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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1895
Page
6
The Sun Day Post announces a plan to distribute a vast collection of over 500000 photographs to readers a week from today. Readers may choose from more than 100 varieties by submitting a first page heading instead of receiving the photos in the paper.
A detailed look at the play A Runaway Colt featuring Captain Adrian Anson, including comic dinner scenes, mistaken identities, and a climactic Chicago Baltimore game. The narrative follows Manly Manners, Mercy, and Haight as betting plots, romance, and bribery unfold across Racine Wisconsin, St. Augustine Florida, and Chicago. The final act centers on a ninth inning homer that secures a joyous, if tense, outcome.
Cambridge annual police report shows department in excellent condition but urges adding three officers to Station 1 and Station 2, plus six new signal boxes. Arrests totaled 318 for year ending Dec 1, with mix of adults and minors, numerous offenses, and 5284.35 stolen value with 4300 recovered. Expenditures 110,784.22, city cost 102,682.13.
In Hudson on December 23 the condition of former Councillor Fetts, long marked by alternating hope and concern, has recently worsened after a period of uncertain prognosis.
Henry Irving exposed a fraud when visitor Denzil Carstairs arrived with letters from fictitious English figures and asked for a $60 loan. The man, Aubrey Newton, had just been released from Blackwell's Island after jewel larceny and faces court action with Irving possibly testifying.
A Nassau dispatch reports the Boston schooner Island Queen bound for Grand Cayman from Boston on December 3 wrecked December 18 near Andros Island. Some cargo saved but damaged. Captain Ellis Lock commanded. Wreck tow to assist other vessel Albert Pharo after it ran ashore near Plymouth. Other maritime notes include the British steamer Burton loaded for Manchester and various vessel damages and recoveries.
John Shepard, senior partner of Shepard Norwell & Co., has recovered from illness and is now traveling in the South. An unrelated ad notes Salvation Oil cures bruises for 26 cents.
Andrew J. Drexel Biddell of Philadelphia brings a bill in equity in the United States Court against William E. Chancellor of Worcester claiming notes totaling $25,000 obtained from him while a minor were secured by false representation. The suit seeks voiding of the notes, cancellation, and a restraining order on transfer.
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