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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1900
Page
8
The firm advertises a sale with a $10,000 price reduction plan and promises to honor it. The sale ends at 1 o'clock Saturday, urging customers to act and not miss the opportunity.
A bustling Boston advert touts fresh toasters from Chase and Sanborn and a wide spice selection. It promotes high quality coffee and tea at low prices, highlights Butter Department items, eggs, and cheeses, and announces the 1900 pack of raspberry and strawberry jams offered at a leader price per jar with two for two dollars.
The delicatessen department reports daily growth and continually adds new cooked meats and fish. On sale items include Fried Codfish, Fried Clams, Fishballs, Potato Salad, Pickled Beets, Roast Beef, Lamb, Veal, Chicken, and Pork. Also advertised are canned fish and meats for Wednesday and Thursday such as Fancy Salmon Steak, Columbia River Salmon, Chicken loaf, Veal, and Boned Chicken.
Nearly 1300 Cuban teachers to sail home from Boston and Cambridge. About 300 aboard the Rawlins yesterday afternoon. Roughly 650 to embark on the Crook and Sedgwick this forenoon with the remainder to join the McPherson after its noon arrival. A telegram from the New York army quartermaster confirmed plans.
A sale advertisement lists Pride of Laundry Soap at 31 bars for 1.00, bulk starch at a per roll price, and other items including New White Wax String Beans per dozen 28 cents Boned Turkey 1 lb cans 43 cents Quaker Rolled Oats per package 9 cents.
Pointed special justice of the district court of East Essex C. H. Glover Newton was appointed second assistant inspector of gas metres and illuminating gas.
Bernard McGovern of 20 Ash Street Michael Sullivan of 21 East Canton Street and James Collis of 126 Tremont Street were badly injured yesterday at the Eye and Ear Infirmary on Charles Street when a staging broke, sending them about seventy feet to the ground. Foreman McNeil had warned the workers the staging was not properly set.
News from London reports £150,000 paid into the Jewish Colonial Trust treasury with £20,000 from this country. Secretary James H. Loewe says American subscription may reach £100,000 by January 1, aiming at about $600,000 in total.
More than 1000 teachers attended a dual Feast of the Assumption service at St Pauls Church Holyoke Street with Archbishop Williams present. A Cambridge delegation gave $100 to be contested by Cambridge pupils. Holden Chapel workers finish clerical tasks as Cuba tension winds down. The Sedgwick and McPherson ships moved in harbor after Crook and Sedgwick departures.
At a Granville council meeting Governor Crane appointed W A Rockton Justa of the Police Court of the city to the State Board on Arbitration and Conciliation. The board includes two teachers and a third member to be chosen by the governor with recommendations from Palmer Tower and Richard Barry Lyon.
Aug 15 Norwood reports an typhoid fever outbreak with over thirty cases traced to impure milk from a single dealer. State board chairman Walcott and doctors Plimpton and Hurley confirm milk as the likely cause. Farmer William Bateman defends his 31 year history and notes he and kin have drank well water and his family dairy product use, promising compliance with authorities.
The Greek second class cruiser Navarchos Miaulis sailed from Piraeus on July 17 on the first Grecian warship crossing of the Atlantic. She will visit Gibraltar Madeira the Cape Verdes Martinique and St Thomas before arriving in New York in early September Then she proceeds to Boston and back home via Bermuda the Azores Gibraltar Barcelona and Marseilles.
The Sons and Daughters of Zion staged a successful Basle congress anniversary concert in Paine Memorial Hall. The program featured Bernard Levin and others, an A. C. Laurie address, essays by Miss White and A Rosenthal, a H M Kallen poem, and a two act drama Bar Kochba by Miss I White. Cast included L Ballen D Goldstein A Hubba R Silverman M I Millmaster M Levins H Porcher and M B Frankel with Misses Levens Lourie and Mikels. floor director Robert Silverman and assistant Anni Levenson.
Harvey W. Walker of Allston, a Boston Common Council member from Ward Percent lost his life last night near Captain's Island Beach while attempting to rescue Edward Raymond, who nearly drowned after weakening midstream. Raymond survived with help from Dr. J. F. Cowan and Roger Wells, as Walker’s bravery ended in tragedy.
The Rev. Michael C. Powers rector of St Marys Church Wappingers Falls died of pneumonia at 83. Borne in Cork Ireland he served 53 years as a priest and was the oldest active priest in the United States. He aided Union cause in Civil War era and in 1896 presented William J Bryan with a silver and gold cane.
Employees from the Post pressroom stereotyping and mailing departments spent a day off yesterday aboard the Fred er ic De Bary chartered by publisher Mr B A Grazier. Dinner came at Bass Point House and a baseball game plus other sports followed. Nonparticipants toured an ostrich farm. Each worker received a cigar box and ladies a box of Huyler's candy from Mr W A Grozier.
At Sunnyside Park Chicago on August 15 Mr Bryan Mr Stevenson and others addressed the annual meeting of the United Irish Societies of Cook County. He urged that true happiness comes from service to others and that American citizenship should elevate a citizen above kings. He warned against imperialism and militarism and urged voters to consider the nation’s traditions and future.
Lincoln dispatch reports Wharton Barker the Populist middle of the road candidate is legally ineligible for the presidency due to having accepted a czarist title without US permission. If true Barker must withdraw and Ignatius Donnelly could become the presidential nominee with a new vice presidential pick.
No new details emerged on the charges from J. E. Cotter about an assault by a reserve police officer on a woman at Washington street and Cornhill before 1 a m Wednesday. Police HQ continues investigation but had not identified the officer by last night.
Reports from Nigeria say the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine finds the vasite city causing phantiasis and leaders believe malaria eradication methods preventing mosquito inoculation could curb elephantiasis among tropical natives.
Judge Caleb Blodgett resigns from the Superior Court bench due to ill health. Suggested candidates to fill the vacancy include Willmore B. Stone of Springfield William Turtle of Pittsfield and William Schofield of Malden all legislators. Stone had been proposed for the bench in prior years and would have been chosen last year if he had decided.
The piece highlights three Massachusetts lawyers born in 1830s to 1850s with Harvard educations and notable public service. Stone of East Longmeadow, Turtle of Pittsfield, and Schofield of Malden are discussed as potential judicial tall candidates, with Turtle and Schofield noted for legislative work and Crane’s possible future appointment choices.
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