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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1900
Page
5
An advertisement touts W L Douglas $3.50 shoes as superior value claiming 1,000,000 wearers and that the company is the world’s largest maker and retailer of $3.50 shoes. It argues lower costs from scale and factory direct sales, with emphasis on quality leather, fit, style, and durability versus higher priced rivals.
In Naples on Christmas Eve 1900, Prof Rufus Poppleton finds himself separated from his party and kidnapped by a group of Neapolitan locals. Surrounded by growling danger and threatened with eye removal for ransom, he asserts defiance and offers his remaining money, then confronts the grim reality of imprisonment as darkness closes in.
New York report says Adele Cram of Greenfield Mass will marry Bonford Boniface a law student after her failed suicide attempt at the Grand Union Hotel. Boniface’s death report prompted the act. counsel say she will wed once her condition permits.
A Syracuse Journal report recalls a hill sorority prank where six sorority candidates were tasked with bringing a black cat with no white hairs. The cats were placed in baskets on the chapter house steps, prompting laughter as the intended prize proved elusive and the girls settled for wafers and hot chocolate.
Miss Annie Lyogs received a diamond ring on Wan Street in Charlestown Wednesday night from friends who presented the gift during a social gathering.
Shore Line train from Boston weekdays at 1 0 f m will arrive New York at 7 p m and will run daily including Sundays starting Sunday November 4.
A colorful critique depicts the towel trust tightening its grip on Boston barbers, pushing up laundry prices by about 20 percent in a month. It notes shortages and rate hikes on towels, haircloths, and related supplies, plus penalties for switching suppliers, warning of wider price increases for shirts and collars.
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