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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1914
Page
15
Market reports steady meat prices with a small lamb rise. Fish prices advance due to bad weather, with cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel and salmon up several cents. poultry holds firm though Thanksgiving price moves unsure. Prices for eggs, butter, cheese, fruits and vegetables show mixed or small changes across categories.
Advertisement promotes Sargol tablets as a fat making solution for thin people. Claims include rebuilding nutritive function, increasing blood quality, and adding 8 to 25 pounds per month with continued weight, backed by a money back guarantee from local druggists in Boston and surrounding area.
Under Italian government orders 2000 Italians called to the colors will sail tomorrow aboard the White Star liner Cretic to Naples. It is the largest steerage departure in months, with most reservists from Boston and nearby towns. Many applicants were refused due to lack of room as the ship carries only a few saloon and second cabin passengers.
Mayor Curley asks the Boston Transit Commission to study a $3,000,000 tunnel plan to link East Boston with the mainland. The proposal would replace the ferry system and use annual funds for tunnel maintenance, aiming for a net $50,000 annual saving.
A novena in honor of St John of the Cross opens at Carmelite Convent Roxbury on Tuesday and runs to Dec 1. Requiem high mass for St Marys Senior Sodality souls set for Thanksgiving at North End church. St Marks Dorchester nears completion replacing its wooden predecessor. Rev Michael Scanlan to speak at Mount Ida Court Dorchester meeting. Immaculate Conception novena opens Nov 30 at St Mary Endicott Street, closes Dec 8 with benediction. St Aiden parish Brookline holds annual reunion to aid church debt. Italian Mass continues Sundays at St Joseph Wakefield with an Italian priest every second Sunday after mission success.
Three of the four young men arrested yesterday on charges of beating George Kruse in Williamsville and robbing him of a knife and 11 dollars in the Canal to Haverhill street tunnel were held for the grand jury by Judge Wentworth. John Rose 23, vagabond, was released. The suspects for the grand jury are Albert Garrie 21 of Revere street Revere Charles T Putnam 18 of Malden and John Powers 19 of Kneeland street.
A Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant correspondent describes German burials near Ghent with daily pit diggings and night wagon rumble, while Captain von Muller of the Emden earns praise after gifting the Kabinga to a skipper's family amid a Bay of Bengal capture.
Arras reports a daring airship raid by French officers against a German railway junction. The craft crossed hostile lines under cover, dropped three dynamite charges, faced searchlights and artillery, and after a stuck charge threat, the captain severed the tube with a hatchet to save the airship as the fourth charge exploded in a fiery detonation.
French army pay officer reports Ypres under heavy shellfire from big howitzers after initial air bombs. Night before last bombardment destroyed houses and killed eight people, including two women. Bombs shattered nearby streets. residents hid in cellars of the Hotel de Ville and a rampart vault with about a hundred others.
Private Dan Tlurst of the Coldstream Guards writes from the front about a one and a half mile crawl under artillery and rifle fire. He reports five wounds in his chest and chest shell explosion that did not go off, urging his wife not to fret.
A survivor recalls being spared death by mere inches as German forces shelled, blocked ambulance crews, and denied food and water. Torrential rain, bayonet guards, and a near-miss British shell wound him. he crawls to safety despite wounds, with only two of six comrades making it back from a mile and a half distant trench.
A Southampton photographer displays an apt war comment outside his studio. He notes that last September British sportsmen circulated a circular letter urging subscriptions for Berlin 1936. He mocks the appeal claiming the team is fully funded and set for Berlin with strong odds on victory.
George G. Danielopol director of the National Bank of Roumania sailed for New York to arrange a loan for arming Roumania. The despatch notes the move aims to raise money for Roumanian armament.
The Liverpool Cotton Exchange closed from noon to 2 p m in tribute to the late Lord Roberts.
Wooden sewers in Beach Street dating back up to a century will be replaced. The contract for the street section was awarded yesterday to Timothy J. O Connell as the lowest bidder at 45000 dollars.
Advertisement promoting Poslam to treat pimples eczema and surface disorders. Claims antiseptic effects stop itching quickly and soothe skin. Encourages readers to obtain free samples from Emergency Laboratories New York and notes Poslam Soap price two sizes.
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