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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1898
Page
5
A Boston snowstorm traps Anna Held in her private car beside the Boston Theatre. Twenty-five railroad workers dig her out, she praises the men and recalls the frosty episode while describing the scene and sharing a drink with them.
Luetgert the sausage maker faces the end of testimony in Chicago as Assistant State Attorney McEwan begins his closing address. Lawyers expect the remaining arguments to occupy the rest of the week.
The annual New England Agricultural Society dinner at Quincy House opened with only three members present out of 250 plates set, due to snow blockades. President General Appleton led the meeting as plans for a summer fair were referred to the executive committee.
In Grayson Kentucky on February 1 Virginia Bell Riley aged 80 and his wife aged 70 were found murdered with a maul at their Elliott county residence. Their attackers stole between 800 and 1200 dollars and authorities have no clue to the perpetrators.
The narrator recalls the fall of Martians, the rebirth of Boston, and the dawn of healing after the devastation. He imagines recovery, the restored city, and the return of survivors as he reflects on his own survival and the broader reopening of life.
A first person fragment recounts dramatic impressions of Martian deaths and political upheaval in Boston during a war period. The narrator describes looting in Dock Square, famine and pestilence, and spreading news from Dorchester to New York and beyond. The tale hints at a continuation tomorrow.
In a dramatic 19th century scene a Martian invasion devastates Concord and Boston area towns. Cylinders land, orange alien invaders erect huge tripod machines and unleash heat rays. The city falls into panic as battleships fail and a deadly vapor spreads.
In a dawn ascent to a Martian redoubt, the narrator discovers a morbid scene: dozens of Martians, felled not by weapons but by Earth's simplest pathogens, the scene described amid the cratered shelter and wrecked machines on Beacons Street near Peacon Street.
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