rushed to St Elizabeths Hospital with a severe scalp wound and a contusion to the right shoulder
Joseph Butler, 19, was shot through the neck at dawn while walking on Norfolk avenue Roxbury. Police from Dudley street station searched the area and he was taken to City Hospital in critical condition. Butler resides at 139 Hampden street. motive unknown.
Cardinal O'Connell urges parish-wide notice for the annual Negro and Indian missions collection to be taken on July 1 with notices at June 24 masses. Confraternity of the Holy Cross holds 3 p.m. service at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, with weekly summer meetings Fridays. Forty Hours devotion starts Friday morning July 6 at Roxbury, Georgetown, and Plymouth churches.
Pittsburg reports say James J. Callahan may be replaced as manager of the local National League club. Rumor has it that Hans Wagner, also known as J H Wagner, could take charge, perhaps on a temporary basis, if a change is made.
Five year old Dorothy De Corsey of 116 State street Newburyport was struck by an automobile on Franklin street yesterday morning. She sustained a cut over the left eye and possible skull fracture, treated at Dr John F Casey 94 Franklin street before being taken to 5 Weitz street to live with Katherine McDougal as her mother was notified.
State and local police curb oversized illegal Fourth of July torpedoes in Greater Boston. Cornhill store salesman Alton H. Evitts was fined $20 in Municipal Court before Judge Cohen. he appealed and was held in $100 bonds for Superior Court.
Johnny Kilbane featherweight champion and Benny Leonard lightweight title holder from Welsh signed articles tonight for a six round bout at Shibe Park Philadelphia on July 23. The purse is listed at 20000 dollars and the event will involve two top contenders in a high stakes summer fight at the home of the Philadelphia Americans.
Boston National Equal Rights League appeals to Governor McCall to intervene with Secretary Baker over refusal to enlist colored volunteers. Delegation includes Dr J W Hill and William Monroe Trotter. Governor leaves for Washington with documents and aims to meet Baker. The league cites the Presidents call for volunteers and seeks immediate action asserting no legal race barrier.
The Vermont Equallee Association closed its convention in St. Albans with resolutions denouncing the Congressional Union’s militant tactics including White House pickets. It also disapproved a wartime labor-law suspension affecting women and children. Mrs. A L Bailey of St Johnsbury was elected president.
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