Senate Passes the Handsome Spring Patterns
The Senate approves new spring patterns priced at 15 18 or 20 dollars early in the season, signaling a shift in wardrobe options and consumer costs for forthcoming collections.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1894
Page
8
The Senate approves new spring patterns priced at 15 18 or 20 dollars early in the season, signaling a shift in wardrobe options and consumer costs for forthcoming collections.
Listing of fashion items with deep discounts at 20, 22 and 25 dollars. Men's suits advertised at 8 and 5 dollars while pants drop from 3 to 1.60. Boys' suits reduced to 1.60 and 3.75, urging customers to come early for pickup.
R T Almy and others gather to honor the Sisters of Notre Dame at a Boston event. The Senate votes to engross a 30 million dollar capital stock increase for the American Bell Telephone Company, with Democrats and Republicans split over amendments and funding needs.
Streets around City Square glow with bunting and flags for Bunker Hill Day. Buildings along Main and Lincoln streets display elaborate patriotic decorations including portraits of Washington Lincoln and Grant. Residences and clubs from Prescott to Brigham's Park boast sunbursts banners and twofold Old Glory.
Graduating exercises held at Notre Dame academy on Berkeley street with June roses and ferns decor. Archbishop Williams attended as program featured violin and piano solos, essays, choruses, operatic selections, and medal presentations. Valedictory delivered by Miss Mary Mahoney followed by an address from his Grace.
Ex Governor Knowlton visits Wakefield Park residents and new home purchases surface as Wakefield Park expands. A golf club forms on fifty acres with nine links and a gravel tennis court slated for a future state tournament. A $10,000 edition on Wakefield Park and surroundings is issued with free copies by mail. House lots range from 559 to 3000 dollars with flexible payment and mortgage options.
The Grand Trunk railway publishes a comprehensive title book detailing summer resorts along its line. The volume includes reading material, illustrations, maps, hotel rates, and other data valuable to summer tourists. Books are available from N. J. Grace, New England passenger agent, 260 Washington Street.
The Rev. James M. Gray will lecture Sunday evening at Franklin Street Church in Somerville on Lying Wonders in connection with Spiritualism and Rom anism as pointing toward an approaching crisis in the world history.
Springfield report says Louis Guerineau, a gardener at Smith College, was found dead today in Paradise Pond at Northampton. Details on cause and circumstances were not immediately available. Authorities investigated the scene and will release information as it becomes known.
Describes a downtown clearance sale at Fisk & Gorf's offering deep cuts on men and boys clothing. Features prices on suits, trousers, vests, knee pants, shirt waists, blouses, and holiday sale prompts. Emphasizes eye opening bargains and half price references.
Department store clearance offers Blue Serge suits marked down from 12 dollars. Also 2500 Scotch suits discounted from 12 dollars. Limited stock and sizes vary.
A long roll call on amendments features many named senators and local officials from Revere Boston Cambridge and other cities. The debate centers on a $10 million increase and gas and electric light commission approval before further raises, with the bill likely returning to the House for enactment as leaders vow a lively session.
Joseph Mungovan alias Mumford, proprietor of the Recreation Club at 17 Avery Street, was found guilty by Judge Burke in Municipal Criminal Court of keeping and maintaining a gambling nuisance after a raid on June 6. He was fined 100 dollars and sentenced to four months in the House of Correction, with an appeal and hold in 500 dollars bail for the June term of the Superior Court.
Seventy five men seized by police in a Lynn pool room were brought into Police Court yesterday. The case was continued to today for further action.
At Commercial wharf a leaky zinc life raft on a steamer was repaired on the public float stage by two plumbers using portable furnaces. Boaters and wives watched flames and fumes fill the air as repairs continued. Captain Harry Card of the towboat Dex ter is leaving the Boston Towboat Company after fifteen years. A man named James Mack, after a fall from the wharf rail to the Ida M. Dalby, suffered head and arm injuries and was carried away by the towboat crew.
The column contrasts tables crafted with tools and those shaped by skill. It notes a white enamel tea table with gold mountings from Paine's Furniture Company as especially lovely, suggesting its beauty outweighs ordinary tables, with price likely lower than expected due to elegant lines rather than costly materials.
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