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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1893
Page
2
The Post announces tours by the World's Columbian Tourist Company to Chicago for the fair. It promises comfortable nearby accommodations and a price scale designed for readers with moderate means, simplifying travel during the four hundredth anniversary celebration of American discovery.
A five day package offers a comfortable room within walking distance of the Exposition Grounds, baggage transfer to hotel and depot, and admission tickets to Spiral Tower and the Spectatorium.
Trip No 2 offers a six day journey to Chicago and back 4 fifty dollars includes a comfortable hotel room near the fair baggage transfer hotel to depot six admissions to the World’s Fair and tickets for the Spira Tower and the Great Spectatorium
Trip No 3 offers a $57 fare to Chicago and return with six days of board and lodging in a good hotel or select boarding house on the South Side. The package includes six admissions to the Fair, ten outside entertainment tickets, baggage transfers between hotel and depot, and a six hour stopover at Niagara Falls en route.
The Boston Post opens registration for three cheap trips at its business office. Two dollars paid on register, three more within ten days on contract delivery at 39 Ames Building, balance due at departure. If railroad rates drop, reductions apply to all trips.
Newspaper reports detail a bloody crime scene with torn underclothes and autopsy results. Authorities investigate a wandering African American suspect and a possible Portuguese workman as key leads in the Manchester case.
A 22 year old man named Lewis Quarry is seized after being seen near the woods and on Pleasant street. Marshall Hilliard suspects he may be escaped from an institution or a roaming vagrant. Quarry claims to have come from Boston and worked for Henry Wilson, but cannot name any locals. Tomorrow Bertha Manchester will be buried.
In Fall River on June 1 a quiet scene unfolds at the Manchester farmhouse. An aged farmer relocates to the tool house basement where hens dwell, arranging a bed for Freddy and himself while Johnny camps in the barn. Before 11 he sought the kitchen clock key from guards, then vanished and the night passed without further disturbance.
The scene remains unsettled with disputed testimony of threats by a man in relation to a murdered girl. Authorities have not blamed Stephen G Manchester, father of the victim, though doubt lingers. A crowd gathers at the crime site as investigators piece together scattered evidence amid eerie details.
In Fall River on June 1 a commentary notes no strong parallel between a recent brutal axing in Bertha Manchester case and the famous Borden murders. It observes similarities in family economics, daylight killings, and police absence, but concludes the link is weak and cautions against drawing direct parallels.
In Fall River on June 1 a Special from Staff Correspondent reports that clues cluster around a crime and implicate a worker from the Manchester farm. The piece notes that every detail aligns with this theory as investigators press the case.
If calling in person is inconvenient, send your name and the registration fee by check or post office order or registered letter payable to Post Publishing Company. Address all communications to the World’s Fair Manager in Boston ASS.
In Rockville Conn on June 1 local carpenters won a nine hour workday with ten hours pay after union pressure. All but one contractor conceded. Painters likely to press for the same nine hour day next week following masons who won it on May 1.
Ellis Goldberg importer and dealer at West Houston street assigns his affairs today. The American Wringer Co of Broadway extension is noted as the maker of wringers mangles spring beds and carpet sweepers, with repair services and mail orders attended to promptly.
Alfred Henry Wilson operating as Wilson and Frost assigns liabilities totaling 81 500 secured and 121 814 unsecured. Assets largely consist of real estate across Montreal.
Horse ambulance service operates at 540 Albany Col. Dedham St. Patients treated and boarded at 1.50 dollars per day. Attending surgeons listed with contact by telephone Y.2 Tremont. Shoeing forge provided at regular rates. Calls answered day and night.
Marshal Hilliard and Inspector Medley questioned an elderly man at his field where he was planting. The prior day Freddy’s abduction loomed as authorities held up the man and searched the premises while the proprietor was away on a milk route. The rural scene grew quiet with no movement reported.
An advertisement touts Williams root beer extract as the great temperance drink. It claims the extract yields five gallons per bottle and asserts superior strength and purity versus other brands, inviting one trial at Williams & Carleton in Hartford, CT.
Aaron Walton, a young man, was arrested after striking Charles P List on Eliot Street with a heavy cane. The attack followed a heated exchange at the Comus Club, fracturing List’s skull. Walton confessed in court and was held in $10,000 bond. Frank List, brother of the injured man, is held as a witness.
Berlin dispatch reports Eugene Wolff of Tageblatt states the British East Africa Company evacuated Uganda on April 1 and Sir Gerald Portal, the Uganda special commissioner, hoisted the flag and proclaimed a protectorate over the region.
A ukase issued in St Petersburg on June 1 licenses an agricultural association to export agrarian products from Russia. It forbids Hebrew or foreign subscription to or ownership of the association's capital stock.
W Ropes Trask was appointed receiver of the Order of Unity yesterday by Judge Holmes of the Supreme Court. The endowment order holds assets estimated at forty thousand to fifty thousand dollars.
Daniel McCaskill a seaman of no fixed abode fell down three flights of stairs at 246 Commercial Street yesterday and died soon after. He was 46 and had been drinking heavily of late.
A humorous exchange explains kissing as a lips expression beyond description of the tongue. Johnny defines a kiss as an act you express with lips rather than describe with the tongue, as presented in Harper’s Bazar.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows Cholly asking about catching a cold and Freddy coughing about trimming his nails too close, revealing a brisk, taunting street humor in a snippet. The exchange hints at a rough urban scene and a casual, wry tone.
George W. Warner of Austerlitz Michigan reports nervous debility and heart issues improved after using Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Pills. He notes better sleep appetite digestion and relief from rheumatic pains claiming good health afterward. Pills are vegetable and advertised at 26 cents.
Paris dispatch reports the Behring Sea controversy at the Bureau of Arbitration on the Quai d Orsay. Notables present include Coudert and Carter for the American side and Sir Charles Russell for Britain, with judges and diplomats such as Baron de Courcel Justice Harlan Visconti Venosta Senator Morgan and Sir John Thompson observing. Social figures George Henry Binney Mrs Gardner Ball Francis Van Horn Horatio Curtis are noted at Paris hotels as the spectacle unfolds.
A reminiscence describes a girl by a quaint old wooden barn in June. The speaker recalls catching her eye as she sang a merry tune and then fleeing when approached. The memory centers on a speckled hen heard in a past scene.
A young man of about seventeen, dreaming of a real nice gift for a young lady, asks the grocer for help. The grocer, brisk, guides him to the pickle counter as the boy prepares to buy something special.
A brief quoted exchange shows a comic miscommunication about visiting friends and regular days at home. The dialogue escalates with a polite but pointed back-and-forth between a mother and Jane, reflecting domestic humor.
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