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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1899
Page
7
The SUNDAY POST surveys employment prospects highlighting insurance as a lucrative path for ambitious women. It notes abundant opportunities, high earnings potential, and urges readers to consider this career as a smart choice for ambitious young women.
A notable Boston political figure, termed a mayor maker, is described as highly influential yet little discussed. The Sunday Post highlights his career, motives, and successes as a compelling chapter in local politics.
The Sunday Post previews the interior of the Masonic Temple with photo panels of the magnificent halls. Access is restricted to members, but readers will see the interiors as half tone images in next Sunday's issue.
Mayor signs order granting Boston Transit Company permission to run 20 to 22 passenger motor omnibuses on three routes from St Mary street Beacon to Sudbury and return. The firm plans battery powered buses with possible gasoline option and target start after delivery.
George J Gould opens his Georgian Court casino at Lakewood New Jersey to a private audience tomorrow night. The private palace features a polo ring bowling alley shooting gallery handball tennis racquet courts billiards Turkish and Russian baths gymnasium and 40 guest rooms. A sixty by twenty five foot cement pool with glazed brick and a skylit roof anchors the recreation complex.
The article reports on extended engagements of Japanese players at Tremont Theatre with new shows and postponements to next week, notes upcoming Boston debuts of The Loyal Wife and Three Colors and Soga, and mentions cancellations and additions across major houses, including Kilmer, Lederer, and various players.
Miss Emeline Miller cousin of the Goulds with an estimated fortune of four million dollars is now an inmate of the Hudson River State Hospital at Poughkeepsie. Her mental decline followed grief over her mother, also a patient there. A committee was appointed to manage her estate after proceedings before Judge Sanderson in Worth Mill.
Fall River mill workers received raises under a new pay schedule including Arkwright Sanford Fall River Durfee and Flint mills. Over the next days seventeen mill corporations will pay off Friday fourteen Saturday seven, totaling print cloth workers. The quarterly dividends for Fall River mills show an average 8 percent yearly return to stockholders, with Narragansett and Barnard mills voting 2 percent.
South Berwick Mo December 2 The Newichawanick Woollen Mills Company announces wage advances for Monday January 1. The move returns pay scale to the level of 1892 before the industrial slump. The mills employ about 1% workers.
A notice at Talbot woollen mills in North Billerica states all employees will receive a wage increase on January 1 1900. The mill employs about 300 workers with Treasurer F Clark noting the raise will lift wages to the highest level paid by comparable companies.
A meeting of the Scottish Liberal Associations voted confidence in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman after delegates criticized the source of the resolution. Delegates cited pressure from the local association rather than the executive committee and noted Lord Rosebery's threat to resign membership if the resolution was adopted.
President Samuel Gompers and key officers were re elected unanimously at the AFL convention in Detroit. James Duncan of Boston named second vice president, with multiple officers named from Philadelphia Chicago Indianapolis Denver and Washington. Louisville Ky was chosen as next meeting site and a resolution praised shoe firms Grover and Douglas for upholding contracts and supporting union enforcement.
The store displays a vast Christmas array in its windows and on the first floor including toys dolls and games for children silk and cotton handkerchiefs china and glassware medicines perfumes and a large collection of books. A prescription counter offers lower prices and Roger Gollett perfumes are heavily featured. A personal visit is urged to appreciated the display and variety.
The Hollis Street Theatre hosts E. H. Sothern and Virginia Harned in Hauptmann's The Sunken Bell, a German classic sung in English for the first time with a Meltzer adaptation and new incidental music by Aime Lachaume. Arizona at the Tremont draws many theatre professionals to see Augustus Thomas's new work, as managers Schoeffel and Shelle extend invitations to critics and stars for a highly applauded matinee.
Substantial public interest surrounds E E Rices Christmas special Little Red Riding Hood at Hollis Street Theatre. Advance ticket sales show steady demand and readers respond to a free illustrated booklet offer for children. Madge Lessing stars as Little Boy Blue alongside Ethel Jackson as Little Red Riding Hood.
An advertisement from a medical institute promotes a claimed blood poison cure and free trial treatments. It touts rapid healing of mouth sores throat ulcers and skin symptoms and urges readers to request a free trial by mail, promising privacy and no travel needed.
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