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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
4
An emotional hospital vignette follows a young woman ill in a South Boston ward. Dr Canton aids her as hope returns slowly, sharing a bond with the recovering patient and revealing the mother’s death and orphaned status behind her illness.
In the Independent's next issue Alfred Austin, English Poet Laureate, publishes a four stanza poem “Spartan Mothers” about the Transvaal war. The verses praise the sister wife and widow, urging steadfast sacrifice and the fallen soldier’s ascent to God. The lines include the sister’s sigh and the widow’s wail as motivators for men to march and endure.
A collage of notes mentions an American Germanic museum plan with reproductions from the sixteenth century, a large tea cargo landing at New York Harbor on the China Navigation steamer Suey, and plans for a bell making revolution with tubular bells. Also referenced are a German postage stamp issue, a dam project at Gouldsboro, and a local church fund, with scattered items about stamps, postcards, and naval transport.
American Historical Society members welcomed by Governor Wolcott in South Congregational Church. Rhodes delivers inaugural address praising Thucydides and Tacitus as great historians. Readings and papers noted as sessions proceed with city greetings and library tours.
The Portuguese Republican Club of Boston held a jolification meeting at 164 Hanover Street with about fifty members present. Attendees included M. R. Serpa, A. A. Pinhero, M. J. Duvrell, A. A. Perry and M. J. Cosmo. Officers urged continued good work and announced another meeting planned soon.
151 Maine victims arrived in Washington from Havana on a six car train. They will lie in open tents at Arlington Cemetery with simple rites as President and Cabinet attend. One body, Frederick Holzer, will be buried in New York after disinterment in Colon.
New York December 27 Roland Reed comedian removed from his home to St Luke's Hospital with suspected appendicitis. Surgeons found cancer of the stomach. He rallied considerably today.
Raverhill Dec 27 Horace Bartlett associate justice of the Central District Court died after a long illness. Bartlett was a law partner of Congressman W H Moody of the Sixth Essex district. May marry civilly General Otis authorized civil marriages in the Philippines and Root approved lifting Catholic Church restriction.
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