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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 06, 1897

Page

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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.

Winter Suits Sale In Men's Department

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.

Valued Items Range From Twenty to Thirty Dollars

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.

Olive Pecker Mutiny Tale From Ocean Tragedy

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.

Newport News United States Lancaster Archor Hampton Roads Bahia Brazil Pecker Anderson United Boston

Extra Sizes Added to Sale Announcement

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.

Garments Declared Best Attainments of Merchant Tailor

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.

Brazil President Attacked as Nephew Wounded in riot

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.

Rio Janeiro President Moraes Marine Arsenal General Barbosa Bahia Moraes Marcado Betancourt Prudente J. de Moraes’ Barros United States of Brazil Peixoto Senate Bernardo Vasques Marca de Betancourt

Murdered Alice Brown in Boston Mystery at Corning Street

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.

Draper Alice Brown Corning Street Boston New York Chicago Brown Warren John McGarr Michael Shields Whitman Kelly Alice Vender Miss Brown Ohio Street No. 15

Hold-Up Fails In New York Robbery Attempt

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.

New York C. H. Roberta Fifteenth Street Grand Boulevard Henry Nelson

Secretary Alger Sees Boston Visit and Meetings

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.

Alger Boston Brunswick Anthony Hope Parker House

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY CLAIMS

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.

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Fixing the Time of Death in Alice Brown Case

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.

Alice Alice Brown Edwin Hurd Thomas Hughes Miss Brown Hughes John Z. Stowell Stowell Vender William Leavitt Captain Warren

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