Hat shop promises style and fit with confidence
Take Your Pick from our stock without fear of misplacing your confidence. Every hat we sell is brim full of style and we guarantee good wear and good fit here.
06 Nov 1897
Page 1
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1897
Page
1
Take Your Pick from our stock without fear of misplacing your confidence. Every hat we sell is brim full of style and we guarantee good wear and good fit here.
The store announces a one day sale on Saturday November 6 in the men’s department featuring sample odd and single high grade winter suits. Sizes 34 to 44 are offered in fine fabrics including fancy hard faced undressed worsteds and Scotch mixtures as models for the season’s fashion.
A fragment notes prices ranging from twenty to thirty dollars with emphasis on a count or valuation. No further context or identifiers are provided in the readable text.
The Olive Pecker mutiny ends in murder and arson at sea as six crewmen, including the cook Anderson, tell the Lancaster tale after landing at Bahia. The captain and mate were killed in August, and the mutineers were seized and transported to the United States. The cook recalls fear toward the captain and the incident in the ship’s cook house.
The notice states inclusion of Extra Sizes with breast measures 48 50 and 52, offered at the same price as regular sizes, extending the sale to extra stout figures.
A notice asserts that the garments shown represent the finest achievements of the merchant tailor. It requires that all garments bear the full name and designation on the etiquette as specified.
At Rio de Janeiro a soldier from the Tenth Battalion attempted to shoot President Moraes as he landed at the marine arsenal after a visit to the steamer. The president's nephew Colonel Moraes was wounded in disarming the assailant. General Marca de Betancourt, minister of war, was stabbed and died. The incident caused wide agitation in the city.
The Medical Examiner concludes Alice Brown was strangled in her room at 15 Corning Street. Police report multiple witnesses heard a scream around 2:30 to 3 a.m. a man spoken with her earlier visited, and strong hand marks on her throat indicate a brutal murder by brute force. Investigators question a mysterious unnamed lover and possible back entrances via Ohio Street as they pursue clues.
C H Roberts a lithographer on Fifteenth street and his wife were ambushed by two armed highwaymen on Grand Boulevard and One Hundred Forty-Third street. A shot was fired at Roberts as the couple rode by, but they escaped pursuit when a nearby artist Henry Nelson and about a dozen wheelmen chased the robbers, who fled by displaying their weapons.
Secretary of War Alger spent the day in Boston from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., staying at the Brunswick where he ran into Governor Wolcott and shared a long chat. R Blaine and Hon. F. W. Rollins, both from nearby states, were also seen at Young's. Anthony Hope appeared at the Parker House all day yesterday.
An advertisement asserts a quick cold cure with Laxative Bromo Quinine and refunds if it fails, urging readers to try the product and recoup costs.
Witnesses place the murder between 2:30 and 3:00 a.m. Thursday. Thomas Hughes, a 22 year old lodger, said he left at 10:50 p.m. Wednesday and saw Brown on the doorstep with an unknown man. He returned home about 11:20 and didn’t hear movement in the upper room between 11 and 1. The blind singer William Leavitt testified he heard a man speaking to Alice at about 2:30 a.m. and his voice may aid identification.
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