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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1896
Page
8
A Boston clothing sale at 91 Summer St advertises $275000 worth of men and boys Spring outfits at deep discounts. Slogans promise fashion, value, and a four day home trial with refunds, urging workers to visit as the store stays open evenings.
The memorial for Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge will feature Acting Governor Wolcott, governors from Connecticut Rhode Island and New Hampshire, Massachusetts officials, federal judges, ex governors, U S senators, and a large civic and militia presence. Fifteen hundred seats remain unreserved after 1 45 with Lowell prominent. The program includes Mendelssohn St Paul overture a Brahms requiem Hymn America and a Lodge eulogy.
Portland Maine April 16 Charles T Adams of Boston died last evening in a local boarding house after he harmed himself days earlier. Officials say financial trouble unsettled his mind and contributed to the act.
Roughan Hall hosted the first annual ball of the Cressy Social Club in Charlestown drawing about 200 guests. Grand march opened at 9 led by George A. Anderson and Annie Graham, followed by a midnight collation in the banquet hall with many notables in attendance.
Frank P. Leonard was arrested in Bridgewater charged with murderous assault on John Dee and Miss Margaret Kerr after an April 15 incident near Oak Street. A shot narrowly missed, with three bullets through Dee’s hat and five through Kerr’s, as they fled from McElwaine’s factory exit. Leonard, who had courted Kerr, will face a Brockton hearing Friday. an old gun is missing from the Kerr home.
In a Brooklyn resort ladies Turkish bath crowded with women, a grimy mechanic attempting bath repairs triggered panic as maids, matrons, and others fled in white sheets. The ordeal caused dressing rooms to fill and prompts talk of suits for damages against the bath proprietor.
Cattle men and sheep raisers clash on the range near Spokane Washington with twenty armed mounted cattlemen headed toward the area yesterday. Bloodshed looms as the two factions prepare for a confrontation.
George H. Dean was sentenced in the Superior Criminal Court yesterday by Judge Bond to the House of Correction for three years for an assault on 13 year old Florence G. Berry. The married defendant, found guilty, committed the act in his Auburn street home.
A large crowd gathered in South Boston Court for the Massachusetts Board of Registration case against Dr Ziemann the alleged manager and physician of the South Boston Emergency Hospital He is charged with practicing medicine without a permit and previously fined 190 in October Judge Fallon deferred sentence to next Thursday to allow defense counsel to argue on a motion to quash.
April 16 at Washington Herman Stump commissioner-general of immigration visited the War Department to gauge military help against potential riots among Italians in the Ellis Island detention pen. Authorities fear a revolt and suggest sending instructions to Major-General Ruger to supply aid if needed.
In Bellows Falls Vermont on April 16, Central Vermont lines shift most locomotives and crews to the Central division. The Boston and Maine carries triple last week’s traffic between here and Windsor, pulling Central freight as well. A Boston and Maine special brought GM Mackinnon and other officials to consult with local representatives, signaling a possible Rutland road renewal.
The boys’ society of St. Joseph’s Church met at Berkeley Hall Leverett street invited by Rev. P J Walsh their director. An entertainment and banquet followed with a program including solo by Master Thomas McCarty piano duet by Masters Ryan and McCarty solo The Lost Child by R H Walsh and a Monica duet by Messrs Barry and Loftus.
A blaze at JT H Gray's shoddy mill in Hyde Park at 6 10 p m was contained after Watchman Stevens was trapped in a room and the roof burned. Loss to building stock and machinery estimated at 6000 dollars, with the fire likely caused by spontaneous combustion.
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