Pioneer of Methodism at Bromfield Street Church
The New England Methodist Historical Society met at 36 Bromfield street with President L. R. Thayer in the chair. Rev. W. S. Haven spoke on the Bromfield Street Church history, noting founders like Samuel Burrill and Jesse Lee, early buildings, and debts overcome. The talk covered pastors from Jayne to the 19th century and the church’s broader influence on Boston Methodism and education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Methodist Historical Society
Bromfield Street
L. R. Thayer
E. A. Manning
Alexander Hobbs
Milton
W.N. Brodbeck
Boston
Frederick W. Pitkins
Colorado
Pueblo
William Ingraham Heaven
Newton
Old North Church
Sheafe Street
Samuel Barritt
Jesse Lee Hell
Samuel Burrill
Methodist Episcopal Church of
Ingraham’s Yard
Methodist Alley
Hanover Avenue
Little Society
William Hall Jackson
Thomas Clark
Bromfield Lane
Stooo
Peter Jayne
Samuel Merwin
Daniel Webb
Amos Binney
Berlin
Milan
France
Order In
Great Britain
United States
New England
Barnard
George Pickering
Delaware River
Elijah Hedding
Daniel Fillmore
William Motley
Freeman Place
Mr. Haven
Bromfield Street Society
New York
Philadelphia
Calais
Hirjsh R. Sabin
Massachusetts House of Representatives
J. N. Moffit
Moffit
North Bennett Street
Church Street
North Russell Street
Grace Church
Temple Street
Odeon
Franklin and
Federal Streets
St. John’s
Baker, Ames, Scott and Simpson
Haven
Thomas Patten
David Patten
George Sutherland
Thomas Genall
William True
Milton Daggett
Edward T. Taylor
Charles K. Trae
D.D
John Marsh
Isaac Ric’a
Sarah
Hewes
Hancock
Wesley
Elizabeth Munroe
Munroe
Ann Noble
Wesleyan University
Boston University
Isaac Rich
Nathaniel Bowditch
Mt. Auburn
Ball Hughes
Hughes
Bromfield Street Church
Brookline May Vote on Beacon Street Relocation Plan
Brookline citizens gathered to consider an article in the town warrant authorizing the selectmen to petition the General Court for authority to relocate or widen Beacon Street, to alter grades, discontinue segments, and for Brookline to accept such changes with town betterments. The meeting chose Colonel Talbot as moderator, heard speeches for and against, debated appointment of a committee, and then unanimously voted to dissolve.
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Brookline
Hiall
General Court of
Beacon Street
Aso
Beazeon Street
Thomas H. Talbot
K. F. Baker
Francis W. Lawrence
Henrym. Whitney
Messrs
C. C. Soule
Oscar Morey
E.S. Philbrick
C. A. Cotting
Hall Rice
Dana Eustis
Fitzgerald
Fay
Jones
Henry
W. H. Lincoln
Messrs. Rice
Eustis
Whitney
Hall
Lincoln
Whitney Syndicate
William Aspinwall
Mr. Aspinwall
McCormick
Senate
House OF Representatives
Boston Consolidated Street Railway Company
Cambridge
Somerville
Chelsea
Boston Consolidated ST. Railway CO
Charles E. Powers
Boston
Apollo Club Presents Antigone With Mendelssohn Music
The Apollo Club's hundredth and second season concert filled Music Hall last evening. George Riddle read Sophocles Antigone while B. J. Lang conducted a full orchestra. Mendelssohn's score provided a moving tragedy with sympathetic tones. The choir delivered solidly tuned choruses with careful rehearsals. minor hesitations appeared in the second chorus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Hall
Apollo Club
Sophocles
Antigone
Mendelssohn
George Riddle
B. J. Lang
Mr. Riddle
Pacchus
Aldermen Favor Builders Over City In Street Safety Debate
The Boston aldermen upheld a petition from the Master Builders Association opposing a new ordinance requiring covered sidewalks. They argued the measure endangers pedestrians and delays building, calling for repeal or revision and suggesting coverings only after superstructure completion. Mayor O'Brien and Aldermen Carroll and Coe traded sharp remarks as committee reports and budget actions proceeded.
