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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1891
Page
6
Lady Jephson and Fraulein Barkany highlight a feature on women in art and fashion. The piece covers Worth as fashion autocrat, census women in data work, and portraits of Marie Barkany arriving in New York alongside other European artists and royal mentions.
The piece chronicles Mrs Isabel Mallon receiving a gold watch from George W Childs engraved with monogram and date, Sylvia Gerrish’s small satin slippers tied to sea voyages, Miss Alice Rideout’s accidentally sparked modeling career, Miss Florence Kallock’s cozy church study, Sister Rose Gertrude Amy Fowler’s leprosy mission marriage to Dr Lutz, and notes on her Papal blessing.
A Buenos Aires resident reports dire conditions in Argentina with locusts, labor shortages, and crime as Italians depart in October. Wages stay low and gold prices rise while troops police the capital. The old Tallapoosa remains docked, condemned yet unsold, in Montevideo amid slow government action and costly upkeep.
The First Regiment Athletic Association opens its first indoor handicap meet at South Armory Irvington street on Saturday January 23. Events include sprints distance runs hurdles wrestling and field events with prizes cups and entry fees. handicapping by H S Cornish and entries close January 16, 1892 with Charles Wiggin Cambridgeport.
Yesterday afternoon James H. Kelley a 46 year old colored hostler at Vinal's livery on Scotia street Back Bay struck Thomas Melville with a pitchfork handle during a quarrel. Melville was badly hurt and taken to City Hospital in an ambulance from Station 4. Kelley was arrested by Division 16 officers.
An 6:30 a.m. alarm at Box 84 reported a rear fire at 71 Highland Street owned by Thomas Hanon. The blaze started from an overheated stove and during the incident police seized a quantity of liquor at the scene.
The Rev Stopford Wentworth Brooke of New England delivers a Christmas sermon at First Church of Boston. He argues Christ’s birth came quietly, not ostentatiously, and stresses a pure life, love and virtue as the path to happiness, urging believers to remove temptation and live righteously.
The Trinity church crowded to doors as Bishop Brooks preached from the text Where is he that is born the King of the Jews. Decorations were simple evergreen trees adorned the chancel. Music included Te Deum in G and Benedictus while crowds waited for seats.
Prisoners at the State prison in Charles Town attended a 9 30 chapel service and a 10 30 yard entertainments with games and a pork dinner at noon. Gifts arrived for inmates though Dunlap’s clemency case loomed. Local performers Miss Nellie Miles Miss Marion Louise Warren and others provided the program to the welcome crowd.
The Rev. Brooke Herford spoke on Paul’s plea that Christ may dwell in the heart by faith. He urged quiet lessons over heroics, emphasizing Christ as one who did good, not only as crucified, and reflected on the measure of inner place versus public memorials.
A meditation on the real Christ dwelling in human hearts, focusing on humility, doing good, and justice. The piece contrasts the lordly priesthood with the humble Christ who moves souls to mercy and higher ideals. The Boston Young Women’s Christian Association kept Christmas meals sparse as boarders, many students at home, with Berkeley Street noting a quiet scene and an “Old Folks’ Concert” event.
A man who registered as Thomas Hebert at the Hotel Marion in Providence on Christmas day died by his own action through asphyxiation. He was found on a locked room bed with gas on full blast after staff investigated a strong odor. Hebert, 47 Appleton Street, Providence, wore a black suit and derby. Medical Examiner notified. body turned over to the undertaker.
The Pitou stock company presents Clyde Fitchs new society drama A Modern Match at Hollis Street Theatre Monday night. Set in New Yorks Our Hundred, the plot centers on a Wall Street banking failure with four social principals and three couples of young lovers. The cast features leading actors and actresses, promising a polished dramatic experience with no true villain, and a happy ending as crime is punished.
The new St Augustine Episcopal Church on Phillips street opened for public services on Christmas Eve led by Rev. C N Field. A special service with Bishop Brooks will be held January 6. The boy choir, led by Lay Reader W A Nichols, marks the city's first colored boys choir in church history.
In Boston on December 26 1891 brokers rested while bulls may resume with open exchanges abroad. The Bond Market notes a strong week with $14.6 million in NYSE bonds traded versus prior weeks and year ago activity. Clews & Co. cites improving foreign markets and unsettled Pacifc politics. Russia and Great Britain shape risks in China and the Pamir. Boston market expected to rise after new clearinghouse rules roll out, copper stocks seen to move with Societe des Metaux sale. Analysts caution that a boom may pause and profits should be partly booked as markets reverse.
In a buoyant market, Asawit notes ongoing January boom as prices rise toward next Monday. Watson and Gibson caution that continued uptrends likely, but overtrading may trigger a halt and retrograde move unless an unforeseen unfavorable event occurs. Taintor and Holt echo that the market rests on sound support and a prolonged campaign could resist corrective dips.
A garbled historical ledger lists dividends and preferred shares across many companies and railroads. It notes percent and amount figures, payment dates in January and February, and includes entities such as Boston, Chicago, Delaware, Lake Shore, Michigan Central, and Procter & Gamble among others.
A revived anti Vieveland effort appears as a new Democratic club aimed at older Bay State Democrats. Prominent figures linked include Judge Abbott ex Health Commissioner William Caylor and Ex Health Commissioner William Taylor as organizers. The move, linked to Boston Democrats, faces weak support and may fade like the prior effort once public scrutiny arrives.
Nearly one hundred ragged children from Huntington avenue filed into Kate Ryan’s Boston Museum Company home for a Christmas tree party prepared with Annie Blanche of the County Fair company. Sixty or more North End youngsters received gifts, clothing, ice cream, cake, fruit, and candy amid singing, recitations, and dancing, making the day a merry Christmas.
On Saturday January 30 the Boston Athletic Association stages a special tournament with prizes in the 115 135 and 158 pound classes for men who have never won in an open boxing event. Entries close January 5 and prizes hinge on at least four entrants per class. Send entries to H S Cornish Exeter Street Boston Mass.
John Smith, 29, a ped dler, died instantly when he fell from a buggy driven by Kelley on the way to New Bedford at the Westport factory. Kelley tried to place Smith back in the buggy but failed. Smith lay dead when help arrived. Medical Examiner Dolan ordered removal to J W Sullivan's undertaking rooms. cause to be determined tomorrow. Both men were intoxicated.
A dated notice lists multiple securities and assets including Manhattan Cattle Co collateral, Kansas Investment Co orders, Amory Manufacturing Co shares, Fort Scott mortgage, and various bank and railroad stocks. It references executor and administrator actions with dates around 1891 to 1918 and names numerous financial institutions and companies.
The article notes the final showings of A Sailor's Knot at the Museum this afternoon and evening, with Monday December 28 introducing the annual dramatic season. The run continues through January 2 with Holcroft's The Road to Ruin, followed by The School for Scandal, marking Annie Clarke's annual benefit.
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