Flour Prices Jump On Wheat Rise
The wheat rally pushed carload flour up by 50 cents a barrel yesterday and may lift consumer flour by a dollar per barrel. Wholesalers quoted standard grade flour at 15 60 per barrel with the finest grade at 15 75.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1917
Page
7
The wheat rally pushed carload flour up by 50 cents a barrel yesterday and may lift consumer flour by a dollar per barrel. Wholesalers quoted standard grade flour at 15 60 per barrel with the finest grade at 15 75.
An advertisement from Houghton & Dutton Co. promotes Plant Juice with testimonials from customers in Boston Roxbury area. It highlights relief for stomach trouble indigestion dyspepsia gas bloating and other ailments. A detailed testimonial from Mrs. Anna P. Stokes describes long prior suffering and improved health after using Plant Juice.
Mrs B Zielinska of Buffalo New York says after nearly three years of back and side pains a daily female trouble she found no help until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Within two weeks she felt marked improvement and is now free from pain and able to do housework.
Secretary Lansing issued an order to State Department officials restricting contact with newspaper reporters. Administrations say no discussing background of international questions with bureau experts.
Secretary Lansing enforces a new Bureau of Foreign Intelligence rule, limiting press access and requiring Steck communications to come through the secretary or the bureau. The move aims to curb leaks as the bureau, a month old, provides only basic statements with little background.
City military police patrol for H Company of the Ninth Regiment was postponed yesterday after their report to Brigadier-General Edwards. Patrol boat details to be arranged with municipal authorities remain unsettled, with the unit to be stationed at General Edwards' headquarters at 2 Huntington Avenue for a few days.
Funeral for Terrence A. Kelly financial secretary and former president of Division 47 Ancient Order of Hibernians will be held tomorrow from his home at 34 Willow Street Cambridge. High mass of requiem at St. Patrick's Church at 9 o'clock with delegations from Division 47 and other Hibernian divisions attending.
Twenty eight men from the Fighting Ninth Regiment of the Massachusetts National Guard were named for the Reserve Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg New York. Sergeant Major Paul Hines heads the list as senior non commissioned officer selected for the training course toward a commission in the new army.
Army selection includes Hines and Ford from Boston units along with Murphy and others from multiple companies. Colonel Logan expects all selected to go to Plattsburg for training and to receive commissions, with a parade planned through Boston to South Station.
Edward H. Crosby reviews the Hollis Street Theatre presentation of Treasure Island a two week engagement. Charles Hopkins doubles as Pew and Ben Gunn while Mrs Hawkins portrays Jim Hawkins. Herbert Ashton as Long John Silver Hallett Thompson as Bill Jones and other familiar book characters appear in period costumes with elaborate scenery. The piece draws praise as a relic of older theater.
The review lauds Goodman's faithful four act adaptation of Stevenson's Treasure Island. It highlights vivid sea cloth effects and energetic stagehands. Key figures include Jim Hawkins Long John Silver and Ben Gunn with the Hispaniola voyage mutiny island stockade and treasure discovery.
The two interned German raiders will bear names of Continental Army figures. Kronprinz Wilhelm becomes Baron von Steuben and Prinz Eitel Friedrich becomes Baron de Kalb. Vessels will fly the American flag once repairs finish.
Miss Alberta Ayers of Boston petitions the Supreme Judicial Court for a writ of mandamus to strike not pros from the Dorchester Court record in the Walter Long paternity matter and place the case on trial list. The Dorchester judge upheld the not pros, prompting Long's appeal to the Superior Court. The district attorney later decided not to prosecute based on trial facts.
Marblehead Neck May 7 About 150 members of the Naval Reserve Force stationed here were inoculated against smallpox in a routine medical procedure conducted by Navy Medical staff.
Boston customers flock to Woodward's Drug Store for Vitalitas a crude mineral from a Texas deposit refined into a liquid tonic. Claims tout relief from rheumatism indigestion liver and kidney issues with testimonials from Blake Libby Kirwin Sommerer and others. Demonstrations at 102 Tremont Street urge purchase today.
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