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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1891

Page

2

Widespread Ice Storm Disrupts Cambridge Electric Wires

A Saturday sleet storm coated outdoor lines with ice causing extensive damage to telegraph and electric wires in Cambridge. Wires snapped, poles fell, and horses were killed after contact with live lines. City crews, police, and fire departments labored overnight to restore service as many circuits remained down or damaged into Sunday.

Lechmere Square Cambridge De‘bris Morse City of Boston Fire Department Flanders Nort End West Roxbury Brighton Western Union State Street New York Albany Chicago Buffalo Bangor Springfield Duxbury New Haven Postal Telegraph Company St. John N.B Providence Long Distance Telephone Company East Cambridge New England Telephone Company Edison Incandescent System Cadet Armory Columbus Avenue Ceookage Rere Stanhope Treet

Storm Wrecks Salem and Providence Wires In Severe Jan. Storm

A Jan 18 storm battered Salem and Providence with sleet and freezing rain turning sidewalks to ice. Electric wires and tramways suffered outages as wires broke, lights failed, and fire alarms and telegraph lines were disrupted citywide. There were widespread outages in Fall River and Brookline as crews rushed to repair damaged lines.

Salem En- Sanaa Beverly Western Union Boston Providence R. I City Hall Dome Worcester Bawtucket Fall River Fact River Davis Telephone Exchange

World’s Fair Report Critiques Costs and Salaries

Representative Candler presents a subcommittee report from Chicago noting confusion and waste in the world’s Columbian commission. It urges curbing salaries and large boards, tightening finances, and limiting meetings to essential times around the fair dedication, with pay caps for officers and a call to fund the director general from exposition funds.

Washington Candler Massachusetts Select Committee House Chicago Congress Secretary of the Treasury World’s Columbian Commission Board of Lady Managers

Mysterious family tragedy in Chattanooga firing

On January 18 in Chattanooga Tennessee cashier M Fugette of the South Chattanooga Savings Bank was shot and killed by his father in law Judge J A Warder City Attorney Warder was wounded twice and is in critical condition Mrs Fugette was injured in the right third Judge Warder a prominent Republican politician and ex union soldier fired five times with a revolver No cause is known Fugettes had a young baby and lived happily together.

Chattanooga Tenn M. Fugette South

Prof Koch Endorses Soden Pastilles for Throat Coughs

A British note records Prof Koch recommending the Soden Pastilles made from Soden waters of Frankfurt for throat irritations and coughs. He claims a cough failed to respond to other medicines but improved and vanished after using the pastilles. The genuine product bears Sir Morrell Mackenzie’s testimonial and signature on each box.

Prof. Koch Soden Frankfurt Germany Dr. Koch Sir Morrell Mackenzie

Education meeting notes and society officer elections

Miss Marion Talbot presided at the fifteenth annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society for the Education of Women in Boston. Reports showed year expenditures of 616 dollars with fund-raising planned for Feb. 19 and 27 at Tremont Temple. Officers for the new year include Talbot as president and Barrell and Hunt as secretary and treasurer. Separate Webster Historical Society elections named Stephen M. Allen as president and a large slate of officers. A lecture by Prof. Townsend noted recent studies in Mexico on Romanism.

Marion Talbott Massachusetts Society For the Education of Women Claflin Boston University Charlotte W. Barrell Abby W. Hunt Eva Channing Elizabeth Deering Hanscom Florence M. Cushing Wood’s Hall Tremont Temple Emma Atchinson Almy Johns Hopkins University England Aimy University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow Ora University of Ireland University of Oxford Bedford College London University of Montreal University of Australia Talbot Marion Talbot William Clafflin Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward William F. Warren Florence M Cushing John Tellow Alden Speare Thomas Mack E. Ploeper Davis Abba Goold Woolson D. H. Coolidge Frank King Elizabeth Porter Gould Adaline B. Church Charlotte W. Barrel Mary M. Topliff Webster Historical Society Stephen M. Allen Duxbury Abner C. Goodell, Jr N. P. Banks Massachusetts G. F. Edmunds Vermont Henry Howard Rhode Island L. D. Mason New Hampshire Joshua L. Chamberlain Maine Henry Barnard Connecticut W. M. Evarts New York J. H. Stickney Maryland D. W. Manchester Ohio Lucius Hubbard Minnesota J. C. Welling District of Columbia G. C. Ludlow New Jersey W.T. Sherman J. Campell Pennsylvania W. H. Barker New Mexico C.M. Blake California Mellen Chamberlain J. D. Long Thomas H. Cereminis Russell Bradford M. Boutwell

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