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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1892
Page
5
Mrs Bettie Birkner of Lockhart Texas recounts a two month old baby with severe eczema, failing to respond to doctors. She tried Cuticura Remedies with little faith and saw sores clear in a week. Continued use of the soap and medicated solvent left her baby fully recovered and healthy.
Cuticura Remedies claim to cure every skin and scalp condition in infancy and childhood from itching and crusts to pimples and blemishes. Promises permanent results when started in childhood, advertising full purity and safety for infants.
In this city on December 8, by Rev S H Atkins John Larabee and Edna M Atkins. Also in this city by Rev Henry C Cunningham John L Cunningham and Jessie th. Reported to the City Registrar December 9, 1892.
Deaths listed for December 7 to 8 in the city include Edward G. Lynes 75 Stillman B. King 40 Mary Knight 77 Edward C. Porter 41 with dates of death and ages noted.
Miss Isabel Howard O Keeffe of Australia spoke to St James Parochial School pupils in Harrington Avenue. Genevieve Brady, rising elocution star from Nova Scotia, is studying in Boston and gave readings here. Miss Emma Van Norden of New York, daughter of Bank of North America president, has visited the Salvation Army and joined as a uniformed soldier. Mrs. William H Vanderbilt and Mrs. S E Mitchell endowed the West Asheville Training School for Women, a reformative home for fallen women. Mrs. Cleveland has dramatic leanings. Sol Smith Russell’s Peaceful Valley was written by Edward Kidder, with Cleveland connections noted.
Friends say the income from Helen Goulds share of her fathers estate will fund large charitable efforts. Known as a Lady Bountiful she spends a day weekly on philanthropy focusing on helpless old women and is expected to broaden her charitable work as mistress of wealth.
A portrait of Baby Ruth Cleveland describes a white themed nursery where every detail from the inlaid white pine floor to ivory nails and window hangings follows a pristine snowy whiteness centered on the child placed in a white crib surrounded by white rugs and pale framed pictures.
In a quiet hospital-side scene Sir Arthur Sullivan, exhausted after watching his dying brother, stayed at the organ and penned the melody of The Lost Chord. The moment, born at the bedside, became a cherished musical tribute.
The Park Theatre enters its second week of Charles H Hoyts new comedy A Temperance Town crowding the house nightly. The Globe Theatre promotes The Crust of Society a dramatization of Demi Monde with Stetson's company and Guiney Seymour adapters. The Boston Stock Company performs Surrender at the Columbia as Babes in the Wood closes at Boston Theatre.
The New York Symphony Orchestra under Mr Damrosch impressed but did not eclipse Boston’s own ensemble in a Fremont Theatre matinee, with Beethoven Eroica and Grieg Aus Holbergs Zeit noted for skilled execution. Emma Juzi praised as a conscientious soloist. Anton Seidl’s Wagner program at the Boston Theatre earned high praise, featuring Miss Fabris and a strong cast, with Cecilia assisting in Parsifal. Upcoming engagements spotlight Paderewski in January, Wolff and Hollmann recitals, and George Grossmith’s Boston return with sketches and Hamburg memories. Sunday Palace concert looms as a season highlight, while Munroe and Mack and other top acts prepare for public shows.
Joseph Kirkland argues for Oliver Wendell Holmes as the ideal American poet laureate. He praises Holmes as the world’s greatest living poet with vivid imagery mellifluous verse and elevating sentiment. He urges crowning Holmes soon with joy before sorrowful days arrive.
Miss Lillian Russell, daughter of the famed prima donna, made her first public appearance in New York on Thursday, playing a piano solo at a concert. At only eight years old she is already a clever musician and expressed love for the theatre and frequent matinees.
The passage describes Little Miss Russell as a pretty, graceful child with dusky brown hair and brown eyes. She is at ease on stage, though the character notes its contrast with preferring fun over acting. Her demeanor includes quaint little mannerisms that add to her attraction.
Henry Cabot Lodge earns more by his pen than any other congressman after Tom Reed. He writes for magazines and syndicates, has published two books since entering Congress, and completes orders swiftly. He dictates and revises, often composing late at night after dinners, showing inexhaustible mental labor and polishing drafts carefully.
The Pilot mocks the Anglomania behind new Back Bay street names in Toston Post style. An Irish American survey board member and a British Peerage copy allegedly shaped the aristocratic names for the city streets, highlighting the humorous appropriation of high society nomenclature.
G W Reserts of North Cambridge Massachusetts writes to the Post endorsing a recent article about the Cambridge night cars serving the route to run to the stables on North Avenue. He notes his need to reach town after the last car has departed for the terminus and praises the service.
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