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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 18, 1874

Page

3

Fire at the American House causes heavy damage

Shortly before 5 PM a fire at the American House on Tranover Street sent dense smoke through corridors. Firemen battled for over an hour aided by steam pump lines and stand pipes, flooding southwest rooms. Two sleeping servants escaped via skylight lifted to the roof. losses include wardrobe damage and a $60 missing from Michael Doreey’s trunk. Insurance covers $20,000. Other fires and two criminal matters follow.

Tranover Street Balch Knowlea Green Michael Doreey Michael Fay Edward Montague Lewis Rice & Sons Security New York Norwalk Connecticut Columbia Worcester Insurance Company People’s Worcester Equitable Amazon Cincinnati Washington Citizens Continental St. Joseph's Firemen’s Commercial American New England Gloucester Home Eliot Narragansett Atlantic Capital City Neptune Chester Girard Charlestown Thomas Simmonds Bremen Street West Roxbury Forest Street

Samaria Bring Large Lot of Tropical Fruit

The Cunarder Samaria delivered a large shipment of tropical and semi tropical fruit. Professors, lectures, and civic notes appear in brief items across the day including a Lowell Institute course on electricity and the Governor's Council beginning revision of election returns at the State House.

Cunarder Samaria Vox Humana John Trowbridge Lowell Institute State House Adams School Maverick House Boston Harvard College Parker House William Samuel Eliot

Salem Fraternity to Incorporate and Postpone Elections

A Salem Fraternity meeting on Essex street chaired by Dr Henry Wheatland postponed officer elections to a future session. A committee of Rev K B Wilson Hon Will Northend and Miss Susan L Kimball will report a revised plan of organization. The group plans incorporation at the next Legislature session. A separate case reports John L Stanchfield arraigned in Police Court on two larceny counts. He was discharged on one and sentenced to six months in the House of Correction for theft from a Salem lady. Additionally William C C Knowstom, a Essex street fancy goods dealer, contemplates suing Phil Sheridan Post G A R over a matter from last winter’s fair, with Gen Cogswell to plead for the Grand Army.

Broadway New York New Hampshire Philadelphia Fifth Avenue Society For the Prevention of Cruelty South Carolina Pew Court House City of Oakes Ames Wall Street Fisk and Gould John Morrissey House of Representatives Thomas Paine Bonaparte Talleyrand France Sedan America Earl of Derby United States England Politcians Crmopals Inn Sing Sing Washington Scannell James Brooks Fernando Wood Congress Parton Tweed Jay Gould Tammany Louis Napoleon Moses Louisiana Mercutio New England S'need Nast Genet Mire Phillips Paddy Cork Pole Gen. Jackson Manhattan Island Chicago Spain Cuba Europe Illinois Dall Huxsey McCosh Pope Salem Essex Street Henry Wheatland K. B. Wilson Will D. Northend Susan L. Kimball John L. Stanchfield Worcester Thut Om House of Correction G. A. R. Lawserr Wm. C. C. Knowstom Phil. Sheridan Post Gen. Cogswell Grand Army

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