Local Market Advertises Low Prices on Groceries
A midweek ad highlights deeply discounted items with prices such as 9 for 26¢. Shoppers are urged to compare values across departments and take advantage of limited time offers.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1907
Page
7
A midweek ad highlights deeply discounted items with prices such as 9 for 26¢. Shoppers are urged to compare values across departments and take advantage of limited time offers.
In today’s market listings, Young Spring Lamb hindquarters priced at 14¢ per lb from 18¢. First Cut Prime Beef 15¢ per lb, Second Cut Prime Beef 12¢ for rump roast, Sirloin 15¢ per lb. Fresh Killed Fowl 15¢, Fancy Spring Lamb Chops 42¢, Tongues 13¢, Armour’s Shoulders 10¢ smoked. Regular prices shown beside limited time sale prices.
Boston stockholders debate the status of Reynolds tied ventures in Alaska. Dr. H. E. Kistler denies bank links to Reynolds Alaskan Development Company. He notes stock was on the market and no widespread church or teacher subscriptions were found, while Kingsbury's residency remains unclear.
Dr Kistler says he is not connected with the Reynolds Bank at Valdez or the Reynolds Alaska Development Co and only a visitor to their offices in Boston. He admits serving as agent for the Home railway of Alaska promoting stock in the East and insists the bank, the development company, and the railway are separate entities.
The Intercolonial Club of Boston drew the largest attendance in club history for the season opener smoke talk. President Campbell presided and outlined monthly talks and entertainments with emphasis on member cooperation.
Rich prize fighter Reddy Gallagher buys a Denver hotel for 125000 in cash. Gallagher’s wealth is estimated at about 250000.
The Sunday Post teases that Boston has many equally beautiful or superior women to Lady Warwick, including working girls, in a feature forthcoming tomorrow. It frames the prize English beauty as only part of a broader contest of local looks.
The report notes a serious shift in the economy with prices rising sharply after a cut in the string on prices. The writer highlights sustained upward movement and ongoing increases affecting the public mood and costs.
Philadelphia dispatch reports Andrew P. Maloney, uncle of Miss Helen Maloney, doubts her involvement in a secret wedding at Mamaroneck to Arthur Herbert Osborn, noting she wed Samuel Clarkson in Montreal the prior Thursday.
A columnist notes escalating costs in New England eateries with pies doubling to ten cents and doughnuts rising to five cents while cheese adds extra charges. Coffee may hold steady. milk and meat costs rise as diners face broader spend. The piece also decries misreported remarks about a niece’s disappearance and questions a Clarkson marriage rumor tied to the Majestic voyage.
Speculation places the Atlantic gathering of ships around Dec 1 with a mid month departure around the horn. At Charlestown navy yard the Des Moines Illinois Missouri New Jersey Vermont are under repair along with Kentucky slated for refit soon. Also listed are New York Nashville Scorpion Glacier and Celtic which cannot join due to major repairs. There is a chance the refrigerator ship Celtic may join if repairs finish in time.
In Providence on October 11 M Y Snyder a Brown class of 1911 member was ducked under a pump after allegedly selling caps to freshmen below the cap committee price. The Cammarian Club claims he broke his word and took the action, drawing wide attention and noting a governor Hughes’ son among participants.
Dr Keating Hart of Marseilles presented a practical demonstration at Broca Hospital for Women in Paris showcasing a new electro surgical method for cancer. The treatment uses high tension intermittent sparks applied to cancerous growths and has yielded highly favorable results.
Wires caused two mistaken calls yesterday for the city fire department. The first came from Box 744 at Clark's Hotel around 3 p m sending guests and two hotel employees into a fainting spell. The second alarm came from an automatic at 56 Arch street, but no flames were found.
President James J. McGarty of Boston Branch 4 of the Commercial Telegraphers Union said a settlement of the strike is expected within the coming week.
Morris and Abraham Carvitz faced four month sentences in the house of correction for an alleged assault on Herman Greenstein. Each appealed the ruling and were held in $300 bail for the grand jury.
An old advertisement touts a cure for Seald G Head and Sealip diseases by the Household Surgeon druggists. It rejects Dr Porter’s Healing Oil as ineffective and side notes the product’s supposed healing effects.
Alexander I Bonin a Montreal lawyer confirms Helen Maloney and Samuel Clarkson wed Oct 3 in Montreal. The couple spent the day in his office and planned to marry before night. Bonin will not reveal wedding details. He doubts they sailed for New York or Europe yet.
War ren Mansfield of Swampscott sued John Cann of West Newbury for 10000 alleging alienation of his wife affections. The case collapsed after testimony was struck and Judge White granted a non suit, noting the dead wife’s marriage to another man invalidating the claim.
Arthur Osborn a New York broker claims Helen Maloney daughter of Marquis Martin Maloney and heiress to Standard Oil wealth was secretly married to him on December 28 1905 at Mamaroneck New York. He says they kept names secret and that Clarkson may have induced a breakup.
Stranded with only 4 cents among them, the remnants of a Wild West show that had busted up in Chillicothe were rounded up by Detectives Wombacher and Black as they strolled up North Adams street in Peoria Illinois on October 11.
During a Tuesday gale on the schooner Singleton Palmer, Edward Small drowned after being thrown from the jibboom. Fellow sailor Thomas Brown, also aboard, survived after clinging to a rope thrown by his comrades and being pulled aboard.
The will of the late Coolidge Barnard of Dorchester filed in Probate Court designates 1000 to the Dorchester Yacht Club for a new club house or moving the current building to Mill Foot. After other bequests, the residue goes to cousin Sarah E. Hersey of 26 Mill Street Dorchester.
Judge Raymond granted John P. Clark former city building inspector probation after a bribery case with Abraham Zimmon. The court noted the need to deter crime while offering a chance to reform, and the eyes of the city would watch his progress yearly. Clark and his wife showed emotion as he departed the courthouse on probation.
Cavittsville, Greensburg, marks a century without a tavern as residents oppose a proposed hotel license. Citizens sign a remonstrance to Westmoreland County Court challenging the plan.
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