22 Aug 1898
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1898
Page
1
The ad promotes regular priced suits at 8.50 and 10 dollars and highlights four-button sack designs in light plaids and small checks. It also markets all wool suits at 5, 6, and 7.50 dollars, claiming outstanding value.
The body of a young unidentified woman was found off Bass Point Nahant. Medical examiner says death likely by her own action. She is described as handsome with dark brown hair in good clothing but no identification could be found. Investigators think she came from Boston or nearby. The body was taken to Greenleaf undertakers for viewing.
A multiple vehicle collision on New Haven Road left five dead and 34 injured. Names of victims and injured listed include Major James A. Whitcomb and Mrs. Whitcomb with serious injuries, plus D Kantor of Providence and many others treated at Massachusetts General Hospital and City Hospital. Continued on Page 5.
Five people died and thirty four injured after a rear end crash on the New York New Haven and Hartford line at Sharon Depot New York. The Providence accommodation arriving at 7 02 delayed thirteen minutes was struck by the Newport express at 7 15. The dead include Franklin M Waters 28 of Somerville and Mrs William J Fitzpatrick 60 of Boston. A four year old boy named William Fitzpatrick also died. A temporary summary of the crash cites block signal failure as a likely cause and notes two trains normally combine at Mansfield.
Cambria Iron Company of Johnstown Pennsylvania will be absorbed by the Cambria Steel Company. The new firm will have a $24 million capital and stockholders may subscribe to three shares of the new company for each Cambria Iron share. Dividends are guaranteed at 4 percent.
The death is announced of the celebrated Spanish painter Madrazo. Foretells fair weather for New England and eastern New York with southwest winds and rising temperatures through Monday in Boston and vicinity.
A witty exchange from Modern Society defines periphrasis as a roundabout and florid circumlocution that cloaks a simple idea. The dialogue mocks verbose rhetoric and the tendency to envelop meaning in elaborate language.
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