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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1919
Page
15
Householders face higher luncheon and dinner costs as storms last week disrupted fishing. Trade resumed slowly with light catches for a week. Prices rose sharply due to scarcity, peaking at Fish pier on Wednesday. Haddock earlier reached 12 1 2 cents per pound from the vessel in early hours.
Late arrivals were paid only ten cents. By next week conditions are expected to normalize and the pearcity will experience a drop in prices due to the relief in supply and the improved conditions.
The Boston Revere Beach Lynn railroad will launch an eight cent fare this Saturday Nov 15. The change raises fares from seven and 14 cents to eight and 16 cents to points near Revere and Lynn, per Public Service Commission data.
Cohasset police learned the summer home of Mrs Eliza beth McCormick on Nichols avenue was entered and bric a brac imported rugs and linen stolen. Value set at 500 dollars. Officials suspect auto bandits behind a string of closed summer home thefts along the south shore.
An older style ad urges readers to obtain a trial bottle of St Jacobs Liniment from their druggist. It claims immediate relief for neuralgia and pain anywhere on the body, noting the liniment is harmless, non burning, and rapidly stops soreness without discoloration.
A long list records marriage intentions for dozens of couples from Charlestown, Roxbury, Dorchester, South Boston, East Boston, and nearby areas. Names include Hartnett and Walsh, Fitzpatrick and Lee, Krakoski and McQuiggan, Kennard and Tanner, Galvin and Thompson, Lunt and Nichols, Ourieff and Labowitz, Gustafson and Young, Shapiro and Daniels, Solowitz and Gottlieb, Adams and Sullivan, Rolsten and Walker, Beauchamp and Carbaugh, and many others. The register shows ages, occupations, and street addresses for both parties, with several entries noting widowed or divorced statuses and multiple at-home arrangements.
A reader’s list of residents includes Herbert Elijah Nickerson a 19 year old sheet metal worker of 132 Saunders Street Medford and Doro thy May Griffin a 19 year old clerk of 138 Bills Street Malden. Also named are Fred Elmer Stearns 35 a 8 jar officer of 106 Spring Street Medford and Jennes Curley 19 a stenographer at the same address. Ralph Fairfield Folsom 24 a bank clerk of 29 Burget Avenue Medford and Lydia Amelia Young 25 a dressmaker at 11A Austin Street Somerville. Herman Aldenbergt 20 a cigar maker of 80 Sheafe Street Malden and Jennie Van Santvoort 22 a stripper at 117 Surrey Street Medford. Ralph Sidney Stedman 25 a foreman of 717 Baker Street Flint Michigan and Edith Lillias Higgins 22 a typist at 246 Spring Street Medford. William Francis Kindsey 28 a chauffeur of 60 South Street Medford and Florence Margaret MeIsane 23 at home 893 Main Street Winchester. John Parker Burnett 25 a bookkeeper of 16 Wright Avenue Medford and Sarah Johnson 25 a clerk of 18 Logan Avenue Medford. 20,
A list of residents and their ages along with corresponding addresses appears in a public notices page. The names include James Francis Troy and Mabel Lingham, John Smythe and Stella Conlin, Harold Olson and Anna Monahan, Eanard McCabe and Margaret Murphy, George Odell and Mary Burns, with ages ranging from 17 to 35 and addresses across Newton, Needham, Dorchester, Roxbury, and Newtonville.
Mathew J Cooney 62 of 85 Holworthy Cambridge carriage driver and Mary R Revere 51 of 9 Granville Watertown both listed as married. Charles T Collins 26 of 96 Otis Cambridge coal dealer and Frances E B Casey 25 of 1118 Massachusetts Cambridge machine operator. Cornelius P Hayes 39 of Providence R I trainman and Nora T Curtis 4 of 4 Norman Cambridge nurse.
Patrick J. Sweeney a freight trainman aged 25 of Linwood street and Margaret Hayes 27 a jewelry worker of Appleton street are listed together. Alfred F Levine 23 a reo man U. S. N. and Mary Housier 19 at Medford street are paired. John T Campbell 38 a sales man of Wesley street and Nellie A Connor 30 at Wesley street are listed as a couple.
In Brockton on November 14 Mayor Charles G. Miles a leading physician was nominated by Republicans unopposed to challenge incumbent Democrat Mayor William L. Gleason seeking a third term. Both men were former shoemakers and once involved in the Cutters' Union. The campaign folds Miles and the United Party slogan into a spirited city race.
Coal miners and operators from the nation’s bituminous fields arrive for negotiations here to settle a new wage agreement. The main sticking point is when the Washington wage agreement of 1918 ends. Secretary Wilson invites Fuel Administrator Garfield to attend the opening session, signaling past influence in the talks.
Miners and operators on the eve of a conference to settle disputed points in the recent strike voiced hope for a mutual settlement. They expect resolution of when the Washington agreement ends and a 60 percent wage increase with shorter hours, with operators seeking contracts to remain in force during the war or until March 1, 1920.
Funeral services for Dr Frank B Gallivan of South Boston were held at St Peter and Paul's Church. Rev Father James A O Rourke officiated a solemn high mass. Twelve priests from Greater Boston parishes and sisters from Nazareth and Charity attended.
Alderman William J. Bell Republican and Alderman Peter F. Donnelly Democrat led a wheelbarrow parade through Somerville streets from Union Square to City Hall in celebration of Governor Coolidge dubbed the election bet. Donnelly endured a steep Prescott Street grade as Bell teased about shock absorbers before delivering the load to City Hall amid cheers and a lively crowd.
The National Council of Women meeting in St Louis passed a resolution urging that Mrs. Philip N. Moore be named one of three U.S. representatives to the League of Nations. A committee will deliver the resolution to Washington authorities.
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