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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1899
Page
8
A sale offers Middy Suits for ages 2 to 16 with sizes and styles including blue cheviot, wool, and two piece suits. Prices range from $2.60 to $12, with discounts on odd and broken lots and new fall juvenile shapes highlighted.
The retailer advertises boys and youths Sailor Suits from ages 2% to 12 years in blue serge covert and Dickey Woollens all wool fabrics in gray shades. Long trousers suits for ages 15 to 19 years priced at $10 in dark brown mixed cheviot. Last winter stock halves in price with shorter trousers selling 50c to 1.50. Spring and fall coats and reefers offered at closeout prices regardless of cost.
Sir Thomas Lipton offered 250000 dollars to buy the Muckross estate and lakes of Killarney from the Standard Insurance Company. If accepted he plans to present the property to the Irish people to be preserved as a public park forever, with the aim that Ireland itself holds the title. Lipton stated on his yacht Erin that preservation should belong to an Irishman rather than foreigners.
The National Iee Society led by J. Q. A. Ward speeds toward a massive triumphal arch for Manila Bay hero celebrations. Sculptors, architects, and modellers donate labor valued at hundreds of thousands, with Ward spending out of pocket for the Victory quadriga. The arch is set to unveil around September 28 after days of dawn to dusk work in Madison Square Garden and in the open city avenues.
Two day sale ends tomorrow night offering clothing hats and furnishing goods at half or less of former prices. Sizes are broken but bargains remain for those who value extraordinary discounts on smoke damaged items from My Clothier's.
Advertising copy lists wide price cuts on men’s suits from $3.95 to $9.95 and all wool options up to $9.95, plus discounted coats, vests, pants, and water damaged stock. Boys wear and furnishing goods show half price or near that, with caps, hats, ties, collars, cuffs, shirts, suspenders, and bicycle wear discounted.
The article recalls a Boston Post from 1855 with four pages and 8 cent price, noting omnibuses to suburbs, corner stone ceremonies, and a city life snapshot. It describes a brick of relics found in the Public Library cornerstone, including coins medals and portraits, with E W Bouve as engraver and a large copper coin.
Miss Annie Hill 30 an invalid suffocated during a brief family absence in Chatham. Mrs Hill and two neighbors fought a kitchen fire that filled the sitting room where the girl was seated, and she was found dead in her chair as smoke obscured the room.
The Bangor built brig Katahdin with a 34 ton coal cargo foundered off Cape Cod after crew abandoned ship. Captain David L. Haskell and four men were rescued by the pilot boat Hesper thirty five miles off Highland Light. Captain Lawler of the Hesper praised for timely rescue and care.
Admiral Dewey toured the garrison library in Gibraltar and lunched with the U S consul. His health is improving and he expects full recovery before reaching New York Harbor.
The Eyrie, the summer residence of Dr. Robert Amory of Boston, burned this afternoon in Bar Harbor Maine. A nurse alerted by a baby’s cry found the room full of smoke after a furnace fire the day before. A defective flue is suspected. The cottage sat on a hill requiring 3000 feet of hose. Built eighteen years ago with a $5000 addition last winter, the house valued at $20,000 and furniture at $4000, most furniture saved. Insurance on the buildings was $10,000.
The September 7 report states fires that threatened South Chatham and South Harwich were brought under control. Firefighters will stay on alert with embers still a risk if winds pick up. All but two burned houses are insured. The damage to woodland is total, with trees consumed to stumps.
Ten buildings burned in North Stratford New Hampshire last night including the Percy House and the town’s largest structures. Loss totaled about 50000 dollars with insurance covering roughly half. Mary Boyle a hotel boarder was injured while removing her trunk. The Percy House contents were largely unsalvageable. the stable and several carriages were destroyed.
The White Star steamer Oceanic, commanded by Captain Cameron, departed Liverpool yesterday and left Queenstown at 12 45 pm for her maiden US voyage with 2044 aboard. The ship arrived in Queenstown with all systems working satisfactorily and received an enthusiastic greeting.
The North Atlantic squadron led by Admiral Bedford will depart Halifax for Montreal tomorrow, remaining two weeks. Flagship Crescent travels with cruisers Talbot Pearl and Pysche and torpedo boat destroyer Quail, a rare escort for the Quail.
In Topeka Kansas Miss Helen Gould will receive a corn husk hat crafted from husks woven like Tuscan braid and dyed lavender with violets and tea roses. Only a few will receive such hats including Mrs McKinley Queen Victoria and Mrs Stanley wife of the Kansas governor. The festival marks the state corn crop and will be celebrated September 21 with hats by Mrs P J Cusack the corn husk milliner.
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