Boston Theatres Preview Busy Holiday Season
The Boston stage scene highlights Mansfield and Davenport in key roles at Globe and Hollis Street. Woodruff, now 23, returns with Frohman’s stock in Surrender at the Columbia. 1492 at Park Theatre draws crowds as New York veterans lend support. The Park Theatre previews Temperance Town at Park, Alvin Joslin at Howard, and Cleopatra at Hollis Street, with Corbett, Sothern, and minstrels slated for upcoming bills.
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Fanny Davenport
Hollis Street Theatre
Miss Davenport
Mr. MacDowell
Cleopatra
Boston
Park Theatre
Wright
Hoyt’s
Boston novelist Jane G Austin plans new book
Daily Talks with Boston Women features Mrs Jane G Austin a bright eyed New England novelist descendant of Bradford and Standish. Though frail she maintains ties to letters and just today spoke of winter book plans and notes read at Lowell indicating a title not yet chosen.
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Jane G. Austin
New England
Plymouth
Betty Alden
Miss Austin
Boston
Bulfinch Place
Bradford
Myles Standish
Loring Austin
Post
Lowell
Women on the Move and Society Events Record
Miss Katherine E. Conway sails to Baltimore for a week on Prison Commission business. Three Crows perform in Pageant of the Year at Mechanics Building. Mrs. Hancock, widow of General Hancock, ill in New York amid talks to open her house to supporters. Miss Mary Abell becomes Sister Mary Joseph at Wilmington ceremony. Wheaton Seminary Club meeting features Miss Charlotte Hawes and a musical program with several artists.
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Katherine E. Conway
Baltimore
Olea Bull
Laura C. Hills
Fred Briggs
Crows
Mechanics’ Building
Benjamin A. Paddock
Bishop Paddock
Nathaniel Hooper
Chestnut Street
Hancock
General Hancock
Dresden
New York
Washington
Mary Abell
A. S. Abell
Baltimore Sun
Academy of Visitation
Wilmington
Del
Sister Mary Joseph
Wheaton Seminary Club
Thorndike
Charlotte Hawes
Park Street
Miss Hawes
Mabel Hall
Katinka Paulsen White
Benzing
Ellen Louise Hopkins
Lizzie J. Hawes
Fees and the Great Fair
A Chicago visitor reports the squeezing process is well established there and will be worse during the fair. She says keeping up appearances and being economical is folly as extortionate prices are demanded for everything and everyone expects a fee.
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Chicago
Autograph Craze Spreads From Table to Petticoat
A U Sacher tablecloth in Vienna dazzles with autographs from Archdukes princes artists writers and musicians. The silk petticoat bearing embroidered signatures contrasts with the famed guestbook as Mrs Sacher recalls signatures first written in pencil and later embroidered. No guest is said to have refused to sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eduard Sacher
Sacher
Vienna
Mme. Sacher
Wise Housekeepers Apply Economics to Daily Living
A housekeepers' club outlines conclusions on applying economic principles to modest incomes. They warn luxuries becoming necessities as the main obstacle and advise simple living. The moral stresses raising children with parsimony and trimming waste such as using many forks to avoid buying a corkscrew.
Miss Wells Speaks at Boston Reception by Colored Women
Miss Ida B. Wells, exiled Memphis Free Speech editor, was honored at a Boston reception by colored women at Charles Street AME Church. She spoke on Lynch Law and Mob Rule as music and remarks from local women accompanied the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida B. Wells
Memphis Free Speech
Boston
Charles Street
African Methodist Church
Nellie Brown Mitchell
Gilbert C. Harriss
Sidney Woodward
Josephine Ruffin
M. L. Baldwin
Arianna Sparrow
Powhatan
A Daily Hint From Paris Hat for a Little Maid
A piquant headpiece from the Paris Herald features a brimmed hat for a young girl. It uses braided olive felt, a gathered dark-blue velvet crown, and three olive quills for a jaunty finish.
Cecilia Society concert presents Dvorak Requiem in Boston
The eighty seventh Cecilia concert at Music Hall featured Dvorak conducting his own Requiem Mass with James Ricketson Arthur Beresford B L Whelpley and a full orchestra. Soloists Miss Marie Barnard Smith and Miss Mary H How gave refined performances under Dvorak dynamic baton. The program noted Wegner concert tickets at Boston Theatre and Seidl bringing 100 musicians and soloists from New York for Wagner pieces and Parsifal multiple excerpts. A new American comic opera The Continentals by George Hayes Emil Schwab is set for Park Theatre with Worcester Continentals in uniform attending. George Grossmith visits Boston again to discuss Society up to Date Play Acting and more.
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Music Hall
Dvorak
James H. Ricketson
Arthur Beresford
B. L. Whelpley
Boston
Dr. Dvorak
Boston Theatre
Wegner
Herr Seidl
Amanda Fabris
Gertrude May Stein
Herr Fischer
New York
Cecilia Society
Tannhauser
Elsa
Valhalla
Siegfried
Wotan
Wilson Bros Ring Offer From Australia
Beware imitators before buying rings from Wilson Bros The Australian gold rings range from six to nine twelve dollars Their own factory can forge a custom ring in two hours Look for the Big Clock on Fremont Row Orders by mail or express.
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Wilson Bros
Fremont Row
Marriages in City and Glenwood In Mass
Clegg and Sarah Ill, Russell and Mitchell wed in Glenwood Mass. Webb and Jennie Johnson married in this city by Rev. Lorimer. Dates Nov 27 to 29.
Deaths in Our Area November Obituaries Notice
Ames Dedham Bates Ashmont Brown Curtis Davis Elston Garland Leseur Long Ray Storrs Willard list of deaths from Nov 27 to Nov 30 across multiple local towns with ages ranging from 30s to 85s, including pneumonia and scarlet fever cases and a former Navy serviceman.
