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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1892
Page
8
An English importer offers 2000 yards of 38 inch wool goods in Jacquard weave in 45 colors including black. Retail price 50 and 62 12c per yard, now sold at 29c. Tailor made all wool checks 50 inches wide previously 75 and 87c now 53c per yard. Further remarks are unnecessary.
Harvard's class of 96, the Four Hundred, arrives in Cambridge as express wagons unload trunks and faculty welcome newcomers. Freshmen fear Bloods Monday, rush lore fades, and adviser offices become a daily grind. Memorial Hall gains three new tables in a year of campus changes.
A fire on Fulton Street in Neponset damaged a storage building housing models and machinery on the Oakes Ames estate. Losses total about 12000 dollars with Holmes Blanchard and others facing substantial uninsured or insured damages. Firefighters fought the blaze after 3:45 PM as neighbors watched, with many residents enduring the shock and starting cleanup amid widespread destruction.
A fierce fire near Neponset rapidly consumed Whitmarsh and nearby properties on Fulton Street and High Street. Residents fled as flames reached 25 Fulton and 7 Fulton, with 59 Fulton and No 12 High also damaged. Fire crews, aided by locals, battled ember fallout, extinguishing by 5 pm. Damages include insured losses on several cottages and stores.
Haverhill Gazette notes the Boston Post ran a cartoon of Republican Lieutenant-Governor candidate Roger Wolcott yesterday. The piece attracted attention and some readers thought the likeness made Wolcott appear a bit too large.
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia from Liverpool anchors at the quarantine station Sunday at 10. Health officers report excellent sanitary condition and no illness aboard. Release of saloon passengers is expected Monday or Tuesday after efforts by agent Alexander Martin. 156 saloon and 198 second cabin passengers, total 849, listed names include Joseph Adamowski Edward Atkinson and many family members. Passengers transfer to steam yacht Wild Duck owned by Commodore John M Forbes. baggage not landed and intermediate passengers not allowed ashore.
On a cold clear Saturday night the crowd at the Common saw what looked like two moons. A professor explained the optical illusion called irradiation, noting when the crescent moon reflects sunlight onto its dark side, the earthlight makes the near hemisphere faintly visible.
Divers from the Boston Tow Boat Company continued patching the large hole in the bow plates of the steamer H. M. Whitney through Saturday and Sunday. Officials learned that the first attempt to raise the steamer and pump out water would not be made before Tuesday. Weather has been favorable for wreckers thus far.
Joseph Ernesto Renan, renowned philosopher and historian, died today in Paris at age 69. His death marks the end of a prolific career shaping French intellectual life.
Scott and Bowne chemists advertise Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil at 132 South sth Avenue New York and urge that all druggists everywhere keep it for customers seeking cod liver oil emulsion products.
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