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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1900
Page
1
A cryptic note describes a tapper device attached to A-Hook and B-Broken fence with C-Low gate. It mentions G-S Back yards and Ti Aley exit on Walker street, mapping the scene and access points.
A Charlestown family endured nightly rap noises blamed on a ghost until a Post reporter uncovered the case. A Everett youth, rejected by Miss Lillian Hovey, pursued her in love and vengeance, using a taped hammer and string to create mysterious sounds. Police awaited the suitor, who did not appear.
James Jeffrey Roche, editor of the Boston Pilot, reports after three weeks in Santiago and San Juan de Porto Rico that the United States wrongfully withholds trade, causing widespread poverty and halted commerce. He criticizes tariff policy, notes overpopulation, hurricane devastation, and calls military rule a temporary necessity while questioning self rule and independence.
Uxbridge March 23 townspeople learned the marriage certificate of Edwin F. Tuttle and Miss Galletta Parker of Melrose was filed with the town clerk. The ceremony reportedly occurred July 27 in Pawtucket Rhode Island. Mrs Tuttle teaches seven years at the high school and is assistant nememne. it is unclear if she will return after winter term ends.
A large fire on Purchase Street gutted a three and a half story brick oil and paint warehouse at 30 Purchase Street near Atlantic Avenue. The blaze began on the third floor, prompted three alarms, and caused about $20 000 in damage. Firefighter George Darrah survived serious smoke injuries and was hospitalized with spine and head injuries.
Philadelphia March 2 Fourteen thousand admission tickets for each day of the Republican national convention were apportioned. Nine thousand badges were ordered and about sixty thousand tickets will be engraved. Delegates and alternates receive two tickets each. fifty six national committee members get twenty five. Mayor Ashbridge to receive four thousand tickets for local convention committee.
In Clouby Colder Washington on March 2 a forecast for Saturday and Sunday anticipates increasing cloudiness and colder conditions with possible snow or rain and fresh northerly winds. The notice hints at where pure liquor can be bought, stating the Official Sterling Alex marks the place.
General French attempts to trap Boer forces along Basuto frontier with skirmishes near Warrenton. Lord Methuen reports ongoing fighting as Boer retreat movements continue northward.
London dispatches report Colonel Plumer driven back from Lobatsi after an artillery duel and forced to withdraw toward Crocodile Pools and Gaberones. Despatches note Boer isolation, casualties, and ongoing shelling as Methuen holds at Fourteen Streams and Lord Roberts and Lord Methuen coordinate actions near Bloemfontein and War Trenton.
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