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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1904
Page
7
Mens Dollars odd lot items include Pajamas at 98 cents and Four in Hand Scarfs valued at 35 to 50 cents. White shirts and drawers mercerized at 50 cents each. Balbriggan shirts and drawers offered at 25 cents, sale price 19 cents.
Misses white lisle gloves regular 25c now 15c. Ladies lace lisle gloves value 25c now 12c.
In Quincy Adams police station tonight Alexander Wilson of 26 Pleasant street is held on suspicion of firing the shot that may kill Laura Delory. Delory was shot yesterday at the rear window of John Frazier’s house, 162 Waterstreet. Wilson, found with the Carini family, denies ownership of a revolver and says he will prove an alibi.
The Colonial Club of Dorchester stages its final lawn party and band concert on the clubhouse lawn at Washington and Park streets this evening at 7 15. A flight of hot air balloons with tireworks is planned.
One more boat with seventeen survivors from the ill fated Danish steamship Norge reached Aberdeen tonight aboard the steam trawler Largo Bay. The disaster still leaves six hundred twenty seven persons missing.
A newspaper notice lists passengers believed aboard the ill starred steamship Norge headed to Boston. Families at 60 Leverett Street and 3 Paris Place East Boston await relatives including the Pikins, Kalin siblings, Samedal kin, Schunberger, and several others with addresses on Lowell Street Roxbury Hanover Street Stillman Street Acton and East Walpole. Olaf Olsen is noted as saved and bound for Boston.
The Sunday Post Animal Parties prove a summer feature for New England youth as masks grow the audience. Readers describe uses such as circuses and animal parades. The Bulldog Mask, July 17 Donkey Mask, and July 24 Monkey Mask spark engagement. Contest for best Animal Mask Party account offers up to 40 dollars in prizes.
A Boston Sunday Post themed gathering at ABIE LEWIS’s home led neighborhood children to form an animal club. J Heno served as chief animal the Tiger, A Lewis played the Wolf, and E Milligan the Bear, with masks and enthusiastic cheers. The group praised the Boston Sunday Post and planned future animal meetings weekly.
Loretta Cremen and nine others held a forenoon parade dressing as goats bears tigers wolves and sears by 69 Oxford Street Florence Roach Mary Kenny and Alice Morrey led goats Alvin Lynch Joe Manning trained by the author James Houghton won a prize in a race crowds joined in the fun and shouted for the Boston Sunday Post waiting for the bulldog to arrive in the den scene ends with participants dispersing after lunch
A reader from Chelsea writes about sending Sunday Post animal masks to relatives on a farm. Their brothers wore goat and pig masks, frightening a real pig and triggering the family dog Carlo. The note thanks the paper for the free menagerie masks and asks what Carlo would think of Mr Bulldog upon meeting him.
A Boston Post readers letters recount a Fourth of July boys circus in Lawrence. Kids with tents and makeshift costumes staged animal roles including Slusy Fox as a Bear Teddy Butler Michael Fox and others as Bears Tigers Goats and Pig. The playful scene ends with Mr Murphy laughing at the Pig act.
A brief vignette describes tigers roaming in the woods seeking supper while goats, eating tin cans, forage nearby. After the show the group visits Bingville store owned by Mrs. Murphy for a lunch. John Cummings of 273 Mt. Vernon Street, Lawrence, signs the passage.
A Boston child writes of a Thursday afternoon party held in a stable with two goats, two bears, three tigers, and a wolf. Each wore a colorless cheesecloth dress while the goats schemed to eat candy and the tigers blocked them. Prizes invited readers to guess animal friends. lemonade and candy followed and animals agreed to invite more guests including a pig, bulldog, donkey and monkey for another party.
Madeleine Harvey of South Lincoln describes a family staging of Little Red Riding Hood. The narrator played the Wolf while brother Alex was the green huntsman and sister Gladys portrayed Little Red Riding Hood. Grandmother wore a sun bonnet on the couch. Red carried a cake basket. The hunt ended with the huntsman capturing the Wolf and the party plans more masks.
A Boston note from Isabel Kiley recalls a playful party where guests brought masks and lights out. A Sunday Post charm turns guests into beasts and hunters, with wild animals rushing the readers before mother rescues them with a tray of refreshments.
