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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1887
Page
1
A local ad promotes Bathing Suits with options from plain trunks to woven stripe breeches and full swimming attire. It highlights a variety of items including boys tights for 10 and 15 cents and men tights at 35 and 85 cents, inviting customers to view the full range.
Gentlemen's fancy suits priced from 75 cents to 2.75 for ladies suits. Woven and woollen suits offered with varied prices. Youths and misses suits, bath wear, shoes and accessories listed. Outdoor gear including hammocks tents and steamer chairs advertised to complete summer stock.
G. W. Simmons and Company lists its business location at 32 to 44 North Street in Boston, outlining the firm's street address for customers and inquiries.
Crowds gathered at Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall for an anti Victoria jubilee protest. After doors were initially locked for permit issues, Fire Commissioner Murphy authorized entry, and outdoor and indoor meetings proceeded with fiery oratory from McKenna, O'Reilly, and others denouncing British rule while defending Faneuil Hall as a symbol of liberty.
A Boston delegation at midnight sought Mayor O Brien to veto a plan involving Faneuil Hall. The nurse claimed illness, the mayor unavailable, and the committee withdrew in frustration. On the sidewalk an indignation meeting formed to press the issue at Parker's in the morning.
Morning dispatches indicate Secretary Lamar will be chosen for the Supreme Court seat. Other items note a failed junk-dealer assortment, a Philadelphia purchase of paper stock, and the Essex Institute in Salem opening its new home. The day includes college events, strikes, trials, and regional notices.
In Waltham on June 20 a special election was held after officials forgot the vote. Fifty eight citizens chose H. Moulton to fill the vacancy caused by a death. Moulton, about 40, born in Dover, N H, works with W L Nute wholesale shoe firm in Boston.
A mass meeting in Faneuil Hall denounces a paid royal jubilee flagging a plan to keep crowds inside without meals until the event concludes. Proposals include pressuring the Mayor to veto aldermen’s order while activists organize to seek the Mayor’s action, leading to a late-night march of 800 supporters to his home and a closed hall for the night.
Bank examiner Eugene Powell from Washington served notice that Fidelity National Bank may not open tomorrow unless restructured after drafts were protested. A stockholders meeting is set for 7 AM to attempt reorganization and continue bank business.
Vienna reports a Danube ferry overloaded with 400 travelers. intoxicated boatmen, panicked passengers, and a cleric Abbe Szpies who saved a child before dying. authorities estimate 8300 drowned with over 200 bodies recovered amid heartbreaking shore recognitions.
Yale faculty awards numerous scholarships and prizes including Woolsey and Hurlbut scholarships for the class of 1890, Winthrop prizes, and multiple declamation, mathematical, and Berkeley premiums. Seniors to speak for the DeForest gold medal are Herbert Perkins, Allen Johnson, Gerald Beard, William Phelps, Louis Peet, and John Bennetto.
New London Conn June 20 Harvard and Columbia crews practice for Thames races with Harvard briefly leading before fog ends session. Races scheduled June 23 HarvardColumbia 2 pm June 24 Yale Pennsylvania June 25 Yale Harvard freshmen July 1 Yale Harvard.
Captain John Harkness of Rockport, home from the abandoned schooner Parker M. Hooper, recounts a March voyage from Havana to Boston. He describes successive gales that wrecked rudder, sails, and hull, leaving the vessel hopelessly damaged after seventeen days without a rudder, leading to abandonment near latitude 38 59 n, 66 55 w. The crew was taken off by the Italian bark America, after persuasion by mate Peter Pallio.
Box 288 rang at 11:55 AM for a small fire set by a child in a wood box at No 2 Swett Street with no damage. Box 19 responded in Somerville for burning rubbish in J B Glovers yard on Washington Street near the Boston and Lowell railroad. Box 7 Cambridge saw a bundle of rags burned in a dwelling on Charles Street yesterday. A slight fire occurred in Benjamin Franklin's stable at Essex and Dearborn streets last evening triggering Box 282.
Wart West street district reports a morning incendiary fire destroying Henry F. Barnes's three tenement block with a $2000 loss, fully insured. In Carcago Illinois F W Rueckheim & Bro candy factory burns, $25000 loss, $12000 insured. Bancor Maine reports Lincoln Village ablaze with Pinkham & Bennett's store and the Mansion House burned as a steamer is dispatched.
For twenty four hours commencing 7 a m Tuesday June 21 fair weather expected in New England and eastern New York with slight temperature changes and winds generally easterly.
New York on June 20 reports the arrival of steamers Devonia Glasgow Lenacre and Port Spain bringing latest maritime traffic and cargo updates to the harbor scene.
Washington June 20 report says Secretary Lamar may be chosen for the Supreme Court seat left by Justice Woods. The President is cautious, aiming for the best pick and favoring the South, with Amar possibly accepting the position. Also noted are bids for government waste paper, ex Confederate veterans praising Boston reception, and discussion on Guiteau’s head in the museum context plus a letter from Gladstone about Ireland and Union.
In New York on June 20 the United States Circuit Court returned a verdict for Jordan, Marsh & Co of Boston in a test case suit brought by Schutz Bros. and Blath of New York seeking 820,000 plus interest for cloaks and suits allegedly sold to the defendants. The case, tried before Judge Wheeler and a jury, cited claims totaling more than 250,000 against the same firm under similar circumstances.
Daniel Pratt known as the great American traveller died at City Hospital after being brought there days earlier. Born in Prattville Chelsea he wandered colleges and academies near Boston gathering curious crowds for pennies. A peaceful figure he avoided violence and arrests though often in need his strange lectures spanned politics religion language and science.
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