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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1906
Page
2
R H White Company invites buyers to view the Spring Exhibit showcasing new styles and values for early spring. The ad promises fine fabrics and workmanship, with Fifth Avenue suits in latest New York styles and complete stock for quick selection and lower prices.
New season fabrics offer gun metal and Quaker grays, shadow pearls and stripes, sharkskin worsteds, and R H White Co blue serges touted as the finest blue serge in America. Black suit options include thibets and unfinished worsteds in deep rich black and blue. View the price range and quality in store.
Eleven postal clerks were pulled from the post office ruins after three days buried without food or water. Initially feared dead, all were found alive as rescue teams recovered them. the mail in the building was saved. San Francisco, April 20.
President Roosevelt directs Secretary Metcalf to travel from Oakland to San Francisco to consult with state and city officials and aid the earthquake distress. Mellin's Food Company will provide over 12 000 bottles of infant nourishment arriving April 23 for distribution to starving babies. Boston Elks plan a special Sunday meeting to raise funds sent to the San Francisco Lodge for relief.
Inquiries from across the United States arrive as the American Red Cross directs relief for San Francisco. Funds may be sent to Charles Hallam Keep or to state treasurers in Connecticut Maine Massachusetts Rhode Island and Vermont for disbursement.
Mrs. Jacob Tietz of San Francisco, formerly of Readville, left in December 1904 and last communicated two weeks ago from 1232 Folsom Street. Bryant fears she may be a victim of the Readville disaster and awaits telegraph replies with anxious concern.
A. Shuman & Co invites voluntary contributions of $1 or more from any who wish to aid San Francisco sufferers and promises to forward all gifts.
South Windham Maine April 20 The Androscoggin Pulp Company will not residue on the site of their Brunswick burned but have been lie nlace The wording indicates a plan to relocate or reconsider the Brunswick site after a fire, signaling a shift in operations and potential reestablishment steps.
At a meeting of bankers in Oakland, Mr. Lynch of the First National Bank said a committee examined all fat and safe deposit vaults in San Francisco and found them intact. He noted that money and papers on deposit are safe and that the San Francisco Hall of Records also escaped serious injury.
San Francisco relief committee members aboard the Governor Sternberg under Colonel Reynolds orders to commandeer tugs for rescue of at least 10000 men women and children trapped by advancing flames near Telegraph and Russian Hills and the valley between Meiggs wharf.
A Trinidad, Colorado special reports Mt Capulin near Folsom New Mexico, an extinct volcano about ten thousand feet high, is said to be emitting smoke from a fissure following two earthquakes this morning. The heat is melting snow on the summit.
Members of the Metropolitan Opera Company travel to New Orleans after the disaster. Principal performers including Mme Sembrich Caruso Campanari and conductor Hertz report no injuries but many personal losses. Sembrich estimates costume loss at $20,000 and overall company damage could reach $150,000.
The Postal Telegraph Company abandons its temporary ferry building office as a gale drives the fire toward the Union Ferry depot. General Castertha orders squads to hold back the flames threatening the waterfront emergency hospital and city exits. Brick and granite walls weakened by the quake crumble, potentially blocking Market Street and the main escape route to the ferry.
Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley workers rush aid as San Francisco refugees flood the region. City authorities seize trains of food and ice to feed hospitals and the hungry. Relief funds and volunteer registrations organize distribution while families search for separated members.
The North British Mercantile Fire Insurance Company will pay San Francisco losses as soon as adjusted and contribute 5000 dollars for relief. It reports 3,560,000 dollars in outstanding SF coverage. The Liverpool London & Globe Insurance Company also says losses will be paid immediately after adjustment, amount undetermined.
Edward L. Hearn supreme knight issues a notice to US and Canada councils requesting relief gifts be wired to State Deputy George Connolly in San Francisco. Contributions will be acknowledged and reported. over $500 already sent.
State Controller A. P. Colgan reports from Santa Rosa that the business district suffered wreckage with forty deaths, while the residential area sustained only minor damage and no injuries.
The Boston Post invites readers to send news from California and contributions to the relief fund. Direct gifts to Kidder Peabody & Co. Boston are preferred, with acknowledgments printed in the newspaper.
University officials report two fatalities and eight injuries after a Stanford blaze in Sacramento. The student J. A. Hanna of Bradford Pennsylvania and firefighter Hans Stroh died. Memorial Church library gymnasium Memorial Arch and power house were wrecked. outer quadrangle and shops damaged. total damage estimated at 1,000,000 dollars.
Reports from Los Angeles indicate Brawley California suffered quake damage to about 100 buildings by Wednesday with no buildings destroyed and no deaths.
An advertisement argues the heart needs care like other organs and promotes Dr Miles Heart Cure. It claims the tonic strengthens the heart to alleviate dizziness palpitations shortness of breath and related pains. A testimonial from Miss Emma J Barton Watertown New York asserts recovery and guarantees trial with money back if no benefit.
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