35 Cent Fair for Potatoes and Produce Prices Listed
The U S Department of Agriculture urges fair potato pricing and notes retail dealers must help push consumption. A Massachusetts list shows abundant vegetables and specific prices for beets to strawberries, including potatoes at 85 cents per peck and various fruits priced per pound or per bunch.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Boston
Massachusetts Board of Food Administration
New York
Florida
S.s.e
Woman Dies by Own Action Identities Sought at Dock
Police struggle to identify a middle aged woman who died after jumping from a Boston bound Narrow Gauge ferryboat. Several visitors to the northern district mortuary offered no clues to her identity.
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Northern District
Salem Witchcraft Library Auction Netted Fortune for Estate
Abner C. Goodell of Salem auctions his late library focused on witchcraft and demonology. Books sold at C. F. Libbie & Co. drew varied prices from $2 to $155 with notable items including An 1711 Act of Massachusetts Bay and Glanvill and Mather works. Net proceeds to be announced.
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Abner C. Goodell
Salem
C. F. Libbie & Co
Province of
Massachusetts Bay
Thomas Andy
Richard Baxter
Satan
Edmund Bower
Doctor Lamb
Richard Broughton
Thomas Cooper
Joseph Glanvill
Gyfford
Magazine of
Cotton Mather
Sebastian Michaelis
Scott
Massachusetts
Prince Society
John Saffin
New England
Virginia
Alexander Walker
Mather
George Washington
Oscar Wilde
Thomas Paine
Parkman
Portland
Boston
Asquith Defends War Critics and Press Relation
London reports Prime Minister Lloyd George and former Premier Asquith clash over government press relations. Asquith urges restraint on attacks on military leaders, recalls recommending the Order of the Garter for Kitchener, while Lloyd George cites France and Italy to argue newspaper proprietors may be in government. Both stress officials must not use the press to attack the government.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Asquith
Mr. Asquith
Lord Kitchener
Kitchener
Order of the Garter
France
Italy
England
Lord Northcliffe
Northcliffe
Beaverbrook
Harding warns banks over higher interest on deposits
Washington March 12. Governor W P G Harding of the Federal Reserve Board telegraphed reserve banks urging them to discourage banks from boosting interest rates to attract demand deposits. He cited possible harm to national financing and banking if the practice continues before New York Clearing House Association acts.
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Washington
Senate Naval Committee
C. L. Riker
New York
Shipping Board
Riker
W. P. G. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
New York Clearing House Association
Harding
Three Schools Stage Plays in Patriotic Concert Tonight
Students from Boston University Hmer son College of Oratory and New England Conservatory of Music will present three plays they wrote and staged. The program takes place in Jacob Sleeper Hall at 688 Boylston Street tonight and Friday night.
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Boston University
Hmerson College of Oratory
New England Conservatory of Music
Jacob Sleeper
Dynamite Suicide In Minnesota Socialist Leader Case
William Peregrin a Socialist leader in Arely Minnesota killed himself by placing dynamite in his mouth and blowing off his head after being questioned by federal officials about agitation to repeal the draft. His wife and 12 year old daughter planned to die with him but withdrew.
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Arely
Minn
William Peregrin
Department of Justice
Peregrin
Daniels Seeks Merging Navy Medical and Dental Reserves
Secretary Daniels urged Congress to absorb the Navy Medical Reserve Corps and the Naval Dental Reserve Corps into the Naval Reserve force. Currently these corps are not obliged to active service and can only be called to duty upon their own request.
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Washington
Daniels
Congress
Navy Medical Reserve Corps
Naval Dental Reserve Corps
Naval Reserve Force
No Summer Term At Maine University
University of Maine will not conduct a summer term this year. President Robert S. Aley cites war conditions as the reason for the suspension.
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Maine University
Orono
University of Maine
Robert S. Aley
Wolf's My Clothier Ad Promises Biggest Boston Values
Advertisement touts savings at Wolf's My Clothier located at the corner of Hanover and Portland Streets in Boston. It contrasts streets for sound with Hanover and Tremont, noting lower clothing costs and higher quality, and mentions availability of Legal Stamps.
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Boylston Street
Tremont Street
Hanover Street
Boston
Wolf's
Hanover and
Portland Streets
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Beacon St
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Brookline
Dudley
Cor
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L._P. Drury Corp
Warren, Cuddyer & Joyce
Broadway
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Leonard Ear Oil
A. O. Leonard
Goodell
Great Britain
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Universal Tone-Arm
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Gilchrist
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