Destructive City Fire Rips Through Albany Street District
Fire roared through the Albany street area as flames jumped from lumber yards to tenements. Fireboat 44 and engines battled the blaze while dynamite blasts from a navy yard unit opened gaps to slow spread toward Harrison avenue. Mayor Fitzgerald aided crowd control and housing efforts.
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Albany Street
Dover Street
Randolph Street
Charlestown Navy Yard
Randolph
Boston Fire Department
Engine 22
Thayer Street
Albany
Hibbard
J. F. Paul
Thayer and
Albany Streets
Brodbine Hall
Harrison Avenue
Blacker & Sheppard’s
the Cove
High Street
Grady
Boston
Fitzgerald
Blacker & Sheppard Yard
South Bay
I. Ziegler & Co
South End Poultry Company
W. B. Pope Company
American Coal Company
Coal Company
Downes
Fire Department
Brookline sets seven minute response to major city fire
Mutual aid responded from Lynn Everett Malden Medford Chelsea Somerville Cambridge Quincy and Arlington plus Metro fire system apparatus. The Albe Albany street blaze drew water mains and fireboats while Mayor Fitzgerald opened flood gates as hundreds of firefighters fought to contain the fire, with over a million dollars in property destroyed and many displaced.
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Brookline
Lynn
Everett
Malden
Medford
Chelsea
Somerville
Cambridge
Quincy
Arlington
Metropolitan Mutual Aid
Benjamin Wells
High Street
Albany Street
Fitzgerald
Charlestown
Grady
Dover Street
Chardon Street
Ritchie
Thayer Street
J. F. Paul
Harrison Avenue
General Alarms Since 1872 Fire History Summary
A concise timeline noting major city fires from 1872 onward: 1889 Lincoln Street fire that consumed the dry goods district, 1894 Baseball Grounds fire devastating Roxbury, and 1696 Albert Pope building near Columbus Avenue reduced to ashes.
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Boston
Lincoln Street
Baseball Grounds
Roxbury
Albert Pope
Columbus Avenue
Itched All Summer Skin Trouble Relief Ad
A doomed summer skin outbreak is addressed with Poslam the new skin remedy claimed to stop itching soothe inflammation and cool the burning skin. It promises rapid relief for eczema acne tetter barber s itch and other conditions with a 50 cent minor use package and a two dollar jar available at local drugstores with free sample mailings from New York.
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Poslum
Eell
Aikerynes Drug Stores
Houghton & Centon’s
Drug Dept
First
U. & Dug
Sun Street
New York Cty
Hood's Lotion promises skin care not hair growth
Advertises Hood's Lotion as free from Grease and does not promote hair growth. Emphasizes soothing and healing the skin with options priced at 25 or 50 cents.
Memorial for William H Schultz in Middletown
In loving memory of William H Schultz who died August 10, 1908 in this city at rest Middletown Conn. We who loved him in life let us not forget him in death. His bereaved wife.
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South Boston
Hotel Brigham
Bredbine Hall
Blacker & Sheppard
Snan
Brown's
J. F. Paul Company
Bristol Street
Reed Block
Blacker & Sheppard Lumber Yards
Blacker & Sheppard Yards
Reed
Paul's
Paul Factory
Blair's
Dover
Engine 47
Dover Street Bridge
J. F. Paul & Co
Blair's Block
Paul
Blair
Paul & Co
Reed’s Block
Randolph-streeet
Albany and
Springfield, Ohio
New York
Collins S Hardware Co
Washington Street
Friend Street
Harvard Dental CO
B. B. Kramer
Pres
Kramer
Ind
Pearl St
St. Francis de Sales’ Church
New London
Conn
Egan
East Boston
John J
Ellen Egan
Condor Street
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
Ware
Mass
California
Hamlin
Norwood
Joseph P. Hamlin
Hughes
James
Harris Harding Huntley
Centre Street
North Middleboro
Woodlawn Cemetery
Middleboro
Krug
Hyde Park
Elizabeth
Robert Krug
Baker Street
O'Brien
Dorchester
Dennis
Abigail O’brien
Michael F
John D. O’brien
Buttonwood Street
Memoriam
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