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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1918
Page
10
Obscure maritime calendar notes mark the waterfront date with celestial events and war day counts. References to Mars Jupiter Venus Saturna and lunar phases accompany the ledger like a historical almanac fragment.
Fragmentary meteorological report mentions Mets barometer and mean temperature with unclear data. W. Smith, meteorologist, appears in source.
Receipts for the week ending Thursday show a sharp drop from 1917 with 45 vessels and 1 825 650 pounds this year versus 67 vessels and 2 300 600 pounds last year. A French officer Lieutenant Antonin de Mandat Grancey de Vaisseau and President Hawkes visited the pier to observe handling of large catches. The Lake Como will load for Havana and the Lake Markham's propeller was damaged near Cape Cod Canal requiring tow to New York. The Egremont Castle was diverted to Boston with war munitions for Vladivostok and the Cuban strike on exports has ended.
The dispatch lists multiple steamers and tugs including Apalachee Baltimore Arlington Sewalls Point Lake Markham Baltimore Lake Aurice and New York with tows toward Lisbon and New York. Vessels such as Neptune Mayflower John Pierce and Langhorne are noted among schooners and barges like Mahoning Canisteo Oxford and Hopatcong. Several tow lines and Co numbers appear in the seaworthy log of 19th century maritime activity.
School tickets will be issued under conditions to be announced later and limited to certain hours of the day.
Street car riders in Greater Boston face a nine to ten cent fare rise as expenses surge. Officials cite postwar wage costs and higher coal and maintenance bills, with experts predicting further rate changes to sustain service.
A list of steamers and tugs including Valverda Mackie Alexian dria Egypt Egremont Castle Ireland Ontario Benn Newport News Norfolk Lake Yemassee Holmes Norfolk Lake Como Blackwood Lamberts Point Lake Ennis Steele Sewalls Point Lake Gardiner Warner Lamberts Point Lake Narka Dodge Northern Light Lewis Baltimore Herm an Winter Peterson New York City Gloucester Tarsen Gloucester Southport Camden Norfolk Westport and Roger Williams Cols New York. ships bound for various ports reported docking and sailing schedules.
A munition train explosion at Hamont station Belgium on Thursday left 150 dead and estimates of 1500 to 2000 casualties. A bonfire started by children reportedly spread to two German trains nearby, causing enormous destruction. Injured were being taken to Budel in Holland.
Police blamed a man called Fagan for directing a group of children, including an 11 year old girl arrested for attempted larceny, in apartment robberies across New York. The youngsters rang bells to gain entry and would return to steal once doors were left on the latch. The girl confessed a month of theft under threat of harm by the so called big man.
A new information system reduces operator duties as callers must use the phone directory for listed numbers. It notes a shift from operators answering to directing users to the directory or information for unlisted numbers as exchanges expand.
The Boston exchanges including Main Fort Hill Haymarket Richmond Back Bay Beach plus Dorchester Roxbury and Brookline have dropped individual information desks and merged under one central information center.
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