16 Dec 1886
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1886
Page
1
An old advertisement touts Eviedrichshall as a stimulant and appetite enhancer. Medical officer A S Cobb endorses it for long term use, claiming increased health and digestion with smaller doses over time. Sir Henry James notes its availability from all druggists and mineral water dealers.
In New York the Surrogate's Court examined the fortune of James H. Paine, with large stacks of old greenbacks on the table. Witness Richard B. Ward testified to a $40,000 October 1861 deposit and Paine's four certificates drawn to his order. Administrator Charles F. Chickering disclosed Paine's estate of around $400,000, plus $100,000 more in outstanding assets, and a safe-buried bundle containing $856,750 in various currency and assets including 891 shares of Chicago Lantern Company and multiple bank notes. The hearing continues Monday.
The King's Chapel Society marked its 200th founding anniversary with 1100 tickets sold for a 2 to 6 pm ceremony. Distinguished guests included Governor Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Phillips Brooks, Eliot, and Clarke, with decor, portraits, and a program recounting the chapel’s English roots and colonial history.
Palmer Bachelder & Go announce arrival of new clocks music boxes opera glasses and a wide range of gifts in pottery bric a brac engagement rings and queen chains with aTea 232 ing silves option.
Leonard & Co. of Fleat Estate announce a sale of personal property at Bromfield Street. The auctioneer Palher Bacheeder & Co located at 146 Tremont Street Boston will conduct the sale under applicable law. Sale details listed for interested bidders.
Lida London trouser stretcher 892 North Street Boston. P S Chas Dickens Pickwick Papers offered at 5 cents each and selling rapidly as printers deliver copies.
The Yule Log The Pansy The Ivy Leaf The Dust Pan The Maple Leaf The Fence The Castle Window The Shell The Open Window The Mandolin The Japanese Lantern.
Weather forecast for 24 hours from Dec 16 at 7 a.m. calls for light snow and north to northwest winds in New England and eastern New York. Temperatures to fall slightly as stations from Wilmington to Boston issue warning signals.
Chief Signal Officer reports cautionary winds from the northwest for Boston with a storm center off Virginia moving north. Snow expected with high wind risk. Observations show temperatures around the mid thirties to low forties, humidity high, and no precipitation at 11:00 p.m.
Meteorological record reports yesterday’s observations up to 10 p.m. with synchronized readings from all stations. Data covers temperature, humidity, wind, and pressure as of a common observation moment.
Inspector Knox arrested Emma Rogers at 4 30 pm for larceny of a $550 silk umbrella from R H Whites and a silk necktie from Jordan Marsh Co She had nine bank books totaling 3000 and three pocketbooks with money Nine bank books and three pocketbooks found with her plus the second levee of the National Lancers drew eighty five couples to their Bulfinch street hall.
A digest lists Civil War actions from December 15 to 18 across Virginia Tennessee and North Carolina including the Battle of Alleghany Camp Fredericksburg Kingston Nashville Murfreesboro and the second Nashville engagement. It notes General Banks taking command of the Department of the Gulf and Fredericksburg evacuation by Union forces. Also referenced is Baton Rouge captured by Banks troops and a Christmas sales pitch for ladies writing desks offered in multiple patterns at varied prices.
Summary of morning news items including Corse stepping down as chair of the Winchester Democratic town committee and up-to-date political developments. Also notes on Congress bills, state admissions, trials, and regional incidents with several injuries and a noted Yale football death.
The piece notes aggressive Tory editorials criticizing the government's use of existing suppression powers, alongside related political maneuvers. It mentions Lord Salisbury lowering rents for tenant farmers and Baron O'Neill's tenants resisting rent payments, with further European diplomatic and legal updates in brief.
Miss Pauline Babo wed Isaac B Rich and others followed in light snow as 200th King’s Chapel anniversary observances began. Lectures by Rev. E G Porter and ex Governor Rice, plus G A R talks and Burlington carnival rates fixes, highlighted a day of events. The stock market plunged with New York and Boston rates quoted.
In Montreal Judge Dugas ruled in the Hoke extradition case that forging and filling blank checks to defraud banks of 179 803 dollars constitutes forgery under the extradition treaty. Hoke is jailed fifteen days awaiting extradition to the United States, with a writ of habeas corpus possible.
The New York Central and Hudson River railroad and leased lines report net earnings of 3 839 472 for the quarter ended Sept 30 up 2 286 263 from 1885. For the year ended Sept 30 earnings total 11 895 984 up 3 785 925 with a year end surplus of 1 072 966 after a 4 percent dividend.
The steamship Eider left New York for Bremen via Southampton carrying 785 sacks of mail including 225 sacks of letters and 560 sacks of newspapers and printed matter. Of these 785 sacks 575 were prepared at the New York Post Office, accumulating since Saturday prior.
Louisville court records show Bessie White, sister of ex-Congressman John D. White, winning a mandamus against the State Board of Pharmacy to compel granting a dispensing license. She is a graduate of Ann Arbor School of Pharmacy and the first Kentucky applicant honored in pharmacy.
Ex-Alderman Arthur J. McQuade was found guilty of accepting a bribe to vote for the Broadway railroad franchise in 1884. The jury delivered verdict in about 23 minutes, with McQuade scheduled for sentencing in Sing Sing after pending appeals.
George Watkinson, Yale University famed half back and goal kicker, died in New Haven after a fever from a cold caught in the Yale Princeton game. He had been unconscious for nearly a week with doctors reporting slim chances of recovery. He was the son of George Watkinson, manager of Candee Rubber Company.
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