A short report notes an animal party where the Goat ate carpet tacks and tin cans while the Bear and the Wolf participated. The fragment hints at further details about the gathering and its surprising menu.
A list from the Marine Hospital Chelsea details injuries among Austrians crew and firemen at a relief station. Entries note immersion, burns, burns on hands and face, facial injuries, and a head cut. Several sailors and firemen were treated and sent home after the relief efforts.
David Kinnera of the Austrian crew recalls the ship’s explosion and fire, the scramble for boats, and the loss of Flynn as rescuers reach a Chelsea yacht club float. He credits James Herman of Chelsea for saving four sailors from the sinking steamer.
Captain Wyman and Lieutenants Curry and Hyland kept spectators distant as exhausted horses struggled to property. Police and onlookers pushed a hose wagon to finish the bridge ascent. Gates controlled access while Station 15 relatives sought news. Doctors from the Naval Hospital treated burns in a makeshift relief ward. Jesuit priests attended to the injured. Lines of hose bridged by ladders tested engine capacity as flames at Hayes square burned embers a quarter mile away. Heat felt 100 yards out as crews pressed on.
Captain Cornelison of the yacht Sigrid at Chelsea Y C rescued two men from a burning Austrian as three others leaped into the water and boarded a nearby boat. Yacht club boats aided by Captain Story in the Yo Ho lifted several from danger while all club yachts lay close to the blaze. Tin shingles floated from the grain elevator skyward landing nearby.
A farm tale notes the Tiger forcing raw meat, chasing other animals then nearly killing the Goat. To contain the danger, the Goat is caged. The snippet ends with a signature line LOUISA BURGESS and an address in Readville, P. 9, mentioning daily Post delivery.
Lawrence Peak writes from Roxbury thanking the editor for a ten dollar check received by mail. He expresses delight and says he will continue reading the Post and may become a Post editor to share the pleasure with other boys and girls.
An account of a recent animal show with children invited to wear Sun day Post masks and enjoy a memorable evening. The narrator recalls the good times and participation, ending with a reflective note on the event.
Thousands of riders were discommoded by a fire on Chelsea South Bridge. Cars from Lynn Melrose Malden and other points were diverted into Chelsea square and routed through Everett to Boston. Northbound cars were switched via Everett under Captain Grover Chelsea division superintendent of the Boston and Northern Railway.
A crowd at Emory's wharf pushed three people into the water near Chelsea during a fire. A woman and two men were rescued by William McSweeney, William McConnell, and Joseph O'Donnell in a small rowboat and taken to the Chelsea Yacht Club.
A hot day in Charleston with temperatures near 66 in Newspaper Row and a 12 knot southwest breeze offered little relief before a thunderstorm rolled in, soaking the city for over an hour and causing a fire in Charles Town.
A severe electrical storm tore through Norwood on July 5, halting streetcar service and snapping telephone wires. Lightning damaged the McManus home, destroying three rooms. Emma McManus was prostrated and Mrs Elmer H Bartlett, en route from Boston, was struck and momentarily paralyzed but expected to recover.
In Wakefield on July 5 a lightning bolt hit the First Congregational Church tower and roof causing heavy damage but not interior harm. A home on Fairmount avenue had its chimney demolished by a later strike. The storm also disabled thirteen electric cars and knocked out local wires and fire alarms amid additional unspecified damage.
Cambridge officials were surprised by an effigy of Judge Emmons hung on a bonfire near Portland street shortly after midnight Monday. Mayor Daly said he did not know of the effigy until reading the Post and would not have allowed it if he had. He praised Cambridge residents for keeping Sunday quiet and declined further comment.
In Nashua New Hampshire Lester Blood aged 77, son of William Blood, was accidentally pushed into deep Nashua River while bathing and drowned. The body was recovered.
A lively account describes animal performances including goats, a dancing bear, a sly wolf, and fierce tigers led by trainer Zulu. The show featured a girl in a Beauty and the Beast scene, audience laughter, and lemonade after the spectacle. Clyde Struble signs off from Somerville, Massachusetts.
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