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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1899
Page
8
Drs Rose Burgess recounted a daylight home invasion on Holmes Street in Quincy. A masked intruder entered from a closet, pointed a pistol, and escaped after grabbing a baby’s gold pin and studs while the infant crowed.
Major Henry L. Higginson has donated 150 000 for a new university club building to be erected at the Warren property near 40 Harvard and Quincy streets. Plans have been in review since last spring when the old University Club and memorial committees merged. A committee meeting is planned for next week to finalize internal arrangements, to be held Monday evening at the Fogg Art Museum.
The fifty third Norfolk County Teachers Association meeting in Tremont Temple heard President Roderick W. Hine preside and elected officers for the year including President George F. Joyce Jr and treasurer Joseph Belcher. A debate arose over disbanding the society with critics calling conventions glunkets. the matter was referred to a three member committee. Papers were read by Edwin T. Mead, Miss Garah J. Walter, and Andrew J. George.
In New York on November 3, Mrs. M. F. Bender charged Columbia University instructors with fitness to study encouraging students to smoke in dissection rooms during their courses. She spoke at a Society for the Study of Life meeting at the Tuxedo Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street.
Thomas Collins aged 33, suffering from pleuro pneumonia, left his bed while his nurse slept and died on the saloon bar floor after making his way from his High street home. His end was near, yet he sought one last drink before passing.
A petrified snake about 27 feet long and up to 12 inches in diameter was raised from the new shaft of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company mine at Wadesville near Pottsville. The fossil weighs over 100 pounds and is said to be perfect in every detail.
Adolph Friedlander a cloakmaker of 135 Bond Street buried Harry J. MacDonald at Evergreen Cemetery. MacDonald died in Manhattan Hospital after years of servitude and interest as the son of a native king on the African gold coast. He was freed from slave traders by a British ship and later served Captain MacDonald of the Royal Artillery before coming to the United States. He became the Friedlanders’ butler until he went insane a year ago.
Elmer Elliott of Ilion New York suffers from sinking foot a condition from hours on a ladder as an oiler in a local shop. After a department transfer he felt severe foot pain the instep bones displaced and muscles strained leaving him unable to walk.
Bradstreet notes a massive wool sale in Boston at 21,557,500 pounds with weekly totals reaching 25,368,700 across three markets. Exports of wheat and corn show declines yet indicate strong demand for woollen goods and rising prices. Bank clearings point to continued expansion in non New York trade with broad improvements in iron, steel, and cotton goods sectors.
A November blaze at No. 94 96 98 Mott Street in New York destroyed a seven story brick building housing Manhattan Bed Iron and Spring Company and F Mohr & Co. An engineer Michael Conlin died and Charles Smith was missing. others were rescued as flames swept through basements and upper floors.
City shops house an electric runabout for Wire Commissioner Flood with wooden wheels and solid tires as divisions study wheel types and power. The article cites a New York inventor and Crest Manufacturing for detachable tractors and a duplex gasoline motor, notes licensing debates in Chicago and France demand, and lists new Automobile Club of America members amid early speed records.
W. T. Morley of Cottage Street Chelsea was injured when a heavy ham fell from a high shelf at Rhoades Bros. provision dealers on Tremont Street. He suffered a severe head bruise and facial injuries and was taken to the Emergency Hospital.
Jacob Thomwell of 693 Eighth Street South Boston and J F Antoine of 781 East Third Street, both carpenters for the Boston Electric Light Company, suffered severe burns from a short circuit at a switchboard. Thomwell's hair was singed and both men were treated at the Emergency Hospital before returning home.
William B Phillips argues the U.S. monetary system is fragmented with many forms of money and too little in general circulation. He compares national stocks of gold and silver, bank notes, and French monetary policy to show France maintains broader, metallic money circulation benefiting laborers.
A 70s unnamed woman, possibly O’Brien, was found dead in her room at 19 Pine Street yesterday afternoon after weeks of rheumatic illness. The landlady questions the name and police seek a daughter who visited from Tyler Street to care for her parent.
In Wiscasset Maine on November 3 a ceremony planted the Peters Oak on the Common. The local band and school children formed a square as Hon George B Sawyer spoke. William H Hilton dedicated the tree with a eulogy by R. & Partridge of Whitefield.
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