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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1916
Page
3
Local markets report flour and sugar price increases this week with a 15 point rise in sugar and a further five point uptick yesterday. The headlines note these advances as the week’s principal market features, while meat prices are unchanged or improved.
Retail meat grades hold steady while wholesale prices slip by a cent. Floar rises 25 cents to 11.25 a barrel for top quality. Eggs edge up with the best at 60 cents and second grade at 68 cents. medium grades unchanged. Fowls dip slightly. Vegetables rise as outdoor season ends amid heavy rains. Fish prices up as gales limit fishing. cod 12 cents, haddock steady. mackerel and Pacific salmon abundant.
Framingham mourns Private Leo J Graham of the Thirty first Michigan Regiment killed in El Paso. A funeral at his parents home on Pratt street was followed by a requiem high mass at St Stephen's Church. He was 72 and spent most of his life in Framingham, working as a tobacco salesman in Detroit before enlisting.
Patrolman John J. Earle of the La Grange street station died at City Hospital after being crushed between two trolley cars on Washington near Boylston. He had been directing traffic when a North Station car failed to switch and struck a southbound Fields Corner car. He was removed to the hospital by officers in his station’s ambulance.
Charles A. Fox of Essex County Superior Court seeks to invalidate a clause of his uncle Elijah Foxs 107000 will claiming undue influence by Reverend Charles J. Fowler of Newton The case centers on the contested will from Haverhill Massachusetts and the parties involved.
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