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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
3
The Cunard liner Ivernia from Liverpool, carrying 380 passengers, was delayed about 12 hours by fog before docking in Boston shortly after 7 p.m. It was the last of four large steamships to reach the harbor after fog lifted at 4 p.m. yesterday.
The United Fruit steamer Brewster and other vessels faced a fogbound entry off Boston Light delaying docking for nearly an hour. Passengers, including Prof W Z Ripley of Harvard, toured and sang on deck while steerage passengers faced landings the fireman’s quarters hosted a Thanksgiving dance aboard.
Fogbound Boston harbor stalled the Olive F. Hutchins which ran aground at Fawn Bar and leaked while fish cargo remained undamaged. The Herman Winter delayed by weather and the Indian remained unlocated along the coast. F Olon Halbert, 19, was injured in a fall into an electric light pole after misnavigating in the fog near Washington and Waltham streets.
Paris crowds flocked to read updates on Mme Steinheil held at Saint Lazare under arrest amid whispers of a ministerial probe. Her stepmother Mme Japy and lover rumors, alibis, and confrontations at the Palace of Justice fueled sensational headlines as politicians, reformers, and newspapers chased political implications surrounding Faure and Dreyfus era scandals.
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