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Board of Aldermen
Alderman Allen
Master Builders’ Association
Builders’ Association
Common Council
Carroll
Wilson
Ward 9
Court and
Devonshire Streets
Committee On Streets
Coe
O’brien
Ella H. Flavel
Corporation Counsel
Webster Street
Bunker Hill
Medford
Sackville Street
Committee On
Alderman Maguire
Stony Brook
Roxbury
Committee On Sewers
East Boston Ferries
Freeman
Allen
Cole
Joint Standing Committee
Washington Street
State
Milk
Time Ball Drops At Noon In Front Of Shuman’s Store
A time ball placed atop the clock column of Messrs A Shuman Company at 440 Washington Street dropped exactly at noon with near perfect accuracy. The device, wired to the Cambridge Observatory, was tested with local businesses and is intended to help pedestrians set watches and clocks daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. A. Shuman & Co
Washington Street
Not a full headline item present Hale's Honey cough cure ad
An advertising fragment lists remedies with prices including Hale's Honey cough cure Glenn's Sulphur Soap German Corn Remover Hill's Hair Dye Pike's Toothache Drops Bean's Rheumatic Pills with noted prices in cents and dollars in a short old-fashioned ad layout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hale
Glenn
Hill
Pike
Bean
Old Time Headgear of Women in Huguenot Tales
A 1581 Huguenot controversy in Montauban over wire frames for women's headdresses recalls Mme Mornay and her refusal to remove her hair for communion. Similar disputes with Mme de Lamy over the farthingale show fashion clashing with church authority, as recounted in Professor Baird's The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montauban
Michel Bérault
Duplessis Mornay
Mme. Mornay
Germany
England
Netherlands
M.de Rogier
Mme. de Lamy
Professor Baird
Henry of Navarre
Cor’s Cough Balsam Outpaces Cough Says Vendors
Merchants report Cor's Cough Balsam effectively quiets coughs with widespread buyer praise. The remedy is priced at 35 cents and available at druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruggists
Harvard Catalogue Reveals Student Totals and Endowed Scholarships
The official Harvard University catalogue reports 1688 enrolled students after duplications and 76 in two summer chemistry and botany courses. It lists 179 teachers and staff, notes emeritus professors Henry W. Torrey and James Russell Lowell, and records three new scholarships: the Class of 1867 and two George Emerson Lowell Scholarships, each worth 200 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard University
Divinity School
Law School
Scientific School
Medical School
Dental
Bussey Institute
School of Veterinary Medicine
Henry W
Samuel Hoar
Lowell
George Emerson Lowell
Concord Antiquarian Society Formed for Local History
The Concord group led by George M. Brooks and other prominent figures has been granted a charter to form the Concord Antiquarian Society. The organization aims to collect objects of historical interest from towns within the old Concord limits. Brooks elected president, Arthur G. Fuller secretary, Henry J. Hosmer treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Brooks
Henry J. Hosmer
Arthur G. Fuller
Samuel Hoar
George Tolman
Charles H. Walcott
Edward W. Emerson
Edwin S. Barrett
Edward C. Damon
Alfred Munroe
R. B. Joyce
Ebenezer R. Hoar
Richard F. Barrett
John S. Keyes
George Reynolds
Concord
Boston Theatres Show Harbor Lights Mikado and More
Listings note Harbor Lights at Boston Museum and Mikado at Globe Theatre with 7:45 pm start times. Fark Theatre presents A Tin Soldier at 8 pm. Boston Theatre stages Black Crook at 7:45 pm. Bijou Theatre offers The Martyr daily at 2 pm and 8 pm. Hollis Street Theatre shows Adonis at 7:45 pm. Howard Athenaeum presents Corner Grocery at 8 pm.
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Boston Museum
Harbor Lights
GLOBE
FARK
Boston
BIJOU
Hollis Street
Howard Athena‘sum—‘‘Corner
Real Estate and Stock Auction Offers This Week
Fruit-loratio Harris and Co announce 12 m. property sales. R Knights and Co hold 3 p.m. property sales. R L Day and Co schedule 11:30 a.m. stock sale and Francis Henshaw and Co unit stock sale at noon on Wednesday.
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Loratio Harris & Co
S. R. Knights & Co
R. L. Day & Co
Francis Henshaw & Co
Phillips-Byther wedding announcement in Boston
In this city, December 8, by the Rev. F. L. Hayes, Mr. Edward Phillips to Miss Carrie E. Byther, both of Boston. The ceremony marked a union of two Boston residents with family and friends in attendance.
