Costly meat prices and fish discounts spark Boston hearing
The State Commission on the Necessaries of Life holds a morning hearing at the State House Room 486 to probe wide meat price disparities among high and low priced dealers in Boston area. Bay State Haddock sold at nine cents a pound after a recent price surge, with strikes and federal probes continuing as officials discuss sugar and coal relief steps.
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Boston
Cambridge
Somerville
Allston
State Commission
State House
Faneuil Hall
Brookline
Back Bay
New England
City Club
Bay State Fishing Company
Bay State
Fair Price Committee
John H. Sherburne
Washington
Commission
F. B. Rice
Rice & Hutchins
Leon Strauss
J. C. Morse
Leopold Morse Company
Francis P. O'Connor
F. P. O'Connor Company
Fred H. Tucker
Farley-Harvey Company
Oliver M. Fisher
M. A
Sherburne
Massachusetts
Reading
Choice
Bay State Haddock
The
Bay State Fishing Co
Fish Pier
Baker Praises War Work of Chemists
Newton D. Baker praised chemists at the American Chemical Society convention in Philadelphia on September 3. He said one third served in the military, one third worked in essential industries, and the remaining third did war work at home.
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Philadelphia
Chemis
America
Newton D. Baker
American Chemical Society
Shantung Restoration Predicted Within a Year
Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan's foreign secretary and peace delegation member, predicted the restitution of Shantung to China within a year. He arrived in New York from Paris on his way back to Japan.
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Shantung
Matsuoka
Japan
Germany
China
Viscount Uchida
Tsingtao
Kian-Chow
Bifth
New York
Yosuke Matsuoka
Foreign Department of Japan
Paris
Doyle Commander of Roxbury Post
The Rev. George P. O'Connor of St. Francis de Sales' Church, a former chaplain with the 301st Field Artillery First Army and member of Roxbury American Legion Post 44, was elected chaplain. Former Ensign Frederick F. Doyle was unanimously chosen permanent commander for the coming year at the Roxbury Boys' Club elections.
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George P. O’connor
St. Francis de Sales’ Church
301St Field Artillery
First Army
Roxbury
The
American Legion
Man Found Dead in Chelsea Apartment Room
A young man identified by police as Cornelius W. Driscoll of 372 Hanover Street Boston was found dead in bed in an apartment at 691 Broadway Chelsea. He had arrived Tuesday night with Marion Carney of 330 Shawmut Avenue Boston who knew him as Jack Sullivan. A draft registration card with Driscoll’s name and Hanover Street address was in his pocket, and four empty Jamaica ginger bottles were found beneath the bed.
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Cornelius W. Driscoll
Hanover Street
Boston
William Barry
Broadway
Chelsea
Marion Carney
Shawmut Avenue
Jack Sullivan
Driscoll
Meats in New York Drop Two Cents a Pound
Retail meat prices in New York fall by one to two cents per pound per the federal food administrator Arthur Williams. The fair price list notes slight grocery price increases and a clean bill of health for dry goods clothing and shoes profiteering.
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New York
Arthur Williams
Williams
Trade imbalance highlighted by price gaps across cities
The report notes 176 million pounds yearly with only 21 thousand pounds brought in over the last ten months. It compares shoe prices, listing 15 dollars locally, zero in Paris, and 80 dollars in London, underscoring market disparities.
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Paris
London
Man Burns From Gasoline Clothes at Oil Plant
Cornelius J. Donovan a 17 year old Chelsea youth wearing gasoline saturated clothing at a Texas Oil Company's plant home in Chelsea caught fire. He suffered serious burns to the body and arms near the kitchen range and was taken to Frost Hospital with his name on the dangerous list.
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Texas Oil Company
Chelsea
Cornelius J. Donovan
Suffolk Street
Frost
Ex-Soldier Killed for Insulting Woman Near Star City
Flinton Briggs, 26, a discharged black soldier, was shot and killed by a mob of about 30 men three miles south of Star City Arkansas. He was accused of insulting a young white woman.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Seized sugar ordered sold below market by federal action
United States District Attorney Clyne ordered 60 tons of seized sugar sold at under 13 cents a pound. The J Aaron Company of New York sold it to a local firm for 13 dollars per hundred pounds. Clyne ordered a refund and a lower sale price. Thomas Nelson Perkins outlined a Harvard endowment fundraising plan at a luncheon with 60 captains.
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Chicago
United States
Clyne
J. Aaron Company
New York
Aaron Company
Thomas Nelson Perkins
Greater Boston
Harvard’ Endowment Fund
Exchange Club
Perkins
Milk Street
Missouri Wheat Embargo Aims to Ease Rail Congestion
A temporary embargo on wheat shipments to Kansas City was declared to relieve congestion on the railroad tracks. Elevators hold about 12.5 million bushels, over half the Grain Corporation’s U S property, with thousands of carloads stalled. the embargo is expected to last several days.
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Kansas City
United States Grain Corporation
Every Man Decorated After First Division Return
Four thousand officers and men of the First Division returned to New York on transports Amphion Suwanee and Mobile. The 18th Infantry led with fourragere from the Legion of Honor awarded by France. The Second Machine Gun Battalion saw about forty percent decorated while suffering seventy percent casualties under Major S. Warren of Gainsville, Florida.
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New York
Amphion
Suwanee
Mobile
18Th Infantry
Fourragiere
Legion of Honor
Brest
S. Warren
Gainsville
Florida
Caution U S Businessmen on Price Terms
New York report says American manufacturers and exporters must clarify the meaning of f o b port to foreign buyers to prevent confusion and protect overseas trade. The note explains f o b New York means the seller ships the goods and the buyer pays ocean freight and insurance.
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New York
Fo. B
National Foreign Trade Council
Australia
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South Boston
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Doyle
Frederick F. Doyle
Boston College
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N. Y
Harvard
Harvard University
Missouri
U. S
Allston, Mass
Mass
Thomas J. Alger
Washington St
Atwood & Co., Inc
Beach St. W
Boston, Mass
Nahant Fish Market
Summer St
Ober
Salem St
Harry R. Orris
Friend St
West Newton St
R. L. Wade
Brookline, Mass. Thomas Fish Market
Cambridge, Mass
Campbell & Sullivan
Brattle St
Ferry Bros
Springfield St
T. W. Kenney
Mass. Ave
Manhattan Market
Charlestown
W. A. Crosby
Warren St
Walter Garland
Austin St
A. Handle
Matin St. Hunter Market
Bunker Hill
St. C. Mathews
Dorchester, Mass
J. M. Ryder
Bartlett St
Bayon
Dorchester Ave
Codmanayeere
Crongens Ave
Dorchesterve
Edward H. Gonson
Columbia Road
Eaton Square
Bowdoin St
Norfolk
Norfolk St
M. Rubin
Upham’s Corner
Dudley St
East
M. J. Cashman
Bennington St
Jose Rebeiro
Cambridge St
Jamaica Plain
E. Kent
Washington St. Mangene Fish Market
Malden
H. C. Lord
Pleasant St
Mattapan, Mass
Mattegns Fish Market
Blue Hillve
Adduci Bros
Blue Hill Ave
John W. Fernands
Tremont St. Frank’s Fish Market
M. M. Goldstein
J. Green Co
Shawmut Ave
Mt. Pleasant Market
the MacDonald Fish Shop
Salem, Mass
A. W. Lee
Lafayette St
South
A. Silva
Waltham, Mass
Janes Bros
Moody St
W. Somerville
F. J. Hopkins
Davia Sq. Tees Sq
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