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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1894
Page
1
A Boston text highlights merchandising skein with a fish dealer prank and rails against undercut fashion sales. It touts menswear from overcoats to ulsters, urging reliability over cut‑price “slaughter” deals and promising value from $9.75 to $40–$50 items.
Francis Peabody defeated Congressman Joseph H. O'Neil by 180 to 77 at a Democratic city convention in Horticultural Hall to become mayor nominee. The gathering also nominated seven aldermen candidates and eight school board seats, with a surprise defeat of Alderman Hall. The event featured strong speeches from Senator-elect Corbett and Representative Hayes, and attendance was high. The convention reserved alderman and school board nominations for later action.
Robert C. Winthrop dies at his Marlboro Street home shortly before midnight. The veteran anti slavery advocate passed away in a folding chair after a long decline from heart weakness. Born May 1809 in Boston he served in the Massachusetts House and Senate including a Speakership and later was Massachusetts Historical Society president. He left three children from his first wife, two sons married into affluent families, a daughter who never married.
There is a shift in dining tables this season from heavy box framing to a simple Eastlake style with low sides and no mouldings. Round fluted legs run full length with three pillar-legs for rigidity when opened to 10 feet. The key feature is two curved sweeps cross-bracing providing ample chair space and unobstructed foot room.
Panic erupted in Music Hall during Bishop Vincent’s church congress when a ceiling section behind the first balcony crashed. The audience fled, then Bishop Lawrence calmed the crowd declaring it only plastering and no danger, and attendees returned to their seats.
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