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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1895
Page
6
The Boston Post announces a women readers prize story contest with mail entry and postmaster endorsements for timing. A related scene follows a lawyer Reuben Hicks pursuing suspects including Staggs and Robbins, with hints of a new clue and ongoing investigation.
At dawn the New Yorker obtained access to the jail with a detective permit. Hicks visits Kellow, offering condolence and promising possible release. Kellow is told that suspicions may be cleared soon and justice done, as the pair discuss a hammer and a servant note.
On a ship crossing the blue Pacific Tom Twombly plans to visit his old sweetheart Maria Smetton in Weston. She reveals a past filled with jilts and rivals as Twombly pursues a marriage with Rose Grey, stirring local gossip and old memories during a quiet confrontation in Maria’s parlor.
Tom Twombly navigates past memories and love, torn between Rose Grey and Maria Smetton. Maria agrees to a public wrong as Tom plans to break with Rose, leading to a quiet, decisive wedding that reveals a deeper truth: talking of love is part of making love.
Captain of the Tragabigzanda says the Yarmouth ran into her off Cashe's bank on Sunday forenoon, with damage estimated at 2000 dollars. Yarmouth captain reports fog and asserts the other schooner appeared uninjured, then did not stop.
The fourteenth annual meeting of the Massachusetts State Pharmaceutical Association opened in Cotillon Hall Mechanics Building with many attendees. Professor Harris urged thorough applicant checks for liquor license eligibility and suggested shifting licensing to a state board to avoid local paper parades and deadlocks. Professor J F Babcock spoke on photography applications with stereopticon views. The convention runs to May 17 with sessions, a reception, and a banquet at Copley Square Hotel.
The third Superior Court session ended with jurors presenting Judge Dunbar, Clerk Ewing, and court officers with fragrant bouquets. The jurors offered roses to the judge, mixed flowers to the clerk, and varied carnations to the court officers for their service.
A broken rail two miles north of Silex shuts down a St. Louis and Mannibal southbound train. One passenger killed, twenty three injured including engineer Eugene Sullivan and attorney Perry Wood. the wreck left the engine and cars slumped down a twenty foot embankment. Rescue and medical aid followed as crews repaired tracks this afternoon.
Maritime notes describe the five masted Governor Ames to load coal in Baltimore, towboat Juno formerly Erastus Baldwin renamed, steamer Tremont transfer to New York route, cargo ship Silvania to Liverpool with 3829 bales cotton and other bulk goods, plus various vessels and a pigeon from Great Round Shoal lightship seeking owner.
In Massachusetts a rare divorce action seeks to recover life insurance benefits held in the wife’s name. Ezra B. Whittier filed to reclaim policies worth $8000 while alimony, with the action likely to go to the state Supreme Court for decision.
In Chelsea and Cambridge the unnamed woman, described with dark complexion and modest attire, testifies to the judge about her husband a Boston to Newport News vessel steward who vanished in January 1889 after claiming a Baltimore wife. She secured a decree.
Congressman-elect John F. Fitzgerald returned from a week in Washington and New York where he met officials including President Cleveland and the Postmaster General. He described immigrant workers earning daily wages of about 1.2 to 2.5 dollars, saving funds to buy farms back home, and noted the Board of Inquiry findings from New York.
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