28 Jul 1899
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1899
Page
1
Congressman Fitzgerald urges the President to address neglect of the Ninth Regiment as officers remain unappointed. Reports claim Adjutant General interfered with selections, despite other regiments receiving recognition. Interviews with Adjutant Odsey and Major Murray question the theory.
In Mansfield a bride to be Miss Ida Strople awaited her fiancé Bert A. Hartwell at 7 pm for a wedding at Rev. Grant's home. Hartwell left town four hours earlier with the license in hand, sparking rumors and a vanished groom. The couple had become engaged after a high school friendship in Gloucester.
A letter from Congressman John F Fitzgerald to President McKinley protests neglect of the Ninth Massachusetts Infantry in postwar officer appointments. He notes other regiments have had multiple recognitions while the Ninth, with several officers who served in Cuba, awaits commissions. The call references files in the War Department. Meanwhile Mansfield society is unsettled by a young couple's engagement amid a fatal wedding-day mystery and a missing Hart Hartwell.
Our store closed yesterday afternoon for a careful uninterrupted markdown of entire stock across departments. Today begins an immediate clearance disposing of all small lots remaining from the stock. Entire outfits for gentlemen and families including clothing furnishings hats shoes ladies coats and waist. misses girls infants garments and related goods.
A powerful thunderstorm swept Boston and nearby areas causing extensive damage. The Huntington avenue Chute grounds miniature railroad depot collapsed destroying two cars, while a Shirley barn fire consumed structures and goods valued around 1200 dollars. Lightning also struck Crescent street factory and nearby properties, with Brownville Maine suffering losses up to 10000 dollars.
We offer blue serge rene broken sate tingle frocks single and double breasted coats and light woolen dresses reduced from ten dollars to nine. Gentlemen suits in serges and worsteds cut from ten to eight dollars. Street floor clearout features include little boys sailor suits and blouses reduced from six to twelve dollars amid rearrangement of sales rooms.
The Sunday Post for July 30 offers a wide roster of features including a dangerous voodoo dance described with lurid detail a tale of Vanderbilt spending forty million in one year the life story of Albert Stebbins the Deerfield tax collector freed from prison and a Boston society girl’s encounter in Chinatown plus a Cuban war service tale and other items.
Oarsmen prepared for today’s championship races along the Charles River with heavy practice at the B A A and Union boat houses. A fierce squall disrupted afternoon sessions as Ten Eyck Maguire and Whitehead faced questions about form and rivals ahead of the senior singles.
Charles Croasdell who ran a nine room lodging house at 60 Dover street was forcibly evicted yesterday morning after three weeks of overdue rent. He alleges four men without uniform or badge forcibly removed him and damaged belongings. Patrolman Walker at a local station questioned the group and doubted their account.
In Foxboro Mrs James Campbell and her family reported their 3 year old child missing from Mansfield. A search located the child with relatives but a car crash occurred injuring the Campbell party and a suspect, Sheriff Perry, releasing details.
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