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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1911
Page
2
A bold sales pitch extols woolens from America’s famous mills. The ad claims superior quality and low prices, urging readers to compare value and trust the seller’s claim of the largest tailoring business in the country, growing yearly.
The old brick house at 314 Atlantic Avenue, once a landmark of early Boston architecture, stands as a barrier to waterfront redevelopment. Surrounding ramshackle structures were cleared for a modern project, but the owner refused to sell despite bids up to 38000 dollars for a 30 by 60 foot parcel.
A Boston tale links a brick house on a harbor neck to Captain Ezra Bowditch and Miss Lucilla Twombley. The captain vanished at sea while the young widow waited seven years in the window chair, dying at 25, leaving the house to stand as a romance for locals amid modern reconstruction.
Boston Finance Commission recommends city take over street gas lighting using inverted mantle lamps with automatic devices. One bid from Rising Sun Street Lighting Co. at 22.30 per lamp per year was considered, but the commission favors municipal ownership, citing lower long term costs and control despite concerns about device reliability and labor.
The Lamp Lighters' Union estimated $29.50 per lamp yearly for hand lighting, but Guy Emerson of the commission found $22.64 per lamp. He says the union omits many expense factors and deems its estimate defective. The finance commission favors Rising Sun's bid if upright lamps are kept.
The Rev James Hayter of the Mission Church Roxbury officiated at the 7 o'clock mass yesterday with 600 boys receiving holy communion for the first time The Rev Henry Borgman C SS R preached the sermon.
In Beverly on April 30 plans to move President Taft s summer cottage of 1909 1910 from Burgess Point to the Crowninshield estate Marblehead were postponed by a small gale. Tugboats will couple up tomorrow and steer the 320 ton structure across the stream to Peach s Point with an expected half hour crossing. The ell had already been moved earlier in the week.
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