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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1895
Page
1
The notice urges buyers to demand Waitt & Bond Blackstones when paying ten cents for a cigar. It warns against dealers claiming to offer an equal but inferior substitute that benefits the seller with higher profit.
A Cambridge controversy centers on a new water main near the Washington elm at Gardner and Mason streets. Officials assure preservation, with Harvard’s Professor Goodale advising on tunneling to avoid damaging shallow roots while crews trench for pipes along the Common, keeping the old tree and its surrounding area in careful hands.
A vintage ad notes two commentators muse on prices and quality, offering a $15 blue serge suit as a showcased specialty. It hints at committee testing wearing quality and compares serge options while recalling a choir lyric to evoke aspiration.
TAIR WASHINGTON D C June 9 forecast for Monday covers Maine generally fair and warmer with southerly winds. Massachusetts fair and warmer in the east with easterly winds. Rhode Island increasing cloudiness warmer with northeasterly winds. Connecticut increasing cloudiness warmer with easterly winds.
A knife attack followed by a pistol shot occurred on Leverett and Barton streets. John Tomassello and his brother Antonio wounded, Sarah Finglestein hit by a bullet and at Mass General with grievous injuries. Pasquale Cardillo at large, authorities seek him. Tomassello found with a loaded revolver.
Frederick Oh and Garrett Cochrane, both 19 and Princeton College freshmen, were badly wounded by John Collins in an alley in front of Anderson's Hotel at Princeton. Collins, a laborer, was arrested after a dramatic vigil as students demanded punishment. Downs, another Black man, was jailed alongside Collins. Ohl, from Newcastle, Penn, is a Princeton football alumnus. Cochrane hails from Williamsport, Penn.
Yale Harvard and Columbia managers pick Wednesday June 28 for the annual triangular freshman race at New London Conn The race will occur within two hours of flood tide Yale freshmen go to New London Wednesday with a tutor to administer final examinations
Alegend says a curses from an old woman in a private cemetery near Goshen Otterhill doomed the railroad. After a large freight wreck last week thirty one cars were smashed. Locals point to the curse as a cause of ongoing disasters on the line.
Captain Bradford B Briggs died suddenly at 71 in Sandwich from neuralgia of the heart. A former merchant mariner, he toured foreign ports and later worked in painting. A staunch Republican and temperance activist, he served in the Legislature and was a deacon of the Congregational church. He leaves a widow and a daughter.
In Havpahill on June 9 a runaway horse, startled by a bicycle, toppled a carriage carrying James Christopherson and two children bound for a Pines band concert. The driver fell clear, the dog was injured, and the girl sustained head injuries as the carriage struck a fence.
Mrs Harriet Teague of 41 Concerse street wins $25 in the Post for best solution to The Lawyer's Secret. Her reasoning links the murder to a divinity student Charles Robbins, aided by a veil and hammer, with motives tied to Mrs Reng and insurance. Teague has two sons, a daughter, and a keen reading habit.
Sarah Jane Lester age 40 of Woodstock Connecticut was killed in a Brooklyn elevator accident at 12 20 pm while riding between the first and basement floors. The accident occurred in the building housing the Young Women's Christian Association on Schermerhorn Street and Flatbush Avenue. The exact cause remains unknown and officials are investigating.
Mrs Edward Parker Deacon of Deacon Abeille fame travels to Boston to visit her children, staying at the Vendome under her maiden name Baldwin. Recalled is the Paris hotel murder three years earlier when her husband, then living with her, killed Henri Abeille and was jailed, later freed and divorced in France.
In Newton on a June morning the Lasell Seminary graduation week began with a presanad baccalaureate sermon delivered before the graduating class. Rev. H. How, D. D., preached the sermon in the morning, marking the opening of exercises for the Lasell institution.
A mass meeting of strikers on Merino flats in Providence attracted about 1600 people. Poor facilities limited hearing to roughly 100 attendees as speakers outlined Socialistic ideas with little direct impact on the current situation.
Actor J K Emmett, in a drunken quarrel with wife Emily Lyton, chased her through their apartment and down the street last night. A 8 year old protege Baby Lynott aided in restraining Emmett as he fired twice but neither shot hit his wife. he fled to his doorstep where police arrested him. Mrs Emmett was treated for a scalp wound and released to stay with her brother in law. Emmett posted 2000 bail and pledged sobriety.
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