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Phillips—Byther
F. L. Hayes
Edward
Phillips
Carrie E. Byther
Boston
Obituaries from Boston Area Dec. 16 19 Dec. 19
Notices list multiple deaths across Massachusetts cities and states including Allen J Bacon in Orient Heights East Boston Susan F Baxter in South Boston infant son of James and Flora Pinney Carl Pruefer Hannah B Sweetser Sylvester P Cutler Harriet Folsom Susie M Gilmour Charlotte E R Graupner Sarah Leavitt Elizabeth Peters Menard Margaret S Palfrey Louisa Roberts and others aged 53 8 69 years 9 months and varying dates in mid December no other details provided
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Bacon
Orient Heights
Boston
Allen J. Bacon
Baxter
South Boston
Susan F. Baxter
Pinney
Charlestown
James
Flora Pinney
Pruefer
Boston Highlands
Carl Pruefer
Sweetser
Hannah B. Sweetser
Cutler
Woburn
Sylvester P. Cutler
Folsom
Washington, D. C
Harriet Josephine Folsom
Gilmour
Cambridgeport
Susie M
William J
Annie Gilmour
Graupner
South Natick
Charlotte E. R. Graupner
Leavitt
Hampton
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Methodism
W. S. Haven
Mr. Wilson
McDonald
Statistics OF Harvard
Concord Historical Society
Gednewy House
Broadway
Fortieth Street
Metropolitan Opera House
Casino
Macauley & Bowers
Gor
Federal
Franklin
Charles Dickens
Simmons’ & Co
G. W. Simmons & CO
Mass
Charles L. Bly
Stearns & George
Telegraph & Telephone Line
Pearl ST
Chichester
Chichester Chemical (Co
Penn
Jocket
Aaron R. Gay & CO
State Streeh
Holiday Goons
Centlemen
N. E
Geo. Steck
Tremont Street
E. W. Tyler
Musical Publications
Young Preople
Price
Eugene Tompkins
Theatre
Kiralfy Bros
Crook
Boston Theatre
American Opera
Theodore Thomas
Charles E. Locke
Crand! Opera
Faust
Orpheus
Aida
Jeannete
Rubinsteig
Sylvia
Delibes
Ieee
Hollis Street Theatre
Isaac B. Rich
Chris Ema
King Winter
Urbino
Oliver Ditson , Co
Insurance
China
State Street
Baring Brothers & Co
London
William Perkens
George L. Deblois
Boylston
Kilby Street
J. W. Balch
W. Glover
The
American Insurance Con
Countina House of Messrs
George Croshaw & CO
Francis Peabody
J. W. Field
Henry S. Bean
Ny Dixey
Brice & Cen Y Burlesque Co
Adonis
Newell
R. M. Field
Willian Gillette
Patey
Sol Smith Russell
Bijou Theatre
Errr Martyf
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Wilhelm Gericke
Mme. Fursch-Madi
Medea
Brahms
Magallar
Parker & 60
Kullberg
Paris
Victor Kullberg
James Poole & CO
WM. Bond & Son
Florida
Silver Springs Park
R. R
James T. Crown
Atlantic National Bank
L. N. Mowry
Washington St
Old South Church
John Jeffries & Sons
Devonshire Street
Connecticut
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
Seth Hunt
Springfield
Boston Marine Insurance Company
Yhos
H. Lord
Metropolitan Railroad
C. Boardman
OLD Colony Railroad Company
Navy
John M. Washburn
Norwich & Worcester Railroad
Ctd
Norwich, Conn
Second National Bank
G. L. Perkins
Plantic & Pacific
Kidder, Peabody & CO
Kiddeer, Peabody & CO
A. & P. Railroad Co
Monroe Eraser Company
Main Street
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Iowa Loan and Trust Company
Chemical National Bank
Freeman A. Smiuch
Tremont Temple
Stetson, Moseley & Co
Wharf and Dock
E Street
Kilby St
Huckins & TO. Mill
Border Street
East Beeston
State St
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Milk Street
Epps
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps
Homeopathic Chemists
Faneuil Hall
Nila
J. H. Ashton
Merchants’ Row
Chickering Hall
Kneisel Quartet
Mr. Xaver Reiter
Max Zach
Mendelssohn , Brahms
Schumann
Howard Athen4ium
Sally
Attle
Gettysburg
the Weekly Post
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