Manufacturer's Realization Sale Opens at Thompson Willis Newgent
Boston July 10 1895 a wholesale real estate era sale at 22 Summer Street and 23 25 Boylston Street. Thompson Willis Newgent announce dissolution and offer about 1250000 worth of Fall Winter and 23000 Spring Garments at low prices for one week only. Open daily 8 AM to 9 PM and ship express prepaid for purchases of ten dollars or more.
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Fisk & Goff
Clothiers
Boylston Street
Isk & Goff
Thompson, Willis & Newgent
Thompson, Willis & Newent
Summer Street
United States
Ulster
Washington Street
Duty to Cuba Salute From Cuban Generals to U S
General Maximo Gomez and the Marquis of Santa Lucia publish letters urging United States aid to Cuba after the Santiago de Cuba campaign. Gomez recalls June 1895 operations crossing the Jobabo river and Camaguey while praising American support and offering a patriotic salute from Cuban officers.
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Santiago DE Cuba
Maximo Gomez
Santa Lucia
Gonzales de Quesada
Mr. Quesada
Gomez
Las Guasimas
Camaguey
Puerto Principe
Campos
River Canto
Guaimaro
Jobabo
Cuba
Havana
Friends of
Army of Liberation
America
United States
Worcester Woman Celebrates 100th Birthday
Hundred years old Nancy W Kilburn of 30 Grove Street Worcester is honored by descendants and friends on her centennial. Born in Westminster she recalls Washington’s death and crepe on arms, and she and her husband rode in Worcester’s first train to Boston.
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Worcester
Nancy W. Kilburn
J. Walter Davis
Grove Street
Kilburn
Westminster
Washington
Boston
President to christen baby Gladys not Stephanie
White House report says the president will name the child Gladys at baptism and not follow advisers in naming Stephanie. Observers speculate Mrs. Cleveland chose the name.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Washington
Stephanie
Gladys
Cleveland
Mysterious Vermont Marriage Testimony in Page Estate Case
Emma Hudson Page testifies before Surrogate Abbott in Brooklyn regarding a marriage to James W. Page ten years earlier in Manchester Vermont. She seeks letters of administration on a $30,000 estate claiming widowhood with no discovered certificate. Ex-Surrogate Ransom seeks Vermont testimony to prove the union.
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New York
Emma Hudson Page
Abbott
Brooklyn
James W. Page
Vermont
Ransom
B. B. Smalley
Page
Bennington
Dickinson
Lactated Food Promises Health for Weak Babies
An advocacy piece touts lactated food as vital for infants during summer, claiming it prevents diarrhoeal illness and cholera infantum. It credits Vermont University professors for overseeing its development, describes its pure, easily digested formula, and recommends trials to prove weight, eye, and mood improvements in babies.
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Vermont University
A. P. Grinnell
Men Seek Protection From Women in Court
New York reports two unprotected men seeking safety as women enter the courts yesterday. Harry Fowler told Magistrate Flammer that Mabel Stacom harasses him with flirtations and stalking. The magistrate ordered the woman to keep away, and Fowler was discharged. Separately, Dr. Morris Gross sought sanity inquiry into Rose Fischler who claimed he hypnotized her, but the magistrate sent Fischler to Bellevue Hospital.
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New York
Harry Fowler
Mabel Stacom
McDonough
Tenderloin
Harry
Flammer
Miss Stacom
Jade
Morris Gross
Simms
Essex Market
Dr. Gross
Rose Fischler
Miss Fischler
Bellevue Hospital
Husband shoots at Wil kinson wife dies in chase at Murphy N C
Louis Jennyss a prominent county politician confronted Will Wilkinson in a family buggy as he left Jennyss shore home in Murphy North Carolina. Jennyss opened fire five times missing Wilkinson but striking his wife in the heart. Wilkinson fled and notified a family before catching a train home. Mrs Jennyss died before her husband arrived.
