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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1892
Page
5
Steamship Cherokee of the Clyde line departed Jacksonville on Monday December 19 for New York with 185000 boxes of oranges for the holiday trade. It carried 185 cases of cigars 100 bales of tobacco 146000 feet of lumber 5000 bundles of shingles 1600 bales of cotton and other freight, the largest fruit cargo ever shipped from the port.
The British schooner Glendon bound for St Johns collided with the Calais Me schooner A L Perry off Fort Schuyler. Glendon returned to New York for repairs while Perry was beached to avoid sinking.
De Wolf Hopper and company present the comic opera Wang at the Globe Theatre for twelve nights and four matinees with Della Fox and the original supporting cast. Elmer E. Vance's The Limited Mail plays Bowdoin Square with grand scenic effects. The Bostonians revive Robin Hood at Tremont with a starry cast and a Festive holiday program at multiple Boston venues.
The Boston social and musical worlds are stirred by Ignacy Jan Paderewski taking up residence in the U S Mrs Gardner has also returned adding to the social chatter A New York periodical notes Miss Helen Leah Reed writing on Boston women Mrs Langtry is reported dangerously ill in London but friends expect recovery Mrs Sims of San Francisco runs a major schooner business guiding operations after her father’s illness and agent mismanagement sparked a shift to direct leadership by her.
The piece notes a growing trend of curtaining in households as autumn arrives. It contrasts past values of health and simplicity with modern style, describing the elegant housewife retreating behind lace and silk screens as shade is drawn down an inch.
In a period voice the author narrates drapery and window fabric details, noting how a man seeks light by lifting shades. The passage contrasts masculine practicality with feminine concerns about health and beauty amid decorative interiors.
The article highlights women as traveling salesdrummers who dominate field possession with men. One top drummer, representing a paint company, records orders totaling about 200000 over years. A satin advertising banner seller visits Western hotels. Another stylish young woman sells lace to wholesalers, and a blonde perfumes in Chicago houses.
The Handel and Haydn Society will present The Messiah at Music Hall on Christmas night with Emma Juch soprano Parker tenor and D M Babcock bass. A fine Symphony Concert is offered this evening. Cyril Tyler sells concert sexts for Tremont Theatre show tomorrow and Wolff Hollman plan a Hollis Street Theatre event next Thursday afternoon. The Kneisel Quartet schedules another concert Monday. Manager Bingham’s Lyceum Theatre program Sunday features Bijou Trio McAllister dissolving views Havens Brannigan Irish songs Nellie St John Mary Walsh Alf Turner M Madden and other artists.
Wing Lee, eighty three days jailed in Charles Street for debt, seeks relief via three oath applications. Judge Burge will rule next Tuesday on the latest bid after creditors claim a $108 41 debt. He has hired three lawyers, pays high fees, and claims no money to settle. He ran a small Lynn laundry and previously lived at 16 Harrison Avenue. He faces Christmas behind bars with a sheriff turkey dinner in store.
Chicago news reports General Rosecranz is very ill at the Auditorium Hotel. The article states hopes he will recover enough by Sunday night to resume the journey to California.
A Bar Harbor, Maine dwelling named the Old Salisbury House on Eden Street was burned this afternoon. Owned by Mrs. Pike of Philadelphia and occupied by Willard and David Baywood as a boarding house, the blaze started from a defective flue in the ell. Household effects were saved.
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