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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1892
Page
5
During the holiday season Chandler and Co offer fine goods in this law notice. Ladies cotton skirts in lace and embroidery designs, plus ladies flannel skirts in white and tan shades. All are new and fresh and should sell at sight.
Christmas selections now ready in ladies goods with prices from 25s to 5.00. Styles considered loveliest and chosen among the choicest. Men’s initial linen handkerchiefs 25c and 50c. Men’s initial silk handkerchiefs 50c and 1.00. Men’s colored bordered handkerchiefs in silk and linen 25c to 50c.
Boston audiences will see Joseph Haworth in The Crust of Society and Oliver St Aubyn in The People’s King, with George Richards as Mink Jones in A Temperance Town. Charles Hoyt directs A Temperance Town at Park Theatre as Babes in the Wood tours, while DeWolf Hopper leads Wang at the Globe Theatre. Multiple attractions, matinees, and a busy holiday bill fill theatres from the Tremont to the Grand Opera House.
In Boston for twenty years the Society to Encourage Studies at Home runs from Miss A. E. Ticknor’s 41 Marlboro Street headquarters. The group, older than Chautauqua, has about 500 students and 200 volunteer teachers across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Work is by correspondence, reaching isolated farms and towns. books are lent to students lacking local libraries and initial study focuses on history and literature.
Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton read a paper before the New England Women’s Peace Association at the Parker House yesterday. Mrs Martha Swan celebrated her 100th birthday on December 17 at Lee Massachusetts, born in Methuen and formerly a Philadelphia resident. Mrs Charles Henrpten, VP of the Women’s Congresses of the Columbian Exposition, visited New York on related business. Mrs Gladstone, wife of William Ewart Gladstone, is a property owner at Niagara Falls Ontario and votes for mayor and council in the later name appears on the veterans list.
The New England Women's Press Association met at Parker House for its monthly gathering. Seventy five members attended along with guests including Mrs Ronald Stewart Mrs Stoughton of Washington D C Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton Miss Otis of Crust of Society company and Miss Eva Petty of South Carolina. The event was social with no business and a High Tea at 6 followed by recitations and music led by president Estelle W H Merrill. Miss Haritta Cheney sang during the musical program.
An effective walking costume features Havana silk with embroidery applique on the bodice and sleeves. The capote is adorned with the favorite Me phisto and made of black tulle and jet.
A rich afternoon concert features Wolff and Holman with Dyas and Spencer. Brahms, Ries, Faure, Bach, Davidoff pieces highlighted. Jenny Spencer and Fanny Myers among assisting artists. Also notes on Bostonians Tremont season and Handel and Haydn Society Christmas performance plans.
A survey of 1892 children’s books includes Babyland volumes from Dol. Lothrop & Co and Our Little Men and Women from the same publisher. The notice praises illustrated editions, frontispieces, and Christmas gift appeal, noting fables, verses, natural history, and companion works. It highlights Irving’s Life and First Voyage of Christopher Columbus as well.
Scribner’s offers a Christmas programme featuring essays fiction and verse with illustrations by Will H Low F D Miller Kenyon Cox and H H Boyesen Archibald Forbes provides an historic essay and fiction from George W Cable Margaret S Briscoe Octave Thanet George A Hibbard E S Martin George O Putnam and Mme de Meissner The January Donahoe’s Magazine promises timely Catholic content while The Very Rev William Byrne will interpret inBoston.
In this city on December 17, the Rev. William T. Lambourne officiated as Ernest Eisner wed Helen M. Gardner and George White married Lula Bean.
Deaths listing Herbert T. Allen and dozens of others across Brookline Cambridge Chelsea East Boston and Charlottetown include ages from 23 to 82 with line items for spouses parents and locations. Notables: Dr D Mark Edgerly 53 Cambridge and Ade line Sturtevant widow Adeline 73 Brookline.
Richard Orr and Emma D. Grimes are listed alongside Carl Edland and Helena Lundstrom and others, including John McLauguin and Mary Doherty. The group also features George F. Pruett with Margaret A. Canley and Elisha Carpenter with Kate Shelnon among several additional couples and individuals.
In this city. Dec. 19, by Rev. 8. 8. Nickerson, William Pyne and Annie Roper. In this city, Dec. 17, by Rev. C. P. Johansson, Libert Reenstierna and Bertha Harnuqvist.
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