16 Dec 1901
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1901
Page
1
Boston furniture house extends weekly payment dates for customers with payments due on the Saturday before Christmas. The offer lets those accounts extend until final payments are due, freeing extra funds for holiday shopping, with the remodelled store at 5 Union Street crowded with furniture and related goods.
This year Jaynes presents a handsome new box for their perfumes. The perfumes are shown in sprinkler top bottles so customers can inspect quality before buying. They guarantee top quality and offer unusually low prices to win repeat customers. A large variety includes atomizers puff boxes hot water bottles and military brushes.
Arnold Lawson, son of Thomas W. Lawson, plans a 70 foot schooner yacht built by Lawley and designed by Tams Lemoine & Crane in New York. The craft, for both pleasure and racing, will feature palatial fittings and be ready by next summer.
Malden reports its fourth smallpox case as Mrs Mary McMillan of Drownscourt is diagnosed this afternoon. She is said to have visited Bertha Carter, the smallpox patient who died last Tuesday, linking the cases in the outbreak.
Weather forecast notes a storm moved from Virginia to Canadian provinces with high winds. Port winds reach 60 to 64 mph in New England. Snow or rain spread from Florida to the lake region and New England, with a cold front lowering temperatures 20 to 56 degrees from Saturday. Diminishing northwest winds expected along the Atlantic coast Monday and Tuesday. Forecasts for New England call for fair and colder conditions Monday, possible snow in mountains, then fair Tuesday with diminishing winds.
The smallpox tally for the 4 hours ending Sunday morning shows three new cases from Dorchester Avenue South Boston Tremont Street and Camden Street. By Sunday evening four more were found including a Chelsea Street East Boston resident a Newton Street resident and two children on Cum Street and I Street in South Boston.
Importing authentic Irish Frieze fabrics from Athlone mills. The Ulster Cotha More frieze is described as cold and rainproof, ideal for riding driving and outdoor use in New England climate.
The exhibition showcased Irish Frieze to a national audience, introducing the celebrated material across the country. It was well received by discerning American buyers seeking quality craftsmanship.
Luigi Storti faced imminent execution when Warden Bridges postponed the sentence at the last moment. Officials tested the apparatus, priests and doctors waited, and Storti’s health was cited as a possible factor. The warden refused to explain the delay, noting no legal action halted proceedings and a new date would be set later in the week.
Yesterday Luigi Storti faced what friends and a priest believed would be his final day. His brother Salvatore warned that the warden planned the last visit. Storti awoke hopeful yet sure death approached as the death watch began its final tour of duty.
Boston narrowly escaped a severe mid Atlantic storm that raged through Saturday night and Sunday. Winds up to 45 miles an hour and a dropping temperature caused flooding and damage from Maine to New York with rivers rising in Pittsburgh and the Schuylkill, bridges destroyed, cattle killed, and property losses running into millions.
A ferocious onshore gale battered Provincetown causing boats to break from moorings and smash onto the sands. The southern storm warning helped locals secure craft, but heavy seas and shifting tides doomed several vessels including the scow from Weir Company and the sloop Grace Darling, with crews improvising to save others.
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