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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1893
Page
5
The Post will pay $10 for the best bathing costume sketch. Readers are invited to submit graceful design drawings to Seashore Editor, The Post.
Four senators likely to back silver moves are Lee Mantle of Montana, John Martin of Kansas, A C Beckwith of Wyoming, and John B Allen of Washington. Mantle, aged 43, built a fortune in Butte after moving from England and was appointed to the Senate. Beckwith, 60, a Wyoming pioneer with vast ranch holdings. Martin, 60, a Democrat aligned with Populists who favors reform but not sub treasury. Allen, 48, Indiana-born Republican, former one term senator, now appointed by the governor.
Ten thousand visitors flocked to the Point of Pines and Crescent Beach as the North Shore season peaks. Temperance speakers and Germania Band entertained while a grand fireworks display drew praise. Tomorrow kicks off a musical festival week with Innes’s New York band in the orchestra and local concerts reported across Winthrop and Lynn venues.
Boston theatres unveil a packed late summer schedule with The Golden Wedding nearing its 100th performance at Park Theatre under James F. Hoey, Pauline Hall's Mme Favart at Tremont, Bowdoin Square's final Still Alarm, and The White Squadron star vehicle at the Grand Opera House. New faces include Ethel Ormonde and Frank Landers. tech-prints and rival showcases promise a lively Boston stage ahead.
Readers are invited to send brief memoranda of forthcoming social events. Saturday August 12 lists polo at Hamilton at 4 50 dinner dances at Nahant Club and Essex County Club both at 8 30.
A Philadelphia woman architect earns praise for designing homes clubs factories stores and seaside cottages and supervises construction. Michigan's Miss Sadie Cotter builds a boat and sails 200 miles solo on the Great Lakes. Della Fox jokes after a stage scolding about promptness.
Edmund Yates argues that if marriages were arranged by the Lord Chancellor with counsel for the parties, unions would be more rational and better suited to comfort and well being. He envisions curb on youthful impetuosity and age folly, with mesalliances ceased under such impartial authority.
Description explains how facial expressions reflect affections of brain chest and abdominal organs. Incomplete eyelid closure and eyelid twitching signal convulsions or severe rest pain. Nose widening and nostril movements suggest lung disease. Brows contraction and nostril sharpness indicate chest and abdominal pain and anxiety.
Report describes small World's Fair spoons with Van Houten's mark that vanish daily from the Dutch cocoa house at Jackson Park. To curb theft, patrons must drink unstirred or bring their own spoons or use a long biscuit on the saucer. Observes the respectable crowd committing petty theft.
Two well known women on the English civil list pensions in the latest report. Mrs Cashel Hoey received 269 dollars for literary merits and inadequate means of support. Mrs Frances E F Trollope was pensioned for the literary merits of her husband the late Thomas Adolphus Trollope and her limited means.
Dr Mary Walker visits the Post wearing a male style outfit, carrying a gold Congress medal. She defends dress reform, predicts widespread adoption of pants for women, cites arrests for wearing men’s clothes, and laments ridicule while promoting hygienic, practical attire. She departs as a solitary reformer with no followers.
A vivid travel note recalls a Cairo wedding where a 16-year-old bride, adorned with pearls and diamonds, marries a fat, aging man as eunuchs guard the staircase. The spectacle includes flags, a 20 000 dollar tent, and a week of feasting while the Khedive is cheered.
The Stockbridge curfew bell in Stockbridge Massachusetts rings at sundown each night funded by David Dudley Field. He donated the bell tower as a memorial to his daughter Lady Musgrave wife of the governor general of the Sandwich Islands. Field resides in her cottage on Main street while his mansion on the hill is occupied by railroad magnate J. H. Inman.
At the Midway Plaisance the Columbus Champion, a giant ox from New Hampshire, weighs 4858 pounds and measures 6 feet at the shoulder plus 12 feet 9 inches in length. Secured by Mr. Stone for Tremontrow museum at $500 per week for two weeks, the Durham stock animal is famed for size and gentleness.
