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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1900
Page
8
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Catalog text lists North's Sugar Cured Ham shoulders bacon and sweet pickled shoulders with smoked salmon and halibut pieces and salted mackerel in unclear entry.
Portland Maine August 7 1900 Maine celebrated old home week with a large parade 25 fire and ladder entries naval and civil processions and a public meeting at City Hall Governor Powers hosted with Major Robinson. Former Speaker Thomas B Reed received the strongest ovation and speeches followed by naval races and firemen’s contests across the day.
Cuban teachers received 360000 in American money at Harvard bursar’s office amid last Cuban dance at Hemenway Gymnasium. 1400 teachers, $59650 paid yesterday. 33000 in an hour. Some losses reported from pickpockets. Transports Sedgwick Crook McPherson Rollins to carry teachers to New York on the 16th. Arrival in New York Friday. President McKinley to host a reception at the Kite House Saturday afternoon.
The Massachusetts Breweries Company filed in the registry for deeds to convey the properties of ten breweries including American, Alley, H. and J. Pfaff, Hanley and Casey, Continental, Norfolk, Elmwood Spring, Revere, Franklin, and Robinson breweries. Officers include President Charles Pfaff and directors Harrison W. Hugaley James D. Casey Edward Ruhl Frederick J. Alley I. R. Clark A. C. Ratshesky Charles A. King Rollin Jones. The new firm began business yesterday morning.
Charles A. Kehoe, 23, of 366 Norfolk Street Dorchester, died in a fire at a stable and paint shop 850 Morton Street. He was last seen sleeping on a bench upstairs after a night with friends. The charred body bore a forehead wound later deemed accidental. The fire’s origin remains undetermined.
A correspondent reports on the Crowell family heirs of Elisha Crowell. He lists David and Jonathan Crowell brothers who emigrated to Nova Scotia around 1760 and notes about eighty descendants across Newburyport Gloucester Malden Everett and Yarmouth. He claims no heirs attended recent Somerville and Truro meetings and cites English records to prove claims.
Fifty cases of yellow fever are under treatment in Havana with increases in Pinar del Rio. The spread is linked to about 20 000 non immune Spanish immigrants arriving recently.
Secretary Hitchcock conferred with Chairman Hanna at the national headquarters. A West Virginia delegation led by Stephen B. Elkins and visitor John Tinker of North Adams, aged 88, spoke with officials. Odell’s withdrawal from the governor race dominated discussions, with revived talk of General Francis V. Greene.
On the New York Yacht Club cruise from Huntington Bay to Morris Cove a 28 mile course, August Belmont's Mineola scored its first win in the series for the Lippitt cup beating Rainbow by 16 minutes 58 seconds. Quisetta won the schooner class while Corona and Hildegarde took their respective class victories.
Thomas E. J. Hayde died at City Hospital after being shot by his partner McCarty in the bicycle shop. McCarty was rearrested and will be arraigned for manslaughter, claiming he shot in fun not expecting to hit Hayde. Hayde leaves a wife and daughter.
Thomas Murray died at Salem Hospital reportedly from starvation after seven days without food. Found in a field near Castle Hill and said to have resided in Salem with relatives near Boston. He had sought work but failed to find employment before collapse.
Patrick Blackburn a single man living at 29 West Broadway South Boston fell twenty five feet from an electric light pole while adjusting a lamp at the corner of K and First streets. He died before aid arrived. Blackburn worked as an aspector for the Boston Electric Light Company.
In Hoboken the body of Edward Thiele, 23, was found after a rebuke for a steerage flirtation aboard the Deutschlands. Capt Albers told of a bridge incident. Thiele vanished before his shift and was later found dead amid inquiries into the voyage and implied reporting to Hamburg authorities.
Substantial flooding from a broken main sent water flooding basements on Tremont and Harrison avenues, Washington Street and nearby blocks. The subway, stores, and cellars from Boylston to Eliot streets suffered heavy damage with stock losses. pumps operated to limit further inundation. Estimated damage runs into thousands of dollars.
A New York heat wave reaches 97 degrees causing several deaths and many prostrations. Reports from Chicago Pittsburg Watertown Milwaukee reflect extreme conditions with fatalities and widespread suffering across mills beaches and homes.
London August 8 Lieutenant George Cornwallis West who married Lady Randolph Churchill has been placed on half pay due to ill health. The question of whether she would retain her title has been settled by her decision to be designated hereafter as Mrs. George Cornwallis West.
In Brockton on August 1 John R. Du Bois again lowered the two mile professional unpaced bicycle record for the third time in a week, shaving two seconds off his prior 4:15 time to set a new world record of 4:13.
Albert Hurwitch and Martha Eisenstein wed in Union Park Hall Boston last evening. Rev Wolff Barron officiated as guests including Sophie Hayes and many local families attended. After supper and dancing, the couple will reside on Shafter Street Dorchester.
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