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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1895
Page
6
The Sun Day Post announces a plan to distribute a half million photographs to readers a week from today. Instead of printing the images, readers receive a Sunday Post first page heading and may select from over 100 varieties each week.
A long list of names and titles appears as a catalog of post cabinet figures and associated descriptors. The compilation includes numerous named individuals such as Adams Maud Johnson Fannie Anderson Mary and Edison Thomas among others, with many style notes and some titles like Musketeers and Pudd'nhead Wilson.
Alonzo Potter night watchman at C. L. Hood’s stock farm was accosted by two unknown men at 2 AM. A pistol discharged during the struggle wounded his hand. The assailants fled after Potter fired three shots. motive and identities remain unknown.
The steamship Catalonia arrived from Liverpool with two saloon passengers Dr. Mi Kerr and Mr. F L Olmstead, thirty two second cabin and nine steerage passengers, totaling a moving tally.
The input asks why the car interiors feel different in the morning and mentions a tyre road and a row labeled Posts. It reads as an unclear, incomplete query rather than a news item. No verifiable facts or entities to summarize.
Schooner Amanda EH. chartered to carry 1% tons of wood from the wrecked Carrie Easler to this port. Burton cargo discharge completed at Hoosac Tunnel dock, then loaded at South Boston elevator. City of Gloucester repaired, Cape Ann to haul up. Wreckage from British seas, barge concerns spark naval petition in Bath. Gloucester fishing fleet disperses for Christmas. many Boston vessels linger. Diver Webster seals dry dock leaks. Island Queen crew reach Nassau after Andros wreck. Willie L Swift reaches Philadelphia with damaged gear from Bay of Islands gale. Catalonia reports heavy head seas en route from Liverpool to East Boston.
The Norwegian bark Arizona under Captain Jorgensen, sailing from Mobile to Belfast, was driven ashore in Cloughy Bay, county Down, Ireland, per London reports dated December 24.
The North German Lloyd steamer Spree, once ashore on Warden Ledge Isle of Wight, was floated and brought to Southampton and docked. She sustained little if any damage.
In Charleston DC on December 24 a yard engine plunged through a trestle at the West Shore terminal. Engineer John Baxter and Trainman William Turner were killed. Fireman James Bowie was crushed and his legs will be amputated.
Police commissioners urged no Christmas packages to customers. Most liquor dealers complied. a few persisted, giving gifts to a few longtime patrons. The sign is posted in many saloons as Christmas approaches.
Reading December 24 funeral services were held for Seth Bessey a war veteran and prominent G A R member from the Christian Union Church at 1 30 in the afternoon. The church was crowded with mourners including business associates and Veteran Post 1 2 G A R. Rev E A Mafining officiated and the G A R ritual was read at the grave with burial in the village cemetery.
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