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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1896
Page
8
Allen & Co. advertises an immense corset stock on half the third floor in Boston. Sizes range from 18 to 36 with many pieces priced to attract buyers. The promotion emphasizes a broad selection and value as part of a major in store event.
Readable text shows discounts on figured mohair skirts and full lining fabrics. Prices drop from ten dollars to under five dollars and many Mackintosh coats reduced to around two to five dollars. Sale runs at Winter Street location with multiple item codes and sizes.
Merino underwear in boys and girls medium weight cones and drawers and pantal roken sizes at 29c. Ladies union suits medium weight high neck long sleeves formerly 1.25 now 50c in small sizes. Lisle ribbed vests low neck sleeveless formerly 38c now 25c.
Colored Silk Velvets and Black Silk Velvets offered in assorted pieces with many at 25 cents. The items are described as regular one dollar quality and new stock is available at Winter Street location.
English Gloria Umbrellas with case and tassel now 39 cents, down from 69 cents. Original price 89 cents and $1.50. promotion listed at five and seven and nine at I Winter Street.
A combined stock from Alfen and our own at sacrifice prices promises a sensation in the cotton underwear business. Winter St. 5, 7, 9 and 1i store locations advertise the sale.
Clara Barton reports Sir Philip Currie requesting relief for Zeitoun. Supplies will be shipped via Alexandria as permits allow. The Red Cross sees cheap grain flour and seed locally and plans to aid destitute residents through self help with material support.
The semi monastic order in the Protestant Episcopal Church known as the Brothers of the Church, founded in 1894 by Russell Whitcomb who took the name Brother Hugh, has been disbanded in New York. Whitcomb plans to return to Boston to pursue a mercantile career.
Bulk ribbons including grosgrain ottoman and watered varieties 1 to 3 inches wide priced from 1 to 25 cents per yard. New fancy Persian silk ribbons four inches wide in all colors priced 25 to 40 cents. Offer appears in a period catalog style with sale terms.
The Furness line steamship Georgian towed the crippled three masted schooner Van Name from Baltimore bound for New York to a safe harbor near Boston light, then towed again. Captain Brown reports a two week gale with seas flooding decks and holding water, crew fighting for survival before reaching this port. The Hyde from Bath and the William Cobb from Dennis described other vessel incidents in nearby waters, with salvage and repairs likely.
Owing to the northeasterly snowstorm the scheduled sailings of local steamers were abandoned and all vessels remained tied up at wharves. Detained ships include St. Croix Eastport H M Whitney Bay State and City of Gloucester. New schooner Jeanie Myrtle put into Provincetown due to thick weather. A coal barge Ringleader reported the Belle of Oregon adrift but intact. Isaac Reed from New York has arrived safely at Hiogo.
Monument Neck residents led by Moses Williams petition Massachusetts Legislature to repeal the 1833 Cape Cod Ship Canal Company charter. They claim the canal company’s eminent domain power blights their land and hinders development near Gray Gables and Buzzard's Bay. The move follows a town vote to build a highway linking Gray Gables with Buzzard's Bay.
A St. Petersburg despatch reports Czar Nicholas II has awarded King Menelek of Abyssinia the grand cordon of St. George the empire's top military honor. It also notes Menelek may seek Russian mediation to end the Abyssinian conflict with Italy on terms restoring Abyssinian independence and old Eritrean frontiers.
Quincy report: William Stainwhite of Hough's Neck on Sheep Island fired at fowl when his gun exploded. A piece of the lock and barrel struck him, wounding his scalp.
Ward 24 caucus officers allege illegal election of Herbert W. Burr as warden after a silent, ring vote held Friday. Dissatisfied members claim lack of notice violated procedure and threaten protest when Burr appears next Wednesday. Edward J. Lamb named as alternative by some opponents.
The schooner Wide Awake anchored off Orleans remains near the bar as an east wind and rising sea threaten it with breakers. A tug is requested but may not reach due to the worsening conditions. life-saving crews cannot aid from shore while ice savers monitor the vessel and nearby craft Provincetown bound barges.
The Rev Francis E Clark, president of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, says he has joined the Salvation Army as an auxiliary individual. He denies opposition to Mr Booth and explains the annual contribution aims to support the army’s work.
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