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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1910
Page
6
Interest in the Opera Seat Contest grows as letters pour in praising Boston's opera. Citizens from Charlestown and Brockton say the arts boost culture, morals, and public taste while elevating the city’s reputation and audience attendance.
J. M. K. Boston notes that opera develops noble impulses and that institutions offering top operas with world class singers uplift the community. The Boston Opera Company is delivering such benefit by popularizing the finest music through performances and education.
The editor praises Boston opera for feeding hungry minds with master works by world renowned artists. It highlights ear training and wit taste for classics in music and literature, eye culture as windows of the soul, and the city’s reputation for fine performance and scholarship.
Editor notes that the development of character remains the world’s greatest concern, expressing a belief in moral progress through arts and culture.
L M G Fast notes the Boston opera elevates the city’s world standing as a great musical centre, offers excellent performances at fair prices, and supports local students and industries while adding to Boston’s architectural merit and commercial life.
Mayor John F Fitzgerald submits suggestions to General Bancroft of the Boston Elevated Railway. He asks open gates at Boylston Street and Scollay Square and Brattle Street, keep North Station shed gate open all night, and run Charlestown and Cambridge night cars to Pleasant Street for five cents.
Inspec tors Smith and Burr arrested Daniel Teehan of Roxbury near Hollis and Washington streets after he allegedly stole firearms. A dozen or more revolvers and automatics were recovered from his pockets and from the snow along the Mall. Teehan, found with about $140 worth of shooting hardware, was held on larceny charges.
Russell Peabody, prominent Yale senior, left Yale voluntarily after a midnight car ride with Benjamin Thompson and two Bridgeport dressmakers ended in a trolley collision that killed Mrs. Jessie Saunders. Thompson is crippled. Peabody returned to campus later as his father said he needs a year’s rest. A coroner’s jury absolved him but he is to testify at the motorman’s trial.
Witnesses from the company testified the Grape-Nuts Postum and Post Toasties supply used only printed ingredients and no foreign substances. They described artesian-well water sources, clean ovens and floors, strict clothing hygiene, and workers with 10 to 15 years at the firm using the products at home.
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