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Wilkinson
Bridgewater Bride Deserts Groom Refuses to Reconcile
Miss Carrie E Bevan of Bridgewater rejects a letter from Robert H Perkins dated St Louis asking forgiveness and promising to return to fulfil the contract. She declines any further contact and will not notice the communication.
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Bridgewater
Carrie E. Bevan
Robert H. Perkins
St. Louis
Embezzler's Wife Fled With $100,000 in San Francisco
The wife of R H McDonald Sr now jailed for forgery and embezzlement fled with about $100,000 entrusted for his legal defense. McDonald, former bank president, allegedly juggled accounts to delay a bank collapse that ruined the People's Home Savings Bank and harmed many depositors.
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San Francisco
Cal
R. H. McDonald
Pacific Bank
McDonald
People’s Home Savings Bank
A Spendthrift Spinster Dies Wealthy but Leaves Scattered Estate
Miss Martha Wilson of New York dies at 94 in 1893 after amassing a rumored fortune of 500000 but leaves little property to probate. She founded the Wilson Home in Mt Vernon and altered her generosity after meeting milliner Marie Abbey Maher who then resided with her. A U S Circuit Court suit seeks recovery of property on Fourth Avenue Mt Vernon as relatives pursue the estate.
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New York
Martha Wilson
Wilson
Mt. Vernon
Martha
Marie Abbey Maher
Miss Wilson
United States Circuit Court
Norman A. Lawlor
Ermnaa
Fourth Avenue
Gould admits validity of $40,000 claim in Nicolaus suit
In Jersey City on July 12 Judge Lipppncott will rule after a private examination of George Gould. Guardian Alexander Simpson submitted an affidavit stating Gould told ex police superintendent Byrnes the claim of $40,000 is just.
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Jersey City
N. J
Lippincott
George Gould
Zella Nicolaus
Alexander Simpson
West End handles heavy traffic with minimal delays
The West End managed a vast conversion traffic last night with over 300 000 passengers from afternoon to midnight and few delays. Receipts exceeded 35 000 dollars. The Nantasket trolley road has drawn hundreds of delegates and travel remains heavy through the week. A union station and depot placards are proposed to guide visitors to Charlestown Navy Yard Bunker Hill Old South Church Public Library and more.
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West End
Nantasket
Union Station
Charlestown Navy Yard
Bunker Hill
Old South Church
Public Library
Illness Forces Rev. Arthur Brooks Back From Europe
The Rev Arthur Brooks rector of the Church of the Incarnation New York sailed from New York for a European summer. illness, termed acute dyspepsia, prompts his immediate return. A cable from Southampton says he may survive the voyage. His brother will meet him in New York.
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Arthur Brooks
Fulda
New York
Europe
Boston
Southampton
William G. Brooks
National Hagle Bank of
Brooks
Church of the Incarnation
Madison Avenue
William Gray Brooks
Bishop Brooks
Frederick
Harvard
John
Springfield
Mass
Boston Latin School
Half Price Odds and Ends in Dry Goods and Fancy Articles
Lightweight derby hats in leading styles and colors offered at half price. Odds and ends in dry goods and fancy articles including combs belts for ladies at less than a dollar.
Stationery and Goods Sale Listing Fragments
A fragmented OCR item lists stationery, books, perfumes, combs, brushes, crockery and pocketbooks. The reading is incomplete but indicates a catalog or shop inventory snippet from a historical page.
Barge Clifford Treats 80 On Floating Hospital Trip
Eighty aboard the barge Clifford including over thirty babies enjoyed a harbor sail from Snow's arch to Hull and back under Superintendent John R. Anderson and Chief Nurse Mrs. M. Gould. The trip featured infants of various conditions, a lively colored child, a calm sea voyage, noon dinner for adults, and a return to Snow's wharf at 4 pm. Ten more trips are planned this year, the next on July 16.
