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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1909
Page
3
The Tobias Greenthal Mendelson store advertises a Fourth of July sale with exceptionally low prices on clothing. It notes huge crowds last Saturday, apologizes for delays, promises improved service, and says the sale ends Saturday night.
This is the last lot of these high class worsted fabrics in fancy striped designs. Shadings include tans olives greens and grays with serge linings.
The Romanic leaves Pier 44 Hoosac docks Charlestown at 10 AM for Azores Gibraltar Naples and Genoa carrying 350 cabin passengers the largest saloon list this year to Southern Europe. 260 steerage passengers also travel with notable Bostonians aboard including Philip L. Carbone and family and Rev J E Warren and party.
Daniel Robida of 14 Jefferson Street attempted suicide with a pistol yesterday after losing his job due to ill health. The first shot failed to harm a protector and a second shot wounded him in the side. he is seriously injured but expected to recover.
A fire swept through the Porter building in Framingham early today driving 10 residents from their beds in the Irving House and causing about $20,000 in losses to nine tenants.
An advertisement from Gray's Clothing Corner on Washington and Hanover Streets touts outing suits at 5.90 dollars instead of ten, and claims thousands of selections are available.
The Boston Board of Aldermen at a special meeting accepted resignations of five of six sinking fund commissioners and appointed W Prentiss Parker Leonard H Rhodes James W Dunphy Max E Wyzanski and David F Tilley to fill the vacancies Parker is named likely chairman candidate. The resigning commissioners include Nathaniel J Rust Israel A Ratshesky Horatio G Curtis Joseph H ONeil and Frank G Webber.
Tremendous purchase of Rose Bros. stock of men’s trousers offered at $2.49 each. Genuine Scotch Angola flannels in all colors with four-inch cuffs and belt straps. Choice of 2000 pairs available at the Washington and Hanover streets shop.
The article notes fall 1907 political shifts including Reynolds Wyzanski and others named as city officials. It details board changes due to a new charter provision barring bank connections for sinking funds commissioners and lists appointments to Transit and Appeal boards along with resignations and confirmations.
Boston shoppers are invited to buy a wide range of straw hats at bargain prices with $5 hats now offered for $2.98. The sale highlights a large selection from F Gray Co located on Washington and Hanover streets.
Solemn requiem Mass was celebrated today for Mme. Helena Modjeska at St. Stanislaus Church after the body arrived from Chicago and lay in state last night.
Gray Co Washington and Hanover streets advertises true blue serge suits at 9.90 claiming comparable suits cost 15 elsewhere. The notice promotes affordable clothing from F. Gray Co and emphasizes value for shoppers.
Deductions from observations since the first of the year show more than a score of Chinamen left St John with intent to unlawfully cross the American border. Officials believe St John is the starting point of a cleverly managed underground railway.
New Haven Conn July 2 Yale will receive as a student the coming fall William Avery Harriman son of Edward A Harriman the financier and railroad president
Handsome outing pants in fine French flannels and Scotch cheviots offered at 1.90. Advertised by F Gray Co located on Washington and Hanover streets.
Chief Justice Sullivan in the Supreme Court upheld a local magistrate ruling declaring automobile operation on Prince Edward Island island unlawful. The test case concluded that running motor vehicles contravenes the law across the island.
In a heavy gale the four masted schooner Alice E Clark struck Frank's ledge off Islesboro and sank in Penobscot Bay. The loss was reported to J B Winslow & Co of Portland.
A bold advertisement promotes $10 men’s suits at $5.90 during a generous clothing sale. The offer is by F. Gray Co. located on Washington and Hanover streets.
The paddle wheel steamer Dean Richmond dating to 1865 will be brought from New York to this port and burned for its metal. The bay tug Orion sailed Thursday night to fetch the hulk, which at Erie Basin Brooklyn has been stripped of movable items and now lies dismantled. Built in New York, the vessel operated on the Hudson to Albany before its disposal as antiquated.
In St. Gallen Switzerland a young woman trapped for ten days in a tunnel cave-in was saved today. She endured cold and hunger, sustained herself by squeezing moisture from her clothes, and called for assistance until rescuers reached her.
Scituate Illinois July 2 local man James Edward Cunningham confessed a murder to San Francisco police. He said he was a native of this place but is not known locally.
A cautionary note promotes X-Zalia as a preventive liquid against blood poisoning from firecracker wounds. It advises thorough application to torn or blistered flesh and touts soothing, healing, and comforting properties.
Gray's Clothing Corner offers boys' suits in gray serges fancy worsteds and black bibets priced at $1.90 $2.90 and $3.90. Blue serges and washings featured in the sale with multiple price points.
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