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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1899
Page
12
The retailer emphasizes buying stock early to avoid high prices and save on profits by purchasing from makers. Forewarned customers gain, and a cheerful refund policy backs claims of value and workmanship while fashion updates are kept current.
Personal friends and colleagues honored the late Sergeant Frank G. Hurlbut at Union Congregational Church in Columbus Avenue. The service was led by Rev. Eugene C. Webster with Rev. Samuel Lane Loomis assisting, and the Lyric Male Quartet offered music. Eight uniformed policemen served as pallbearers. burial followed at Forest Hills Cemetery with brief services and a final quartet song Still Still With Thee. He leaves a widow Mrs. Hattie Bond Hurlbut and three siblings Osro B. Hurlbut John Hurlbut Newton H. Hurlbut and Mrs. George C. Paddleford.
Yesterday at 9 o'clock a mass marked the first anniversary of the Holy Ghost Hospital for Incurables in Cambridge. The chapel was crowded with Cambridge citizens. Fathers O'Brien Walsh and Schoppelry led the ceremony. Professor Norton spoke at a reception and tour of the new building.
The Philo Celtic Society of Boston plans a solemn requiem mass titled Month's Mind for Rev Eugene O Growney formerly of Los Angeles California. Services at St James Church Harrison avenue next Monday November 20 at 9 o’clock with Rev Willam P McQuade officiating and Rev M P Mahon of Sacred Heart Church East Cambridge delivering an Irish language sermon.
Middlesboro Ky November 17 John M Tate former Representative of Lee County Virginia was shot and killed today by Deputy Sheriff Evan Bledsoe of the same county. Tate a leading Democratic politician and Bledsoe a Republican leader were involved in political trouble that led to the death.
Yale astronomers in New Haven decide to stop observing the Leonid meteor shower after several attempts to photograph meteors yielded no clear captures. Dr. F. L. Chase notes the shower may be over and that sporadic meteors were seen without definite Leonid imagery.
United States Marshal Charles K. Darling led Deputy Waters to Salisbury to arrest Postmaster Frank H. Chapin on a warrant swore out by Post Office Inspector White before Commissioner Fiske. Chapin, in office six years, is accused of stealing $300 from government funds after irregularities in his accounts were found.
London reports Sir Richard Webster, the attorney-general, was made a baronet for his role in the Venezuelan arbitration commission. Sir Robert T. Reid, acting as counsel for Great Britain, received the knight grand cross of St Michael and St George.
Telegram from Jamaica Plain reports the death by drowning of William Maguire age 24 in New York Harbor. A warrant officer in the United States Navy, he was well known and popular with his fellows. His home is on Jess Street Boylston Station.
At a Bigelow Carpet Company stockholders meeting yesterday officials reported M. J. Whittall of Worcester refused to carry out his part of the agreement aimed at a combine with the Bigelow and Lowell plants. Action was postponed.
The Rev. A B Simpson, president of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, has accepted an invitation to visit Boston to speak at Bromfield Street Church on Thursday November 23 under the alliance banner. Simpson is well known across New England for alliance yearly meetings at Old Orchard.
The steamship Lucania sails for Europe tomorrow carrying 687000 ounces of silver on its voyage from New York.
Kingston Jamaica November 17 continuing stormy weather and torrential rain widen distress beyond the previously damaged area. Deaths are reported and some districts especially in the north and east remain isolated from relief. The steamer Admiral Dewey, repaired, sails today.
At the National Hardware Association session in Pittsburg John Bindley of this city was elected president R W Sharpleigh of St Louis and Bruce Hayden of San Francisco as vice presidents and T J Fernley of Philadelphia as secretary treasurer
United Fruit Company reports a Jamaica cablegram that the steamer Admiral Schley bound for Philadelphia was at Port Morant with air pump damage causing a thirty six hour sailing delay. She left at noon yesterday.
Justice Justin Dewey of the Superior Court, a Springfield resident, suffered a sudden shock in a Pittsfield courtroom this morning. He was moved to Pittsfield Hospital and officials expect recovery.
The document lists monthly totals and averages for May through September 1899, showing figures for totals and daily averages. It attributes the data to T. H. Kelley & Sons of Lawrence Massachusetts.
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