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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
4
A fragmented shopping list showcasing 1920s era goods with prices. Items include rugs, leather tobacco pouches, ash trays, coats, hats, brushes, set wares, Waverley novels, shaving stands, night shirts, bags, cases, umbrellas, handkerchiefs and flasks. Prices range from pennies to a few dollars, reflecting multiple product lines.
Opening in New York court reveals a scheme to disrupt the Dodge Morse divorce with a $50,000 payoff. Captain Morse of Portland testified as a witness and is tied to arrangements that sought to derail the marriage and arrest the administration of justice. The case details alleged fraud, perjury charges, and paid bribes connected to the legal proceedings.
A private report from Moscow says authorities are nervous as troops fall to less than 19,000 and are sent to the southeast. Bloodshed is reported in Riga with machine guns used against workers and peasants. Estates resist revolutionaries as garrisons fall, while Kharkoff reports a republic forming. Foreign Minister Lamsdorff told the American ambassador that conditions have slightly improved, though risk remains.
Chicago society reports Miss Amber Lawford actress and former Kentucky belle announced in New York she quit her engagement to Joseph Leiter because he was too gay. She had been engaged nearly two years but his actions after his father's death and opposition from the family led to the breakup. Miss Lawford hails from Frankfort Kentucky.
The opening cold snap drives temperatures to eight in Boston and 20 below in Maine with 80 below in Sheldon Vermont and 18 below at Northfield. The Penobscot River closes and Lake Champlain freezes as a southern disturbance brings winds and a possible snow turn today. Shipping seeks shelter with vessels delayed by gales and Cape Cod cod fishing suspended.
The Roxbury St Patrick's Total Abstinence and Literary Society hosts a Sunday debate on the license issue. Thomas Phelan and John Powers Sr will argue the affirmative, while Latrick Walsh and Francis Ball oppose. Each side gets 15 minutes plus 10 minutes rebuttal.
The Norumbegan Association of Machinists in Waltham has created an insurance benefit fund, the first labor union in the city to adopt such a plan.
Bridgeport line steamer City of Lawrence bound from New York collided with schooner Basutoland from Chatham N B to New York off South Norwalk. Basutoland sustained a large hole and began sinking. Captain Roper and four crewmen were rescued by the City of Lawrence after climbing into lifeboats.
News from Galveston reports a deadly blaze in Orange Texas where a theater party's six children perished after a house fire at the Lester home. A mother was severely burned while trying to rescue her child. the six youngsters were left with a maid prior to the fire.
Nora and Mary Callahan witnessed their West Roxbury home burn to the ground after an overheated furnace started the blaze. The Callahan family, away Christmas shopping in Boston, faced a $4500 insured loss.
An advertisement touts a one day cure from Co. in one day using Laxative Bromide Quinine tablets. It claims druggists will refund money if it fails and notes B. W. Grove's signature appears on each bottle. Price listed as 25 cents.
A humorous look at crowds rushing into department stores for Christmas, noting shoppers’ discomfort and Santa Claus excitement. The piece describes tree sales, prices for spruce and holly, mistletoe imports from England, and the bustling market in Boston with rising prices but strong demand.
Announcement of the marriage between Ruth Kellen daughter of Mr and Mrs W W Kellen of 202 Commonwealth avenue and Thomas Wiles assistant clerk of the Superior Court. The couple were secretly wed recently after meeting at a Maine summer resort, with Ruth’s father showing a tolerant view of the hasty union.
Jonah Newcomb age 63 a seaman and fisherman from Spry Harbor N. S. died of heart disease on his schooner Helen Ward while towing a flounder dredge off Truro Provincetown December 15. His mate Everett Small guided the vessel home in a fresh easterly wind arriving about 2 p.m. He leaves a widow and one daughter in Provincetown. Captain Newcomb was a native of Spry Harbor N. S.
By order of the State gas commissioners Charlestown gas price drops January 1 from 1 to 90 cents per 1000 feet. The reduction ends months of debate and the company agrees as a compromise.
Purser Edward C. F. Moore of the transatlantic steamer Ivernia of the Cunard line married Miss Otawa Z. Fifield of Boothbay Harbor Maine. The ceremony took place at the Church of the Advent with Rev. J Wynne Jones officiating. The couple will reside in Liverpool.
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