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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1895
Page
1
The advertisement promotes Waitt & Bond Blackstones cigars as offering quality and flavor. It claims imported stock, bulk purchase by experts, favorable manufacturing conditions, and use of the best tobacco and craftsmanship.
Gov Greenhalge and Lt Gov Wolcott to grace Lawrence events as city readies sprawling celebration. Festivities span cattle show, oyster stew, races, a grand banquet, a sham battle, parades, and a fireworks finale. Saunders of Methuen credited with early water-power insight for Lawrence's growth.
Haverhill man George G Eastman, 22, was stabbed by Italian suspect Frank Lanzo after a dispute over cider with Lanzo and others at Chadwick's Pond. Eastman lay dying at his Water Street home after a deep back wound. Lanzo fled. police comb Italian quarters. a manhunt continues toward morning.
Browning King & Co promotes value with a popular $15 suit and a $3 stiff hat. They claim exceptional quality, guaranteed unbreakable hats, and weather resistance. The firm touts itself as offering more for the money than competitors in Boston or elsewhere.
The funeral of General Isaac Burrell former street commissioner was held yesterday from his Howard avenue home to First Universalist Church and Forest Hills cemetery. Attendees included Roxbury neighbors city officials and leaders from the Roxbury Historical Society Forty second Regiment Association and other groups. The service noted his dutiful nature religious character Civil War service and community impact with a hymn and a brief eulogy by Rev. Dr. A J Patterson before the cortege proceeded to Forest Hills.
John H. Frawley died at Massachusetts General Hospital from injuries inflicted by his brother William E B Frawley at 7 Haton Street Monday night. Frawley, aged several years, ran a livery stable on Chardon Street and employed his brother as a grinder. In a quarrel, William Frawley stabbed him in the abdomen.
Curtis aims to mobilize colored voters for Mayor Curtis in Boston. Joseph Hendricks, deputy sealer of weights and measures, leads a Ward 19 Republican club and organized a meeting with about sixty voters. A power struggle followed as Hendricks was elected president over A P Jones amid tension.
Early yesterday morning officers of Division 3 arrested Joseph Perkins 15 John Sullivan 15 and Frank Myers 18 on charges of breaking and entering a vacant dwelling at 40 Prospect Street West End and stealing a quantity of lead pipe belonging to A D Puffer.
A large and fresh line of furniture and draperies at unusually low prices. White iron and brass beds from four dollars upwards five drawer library tables from nine dollars upwards nine drawer library tables from twelve dollars upwards desk chairs eight fifty eight? sacks bookcases five fifty upwards Morris chairs ten twelve fourteen twenty.
Victorian arriving soon will join two sister ships to form a trio doubling the size of current Leyland steamers in Boston service. The three Belfast built freighters will sail Liverpool to Boston in about eight days, with capacity for cattle and a few passengers, and will prompt port and dock upgrades to accommodate their depth and length.
The Boston and Maine resumes its annual mountain excursion with notably low rates to all points. Hotels are offering reductions for ticket holders as favorable surroundings beckon. Tickets go on sale at 214 Washington Street and at station offices in Lowell Lawrence and Salem.
Patrolman John J. Leary captures two burglars after a morning break in at Bornstein's auction room on Hanover Street. John Ross of Toronto and Thomas Johnston of Liverpool are jailed on breaking and entering charges. Stolen items including rings revolvers and opera glasses valued at 50 dollars recovered. A second burglar, John Manning from England, is arrested for attempted entry at Fletcher's tobacco tote.
Miss Laura Barrett of New York reported at Station 16 that around eight near Marlboro Street between Exeter and Fairfield streets a young colored man snatched her pocketbook containing $15 and several keys and fled. She could not give a clear description of the thief.
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