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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1887
Page
2
A major blaze destroyed the Senter House at Centre Harbor yesterday noon. Firefighting from Lake Village and Meredith saved nearby structures while the Moulton House suffered heavy damage. The hotel housed 200 guests and plans to rebuild are reported for next season.
A five story Metropolitan Storage Warehouse on Thirty-eighth Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue burned yesterday morning. A gas explosion blew seven firemen from a first floor. six were severely burned and one suffered a spine concussion. The casino and Normandie hotel areas faced danger as the blaze raged. valuables were deposited for safekeeping by guests and locals. The Goelet estate owned the building valued at $100,000. total losses exceed $1 million.
At 6 am smoke issued from the second floor of the Cotocheset House in Osterville and by 8 am the building burned to the ground. Mrs. Granville Ames managed the hotel which was fully booked. FE. C. Stevens of Boston owned it. Loss estimated at 25000 dollars with little personal property insured or lost by guests who escaped unharmed. Temporary structures will be erected as proprietors plan a larger facility. Notable guests included families from Brooklyn Boston New York Providence and Philadelphia.
The readable lines reference land and three children of New Bedford Mrs. W. L. Gerrish Jr and three children and a maid of Brooklyn, but no clear event or outcome is stated.
Sparks from a forge at W B Glover’s shop on Essex Street ignited rubbish causing Box 52 alarm at 9 35 pm Saturday. A separate box 86 alarm for a fire at 157 Washington Street reported at 10 52 pm. Mechanics Iron Foundry blaze at 8 06 pm in the engine room caused about 1500 in damage. Ladder 12 man Daniel Cain broke a leg. Engine 12 member Daniel Greenleaf injured by glass. A basement fire at 99 Commercial Street caused 10 damage from spontaneous combustion. Box 15 noted.
Fire at Bill's iron front block in Springfield damages Levison's millinery and adjacent businesses with about $25,000 loss after hours of effort. Separate fires in New York St. Joseph's Asylum endanger residents. Saco and Montpelier etc report multiple buildings damaged or destroyed with varied insurance.
A Concord dispatch reports rumors of state seizure of railroad assets from surplus earnings, with 1883 and current statutes cited. The debate centers on whether the state can claim securities from Nashua Acton Boston and other lines while factions in the legislature gamble on the Hazen and Atherton bills.
Tomorrow a Bennington Vermont meeting will set the program for laying the corner stone of the Bennington battle monument on August 16. A three division procession is planned with military, civil and masonic units, led by First Regiment and escorted governors of Vermont New Hampshire and Massachusetts, plus Masonic Grand Lodge and Grand Commandery. Attending will be Governor Ormsbee Chief Marshal Colonel George W Hooker Grand Master Hall and Grand Commander Bacon.
The Old South lectures begin August 3 with a program themed The Birth of the Nation marking the Constitution centennial. Lecturers include James K. Hosmer John Fiske Davis R Dewey and others. sessions held at the Institute of Technology and Old South Meeting House. Free to youths. tickets by request to the Old South committee.
A Philadelphia dispatch reports rapid collapse of the Knights of Labor with many assemblies lapsing weekly and members inattentive. Dissatisfaction grows nationwide as strikes drain funds and leaders are accused of self interest while workers neglect dues and boycotts.
The Rev George O Lorimer of Chicago preached twice at Tremont Temple drawing full houses in spite of showers. He contrasted Esau and Jacob, urged birthright duties, and warned against bargaining for salvation. He noted his Boston visit and vacation plans for July August with wife and two daughters.
A Chicago Times report analyzes a surge in farm loan schemes targeting Nebraska and Kansas. It cites 134 Kansas Nebraska real estate loan companies plus many Eastern lenders, with agents at county seats driving high loan-to-value claims sometimes up to full or over value. Respondents warn of widespread leverage, risk of foreclosures, and limited farmer capital to weather crop failures.
Patrick Flaherty of Lewiston Maine and wife Margaret quarrelled Saturday night. Margaret struck him on the head with a stove cover fracturing his skull and he will probably die.
A Holland Patent report recalls Grover Cleveland securing a substitute to avoid his mother’s distress as the Civil War began. Brothers Fred and Cecil enlisted early while Grover, a legal clerk, supported the family from a modest income and kept the homestead.
Portriano Missouri July 17 The city marshal ordered druggists not to sell soda and cigars on Sunday. All but one small shop closed their stores entirely with not even physicians prescriptions. Citizens generally commend the action though they do not support the marshal. Druggists plan further concerted action.
A long archival entry lists numerous mortgages and patrimonial securities under trustee and executor orders. Items include first mortgages on railways, street Ry Co bonds, bank shares, mfg company stakes, and corporate bonds with various dates from 1889 to 1907, arranged under reorganization and funding loan actions.
Sales of real and personal property offered at private sale or auction. Horse and carriage sales each Wednesday at the Brighton Salesroom. Homes and lands for sale across the country. On hand private sale at auction prices new farm and road carts hay wagons grocers and express wagons carriages and harness. Residence 160 Warren Avenue Boston.
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