Take a Day Off and Cheer D Talk
A brief item notes a day off and a cheer for a talk session. Readers are invited to join the event and hear a guest speaker discuss local topics. The notice emphasizes community participation and scheduling details.
23 Aug 1899
Page 1
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1899
Page
1
A brief item notes a day off and a cheer for a talk session. Readers are invited to join the event and hear a guest speaker discuss local topics. The notice emphasizes community participation and scheduling details.
Report of a Bass Point dinner where ex-Mayor Hart and ex-Alderman Sanford backed Guild for lieutenant governor. The event drew sixty to seventy five Marketmen Republicans and exposed divisions between Hart Sanford and Bates supporters amid praise for debt reduction and municipal reform.
A brutal backwater flood in Boston and nearby areas last evening caused five thousand dollars in carpet and lining damage at John H Pray & Co on Washington Street. The storm delivered record rainfall, with one half inch in seven minutes and a total inch in twenty minutes, as winds reached twenty four miles per hour.
James Linnehan of 1288 Washington Street was stabbed in the left hand by a stranger after a dispute sparked by remarks about a woman on the corner of Waltham and Pech streets at 10:30. He was taken to City Hospital. police had not located the assailant.
Forecast for Wednesday and Thursday calls for generally fair conditions from Maine to Massachusetts with coastal showers on Wednesday. Temperature should be moderate with fresh northerly winds across most of New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont Connecticut and eastern New York.
A lighting of a cigar caused a dangerous incident injuring two men and damaging a public fountain. police调查 underway as witnesses report the events at the scene and potential blame.
Reported on a 4 30 incident where Councilman John L Donovan restrained a frightened team at Lincoln and Kneeland streets. The hack driven by Michael Linnehan prevented injuries to bystanders as the horses bolted on a slick street. Isaac Linnehan’s driver was thrown but uninjured. Donovan suffered scraped arm.
Panic erupts as the Mayflower and the Yarmouth collide near Deer Island Harbor. The Mayflower sustains a long gash below the waterline and 95 passengers are rescued by the tug Confidence and brought to Boston.
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