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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1895
Page
4
Two sizes of Ivory Soap offered with five cent cakes and a larger, more economical option for laundry and household use. If stock runs out, request grocer to obtain the larger size through Progen & Gamere Co., Cincinnati.
Subscription rates listed for daily and weekly editions with prices for one year six months and three months. Readers are asked to provide new address changes and to send payments to Post Publishing Company at Beeston Office 259 Washington Street Boston with telephone contact 428.
Public interest lags as the Hastings tournament nears its end. Boston native Pillsbury, age 24, has risen to the front ranks after a decade with the Boston Chess Club. Now with the Brooklyn Chess Club, he recently tied for first with Tschigorin as Lasker sits third.
The ill starred Defender carries a yellow dog as a lucky mascot after Bristol repairs and a series of mishaps since launch. The syndicate behind the boat seeks a change in luck as battles with Gould's flyer continue. hopes rest on keeping afloat through the races.
Banks in the West and South face intense loan demand as vast crops of wheat and corn must be moved. A Minneapolis bank president wrote to a New York banker about an exceedingly promising trade outlook, noting all branches of industry showed progress amid the crisis.
The speaker claims signs of broad prosperity with a genuine business revival in all regions and industries. Demand for crop loans rises, New York banks urged to lend to growers, and idle Wall Street funds move into productive circulation. Politicians fail to stall the upturn as natural trade laws prevail.
Matthew Stanley Quay has won and now controls the Pennsylvania Republican Party, shaping policy, dictating candidates, and enforcing discipline. He will select delegates for the next national convention and may direct the 1896 campaign, challenging ex president Harrison and prompting debate among reform Republicans about their alignment and future leadership.
The new Congress will convene with neither major party holding a Senate majority. Republicans 42, Democrats 39, Populists 6, plus one vacancy. A coalition with Populists is needed for control, giving the six Populists power to shape all actions and appointments. The outlook for Republicans is bleak as they face Populist leverage and slow Senate action on legality issues surrounding Delaware’s Higgins successor.
The article accuses Secretary Herbert of invading Maine during Cap'n Boutelle of Bangor’s absence. It describes a fleet of five war ships capturing Bar Harbor and Portland. It critiques Hugene Hale for hosting Herbert and sailing with him to Boston aboard the Dolphin, urging a court of inquiry and a national speech to rally patriotism.
The Cohas summer crowd enjoys a Pullman service with a quarter charge. A small group on the street reportedly organizes daily lotteries to cover the travel cost, where a folded sheet with numbers is opened by an outsider and the holder of the chosen number pays for the entire party. Yesterday morning there were aoing in.
The town chatter centers on a leading copper stock capitalist's wife winning a property stake, the engagement of Leo P. White to Sadie I. Goldstone, and a Sunday reception at 197 Blue Hill Avenue Roxbury. The Cincinnati Enquirer headlines Campbell’s Governor bid with witty mockery and recalls ornate jewels worn by Kansas and Arkansas commanderies, noting a Brooklyn drum corps linked to De Witt Clinton Commandery and parade misattributions.
A boarding house alarm clock plot goes haywire when a device built by an electrician explodes into noise and chaos. The clock runs around the room battering objects, awakens residents, and spurs a stampede as tenants shout Fire Murder Police while a stunned landlord’s daughter’s admirer serenades upstairs.
A clock hidden under a sofa exploded into a furious roar, dancing across the room and sending the young man fleeing. Women screamed and lodgers report the suspect messenger may still be on the run, with no sign of the man since.
Voting for the Post flag contest rises with requests for all organizations to submit their returns by Saturday August 31 at 8 pm at 699 Washington Street Room 24. Granite cutters may file with James Grant at 16 Howard Street 7 to 8 pm. Final counting occurs at 9 pm August 31 with listed unions and crafts shown among the returns.
In St John s Episcopal Church at noon Mr Richard Harlow of Chicago and Miss Maud Barnabee of Cincinnati were married. The bride wore white satin with orange blossoms and roses and carried an ivory bound prayer book. Mrs Conrad of Montana gave away the bride as two pink clothed girls served as bridesmaids. Father Mills performed the ceremony and Master Charles W Proctor acted as acolyte before a nuptial mass. The party adjourned to Mrs Conrad s Eastern Point residence for a wedding breakfast.
