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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1920
Page
6
Washington March 3 competition in ocean shipping rates was restored by Shipping Board action withdrawing all published freight tariffs and leaving rate setting to the 160 or more operators of Shipping Board craft. Previously the board fixed rates and adjusted them to match British and private lines.
Mrs. Muriel H. Ford wife of Ernest N. Ford London banker died from injuries after being crushed in an elevator at the Hotel Majestic on Central Park West. The couple had recently arrived in New York for the banker’s health trip.
Fire swept the East Eddington general store and post office today destroying the building and its stock. The structure stood about ten miles from Bangor near the Bangor Brewer bridge and was one year old.
The essay argues that Boston is best understood through Dickens and Thackeray like London, and through Emerson Longfellow and fiction. It praises Wen dell Holmes, Cooper Lydia Childs and Aldrich for vivid Boston chapters from Revolution to Beacon Hill. It notes Arlo Bates and Carruth provide authentic depictions and walking guides.
Standard Oil of New Jersey refutes charges by a London Board of Trade committee that oil combines set excessive gasoline prices. With British exchange at 3.40 pounds, 23 pounds per ton equals about 21 cents per American gallon, the company says, calling it a low price for high grade gasoline today.
Edward J. Vereen of Moultrie Georgia told the House agriculture committee that Swift & Co a leading meat packer helped southern Georgia’s agricultural growth by supplying major livestock and poultry. He denied FTC claims Swift bought a farmer financed plant in Moultrie to suppress competition. He said the sale was solicited to grow a large packer and aid agriculture. Wyoming stockmen urged regulation and one suggested the industry be put through a disinfection-like cleansing process.
Charles J. Willis a civilian aviator drowned in the Potomac River after leaping from an army airplane with a parachute. Floyd Smith inventor of the parachute was saved after landing in the water.
Ramon Rodriguez and Adriano Alvarez Herra were sentenced to 52 years and six months each for beating and robbing Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Broderick of Dallas at the Knickerbocker Hotel. The couple were struck with a hammer, bound, and gagged as $30,000 in jewelry and cash was stolen. the burglars were captured while attempting to flee down the hotel front.
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