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Ames
Dedham
William Ames
Bates
Ashmont
Helen Gertrude
Lizzie G
Henry L. Bates
Brown
Phoebe A. Brown
Curtis
South Braintree
Oliver J. Curtis
Davis
John Wade Davis
Elston
Mary J. Elston
Marital Applications Listed for Local Registrar 1892
Applications at the Registrar's Office dated November 30, 1892 include Frederick L. Maher and Filla Holbrook Lintclear T Burke and Flora Swin James T Napier and Mary Daisley Charles J Hinds and Matilda Hayward Co F Nelson and Augusta Anderson Vincent Pierson and Mary McDonald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick L. Maher
Filla
Marriages Recorded at City Registrar November 1892
In this city on November 27 1892 Patrick J Kavanagh wed Julia Barrett by Rev J A Fitzgeral d. On November 29 1892 William J Murphy wed Mary A Downey by Rev H A Sullivan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Kavanagh
Julia Barrett
H. A. Sullivan
William J. Murphy
Mary A. Downey
Deaths Reported to Registrar November 1892
List of deaths reported to the registrar for the city on November 27 to 29. Names include George H Anthony Bri John J Chastee Crockett Alfred Hall aged 77. Other lines appear partially garbled but indicate death notices filed for residents in this city in late November 1892.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Anthony
Oan Isity
This City
Bri
John J. Chast Eeeds
Sney E. Crockett
Alfred Hall
Plans of the Nautical Training School on Ocean Liners
Massachusetts establishes a Nautical Training School with a three year program to produce capable masters of ocean steamers. The U S steamer Enterprise will host 150 cadets for six months each at the wharf and during cruises, under Commander J F Merry and a corps trained at naval academies. Courses cover maritime law surveying navigation astronomy mathematics engineering drawing hygiene and languages. The board includes John C Soley William H Lincoln Thomas B Fitz and C S Mc Clellan.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts Nautical Training School
United States Steamer
Enterprise
Navy Yard
J. F. Merry
United States Navy
Naval Academies
Board of Commissioners
John C. Soley
William H. Lincoln
Thomas B. Fitz
C. S. McClellan
Briggs Trial Sparks Split over Inaugural Address Evidence
In New York on November 30, Dr. Southworth moved to strike a provision admitting the whole inaugural address scripture and Presbyterian standards as evidence. Dr. Briggs opposed, saying he studied the scriptures and standards for 25 years but could not answer committee interpretations. The motion failed by two votes, with Briggs seeking an exception and the court scene seen as dividing the Presbyterian into two factions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Briggs
Southworth
Presbytery
Madison Square Series Novels For a Quarter Demand
Readers are urged to ask for the new MADISON SQUARE novels priced at 25 cents each. Promoted as works from top authors, the affordable series invites inquiries at local shops.
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Madison Square
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Captain Grant
Llenry Woodruff
Charles Frohman
Boston Stock Company
Columbia Theatre
Wood
Mr. Woodruff
Philadelphia
Howestead
Rice
Herbert Johnson
Columbus
Sig. Perugini
Charles L. Davis
Alvin Joslin
Howard Atheneum
Alvin
Richard Mansfield
Arthur Dimmesdale
Globe Theatre
Mansfield
Harvard
Grand Opera House
Opera House
Hopkins Trans-Oceanic Star Specialty Company
Russell
Rosina Vokes
the Tremont
Miss Vokes
Felix Morris
John Stetson
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William Seymour
Carrie Turner
Joseph Haworth
Edythe Proctor
Eliza Proctor Otis
Miss Proctor
James J. Corbett
Jack
Kerry
Museum
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Pinero
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Bowdoin Square Theatre
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Joseph Ott
Max Miller
Bowdoin Squire Theatre
Cleveland
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Bertoto
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Austin
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Lyceum Theatre
Pretty Little Playhouse
Miss Wells
Paris
The
Paris Herald
NEW Publications
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Weber & Fields
C. W. Williams Co
Fact
Ollis rHestee
Isaac Bb. Rich
Edward Eggleston
Thomas Nelson Page
F. Hopkinson Smith
Grace King
Colorado
Wolcott Balestier
Salvini
Archibald Forbes
Browning
Rudyard Kipling
T. B. Aldrich
Mary E. Wilkins
Burton Harrison
Washington Gladden
John Hay
James Whitcomb Riley
Mark Twain
Century Co
E. 17Th St
Atver
DR. Briggs
Glenwood
Gould
Washington St
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Cor. Washington and
Warren Sts
OERA
Emil Schwab
George M. Hayes
Rati
Boston Museum
J _Comyns Garr
Boucicault
EUM
Opp
Beach
Cannon Ball Express
Anda Lig Variety Company
Bowdoln SQ
MR. Chas
F. Atkinson
Cosgrove & Grant
Geo. H. Murray
Minstrels
Wm. C. Cameron
Next Welk
Irwin Bros
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Eugene Tompkins
Liiense
Hevins
Anton Selilos
Metropolitar Orchestra
Gertrude May
Emil Fischier
Coptriiti
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ME. B. Jd. Lang
Grossmith
George Grossmith
Hiis
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Sanders Theatre
Cambridge
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Arthur Nikiseh
Friscilla White
Gram
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Hamlet
Thomas
Euryanthe
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UI Liddu
Jonaudtar
Charles Browman
Myra
Nan
Charles Frohr
Augustus Thoms
Alabama
Mr. Mansfield
Hopkins Rans-Oceanico All Star Specialty Company
Jas. J. Corbett
Tremont Tilatre
Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau
Props
Mera
NEW City Directory
Pate
Rosina Vokis Hui
Jovents
Austin & Stone
Tremont Kew
Smuey
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