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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1892
Page
7
A brisk travel note highlights the 1 Whar district with the air rich in harbor scent. It describes banks, piled oysters, and cheap clams with lobster not yet boiled, offering guidance for both locals and visitors.
Governor Russell opened the fair at Music Hall where a massive transformation turned the venue into a war themed exhibit with bunting, booths, and a large hospital tent. Major Otis M. Marion led the medical display while Colonel Joseph Maccabe and Mrs. Micah Dyer, Jr. organized the event. ANo no large crowd attended as officers and staff viewed scenes from Civil War battles and a grand eagle flag centerpiece.
Visitors and locals alike can explore Boston’s T wharf on Atlantic Avenue at the foot of South Market Street, the center of the city’s vast fish, oyster, and clam trade. Wholesale houses line the wharf, with firms like C. J. Whitman & Co and N. D. Freeman & Co handling fresh, frozen, and cod liver oil products, while others such as J. Adams & Co and Herrick & Co supply lobsters, haddies, and oysters to New England. The bustling scene features fishing smacks, fishermen in oilskins, and extensive exchange of goods by telegraph and telephone, with dining rooms serving meals sourced from the sea.
In the civil courts United States circuit court on February 8 Axparicu J presiding the case of National Bank of Deposit of New York v L L Brown involves an action of contract on a written guarantee signed by the defendant guaranteeing payment of notes and checks indorsed by the L L Brown Paper Company of Adams Massachusetts Evidence is resumed and finished with Russell and Putnam for the plaintiff and W B French A P French and H Williams of New York for the defendant
A London meeting at Devonshire House elected Joseph Chamberlain as Liberal-Unionist leader in the House of Commons succeeding Lord Hartington. The Duke of Devonshire pledged the Lords would defend the union, while Chamberlain reaffirmed Liberal principles and that Devonshire would steer party policy.
A well dressed man about 40 checked into the Eastern Hotel on Causeway street under the name Johnson. He did not appear and was found dead in his room. Evidence suggests his real name may be Youre, with the name F A Young of 848 Main Street Charlestown found on the body. The body was taken to the Morgue.
Suffolk Supreme Court lists equity assignments for Tuesday February 9 including Falkner v Beal Dudley v Sanborn Varnum v Whitney Curry v McKim Weibrecht v Weibrecht Grace v Davis Dooling v McCormack Antcliffe to settle Lally v Looney title Cushings bynn Belt Line Kennedy v Cutting Ry Mulcahy v Reade Wood pale to settle title
In Suffolk Massachusetts on February 8 probate court admitted wills for Mary E Haley Mary Ann Champney Harriet L Weston Thomas Linton Henry J Bowditch Angela E Babson Joseph F Hovey Sarah Carter Susan D Rogers Adam Bassing Michael Mulhern Eliza A Hinkley Malvina A Poor Rosina Loukhard Eliza Bb Towers Fanny W Warren Henry Wright Georg Flanagan Marie A Frey Daniel Williams Lorenzo Burge and granted administrations for James L Quigley James Fitzgerald Mary F A Baldwin Lucy L Hall John F Lewis Walter E Davis Lydia S Keith Helen L Grations James A Moran Amos T Stowers Sarah M Merriam Stephen Corcoran Helen A Wheeler Arthur Levy Robert Williams John Hall Carrie W Shevard Catherine Horan Mary A Prince H C Loring H G Burgess Margaret Mitchell Nellie L Lombard Rebecca N Bedlington John Henry Butler William J Coughlin Annie M Johnson Robert 5 Hamilton Caroline R Morton Hannah McAuliffe Caroline N Dennie Thomas F Burke and Abbie E Fierling.
In Cambridge on February 8, the Middlesex Superior Court heard James O Goodwin versus Horace D Hall for 4155 dollars in commission on a real estate sale. Verdict for defendant. Attorneys listed for plaintiff and defendant. The court also notes many docket numbers and mentions uncontested libels for divorce, with the contested list to be taken up Wednesday morning.
Pupils Mamie Lorish Elizabeth Arnold Patrice Atkins Rose Garrity Mary King Lilie Voie performed Mendelssohn Bach Mozart Schumann and more at Sleeper Hall New England Conservatory. Mme Hopekirk presents solo program at Tremont Temple with Liszt Chopin Beethoven and more. Orchestral class under Emil Mahr to present Rossini Bach Rode and Maas works at Sleeper Hall. Tickets for Vladimir de Pachmann recitals at Chickering Hall. Kneisel quartet plans Union Hall concert with Beethoven Schubert Mendelssohn.
Richard A. Handlen, 25, of 235 Bunker Hill street Charlestown, died last night after shooting himself in the head in his boarding house room at 11:15. Despondency blamed on recent wife’s death and financial reverses. bullet entered the right temple and penetrated the brain.
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