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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1920
Page
3
A Boston chain store offered sugar at 19 cents per pound while a leading local dealer predicted prices will fall next week with many retailers likely to sell at 16 cents per pound before next Saturday.
Boston reports that the Revere Sugar Refinery has re entered the market and cut refined sugar to 17.10 cents f o b Boston from 22 1 2, while the American Sugar Refinery local refinery remains in withdrawal but continues deliveries at 22 1 2. Attorney General J Weston Allen notes the move may ease shortages and preserve food supply with hearings expected to continue next week and a possible delay of further inquiry.
A report notes that executives from the American Sugar Refining Company will travel to Boston for a conference next week concerning the purchase of raw sugars and the sale of refined sugars, aiming to address company policy and market strategy.
Lawson offered to fight any two bums in the crowd after the adjournment of the hearings of George L. Ware promoter of Mutual Divide oil stock. United States marshals led by Chief Marshal Tighe escorted Lawson and his counsel to the street to avert a general melee.
Patrolman Joseph Kopp of Roxbury faces a police board hearing on charges of conduct unbecoming an officer for accepting funds from two autoists. Despite suspicions, many officials believe his long record and past commendations may lead to exoneration.
Police and fire officials investigate a basement fire at 44 Green Street Jamaica Plain that caused 1500 dollars in damage. Two families displaced after a stubborn blaze, started yesterday, was brought under control.
Mrs. Marion Curry aged 24 of Pond Street South Weymouth is at Relief Hospital with a broken ankle after a collision with a Marican Paper Company truck on the corner of Washington and West streets late yesterday. The truck was on Hav erhill Street operated by Harry Samawaeson of Cambridge Spring Street Cambridge.
Gov Cox in Walla Walla says the League of Nations is a product of 500 minds from civilized nations not a British or Wilson league. He cites amendments by Hughes Root Taft and calls for perjury penalties, linking Republican fundraising to quota disputes and accusing the senatorial oligarchy of obstruction.
Agide Jacchia conducts a program at Symphony Hall tonight including Overture to Il Guarany Waltzes Estudiantina Capriccio for strings Fantasia Madama Butterfly Marche Slave excerpts from The Mastersingers First Hungarian Rhapsody and Love's Dream After the Ball with Harp solo and other selections by Puccini Tchaikowsky Wagner Wolf-Ferrari Gounod and others
Partial OCR list shows numerous Boston area businesses and addresses including Rice Tire Co and Standard Tire & Rubber Co at Mass Ave and Portland Street with entries from Somerville Newton Houghton and Dutton Co and others. Names appear amid scattered street addresses and firm titles.
Washington reported that Federal Prohibition Commissioner Kramer finds Jamaica ginger known as jakey to be a popular Boston beverage and says enforcing the Volstead law requires removing Jamaica ginger from the market.
Commissioner Kramer condemns lax enforcement of the liquor ban and calls for bulk permits to manufacturers and wholesalers. He urges banning Jamaica ginger and cites newspapers in Boston and New York as treating prohibition as a joke, noting only about four percent enforcement nationwide. He identifies two violator groups: European foreigners and petty criminals fueling small-scale trafficking.
In Gloucester on September 10 Laura Fletcher a 17 year old heiress to Stoughton A Fletcher of Indianapolis disappeared from her parents summer home in East Gloucester after disguising herself in a man's overalls flannel shirt and hair cut. Police have no tangible clue to her whereabouts.
City Marshal D M Casey and Gloucester police believe the missing girl may be in Boston or New York with two student chums from an East Gloucester art studio. Another theory holds she was lost overboard near Gloucester Harbor after a man reported two girls seen in a frail nine foot rowboat inside the breakwater. He described one girl partially dressed and standing upright in the boat.
Rocky Neck reports a 17 year old girl Miss Fletcher disappeared yesterday after a chaperon claimed she left for a masquerade that did not occur. A harbor pilot saw a girl matching her description vanish into bushes with a handsome young man then enter a white rowboat. Her mother travels from Indianapolis as authorities pursue leads.
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