William Hinckley of Charles A. Campbell & Co. spotted smoke from a vacant 12 Winnisimmet street home occupied by George T. Budd. He removed burning papers and matches from a bedroom. Maggie Denny, 12 years old of 158 Ash Street, admitted setting the fire and was locked up after police questioned her. Budd was unaware of the incident until returning from work.
A letter to the Post from A Knight Templar of Detroit dated August 27 1896 describes patrolman 804 arresting a peaceful man near Pleasant and Tremont streets at about 9 pm and choking him severely. The writer urges publication to expose brutality and safeguard the public.
A reader from Boston questions city officials about traffic blockades on Tremont street caused by car switching at Tremont House and Scollay Square. He asks why the Post does not urge the city fathers to order cars to run through Hanover and back via Brattle Street, abolishing the nuisance. The letter is dated August 27.
A Boston reader reports a circulating tale that the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec burned Saturday night. Telegraph messages from Montreal prove the report false and no fire occurred. The letter asks papers to publish the correction for public awareness.
Funeral for the Rev George W Durell held at St Thomas Episcopal Church Union Square Somerville with Rev George W Shinn presiding. Knights Templars conducted the interment at the old Somerville Cemetery with Masonic rites.
Patrick Gavan Duffy ex police justice of New York City died at 3 30 am in Tom’s River New Jersey He rose from Seton Hall College to Greenwich Street school principal and Tammany leader He was famed for calling prisoners by first names and ordering ten dollars or ten days His clash with Tammany cost him leadership but he returned to bench serving seventeen years He boasted global fame and a Shakespearean approach to justice with a trunk full of newspaper clippings.
Dr. Thomas Henderson Chandler longtime Boston dentist and Harvard Dental School dean died at 72 St Stephen's Street after a heart illness and grip lasting three years. Born July 4 1824 in the North End he served on the Boston School Board and taught at Harvard from 1869. He leaves a widow and son Fred E Tufts student.
John S. Emery veteran head of the shipping firm John S. Emery & Co of 154 State street died at his Sullivan Missouri summer residence Tuesday night aged about 80. He was born in Maine and came to Boston to run a large fleet of vessels and interests. He will be buried in Sullivan in the family lot.
Richard L. Morrison, longtime carpenter for Lynn and Boston railroad, died yesterday afternoon at his Orange street Chelsea residence. He served in Company H of the First Massachusetts Infantry during the war. He leaves no surviving family as his wife died two years ago.
In Jonesville the wife of Josiah Allen hosts a visit by Professor Theron Gusher who promotes free love. Betsey Bobbet reads a provocative poem and both sides spar over rights, marriage, and affections. The wife defends traditional marriage, denounces free love as harmful, and challenges the professor with blunt, practical arguments.
Ex Councilman George M Butterick of Pearl Street denies reports of his withdrawal from the A P A in Everett He says he remains a believer and faults the order for growing too fast admitting visitors spoke at the last Council 2 meeting He doubts Canada affiliation and notes internal strife between Evans and Bennett factions but claims no trouble today and that he has not spoken yet.
In Fitchburg on Pratt road Herman Eckhart a German man aged was found unconscious at his home with a bullet wound in the forehead a 32 calibre revolver lay on a mantel nearby his 17 year old daughter discovered him and neighbors were alerted she recalls hearing a pistol shot around midnight he was taken to Burbank Hospital where doctors report no hope for recovery Mrs Eckhart left the home about a week earlier possibly due to his heavy drinking circumstances."
At Tuesday’s selectmen meeting the rank of sergeant of police was abolished and Sergeant Rudolph F. Moore reduced to the ranks. The resignation of Rufus H. Brown, a central figure in the Lowell House case, was received and accepted.
In the Second District Court J Welch T Brown George Hall F Harvey Brown P Hayden and G Nichols were fined 15 dollars for gambling at Salisbury Beach Amesbury August 23 Second District Court fined fourteen individuals for gambling at Salisbury Beach with the same amount per person and the incident reported from Amesbury.
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