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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1897
Page
8
The retailer explains the low prices for all wool garments citing a purchase cost under half the manufacturing price and about one third of typical retail. The note emphasizes value due to bulk buying and factory sourcing.
The notice invites a family sale with offers on boys reefers 98c girls reefers 98c ladies jackets 2.98 skirts 98c and collarettes 1.98. It promises no lower prices in Boston and claims stock valued up to 300 dollars, with emphasis on cheap goods and customer savings. It offers to pay car fares to view the merchandise.
New York report states Mrs. Nack will plead guilty to manslaughter in the first degree and receive a twenty year sentence. Thorn, convicted, faces execution in the electric chair, driven by rage over not taking Mrs. Nack with him.
A masked robber aboard the northbound St. Louis Keokuk and Northwestern train in Keokuk Iowa attempted a hold up in the smoking car. He fired three times, none of which struck, and fled the moving train without obtaining any loot. One of the theatrical troupe members retained the robber's mask.
District Attorney Stevens says no bill against Leavitt will be brought yet. He notes the murder occurred at a low city resort with constant foot traffic and mixed visitors. He sees little evidence against anyone else and plans to present the case to the grand jury on Monday to uncover new facts.
A special despatch reports that the captain and four men from the missing La Barrotere of Cardiff were rescued after the vessel foundered near Trevost Head following a collision with an unidentified ship. They were landed at Algiers by a French steamer.
Vienna report says Baron Pasetti a 23 year old law student and nephew of Austria's ambassador to Rome shot himself outside American Mrs Nina Kittinger's home after repeated jealousy scenes. Police note her husband is named Charles. Wilmington family of Charles H. Kittinger knows nothing of the woman.
Marie Louise Van Vieck, wife of oil magnate, seeks divorce claiming years of abuse starting with a rat complaint incident, with multiple slaps and beatings. She says she was left penniless since 1889 while he, valued at 1.5 million dollars, denies cruelty as she describes the strain of a separated marriage begun in 1863.
The appeal by James McN. Whistler against a ruling ordering him to return a painting of Lady Eden and pay $2000 damages is sustained. The 1894 work, titled The Strait, was exhibited at the Champs de Mars salon. Sir William Eden sent a check Whistler deemed undervalued, prompting a replacement portrait and non-delivery.
In Brooklyn three friends kept a pledge to stand by each other at marriage. Miss Della Carman married Russell Prentiss, Miss Grace Colvin wed Robert E. Farley, and Miss Stephenson could not attend the ceremonies due to her own game-related duties. Alfred Norstabler Boucher is the husband of Miss Stephenson.
The article notes a surge of cheap novelty frou-frou skirts in four colors priced at 60 cents, contrasting with traditional $18 skirts. It claims paper skirts can produce a fine tone, yet these items remain little worn as new novelties in American fashion.
Wholesale sale notice offers 9.50 each for extra fine Black Kersey overcoats with satin yoke. Also 200 Black and Blue Triple Mills Blue Kersey overcoats in regular and stout sizes with satin sleeves and wide facings. Values listed as 18 and 25 respectively, forecast to sell at reduced price per coat.
Women engaged to be married to him express shock and anger while men disliked him. Four men and two women from Janesville Port Norris and nearby towns were entangled in schemes over six months. His pattern of absences provoked growing indignation.
Michael Clark, who lost his wife in New York, married Mariage on November 6 in Northampton. They had lived in Vermont and were both over 40. Miss Ryan, a nurse, had resided here briefly and Clark came to meet her. neither was known locally.
Three farmers Seth Lowe Will Phillips and John Howard fought over Irene Pruitt at a country church near Huntsville Madison county. Howard and Lowe jumped Phillips who fired wounding Howard. Lowe shot Phillips then Phillips wounded Lowe. All three reportedly fatally injured as church panic ensued.
The Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Union held a regular meeting at Young's Hotel with fifteen members present. Chief Parkhurst of Somerville presided in Chief Eldridge’s absence, and three members were asked to prepare papers on police work. A paper urged filing a list of liquor license conviction records.
Birmingham Dec 2 The Post says an American syndicate with Andrew Carnegie's interest has applied to the Korean government for three railroad concessions. The group plans to develop them with the Seoul Chemulpo line and James Morse, the American engineer, currently constructing it.
Police found Frank McAvoy on the Dorchester railroad tracks on November 20 with a fractured skull. He died yesterday at City Hospital.
In New York the Kansas City Consolidated Smelting and Refining Company reported that the attempted silver smelters consolidation had failed. Fifteen representatives from six smelting houses left after a week of talks with no agreement to combine.
Rumors claim the McMillan Wilkins Whitney syndicate gained control of the Boston gas field after a New York meeting, with purchase of all Rog ers Standard Old party assets in Boston and Brookline and potential control of Jamaica Plain Gaslight, Massachusetts Pipe Line, and related properties in Chelsea and Everett. Financing rumored through Central Trust Co of New York. Capitalization described as modest with a single small issue.
Emerson McMillin of the Whitney McMallin gas syndicate said no definite progress has been made yet in the negotiations for a consortium of the leading companies. He added that the deal remains pending.
The body of an unknown laborer was found on the Boston and Albany tracks near the St James street bridge around 7 PM. The head was badly crushed with no other wounds, and police suspect he was struck by the 6 o'clock outward-bound express.
W. F. Spear, previously jailed on forgery charges for a promissory note endorsed by F. A. Dutton and payable to S. L. Leeds, was released from custody yesterday in municipal court.
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