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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1894
Page
6
Mary J Faxon of Quincy, aged 18, appeared before Judge Barker in the Supreme Judicial Court on a writ of habeas corpus at the request of her father John Lyman Faxon. The case, prompted by a failed parental separation seven years earlier, was set for Sept 28 with orders for Mrs Carr, the mother’s advocate, to produce the girl for a merits hearing.
Ocean Lodge Beachmont members and visitors from Commonwealth Columbia Social Puritan Cambridge Enterprise Alpha Chelsea Linwood Warren America lodges filled Parker Hall for a New England Order of Protection celebration. Supremes and staff, led by Hows ard Richardson and Shaw of Rhode Island, spoke as about 300 attended with whist and dancing to Marshall's Orchestra before midnight.
A Post reader accuses the Board of Health of permitting a scow at Haley's coal wharf to discharge offal into the Bay View flats. Diphtheria and other illnesses are linked to the practice, with a claim that Captain Holmes died last year from the scow’s plug incident. Calls to abolish the vault system and expose wrongdoers.
Bradstreet's report shows overall trade improving week over week with strong momentum in dry goods, millinery, and shoes across Baltimore Nashville Chicago St Louis and on the Pacific coast. Goods shipments rise, pig iron demand pauses, steel rails grow, and bank clearings reach 900 million dollars amid a 5.4 percent weekly gain.
George Appleton a longtime Globe composing room worker died at 2 AM yesterday at a friend's home after a long illness. About 33 years old he had served the paper for more than fifteen years and was widely liked. Funeral set for 1:30 PM Sunday at St Matthew's Church Broadway near F Street South Boston with Rev A E George officiating.
Announcements signal strong interest in the Boston Symphony Orchestra forthcoming season. Mr. Paul seeks to program worthy compositions from all schools. Auction sale of season tickets runs next week with $12 rehearsal tickets Monday, $7.50 Tuesday, and concert seats Thursday and Sunday.
Paine's Furniture Company on Canal street displays an extensive assortment of dormitory and student furniture. The Warerooms offer cot bedsteads table desks revolving book cases and more with discount prices and claim the lowest quotes in the country.
A local retailer advertises a full line of Scotch Cheviot and Cassimere suits in single and double breasted styles. Prices discounted to 16 and 12 dollars, with garments described as well made in-house, durable, and up to 18 dollars value. Street clearing notes detail congestion relief talks and proposed widenings on Tremont Washington streets. The rest of the page covers a shooting case in Ashmont with Ella Whitfeld gravely wounded and James G. Paul sought by police.
Early today Annie Romano aged 20 was shot and killed by husband Vitro in tenement 299 Mott Street beside police headquarters. Both born in New York to Italian parents. Motive cited as jealousy.
The noted opera singer Mme Fursch Madi died of stomach cancer in Warrenville New Jersey at age 47. A native of France she sang in major cities across America and Europe including Paris Grand Opera House and Brussels where she was acclaimed. She was regarded as a premier dramatic vocalist on both continents.
In Philadelphia a renowned name in buying and fair dealing, Wanamaker, opens a large merchant tailoring establishment at 40 Washington Street in Boston. The firm operates as Wanamaker & Brown with Boston managers F. T. Parks and W. S. Vroomse.
A warrant is out for E. F. Green. the Cun ningham Iron Works Company reports $1400 misappropriated. Green, about 28, a longtime bookkeeper at the firm, has been missing since Friday morning. He is described as having been held in high esteem by his employers. Corner of Congress and B streets. South Boston.
Patrick J Burke a longtime Boston Herald assistant pressman and pioneer of fast newspaper printing died at his Cambridgeport home from a long illness. He worked on the first secretary four cylinder press in the old Boston Times office. A widow survives him. Funeral set for Sunday at 2 p m from his late residence.
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