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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1894
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text shows prices and coin amounts but no clear news event. The readable fragment lists multiple cents and dollar figures and ends with a cryptic line about a pipe toe, offering little cohesive context or subject for a full newspaper item.
The city reports multiple horse and vehicle thefts along main streets including Asylum and Dover, with a horse dying after abuse. Revere police recovered the team but thieves fled, a South End liquor dealer lost a Concord buggy, and other depredations noted citywide. Authorities warn owners to remain vigilant.
Forecast for Wednesday calls for Maine New Hampshire and Vermont to be increasingly cloudy and cooler with north winds. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut face rising cloudiness and cooler air with southwest winds turning to north. Eastern New York should be fair and cooler with north winds.
Classified notice announces post wants and other wants at a rate of one cent per word. It outlines that situations wanted and other advertisements are priced per word, typical of old newspaper classifieds.
The Boston Custom House saw a bottleneck of merchants and clerks reacting to the new Democratic tariff bill. Wool dealers hailed large duty cuts and bond withdrawals while officials debated entries for goods stored in bond. The Grace Deering arrived with wool and leather, illustrating the surge in bonded withdrawals and anticipated market impacts.
Thomas Mansfield, Lewiston milliner and businessman, shot his wife and wounded himself with a 22 calibre revolver at his country place near Auburn. He rode to Lewiston after the incident and is in custody. Mrs Mansfield, about 60, was wounded near the ear. both injuries were not life threatening.
For eight days a bark remained off Cape Cod before the Grace Deering, loaded with wool and hides from Rosario, was identified by its rig and dimensions. Tariff uncertainty on wool kept her at sea amid warnings from outward bound tugs. Captain Smith of the tug Erastus Baldwin brought the vessel to port, with Captain Harry Jeffery aboard, docking at East Boston in foggy conditions before noon.
In New York on August 28 a stampeding crowd of about 300 brokers burst into the Customs House withdrawal department. Coats torn hats smashed and several bruised marked the scene as clerks counted withdrawal papers and filled busy baskets. Banks in Cincinnati loaned 2.5 million dollars to move whiskey from bond with about 800 thousand going to the Whiskey Trust.
Celia Thaxter’s funeral was held in her Appledore House parlor attended by family and friends. The Rev James De Normandie presided, William Mason played piano, pallbearers included Oscar Laighton Cedric Laighton J Appleton Brown Childe Hassam Dr J W Warren Dr H R Stedman Lawrence Hutton and Edward Caswell. She was interred on the island beside her parents, flowers from her garden lining the grave.
James R. Cunningham age 38, a prominent attorney and county committee chairman, died suddenly of apoplexy at 6 PM in Richmond Missouri. He served as loan clerk for four years and leaves a wife and three young children.
The President plans to depart Washington tomorrow morning for Gray Gables at Marion with Private Secretary Thurber. He and Thurber expect to stay away until early October. Attorney General Olney will leave Washington late this week for Massachusetts for a month.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, aged eighty five, prepares to enter his eighty sixth year at Beverly Farms where he summers with his son Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The elderly poet reflects on aging, recalls Boston papers, and describes the North Shore setting with Great and Little Misery islands, old friends, and literary guests.
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