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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1892
Page
7
An advertising pitch urges readiness against ill health and promotes Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to invigorate the liver and kidneys, purify blood, improve digestion, and treat liver disorders and skin afflictions. It guarantees refunds if no benefit, claiming affordability and value as a blood purifier.
The board of police heard Captain Henry F. Dawson versus John F. McKay & Co. over selling liquor without food at the Metropolitan Hotel on a Sunday. McKay denied violations, produced a posted order limiting service to meals. Witness James McGrath testified food accompanied drinks. no decision was reached.
The Loyal Women of American Liberty hold the fourth day of their annual fair at Horticultural Hall. Highlights include a horn of plenty display and well arranged tables of ornamental and useful designs. Evening entertainment features music and recitations. The cafe is popular and well patronized. The fair runs today and tomorrow 10 am to 10 pm.
The funeral of the late E M Chamberlin of North Cambridge, a prominent labor leader, took place yesterday afternoon at his Linnaean street home. Rev Hyatt Smith delivered a brief eulogy with simple exercises, no music or pallbearers. Burial was at Mt Auburn. Most prominent local groups were represented, with L G Newman, Richard Furlong, Edward FitzWilliam, L B Porter, T Brophy, N E Chase, E M White, M M Avery, J R Roglow, John O Donnell and R F Curtis among attendees.
Post Dime Wants are becoming the cogs in the wheels of many an industry. Rising price pressures and tighter credit are pushing firms to seek compensation and policy shifts to sustain operations and growth.
The stomach rejects a spoonful but tolerates drops of cod liver oil. Scott's Emulsion breaks the oil into tiny drops wrapped in glycerine to mask taste. Hypophosphites of lime and soda work with the oil to create a tonic effect. A free book offer accompanies the information.
Prices shaded to spur sales with flour firm and corn higher while oats stay active. Wool sales rose week over week with strong domestic demand and substantial foreign interest, London sale results show 10 percent decline from December but overall steady. Sugar, flour, corn, oats, meats, and produce prices listed, plus Chicago cattle and hog market results showing steers firm but mixed, hogs up slightly, lambs steady to higher.
Boston's bail team will be captained by Billy Nash next season as directors had decided long ago. Various players face limits or moves with talks of trades at the league meeting next Tuesday. The Trimounts club undergoes reorganization and possible resignation of officials while preparations for amateur boxing and cross country events proceed.
Crow 4 years old at 3 dollars per gallon in Galion. Blanchard and Farrar reference 14 to 17 docks and 81 Faneuil Halles. Note: readable fragments limit full context.
Shipping notices list arrivals at port including Steamer St Pierre Angrove from St Pierre with fish to Delong Seaman Steamer Yarmouth Stanwood from Yar mouth NS with mdse and passengers to J G Hall Co Steamer Parthian Snow Philadelphia with mdse and passengers to E B Sampson Steamer Essex Taylor from Baltimore with moise and passengers to AM Graham Steamer Forest City Snowman from New York to Portland City of Gloucester Proctor Gloucester Drug Triton Luckenback from New York towing barges Charter Oak and Tivoli three Sch Skyler Colfax from Gloucester Guptil from Grand Manan NB Cleared foreign Steamer Stockholm City from London Furness Withy Co Coastwise steamers Coban Fraser New York H W See Cong Co Eastern Prince Jones Jorde Furness Withy Co Gate City Googins Savannah Richardson Barnard Forest City Snowman Portland C F Williams Schs Charles Noble Simmons Babbitt Norfolk Fitz Bros Co Cox Green Thompson Maineport Philadelphia sailed steamers Lancastrian for Liverpool Norseman Co Gate City Savannah Govan New York New Brunswick St John NB tug C B Sanford with barges Shickshinney Musconetcong for Hoboken tug Wrestler with barges Samuel E Spring L B Gilchrist for New York Sch Frey Walton for Rockport Mass in tow of tug N P Doane
Cleared and sailed ships across multiple ports on Feb 24 and Feb 25. Vessels include Mary Sprague bound for Boston, Chatham to Boston, Percy W Schall for Porto Rico, Alice Archer from Bath, Myra B Weaver to Matanzas, Romeo to St John NY, and numerous steamers and brigs moving between Bremen, Hamburg, Antwerp, Port Antonio, Kingston, Jamaica, and Philadelphia. Entries list ports, destinations, and ships such as Trave, Sorrento, Bal land, and California among others.
In port entries and sailings for January and February include vessels such as Lottie Moore from Wellington to New York, Edam to New York and Baltimore, Z Ring to Philadelphia, C C Sweeney from Montevideo, Victoria Regina for Boston, and multiple barques and brigs discharging cargoes near Havana and the Caribbean with several named sailors and charters aboard. Additional notes mention the Wm Phillins from Iquique to Hampton Roads and Emita loading for New York from Pernambuco with varied wind and cargo observations.
Schooner Austin D Knight from St Martins to Boston with salt reached St Thomas Feb 11. mainmast head sprung, mast removed for splicing, no cargo discharged. Fears for schooner Winnie Lawrie, Captain Angus McRitchie from St Domingo to New York. touched Fortune Bay Bahamas Jan 12 to bury a dead sailor and Long Key Jan 14 to mail letters, out forty days, 246 tons, Captain McIntosh a Provincetown man living in Brooklyn. Schooner Maggie Abbott from St Domingo to New York, Captain Charles McIntosh, overdue. Bark Valley from Marseilles to Pensacola did not reach Bermuda Feb 23 in distress. she Valley arrived Pensacola Feb 15.
The notice lists mail closing times and routes from Boston via multiple steamers to the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, and Pacific destinations. It specifies dates February 26 to February 28, including lines for Brazil, La Plata, St Thomas, St Croix, Windward Islands, Grenada, Jamaica, Haiti, Mexico, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Cuba, and trans-Pacific routes on ships like Advance, Kong Frode, Nicaragua, Prof Morse, El Callao, Cosmopolitan, Saginaw, Aller, Claribel, Orizaba, Labretagne, and Olivette, with closing at 6 p m February 27.
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