Stable Blankets Sale Brings Prices 90 Cents to $5.00
Advertises stable blankets for sale with prices ranging from 90 cents to 5.00. Mentions use for stable and street settings and notes availability for purchase.
05 Oct 1893
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1893
Page
1
Advertises stable blankets for sale with prices ranging from 90 cents to 5.00. Mentions use for stable and street settings and notes availability for purchase.
A section of Benjamin Lovw's wharf collapsed at Gloucester on Oct 4 sending a large amount of fish into the water and causing a loss of several hundred dollars. Several workmen narrowly escaped injury in the incident.
Biographical sketch recounts Asa Porter Morse born 1818 in Maverhill New Hampshire. Details cover family lineage from Anthony Morse and early career in Boston, business ventures in the West Indies, shift to Cambridge real estate and banking, long public service including state senate 1860 78 and 1880, prison reform work, and family life with wife Dorcas Touisa Short and three children.
A lengthy courtroom drama ends with a verdict discounting Mrs. Anna D. Van Houten’s $80,000 claim by 38 1 3 percent and awarding her $40,000. The case centers on alleged entanglement with Asa P. Morse, a Cambridge citizen, amid accusations of love, loans, and signals of ownership.
Mrs. Van Houten and Mr. Morse recount engagement tokens and plans from Saratoga to Toledo. He concedes a conditional engagement tied to business and property, while her claim of engagement remains strong. A breach of promise trial follow with Morse seeking a new trial.
The case began on Wednesday September 27 with Linus M. Child Esq delivering the opening address for the plaintiff. The first witness, Mrs. Van Houten, testified she was born in Charleston South Carolina in 1860 and described her family moves from San Francisco after her father Henry Fell died. She noted a first marriage in Portland Oregon in 1882 and divorce from that husband.
New York October 4 The first best of five for the American cup features Valkyrie and Vigilant in a fifteen mile windward return course. Thousands expected to watch from shore as both yachts are measured and prepared at Erie Basin with Vigilant favored at five to four under heavy handicap of 1 minute 48 seconds.
In Quincy on Fort street Mrs. Edgar Hayden found Susie Hayden hanging from a beam. The 23 year old daughter of Charles Hayden had been despondent and recently threatened self harm. She worked at N Curtis & Co shoe factory and, two hours earlier, failed to borrow her brother's revolver after discovering her fiancé wed another girl.
Train No 7 on the Montpelier and Wells River line wrecked at Lanesboro as a switch failed to move. Brakeman Archie Sawyer of Montpelier was killed when he was thrown under the wheels as the helper backed into the train. A wrecking crew was dispatched from Montpelier.
About one hundred young men gathered at Nos 1 and 17 Bunker Hill street and formed the Young Men's Democratic Club of Ward 3. Officers elected: D. F. Daley president, W. E. Furey vice president, William F. Quigley treasurer, J. H. Keefe secretary. Sundberg endorsed for Representative.
The city committee met last evening and elected Thomas Russell as treasurer and Sidney B. Everett as assistant treasurer to fill the vacancy caused by Lyman’s resignation. The Post predicted the outcomes in Tuesday’s issue.
William Cusick is broadly expected to become Newburyport postmaster when the current term ends January 1. He enjoys wide popularity and backing from city leaders though a small contest is anticipated.
In Lowell on October 4 the Democratic seventh district convention unanimously nominated Peter J. Brady for Senator. Gardner W. Pearson was chosen to the State committee by 86 votes to 33 for J. F. Owens. M. H. Fletcher M. J. Garvey and PD. J. Donahue elected to the district committee.
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