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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1920
Page
2
The 15th annual gathering of Boston friends of Patrick Collins marked his 1906 death with a silent toast at Hotel Brewster. City Clerk James Donavan Judge Corbett former Senator P A Kennedy and Registrar W T A Fitzgerald attended the luncheon.
Salem New Hampshire September 16 George A Hooker owner Lake View Farms claims championship for a cornstalk reaching 17 feet 10 inches believed tallest in New England. Farm manager Henry M Runnells assisted and invites higher contenders.
Market listings show new arrivals today including crispy brussels sprouts 35 cents a quart, celery 35 cents a bunch, California grapefruit 15 cents each, Delaware grapes 30 cents per small basket, cranberries 15 cents a quart, and German prunes 75 cents large grape basket. Various fruits and vegetables price ranges follow, with eggs, butter, and meat costs noted. fish prices rise slightly with several species listed along with shellfish and seafood items.
Potatoes sell at 49 to 50 cents per peck while sweet potatoes drop to four pounds for 2 cents. Sugar continues downward with most shops at 19 cents per pound and a few at 18 cents. Peaches fetch 4.00 to 5.50 per bushel for preservation and other produce ranges from green tomatoes at 3.00 to 3.50 per bushel to peppers and onions at varied low rates.
In Lawrence today two local graduates begin priestly studies. Francis X. Sharples leaves Dunkirk New York to join Holy Cross College for Passionist Fathers. his sister Rose joined St. Joseph novitiate Canton Ohio and his brother Rev Daniel Sharples is priest at St. Michael's Monastery Hoboken New Jersey. Gilbert E. Robinson departs to enter the Dominican College Providence Rhode Island. two of his sisters are nuns.
Walter Douglass, indicted since 1918 in Providence R I for forging narcotic prescriptions, was brought before Judge Hale in Portland Maine. An order of removal to Providence was issued after his disappearance during the trial and recent arrest in Bangor on Wednesday.
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