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Clifford
Snow’s Arch Wharf
Leader
John R. Anderson
M. Gould
H. R. Lovett
Hull
Snow’s Wharf
Twenty two men named to city fire department
Twenty two men were appointed to the fire department on Wednesday. The list includes Thomas F. Hendrington Engine 9 J M Holland Engine 9 Edward J McKendrew Engine 11 George Hutchins Engine 2 Henry Whalen Ladder 8 Edward J Ryan Engine 22 William Pease Ladder 3 Cornelius J Hickey Ladder 7 William H Hawkins Ladder 17 Richard J Landerson 17 James E Nolan Engine 25 Frank Coyle Engine 4 Thomas W Burke Engine 4 J M Devine Engine 23 J C Russell Ladder 12 J F Landigan Ladder 2 Mark N Sibley Engine 15 Francis W Robinson Engine 31 Herbert Pierce Engine 13 J J Harrington Engine 33 A B Howard Jr Engine 16 Dennis McGee Engine 23.
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Thomas F. Hendrington
J. M. Holland
Edward J. McKendrew
George Hutchins
George A. Whalen
Edward J. Ryan
William Pease
Cornelius J. Hickey
William H. Hawkins
Richard J. Landerson
James E. Nolan
Frank Coyle
Thomas W. Burke
J. M. Devine
J. C. Russell
J. F. Landigan
Mark N. Sibley
Francis W. Robinson
Herbert Pierce
J. J. Harrington
A. B. Howard, Jr
Dennis McGee
Their Silver Wedding in Somerville Home
Mr and Mrs John H Brown celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary Thursday evening at their Washington street Somerville residence with about two hundred guests from Somerville Dorchester East Boston Lynn Peabody Chelsea Cambridge Newton Charlestown and Woburn.
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John H. Brown
Wilh Washington Street
Somerville
Dorchester
East Boston
Lynn
Peabody
Chelsea
Cambridge
Newton
Charlestown
Woburn
William's Bicycle Clue Ties Brooklyn Murder Case
Two bikes found in the bedroom of William Henry, son of a Brooklyn miser, may illuminate his motive in the murder. One bike was identified as stolen from D. Peyton Bevans of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club. William had sold a wheel for 40 dollars shortly before the crime and is linked to using a Columbia bike previously. Authorities plan to search for the purchaser of the missing Columbia as details emerge from the broader case surrounding a Brooklyn parade.
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New York
William
Henry
South Portland Avenue
Brooklyn
D. Peyton Bevans
Brooklyn Bicycle Club
Walter Henry
Henry House
Remington
Miser
Convicted by a Ghost in a Pardons Hearing
In Columbus Ohio on July 12 the State Board of Pardons heard Jefferson Morehead appeal. The case rests on the belief that a ghostly vision by Brock’s mother, reporting her son’s murder, led to Morehead’s indictment and conviction for Brock’s death near Zanesville decades earlier.
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Columbus, CO
State Board of Pardons
Jefferson Morehead
Hfe
Morehead
John H. Brock
Zanesville
Brock
Boston Veteran Honored for Gallantry at Fairfield
Washington July 12 Acting Secretary of War awards Medal of Honor to George C. Platt of Boston Massachusetts late of Company H Sixth Cavalry for seizing the regimental flag and preventing its capture after the standard bearer fell in hand to hand combat at Fairfield Pennsylvania on July 3 1868.
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Washington
George C. Platt
Boston
Mass
Sixth Cavalry
Fairfield
Penn
The Last Call Final Slash Sale at Moe’s Clothing
A Spring stock blitz advertises drastic discounts on boys and men’s wear at Moe’s Clothing Company on Summer Street. Prices cut from two to twelve dollars. mail orders accepted with cash payment. limited quantities for coats shirts suits underwear and other items. Open Saturday and Monday nights.
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Yankee Clothing Co
SCC
Secundnteseenve Agit
DOW
Airay
Yanrem Clothing
Mmer Street
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Boylston St
General Gomez
Gladys Cleveland
E.C. Almy & CO
Essex Street
Milt
Tere
Catarina Conti
Francesco Conti
Catarina
Defence Fund
Zella
Gould and Byrnes
Zes
Chas. Green & Co
H. Krey & 60
Washington St
Province House
Massachusetts
Floating Hospital
Miser Henry
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