Parker appoints McKirdy deputy in Boston city hall
Ex Representative Robert K McKirdy of Ward 8 was promoted to Deputy Collector by City Collector Bowdoin Parker. He replaces Henry Howard of East Boston who died. McKirdy will earn 1800 dollars yearly while William H Pearson resigns after 25 years as deputy collector amid rumors of further changes before the mayor's February mid winter vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert K. McKirdy
Ward'8
Bowdoin S. Parker
McKirdy
Fitzgerald
City Hall
Henry Howard
East Boston
William H. Pearson
Pearson
City, Hall
Friday and Saturday Specials Fur Coats
We offer $25,000 in value to be realized from the balance of stock after two rough weeks. The store marks everything down to raise funds and meet obligations. Come for best bargains as the entire stock is closed out in the next few days. Friday and Saturday specials fur coats.
Fur accessories and sets price list
A catalog of fur items including Belgian hare muffs at 7.98 and 7.98, black opossum muff at 2 and 10.90, black marten scarfs, various squirrel and hare sets, jack wolf muffs at 15.00, natural raccoon muff at 1.25, and children’s fur sets priced at 88.
Bargain Fashion Sale Items Listed in Note Fragments
The note lists waists skirts coats and coats for children with prices ranging from 1.25 to 7.98. Items include mussed waists unlined voile skirts and coats for children. The fragmentary listing implies a rural or small town retailer advertising clearance items.
Best Dinner Memory Question From Boston Post
A Dinner Editor in Boston invites readers to share their best ever meal in 200 words. Describe the place, date, company, what was eaten, and the surrounding circumstances for a chance to win a twenty dollar gold piece. The prompt precedes reader letters printed below.
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The
Boston Post
Boston
Mass
Best Dinner Remembered From Illness in 19th Century Memoir
A narrator recalls a years earlier ordeal of illness and near-starvation. After permission, a brother shot a robin for a single leg as a makeshift meal, restoring life and hope. This “best repast” symbolizes life’s contrast with later abundance. The story centers on Miss E. Josephine Gurney of South Hanson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeg
Josephine Gurney
South Hanson
Gristle Soup In General Pope’s Retreat
George F. Cook of East Washington New Hampshire recalls 1862 at Rapidan and Rappahannock. He describes a ten day struggle with three days’ rations during the march and battle period. A makeshift dinner of bone gristle, hardtack and peppered meat sustains three men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Foster
Foster
George F. Cook
East Washington, N. H
An Old Fashioned Meal In Franconia Notch
A junior traveler recalls hiking north from high school days ending at Franconia Notch. After being unable to find his companion he returns to a cottage where a humble supper awaits with fried hominy maple syrup hashed potatoes and home raised bacon. The writer signs F W McKenney from Haverhill Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franconia Notch
Franconia
F. W. Mc Kenney
Haverhill, Mass
Just A Little Dream At Kittery Navy Yard
A fragment notes an event on July 9 1886 at the Kittery navy yard. The brief text hints at a dream or phrase linked to the site but provides no further details or outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kittery Navy Yard
Rash Covered Hands Restored by Cuticura Remedies
A reader describes a months long skin eruption on the right thumb spreading to the hand causing itching burning and sleepless nights. After unsuccessful drugstore treatments the patient used Cuticura Soap and Ointment daily and reports complete cure with improved sleep and relief from pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West 30Th
New York
N.Y
Iliaen
Rom Ghepcllpeg
Patient recovers from pneumonia after coma
Mrs M A Nealle y of Hopedale Massachusetts recounts a near death experience during pneumonia. She lay unconscious until July 22 fed only crushed ice quinine and whiskey. Her family prayed for recovery and at four in the morning she awoke and tasted a tiny meal of sweet cream and cracker crumbs.
Waffle order mix up from a 10 cent placard
A Boston accent travels to New Frisco and triggers a kitchen misfire as a diner orders waffles with maple syrup for 10 cents but receives hot water with syrup. The note, by Mrs. Charles F. Stetson of Holbrook, recalls a humorous translation of a street sign and a lunch miscue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Frisco
Boston
Charles F. Stetson
Holbrook
Plea for Open Air Schools in City Districts
Dr. William F. Boos urged open air schooling at a Mothers' Clubs meeting at Perkins School on St Botolph street. He traced open air school history from Germany in 1904 to Franklin Park hospital school and pressed for reopening and new hospital schools in Charlestown Brighton and several congested districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William F. Boos
Mothers’ Clubs
Prince and Perkins
Perkins
St. Botolph Street
Germany
Franklin Park
Charlestown
Brighton
Weathered Wharves Struggle as Ice Delays Vessel Start
The article notes many schooners still tie up awaiting better weather with some ice surrounding them requiring tugs to break openings. It also details wholesale groundfish prices for haddock cod hake pollock and cusk, vessel cargoes and arrivals, lobster barrels, and annual Boston groundfish receipts showing shifts between 1910 and 1911. The Landsman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haddock
Grueby
Thomas J. Carroll
Cod
Pollock
Tiwr
M. Nunan
F. J. Carroll
Maine
Nova Scotia
Boston
Yarmouth
A. W. Perry
Halifax
Erne
Buenos Ayres
Pagenturm
Hohenfels
Calcutta
Cunard
Eastern Railway
Bosnia
Pollock Rip
T Wharf
Diapepsin relieves indigestion and stomach misery fast
Readers with stomach trouble can find fast relief from indigestion gas and sourness with Diapepsin. A 50 cent case, shown by the pharmacist, promises five minute digestion and relief from heartburn belching nausea and other symptoms, suitable for family use.
