Semi Centenary of Lincoln Shooting Recalled by The Post
The Post presents the Lincoln assassination chapter detailing the 1865 events at Ford's Theatre. John Booth enters the president's box during Our American Cousin, fires a Derringer, wounds Major Rathbone, and escapes into the night as Lincoln dies next morning at Peterson's lodging.
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Peanut John
Major Rathbone
The Boston Post Covers Lincoln Assassination Fifty Years On
The Boston Post's first Washington despatch on Lincoln's assassination is reprinted with details of the shootings at Ford's Theatre and Seward's house. It notes confusion among readers, the subsequent despatches, and immediate reactions across Washington including reactions of Mrs Lincoln and the public panic.
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Stewart
Tenth Street
Gen. Grant
Fresh Groundfish Prices and Port News Amid War Torment
Prices at the piers show little change with haddock 3 1 4 to 5 1 4 cents and cod and pollock varying. Vessels docked at New Fish Pier and T Wharf with cargos of haddock cod pollock hake and halibut. naval inspectors checked German ships in quarantine while wireless gear remained sealed since wartime started. Additional ships, ballast and cargo details outline movements from Halifax Boston and East Boston, including the Pomeranian, Canopic, Evangeline, Anglian and others sailing toward Bermuda, Havana, and port calls amid sugar cargo routes and dry dock operations.
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New York
Bermuda
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Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line
London
Limon
United Fruit Company
East Boston
Havana
Port Simon
John A. Beckerman
Bridgewater
N. S
Westport
Shipping News Arrived and Sailed Ships and Tugs Listed
Shipping news lists arrival of steamers Anglian Toozes Hellenes Anderson Montevideo and others via Barbadoes and Fajardo and the tug Edwin IL Pillsbury with Bear Ridge towing. Sailed vessels include Joseph J Cuneo Nacoochee and Balti more with barges Kennebec Lan caster and more calling at New Bedford for for Indiana. Doings of the Van Loons full page color cartoon teased for next Sunday Post.
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London
Hellenes
Anderson
Montevideo
Barbadoes
Fajardo
Kershaw
Johnson
Norfolk
Dingley
Linscott
Portland
Camden
Brown
Bangor
City of Gloucester
Linneken
Gloucester
Edwin IL
Pillsbury
Swimm
Lynn
Bear Ridge
Philadelphia
Larkin
Ipswich
Joseph J. Cuneo
Baracoa
Boston
Yarmouth
Nacoochee
Savannah
Dorchester
Tuscan
Herman Winter
New York
Baltimore
Ixin
Antilla
Cuba
Covington
Kennebec
Lancaster
New Bedford
Indiana
Plymouth
Cumberland
van Loons
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Sunday Post
Denies Science in Ancient Papyrus
A reader rebuts a Boston Post report claiming ancient papyrus proves Christian Science. The letter cites a Moses era physician advising a nervous patient to deny pain to induce relief, arguing the test is misinterpreted and reflects mesmeric suggestion rather than science.
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Taft Meets Roosevelt at Yale Funeral
Former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft met briefly in the Yale chapel vestibule at Professor Thomas R. Lounsbury’s funeral in New Haven. The handshake was formal with Roosevelt greeting bearers and Taft. both then entered the service. Roosevelt left for New York shortly after the rites.
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Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Thomas R. Lounsbury
Yale
College Chapel
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Taft
Colonel Roosevelt
New York
Business Conditions Show Improvement, Credit Leaders Say
Charles E. Meek of New York told about 150 Boston Credit Men that business conditions are improving but not back to normal. The talk covered the credit man’s efficiency, position, and value to business. Austin H. Decatur presided as toast master at National Officers Night.
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New York
National Association of Credit Men
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Boston Association
Austin H. Decatur
H. J. Tregoe
National Association
Curtis R. Burnett
Newark
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A. M. Phillips Dead Ex-Alderman and Attorney
Former Melrose resident Alanson M. Phillips died at his home 63 Woodland avenue Melrose. He was long a Boston attorney ex-president of the Highland Club Melrose a member of the Boston City Club Wyoming Lodge of Masons and past manager of the Boston office of the Smith Premier Typewriter Company.
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Smith-Premier Typewriter Company
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