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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
1
Roberts reports a Boer victory at Nitral's Nek with garrison forces of Lincolnshire Regiment and Scots Grays overpowered. two guns seized. Boers attack north of Pretoria, driving in the Seventh Dragoons with heavy losses as defenders suffer many killed wounded or captured.
A tank car explosion at Mystic Junction kills at least one and injures about a hundred. The injured include Joseph Haydon a Somerville fireman and George E Southworth 33 of Somerville. Others named are residents and workers from Somerville Charlestown and East Cambridge.
London dispatches detail the capture of Nitral's Nek by Boer forces, overrunning a garrison of five Lincolnshire companies and a Scots Greys squadron with two artillery guns. Heavy casualties feared as engagement also hits Durdepoort with the Seventh Dragoons.
London the war office states General Buller reports 659 prisoners released by the Boers have arrived at Ladysmith for processing and repatriation.
Local forecast predicts fair weather with southwest to west winds. Friday may bring showers along the coast in New England states Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island and nearby areas. Saturday looks warmer with interior clearing and fresh to northerly or westerly winds.
A. Shuman & Co announces a half season sale with sweeping reductions across men’s, women’s, and children’s clothing hats shoes and furnishings. Special prices include suits reduced to ten dollars and other deep discounts at the corner of Washirston and Summer streets.
The body of Lillian Faye, only child of Charles Foye a Chelsea manufacturer, lies on a marble slab in a Newport R I undertaker's shop after death at 19 Converse Avenue.
An up to date restaurant offers cool salads and delicate dairy dishes with careful preparation and excellent service. A distressing event follows as a girl from Chelsea, believed pregnant, died after disappearing lover William C. Fich. An autopsy supported the family suspicions and locals think she fled to New York, then possibly jumped overboard near Newport.
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