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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1919
Page
6
Fresh mackerel are plentiful today at 25 cents a pound a low price for early in the season. Quality is good with fish weighing two to two and a half pounds each. Cod haddock flounders cask hake and pollock also plentiful at 10 cents a pound butter fish 20 cents striped bass 30 cents halibut 35 and 40 cents jack shad 30 35 cents roe shad 45 cents and salmon 40 cents.
Markets report cheaper butter and vegetables with mixed meat prices. Lizzie the llama at Franklin Park Zoo gave birth to a son named Inca, a jet black male with a white mouth and top of head, as curator George F. Morse Jr. notes the healthy pair.
Five year old Clement Fitzgerald daughter of Maurice and Mrs. Fitzgerald of East Weymouth was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when struck by a car owned and driven by Mrs. Lottie Stoddard of Hingham while on her way to the store.
Madrid May 2 Ten people were killed and 16 seriously injured in protests over the high cost of living in Terancon on April 28. Clashes with gendarmes followed as merchants kept old prices, leading to looting and revolver fire amid nighttime street battles.
The American steamer West Cape will depart May 15 under Red Star Line charter, re-establishing service between Boston and Antwerp. It will be followed by the British steamer Menapier leaving May 28, with regular sailings about every two weeks as wartime suspensions end.
The review covers Ferrero’s A Short History of Rome from Caesar’s death to 476, with Barbagallo, plus criticisms of Mexico Under Carranza by Thomas E. Gibbon, Out and About London by Burke, Peking Dust by LaMotte, and dramatist Baker’s Dramatic Technique. It surveys biographies of Lincoln and Roosevelt, Biblical works by Jastrow and Fuller ton, and Russell’s After the Whirlwind and Ferrero’s Problems of Peace.
A newspaper brief reviews wartime philosophy and travel through book listings and poetry. It surveys Henry Franks on immortality, Dwight Morrow on the League of Nations, Slater Washburn’s One of the YD, and other war related titles. It also includes Alfred Noyes poems about paths and light among book notes.
Cardinal O Connell will confer tonsure and minor orders at St John s Seminary Brighton this morning. Rev Robert Swickerath SJ to speak on The Joys of Easter Time at St Mary s North End tonight. May devotions planned daily at Immaculate Conception church 745 pm. High mass celebrated by Fr John Geoghan SJ tomorrow with Fr Thomas McCluskey SJ to preach. Forty Hours devotion at multiple parishes May 9 across area. Parochial school exams set for June 9 10 12 13 with music exam June 6.
Charles H. Spath of the 1084 Field Artillery petitions Probate Court to keep 14 year old Jean Berdie a French orphan as guardian and to have the boy renamed John Berdle Spath. The petition cites their inseparable bond formed on a French battlefield and Spath's care during wartime.
Anna A. Goldsmith of New Ipswich New Hampshire filed for probate in Nashua May 2 revealing gifts to public institutions totaling over 20000 dollars. The will includes 6000 to Northfield Seminary 6000 to Memory Hospital and 6000 to Margery Pillsbury Hospital and smaller bequests to the Old Ladies Home Memorial Home for the Blind Worcester and the town of New Ipswich.
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