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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
12
A lively stock exchange rumor suggests Lawson was caught. The Frenzifier sent a telegram predicting pressure as the System may break him, urging sharp watching as others rise, and hinting at an impending assignment. Wall Street pondered if the message referred to yesterday's warnings and the Walsh affair in Chicago.
In Savannah Georgia on December 21 J T Vincent manager and Frank Bourquin shipping clerk for Schwarzchild Sulzberger Beef Company were electrocuted during an electrical storm. Vincent touched a broken incandescent fixture and received the current Bourquin was shocked when he helped him.
President Fish urged AT Company stockholders to approve a new bond issue and noted the need to broaden the market beyond Boston and New England. He called Boston and New England provincial and said larger funds require sales to bankers in other markets.
In Great Barrington Massachusetts on December 21 Christopher Siebel a tailor who tried to end his life with morphine briefly regained consciousness and begged to die He refuses nourishment and his doctors struggle to feed him He laments being separated from his wife who died months earlier after an accident when he had a nightmare and kicked her from bed
Rockland Me Dec 21 Captain Thomas Pillsbury a well known shipmaster and capitalist died here today at age 87 from a paralytic stroke He commanded the Rockland ship Martha Cobb on her maiden trip in 1863 earning $20000 for owners in a 20 month voyage He retired from the sea in 1866
The Republican State Committee voted to lease rooms in the Kimball building at 18 Tremont street. The space will be used from the new year and will host the annual officer election meeting on January 4. The auditing committee report was submitted and approved.
The deadline for filing candidate expense lists at the recent city election passed Thursday night. Mayor elect Fitzgerald did not file his expense account. Henry S. Dewey's expenses totaled $4500 in three payments, two of $2000 and one of $500 to his treasurer If C Allen.
Governor elect Curtis Guild states he has made no pledges to any group on legislation or appointments. He avoids public discussion of upcoming measures and notes a likely clash on home rule with Boston leaders. Analysts expect his message to address taxation issues and Boston affairs.
Albany dispatch reports Governor Higgins responds to former Governor Odell’s remarks about backing Assemblyman James Wadsworth for speaker. Higgins recalls a prior New York conference and says Odell pressured for Merritt, insisting Odell would not withdraw support. Higgins declines further discussion via press.
A. McNally, a 13 year government weather observer who came from Philadelphia two months ago, was adjudged insane by the county court. Queer reports to District Forecaster S A Beals prompted authorities to take him into custody, with altitude of Baker City blamed for his condition.
At a special stockholders meeting of the Old Colony Steamboat Company owners of the Fall River line it was unanimously voted to sell the companys property to the New England Navigation Company. The deal aligns with the NY NH Hartford Railroad marine system transfer under the New England Navigation Company name.
New Haven Conn Dec 21 Dr John McClellan 97 member class of 1833 Yale College died at his Woodstock Conn home Tuesday night He was one of Yale's oldest graduates John Huestis of Hustisford Wis also a 1833 class member is the oldest living Yale graduate and about a year older than McClellan
In Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Miss Frankie Bailey of the Gingerbread Man company sues the Converse Peters opera company. She seeks 2300 dollars for 37 weeks of appearances plus 200 dollars for costumes purchased after being told to drop tights for skirts.
Operations in the slate quarries of eastern New York and southern Vermont were suspended today by a strike of quarry men. About 19 men went out.
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