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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1906
Page
8
Rain and mud failed to dampen demand as crowds flocked to the Huntington avenue grounds for the circus described as the greatest and most complete amusement enterprise with a stupendous aggregation of arenic exploits on earth.
St Patrick's Total Abstinence and Literary Society of Roxbury hosts a picnic and field day featuring boys events including 440 and 88 yard runs, potato and flag races, and amateur NGA sanctioned events. Team races, jumps, football matches with Fore River and Cork Men's Club, baseball game Fore Rivers vs eye of Weymouth, and a bowling cup for top string.
Italian peasants at Bragadina near Legnano reported a mysterious animal in the ditches. Gamekeepers and police waited and shot the creature, which proved to be a crocodile escaped from a nearby menagerie.
Eagles from New England converge on Oak Island Grove Revere for the Revere and Chelsea Aeries event. A lively programme includes dancing all day and evening, a red hot ball game between Revere Pioneers and Chelsea J O E Club, boys and girls games, and open handicap events with 150 plus athletes. The day features a 10 mile handicap run with A J Burns of Hamilton Ontario entering. Canadians support him as the principal contender.
An automobile owned by James Rapeiyea of New York was burned west of Stamford after breaking down during a trip to the city. The $4500 car was almost ruined as the party walked toward Stamford after spending the night attempting repairs.
The table records prices a week a month and a year ago, tracing the rise from June 16 1905 to the 1906 peak and the subsequent fall to Saturday June 16 1906. The summary notes describe movements in the market with emphasis on the timing and direction of changes.
The week shows a market in a feverish state with professional traders controlling action and short interest rising. Public interest remains low amid distrust of corporations and worries over money stringency and crops, though optimism persists about future security issues and possible good crop yields. Copper shares fluctuate with week’s highs and lows.
The Barnum & Bailey show reaches Boston after a delayed arrival from Springfield as workers unveil tents and commissary operation. Chef-led breakfast feasts 1065 staff, with German and French army attaches influencing changes to the army-style system. The menagerie boasts 40 elephants, a lion and lamb in one cage, hippo training, and a striking Peace spectacle with $352,000 in trappings including a $12,000 elephant robe. Isabel Butler performs the Dip of Death, risking life for $100 a second. Horsemen visit, praising 690 horses as the new ticketing ensures seating for all.
Thomas W. Lawson accuses Anaconda of a stock manipulation scheme involving Amalgamated insiders acquiring 6.5 million shares at about 37.60 each and planning to unload at 100. He promises to reveal the alleged swindle around June 28 and warns banks trust companies and brokers are heavily loaded with copper securities.
The article notes Michael Morton presents a dramatized version of Thackeray's The Newcomes at Hiesjeaty Theatre with Colonel Newcome appearing on stage.
Boston lawyer and politician George A. Scigliano died after a two week illness at a Millbury farm. He served in the Common Council and was in his second term in the Massachusetts House. He was 32, married Florence Polachi, and leaves three children Florence Jessie and George. Bright's disease cited as cause.
In Melitopol on June 17 a hail storm of unprecedented severity smashed through fields. Farmers report about 200000 acres of crops destroyed and cattle killed as hailstones weighing up to three pounds pelted the countryside.
In Rockland, Mrs. John L. Hussey battles foreclosure on her home while her husband rots in Charles Street jail for failing to pay $1,500 in fines tied to an act affecting letters meant for another. The couple, once eight years together, now faces destitution as their only assets vanish and the house is auctioned.
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