The Campania, passing Brow Head at 9 50 a m, crossed the Atlantic from New York in 5 days 16 hours 30 minutes, shaving 11 minutes from its own previous record set May 12. The voyage averaged 20 79 knots, with only two faster crossings ever achieved by the Paris westward runs.
Health Officer Jenkins reports Asiatic cholera spirilla in cultures from two patients removed yesterday Francisco Mole and Mariano Riberaco. Both are in prior condition. Two more cases, Antonio Tauriti 15 and Antonio Carlone 65, were moved from Hoffman to Swinburne Island Hospital at noon today with cholera symptoms.
The Massachusetts Electrical Engineers and Mechanics Association will meet Monday evening at William Parkman Hall Boylston Place to finalize arrangements for an excursion to Bass Point scheduled for the following Saturday.
A Winthrop coaching parade next Saturday afternoon will include a six horse tally ho coach adorned in finery. Members of the Grand Opera House stock company and Professor Bristol's trained horses will perform. New England residents are invited to join without an entrance fee. Entry blanks available by mailing Coaching Parade Winthrop Mass.
The Rev. E. E. Davidson of Newtonville will address an open air meeting at the corner of Washington and Bartlett streets in Roxbury tomorrow at 4 p m Lucius W Ball of Carters Band will lead the music N S Greet chalk talker will conduct the Bromfield Street Church meeting today
Hartford Aug 11 An explosion of a generator at L. P. Goodwin's bottling works in Terryville injured William Schaefer, breaking his arm and inflicting deep cuts. He was taken to a Hartford hospital in serious condition.
A new craze features low-cushioned backless sofas with soft down cushions for reclining. Paine’s furniture warerooms at 48 Canal Street offer these luxuriously cushioned seats at very low prices.
CHICAGO Aug 1 C G Eddy former vice president of the Reading rail line is noted in a brief obituary or notice, with details not fully shown in the fragment.
Senator Lodge, back from Washington, says the House will likely vote in about three weeks after a lengthy debate and pass unconditional repeal. He notes Democratic splits, Republican backing, and warns that Senate support for repeal is nar row, with no current path for a compromise or closure. He urges immediate repeal of the purchasing clauses and stresses party control of legislation.
David Halirice, a resecutive councillor, signals retirement to focus on business, creating a vacancy in the second district. He expects a Republican successor. Ex Sen Cyrus Savage of Taunton is a candidate after two previous losses, with Edwin A Curtis of Ward 21 and Colone Ben Lovell of Weymouth also mentioned as possibilities.
Waterville Me Aug 11 H C James of Oakland a noted horse man died at noon from injuries suffered when kicked in the stomach by a stallion Wednesday.
A watch and chain valued at 25 dollars were stolen yesterday afternoon from the unfinished house on Coxteth street in Brookline. The theft involved Howard Esterbrook as the person from whom items vanished. Police investigate the missing property and location context.
The Friends hold a garden party at Amory Grove on Amory Street Roxbury this Saturday August 26 from 10 a m to early afternoon. Proceeds support local community projects and refreshments will be provided by volunteers.
Keene, owner of Keene Bros. shoe manufacturers in Lynn, is mourned by dealers. Charles S. Ingalls of the New England Shoe and Leather Association praises his first class business standing and integrity. William H. Keene at 93 Summer street reports no insanity or financial troubles. Bradstreet’s offers kind remarks. suicide theory is not widely accepted.
Aug 11 Great Barrington reports a fierce forest fire stretching over two miles in length and hundreds of feet wide. No rain for a month leaves tinder dry as 100 men battle the blaze with little hope of stopping it. A French coal burner allegedly burned fatally, but unverified. Many colliers' huts face danger. the fire began in a coal pit.
Gardner R. Pinkham a confectioner of Cape Porpoise went to the woods ten days ago with his gun and has not returned. Authorities fear suicide. He was unmarried and his family reported him missing from Biddeford Maine.
Biddeford Maine August 11 Mrs Cora Hayes of Saco attempted suicide by leaping into the river this afternoon but was rescued by a telephone lineman at work nearby Domestic trouble was the cause of her act.
James Waters of High Street Brookline was sunstruck while at work in a sewer on Aspinwall Hills yesterday afternoon, authorities reported.
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