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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1904
Page
7
A Boston grocer touts a long established enterprise offering reliable service and progressive methods. The ad highlights affordable prices aimed at modest budgets and emphasizes a strong, trusted market presence.
Society notes announce the engagement of Miss Ella Wattles to Mr. William D Ticknor of the Ticknor family in Jamaica Plain. News comes from a Canton reception marking her birth anniversary and sisterly relations, with no wedding date yet set. The social round includes Carnot the Vincent Club sale at the Vendome and a debutante tea for Miss Josephine Stevens.
A reader asks how to handle separation from her husband over rumors. The adviser urges the wife to join her husband if feasible, insisting her duty is by her spouse and to ignore gossip if trust remains.
Lynn residents of French descent plan a February 6 commemorative banquet marking the 127th anniversary of the 1778 Franco-American treaty. An executive committee including Dr. J. A. Bedard Professor J O D de Bondy Oscar Merkee and Benjamin Bellevue coordinates activities with prominent Franco-Americans slated to speak.
Jennie S. MacLean was granted a decree nisi after a three day hearing before Judge Harris in a special session. She obtains possession of their infant child following the ruling against Allan B. MacLean.
In a 1902 Delhi theft of the Eye of Goona the jewel travels via twelve Tokay bottles. Crook and Merrick pursue Pooley through London streets from Euston to Whitehall, following a cab, aiming to recover the magnum believed to contain the diamond. The chase tightens as they close in on Pooley.
Crook and Merrick observe Pooley meet a visitor in a public house room at a side door. A magnum Tokay bottle is examined, recorked, and sealed with wax. Pooley carries a handbag with the bottle and leaves, prompting pursuit as they follow to another door.
A Washington tale recounts General Miles resisting a pun about his name. A police board visit to Mayor Collins discusses annual expenditures as Chairman Clark notes the city’s underworld submerged. The Mayor quips that gambling houses show no business, prompting Clark to confirm a quiet town.
Congressman McCall cites Col lier s Weekly story showing a Massachusetts governor's son failing to name the Governor, revealing youthful forgetfulness. The boy admits knowing his father was governor but thought his father was joking.
Judge Emmons and Attorney John B Moran traded quips during boxing crusade visits to police HQs while Moran represented the Athletic Club. Emmons joked about gloves, Moran pressed, and a sharp banter tone emerged as both men spoke on politics with a veteran newspaper interviewer noting similar minds between Grover Cleveland and Richard Olney on Democratic nominations.
Aunt Nance recalls the Widder Rollins and her four late husbands. Squire Adams pursues her, visiting after church and at the post office, and she plots to redirect his interest. On a dreary autumn day he comes to call, intent on proposing when the door opens.
A widowed woman lures Squire Adams into her gloomy parlor. He fears a coffin, then escapes in terror, declaring he misread marriage and the widder’s past four husbands died of fright. Aunt Nance recalls the squire’s lasting disdain and a dream of Augusta asylum.
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