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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1893
Page
5
A brown checked tweed toilette on the left is paired with a red and white striped duck waistcoat and a white silk shirt. The right displays a dark blue serge costume trimmed with black satin bands worn with a white silk blouse.
The Boston aldermen returned after a two week vacation to a three hour session. O'Shea, of Lamps, reports Brookline Gas must connect city mains by July 2 1898 and that many lamps already linked. Streets chief Carter notes extensive correspondence with Brookline Gas. Building line act discussed and a Columbus avenue restriction approved. Boston & Winthrop Street Railway track location in East Boston moves to second reading. East Boston alderman questions linger.
The Baroness Von Roques, mother of Mrs. Maybrick, sues D W Armstrong and others in Richmond Virginia Chancery Court alleging fraud over lands in Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky through her father the late Darius B Holbrook. Mrs Yung Yu keeps to her apartments with her children and attendants in Washington. Oliver Shrimer’s new novel From Man to Man explores ethics in gender relations. Mrs Byl and daughter Mamie left Cincinnati to Seattle where they met a Celestial Empire subject who wed Mamie and went to China for missionary work.
Jeremiah C. Millerick died at his home 3 Adams Street Charlestown at 6 PM from gastritis after years of illness from a grip. Age 75, he was known in Charlestown and the North End, friend of Mathew Keany and Edward J. Flynn. Born in Cloyne Ireland 1818, he came to the U S in 1850, lived in the North End then Charlestown. Survived by wife and three sons and a daughter. funeral Thursday at 10 AM at St Mary's Church Charlestown.
Frank Patrick arrived by the Boston and Maine railroad and reported a missing item valued at $17. He identified a man in the waiting room, who, as Officer Gray observed, was later arrested after a brief pursuit at Joy Street station. The suspect gave the name James H. Williams.
Mrs N B Bronston of Atchison Kansas has typed for forty three years. She learned her trade in Newport Kentucky at age twelve. She worked on the Topeka Record before the war and helped bind Kansas legislative reports at the state printing house. She later co owned the Topeka Tribune and worked at Garnett Plaindealer before moving to Leavenworth to work for D R Anthonys paper fourteen years. She has since set type in Hutchinson St Joseph and Atchison and is now fifty five years old.
Designers craft miniature replicas of prospective gowns for discerning clients shaping color, proportions, and details. The client reviews, suggests changes, and approves a final design, ensuring no surprises when the full dress arrives.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote tells of a man wandering through stores trying to find a match for his wife. He leans against a post with a sample and sighs that matches are made in heaven, implying none on earth fit.
A ten year old girl in Brooklyn edits a weekly issue of The Pickwick Papers written entirely by herself. The paper features Jest, an advertising column, a fashion section, a society budget, a poet's corner and a story, showcasing remarkable versatility uncommon among most geniuses.
An ignorant servant girl shut the front door on the Price of Wales at Hamburg as he tried to visit her mistress. The mistress discharged the girl, but the Prince intervened chivalrously and she was reinstated. England lacks a poet laureate to versify this romantic episode.
A Vogue excerpt presents a poem in which a speaker credits a cigarette with soothing grief, stoking ambition, guiding poetic thought, and steadying the heart. It prompts surrender to the habit tonight, framing tobacco as a constant, comforting companion amid turmoil.
The Globe Theatre opened for the season with Lawrence Hanley making his first city appearance in The Player. The venue has new chestnut orchestra chairs in red plush and fresh décor. Hanley’s performance drew interest as the play is a fresh local entry exploring private life themes.
Theater reviews note Mr. Hanley in Romeo and Juliet adaptions with uneven pacing but strong moments. Edith Lemmert Juliet and Russ Whytal Mercutio receive praise. stage effects and front lighting hinder view. Other shows include Mme Favart at Tremont and Frou Frou at Grand Opera House with notable debuts and solid ensembles across Boston and New England venues.
The article notes Miss Lizzie Evans in her first burlesque appearance, praising her prior creditable work in other fields and the eager anticipation of drama followers to see her in burlesque.
Miss Hivans makes debut in tights beside Miss Yeamans in a Boston Bowdoin Square Theatre production where Raymond Hitchcock and Steele Mackaye's Paul Kauvar draw crowded houses. Roll of stars includes Esther Lyons Louis Aubrey Lizzie Conway and Roland Reed at Boston Museum Palace and Howard Atheneum with strongmen, dancers and an international exhibition ongoing amid hot weather.
George Jacobs aged 87 from 16 Bowdoin street was arrested yesterday afternoon by Special Officers Abbott and Gilmore on a warrant charging him with selling a policy ticket to Allen Richardson at 12 Norman street in June. Richardson is an agent for the Society for the Prevention of Vice.
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