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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
7
The advertisement asserts Chase & Sanborn Seal Brand coffee offers consistent quality and price. It promotes 1 and 2 pound cans at 39 cents per pound with fixed value promised for today and tomorrow. The closing line notes a historical event: when Blazing Steeple fell.
In a Boston warehouse Young Bill a fourteen year old in league with an older thief gazes at a gold cross and a stash of valuables. He wrestles with loyalty and law as the cross lures him toward a silent midnight heist with a partner waiting outside.
Engine 15 from South Boston, one of the department’s largest, was forced to abandon its steamer on Chester Avenue as flames from the Tidewater Oil Building spread along wooden houses. Engineer Walter Thompson and assistant Thomas Gerry suffered burns, while other crew members E B Chittick and John F Reynolds aided a relief engine through the night. Thompson described the scene and danger of the hole of fire.
Fifteen members of the Chelsea police department saw their homes burn in a rapid blaze. Capt FitzRoy Grover and officers including Charles Monison James O Neil William Burke Frank Sawyer Hiram Tuttle Thomas Ganard Charles Ross Edward Hoyt Charles Gooding James Dolan Herbert Bradley Twombly McGauley Bartley Renfrew Duggan Moody Glennon Hickey and Isbister all suffered loss.
Acting Governor Draper led immediate relief efforts after the Chelsea fire. He coordinated with Boston officials, secured tents, blankets, and lunch supplies, opened East Boston schoolhouses for shelter, and dispatched militia, cadets, coast artillery, and Charlestown troops to protect lives and property.
The flames swept the Chelsea area from St. Rose Church east to Washington avenue destroying many businesses. Notable losses include the Boston Blacking Co. at West Third and Maple, Rag factory at Maple and West Third, Boston Ice Co., Chelsea Savings Bank, County Savings Bank at Broadway, Engine 1 on Park street, Central fire station, Hose 3 on Grove and Shuttle, Chelsea Trust Co. on Everett avenue and Broadway.
The notice proclaims Moxie as the greatest American temperance drink entering its 23rd year of popularity. It is described as delicious, refreshing and healthful, sold by grocers druggists confectioners and temperance beverage dealers at $2.50 a case or 25 cents per bottle with 5 cents a glass at fountains.
Mayor Hibbard, after discussions with metropolitan business leaders, will convene a relief meeting at the chamber of the Common Council to aid Chelsea. The city cannot fund relief, but a large subscription is anticipated, modeled after Galveston and San Francisco campaigns.
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