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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1894
Page
8
A period ad touts a Yankee driven sale with vast savings on men's and boys overcoats suits and pants. It promises money back on unsatisfied items and stresses large lots, favorable terms, and rapid turnover as keys to low prices.
Reports from Montgomery and Birmingham describe heightened security as Captain Kolb seeks to be sworn in as governor. Sabers and armory drills are planned, with Kolb and followers preparing for possible trouble while state troops guard precautions. Kolb supporters meet while leaders oppose his methods.
Rev Dr Lansing urged young couples to marry early and seek affordable housing, calling rents the main obstacle to marriage in the city. He proposed railroads offer cheap suburban fares to ease the burden and strengthen home life, while praising social uplift through family and morality. Dr Hale followed with a reading from If Christ Should Come to Boston, praising charity advances and Boston’s public relief efforts.
Governor McKinley of Ohio and Mrs. McKinley traveled to New York and stayed at the Windsor Hotel. He avoided tariff debate, presenting himself with Reed as a moderate liberal. He argued Republicans will govern moderately now that they hold power in the legislative branch.
Lapres favors a United States made wristwatch sized for men and sold by Waltham jewelers. The item emphasizes American manufacture and dealer network.
A union service at Shawmut Congregational Church heard Rev. William E. Barton preach on Thanks giving and Hard Times from Habakkuk. The sermon urged gratitude for children's education and gospel instruction amid hardship and praised restored governmental conscience and higher standards among leaders.
Dr Edward Everett Hale preached at Newbury Street Church on Thanksgiving morning presenting a substitute for a sermon. He treated his congregation to an unexpected approach in the service with a focus on gratitude and religious reflection.
Roxbury Evangelical Alliance gathering at Walnut Avenue Church features sermons on thanksgiving to church home and individual gratitude. Speakers urge ethical reform, unity among churches, and spiritual renewal amid materialism. Additional talks schedule municipal licensing of immorality topics.
The Catholic Union held its annual high mass at Boston Cathedral with a large turnout yesterday morning. J. Frank Donahoe supervised the refined music while Father Connolly delivered a eloquent sermon suited to the day.
Andrew Carnegie writes a friend from New York on November 26 18 about quotes from a Pittsburg Library Commission dinner. He says reporters misrepresented his view arguing wealth in securities at odds with his writings and praises those who live without ostentation and die poor.
Typhoid fever at Wesleyan in Middletown is waning as most ill students improve. Professor Fisher is out and only McAuley remains critically ill with a relapse six days ago. relatives summoned. The college plans to reopen Sunday after a three day Thanksgiving recess.
Sheriff Endicott treated jail inmates to turkey dinner and the temporary asylum for discharged female prisoners enjoyed a concert by the Wellesley College Banjo Club.
The United States expresses strong interest in Britain's new Nicaragua policy on the Mosquito coast, arguing the Monroe doctrine requires no foreign intervention on the American continent. A formal protest to Britain may follow from the State Department.
Despatch from Bluefields reports Andrew Hendy, a 30 year old full blood Mosquito Indian, elected chief of the Mosquito Indians. The event drew 1000 delegates, with General Cabezas and British Mohawk showing presence. Hendy speaks English and Spanish but is illiterate. John C. Schultz declined the post due to mining duties.
Great Britain's new stance is unexpected by authorities, signaling a shift in diplomatic posture and prompting recalibration of ongoing negotiations and policy expectations.
United States and Britain bide their time as the Mosquito coast is incorporated into Nicaragua under Hendy the new hereditary chief. A Dec 15 election for local offices is planned as diplomatic talks continue over the canal and foreign jurisdiction. The United States probes Americans kidnapped amid the wider dispute.
A man named Frank Peters and a young woman Miss Lizzie Leachtenhauer asked Justice Bernard Mullin in Port Richmond Staten Island to marry. Peters said he runs a Madison County hotel. The couple cited fear of divorce as reason to wed by justice. The event drew West End elites and a full evening of dancing.
The Zion Church on North Russell street hosted a large Thanksgiving cantata Taila to a crowded vestry. Miss Nahar led Taila with Abby Phillips and Carrie Selden among the cast, followed by a pantomime Courtship in Ye Olden Times. A concert program between acts featured readings, solos, and instrumental numbers by local performers.
Kingston reports Prince Clarence visiting as a guest and protege of Great Britain. Upon arrival he was welcomed by the guardship at the dockyard and later moved to the residence of Edwin S. Hatch, formerly Britain's consul at Bluefields before his arrest and expulsion from Nicaragua.
Chicago donor H H Kohl will gift Galena a ten by fourteen foot oil painting of Lee surrendering at Appomattox by Thomas Nast. It features ten life size figures and will hang in the Grant Memorial Hall with a presentation on April 27 Grant’s birthday. General Gordon of Georgia is expected to speak.
In Middletown Connecticut a fire in the Hotchkiss block originated in an unused cellar and was put out early. At about 2 am another arson fire destroyed August Johnsons barn and its contents including a set of flying horses. Total losses reach 1600 with 1000 insured on the horses. Both fires carried a kerosene odor.
A call to boycott monopoly oil circulates with names of independent suppliers in Massachusetts led by the Independent Oil Association. The group plans pamphlet campaigns and a push for a tough anti trust law as Representative-elect Quint predicts passage, arguing the public must choose fair competition over the trust.
William Dunn, a prisoner en route to Concord reform school, escaped Wednesday afternoon when he fled during station stop at Arlington Heights. Court Officer Mitchell led him to a closet, Dunn bolted as the train moved, leaping from a platform and escaping at full speed. Police in nearby towns are pursuing with Dunn unrecaptured.
Dover Del Nov 28 J Edward Addicks gas trust magnate faces an uphill battle for the U S Senate as exposure of his methods and a divorce suit fallout stir Delaware politics. Republicans hold 19 of 30 seats with caucus needs and Higgins aims for re election backed by allies while Democrats vow party loyalty.
Ira A. Knight of 13 Van Wrinkle Street Ashmont was arrested Thanksgiving morning by Inspector Wright on charges of securing $30 by false pretences from Grafton Sanderson real estate dealer of 113 Devonshire Street. He allegedly secured a mortgage on property he claimed to possess with receipted bills, but the claimed property did not exist.
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