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Show BEANLESS BOSTON. Boston baked beans and brown .bread are now classed with the luxuries. Beans cost $7 a bushel in the chief New England city and the lamentations of the people are loud and long. Even the members of the Homo Market club stand aghast now that their fondest hopes have been fully realized and there are no signs of joy in any quarter. quar-ter. The fact of the bean shortage has been brought to the fore by George W. Anderson, federal district attorney at Boston, who is in charge of the national na-tional food and fuel inquiry. "Boston, "Bos-ton, ' ' says Mr. Anderson, ( ' is turning to the food situation." Of course it is. With beans at $7 a bushel no doubt there are revolutionary utterances in the Back Bay district as well as the south cove, and unless the price comes down there is bound to be trouble in the land of the Pilgrim fathers and Salem witches. Other sections of the country are mildly protesting against the high prices charged for staple articles arti-cles of food, but their sufferings are as nothing when compared with the a g u a y en d u r e d by th e ii o .- u n i l r. s w 1: u 1 are forced to forego the- uvui.1 Sunday morning baked beans and b:u'.vu Lrea . and uvo entirely upon -alt cud anil mackerel. ! |