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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1900
Page
1
An evening at home becomes pleasant with a visiting friends or a dull night helped by a Gem Phonograph set. The club plan lets you own the outfit with a small membership fee and weekly payments. Complete with 6 records priced at 13.60 dollars with 3.00 dollars down and 14 weeks of small payments.
The Standard Phonograph club offers a six record set for twenty five dollars with five dollars down and one dollar weekly for twenty weeks. This promotion highlights affordable monthly payment terms and a bundled music package.
Ad copy offers a complete Home Phonograph with six records priced at 36.50. It requires a $2.00 down payment and 1.60 for 19 weeks. Membership mail-in fee guarantees free express delivery of the outfit.
Mrs Etta A White, portrayed as dainty and healthy, testified before Judge Morton about a four month confinement among 600 lunatics at Westboro Asylum. She described a bloody disease and a conspiracy to seize her property worth thousands, while her husband Frederick White pledged to keep her under care away from Boston. The court adjourned the hearing to morning with further arguments planned and possible transfer to private guardianship if released.
The directors of Butte & Boston Consolidated Mining Co. declared a $1,000,000 dividend on the capital stock payable December 10, 1900, to stockholders of record at noon December 1. The announcement sparked strong market activity as shares surged and trading remained heavy, with analysts noting the dividend as a milestone in the company’s long and eventful history.
A violent storm and tornado centers moved from Mississippi and Alabama through Tennessee to Ohio and the lake region. Fatalities in Tennessee near 100 are feared while Ohio and northern New York report mainly property damage. Steamer St Lawrence sinks near Cleveland and Niagara River debris is driven downstream. Weather teams forecast cooler, fair conditions in New England with modest rainfall recorded in Boston.
Severe storm across northern Mississippi and central western Tennessee leaves at least sixty four dead and more than fifty injured. Tornado path about 1000 feet wide, five minutes long, with major damage to farms and livestock. La Grange Tennessee reports churches demolished except Episcopal, three dead bodies recovered, six wounded.
Captain Roger Sears aboard the tug Nathaniel P. Doane towed the five masted schooner Nathaniel T. Palmer with about 4400 tons of Newport News coal to an anchorage off the Grand Junction piers in East Boston. The Palmer drew nearly 2 feet of water yet floated later the same day.
A November cloud burst and gale struck Henniker between 4 and 4:30 p m. Walter Hammell was crushed by a falling tree and died. The wind also toppled frail structures across the area.
Fair skies with cold Thursday and Friday endpoints. Eastern Maine may see early snow, then Friday turns fair with diminishing west to northwest winds. Eastern New York also fair and colder Thursday, with Friday continuing fair and lighter winds.
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