Shipping News Summary of Arrivals Cleared and Sailings
The Gresham and many other vessels arrive from Boston Halifax Yarmouth and more with barge movements and tugs noted. Steamers Bosnia Simms Orgino San Jose and others cleared for Hamburg New York and Baltimore while several ships sail to Guantanamo Manzanillo and Norfolk with barges and towing assignments.
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Gresham
Wilram
Hyperia
Way
Buenos Ayres
Cervantes
Amey
Buenos Ayred
Boston
Simms
Yarmouth
N. S
A. W. Perry
Hawes
Halifax
N.S
Herman Winter
Colbwerth
New York
Nantucket
Herbert
Norfolk
William Chisholm
Calhoun
Newport News
Camden
Clarke
Portland
Onondaga
Macbeth
Jacksonville
Charlestown
City of Gloucester
Godfrey
Gloucester
Charles F. Mayer
McLeod
Portsmouth
Baltimore
F. E
Bosnia
Schmidt
Hamburg
Orgino
Dent
San Jose
Davison
Port Simon
U. S
New Jersey
Guantanamo
Frances
Manzanillo
Walton Hall
Columbian
Liverpool
Juniata
Persian
Philadelphia
Joseph W. Fordney
Transportation
Newport
Pollock Rip
Wyoming
Beckton
Bellewood
Perth Amboy
Charles Mann
Hammond
Scituate
North America
Edgewater
Troy
Hackensack
Riverside
Mercury
Passaic
Hawthorne
Nellie
Lynn
Tobyhanna
Hoboken
Cto
Cumberland
Charles Davenport
Bath
Erne
Schoo
John W. Dana
Savannah
George B. Dudley
Charleston
D. C
Jane Palmer
Auto dealers reunite at Lenox for show car drawing
Hotel Lenox hosted Boston car dealers in a luncheon to select or win a car display during Mechanics' Building show week. J H MacAlman presided as master of ceremonies and drew the winning envelope, selecting a vehicle from Stearny or Columbia lines for exhibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Macalman
J. P. McDonald
Lenox
Mechanics’ Building
J. H. MacAlman
Boston Automobile Dealers’ Association
MacAlman
McDonald
Boston
Campbell
Stearny
Columbia
Proprietor Held in Fire Attempt at City Shoe Store
Nicholas Di Tano owner of a shoe shining shop at 114 Enot Street was held in 5000 bond for grand jury after charges he tried to fire the store by placing oil saturated candles and rags in the shop and cellar during the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas di Tano
Enot Street
Parmenter
di Tano
Macullar Parker Firm Marks Sixty Years in Boston Commerce
The Boston clothing house Macullar Parker celebrates its 60th anniversary tracing back to Addi son Macullar who opened a Worcester shop in 1849. The firm moved to Boston in 1850s evolving into Macullar Williams Parker with key figures Charles W. Parker and Williams. The enterprise rebuilt after the Washington street fire of 1872 and continued growth into the modern era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Macullar Parker ‘Company
Addison Macullar
Worcester
New England
Charles W. Parker
Milk Street
Ann
North) Street
Washington Coffee House
Washington Street
Washington’ ‘Street
Macallar,Williams & Parker
Williams
Macullar
Macullar Parker Company
Model homes for tenants funded by Neustadter will
New York February 1 the will of Caroline Neustadter filed today provides more than two million dollars in charitable bequests. Half goes to trustees to create a memorial corporation for building and maintaining modern homes for tenants of moderate means. Other bequests include 100000 to Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and Mt Sinai Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Caroline Neustadter
Henry Neustadter
Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society
Mt. Sinai Hospital
U S Express Rates Targeted by ICC Hearings
Washington Feb 1 Com missioner Lane signaled at the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing that the ICC intends to prosecute express companies for over charging shippers on transportation of goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lane
Interstate Commerce Commission
Investigators Cite Adams Express Overcharges Probe
W A Ryan outlined a monthly Adams Express Company examination showing $67 000 in overcharges credited to the treasury. He supplied comparative tables of express operations in Britain France and Germany versus the United States, noting foreign rates were lower for similar service and distances. Company representatives argued US express trade hinges on speed with fast passenger or special express trains shaping charges.
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W.A. Ryan
If Commission
Adams Express Company
Treasury
Ryan
Great Britain
France
Germany
United States
America
Europe
New Bolduc trial set as defendants face renewed case
Assistant District Attorney Lavelle announced that Dr John Ferguson Miss Mary A O Neil secretary Annie M Reed and Mrs Jennie F Shattuck will be retried likely on Feb 19 for involvement in an illegal operation that caused the death of Marie Alma Bolduc of Manchester New Hampshire after a jury failed to reach a verdict following 24 hours of deliberation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavelle
John D. Ferguson
Mary A. O'Neil
Annie M. Reed
Jennie F. Shattuck
Marie Alma Bolduc
Manchester
N. H
Simple home remedy for rheumatism and kidney issues
A home preparation using Fluid Extract Uniper Berries, Balmwort, and Hypophosphites is advised to improve kidney function and relieve dyspepsia and bladder symptoms. The recipe is printed for readers and druggists to reproduce, with dosing of one teaspoon before meals and at bedtime.
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Parker
O’callaghan
Hudson Ae
C. M. Payne
Talitin
HS Mindon
Congress
T. Wharf
Shipping News
Thomas Snow & Son
North Market Street
Snow
Bolduc
NY Reader
All
Bermuda
GEO, Fe, Marsters
Bermuda Steamship Lines
Edith Macvane
Processor Macvane
Harvard
Tate
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