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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1892
Page
8
Promotion for Pearline cleaning product claims it eases home care by cleaning everything washable and offering rest. It asserts safety for persons and materials and warns against imitations, signed by James Pyle of New York.
Eminent actor Edward S. Willard arrives from Brooklyn after a successful Columbia Theatre run. He outlines Boston plans with John Needham's Double, The Middleman, Judah, and a Grundy piece possibly Mammon, plus future European leave and a niche for blank verse drama. Robert Hilliard recovers from an eye injury sustained during Across the Potomac rehearsal as Easter Sunday concert crowds pack Austin's Theatre.
In PortLane Massachusetts on April 17 a mother, Mrs James Robertson, killed her three week old infant on Emerson Street then attacked herself with a razor. Neighbors and police stopped her. the baby lay dead. She was taken to City Hospital in serious but hopeful condition. The husband, upstairs during the event, aided by officers, and a note on spring illness was offered as context for her mental decline.
The twenty third Symphony concert at Music Hall pleased a large audience with a refined program. Mrs Henschel’s tastefully rendered arias and Ikischs orchestra accompanied Hamlet suite and Oberon pieces. Haydn oratorio featured Albani Lloyd Whitney and Zerrahn with mixed reviews. Beethoven by D Albert highlights a pianist recital with varied variations sonatas and a Liszt program by Vladimir de Pachmann scheduled.
A balmy Easter showcases women in new bonnets and gowns with violets and lilies of the valley, while men appear in tasteful suits and black or brown tones. The piece notes Easter as a fashion divider, praises modest elegance, and contrasts women’s and men’s attire observed in Boston’s Common and Public Garden.
On April 16 the Lovejoy-Paul and Boston & Lowell lines merged into a division of the New England Despatch Express Company to systematize cross city handling and cut rates. R H W Dwight and C T Scannell stay on as superintendent and assistant. W Z Herrick becomes Boston agent, C C Paul Lowell, F N Abbott Lawrence. The move leaves American Express as a primary rival in the Boston Lowell Lawrence corridor.
A Boston con game unfolds with a confidence man named Mr. Lafforgue Sr. guiding a young partner through fake express, bank and broker moves. The narrator evades capture until a saloon rendezvous yields a staged receipt and $2,500 bail. Inspectors seize the pair. one man is committed for fraud.
The Hon Alexander Mackenzie died at 12 40 am in Toronto after a long illness. Born in Perthshire Scotland in 1822 he came to Canada in 1842 and built a career as a builder and newspaper publisher. He led the Liberal party from 1873 until 1878 when the Liberals lost power.
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