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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
8
A fairy tale production presented yesterday afternoon in Mechanics Hall transformed the bare hall into a forest dell. Fays, sprites, dryads, and gnomes entered to delighted audience responses. Fairy queen presided as scenes unfolded in the long awaited performance by Laura C Hills' team.
In his defense McCrillis asserts discharge came after threats over his failure to back a congressional nomination. He claims he never faced charges for shortages and argues he had a right to retain tax payments until the full amount was collected, citing a Gloucester case and noting small sums recovered. The U S Court hearing continued into the following day.
Sophie Maloof, a Syrian beauty, faced matrimonial troubles aired before Judge Dewey. After the hearing, a family altercation in the court corridor left Sophie with a black eye. Witnesses say the dispute arose outside the courtroom as Sophie’s relatives debated continuing the case. A petition for annulment of the marriage will be filed at once.
The Police Board named twenty four reserve officers to divisions including Station 1 through Station 14 and Station 16. Patrolman John W. Lathrop moved from Division 4 to Division 16. The bulk of reserves to Division 9 is seen as an effort to curb robberies that have plagued the district for two months.
An Election Board inquiry follows a yesterday attempt to locate Robert McKirdy whose name appears on Ward 8 ballots. He served as clerk of Precinct 1 Ward 8 on election day with a warden, but his residence lists and directory records conflict, including 11 Bowdoin Street and unrelated local inquiries.
Police search for Susig Krekorian a 17 year old Armenian girl last seen at South Terminal station on Wednesday. Her brother reported the disappearance to police headquarters yesterday afternoon.
The Bo Dealers Association held its annual dinner last evening at the Hotel Bellevue. Fifty five members attended with John A. Stetson presiding.
Saturday at 2 30 pm a notable audience included Mrs J Montgomery Sears Miss Sears Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton Mrs James T Field Miss Jewett Mrs Margaret Deland Mrs Henry Whitman and many others listed among a crowd of prominent society figures from Boston and nearby towns. The roster names women and men of varied standing plus several titled figures and professional leaders.
A major blaze in Portland Maine began at 12:30 in the cellar of the Rines block on Congress Street. It threatens the C S Woolworth five and ten cent store and the Samuel Rosenberg clothing shop, with flames crossing a wooden partition toward the Aldo Hotel owned by Colonel Fred Dow.
The body of Charles F. Morrill former cashier of the National Bank of the Commonwealth arrived from Buenos Aires and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery Manchester. Services were brief with Rev B W Lockhart officiating and bearers including Charles W. Bickford and Harry T. Lord. Morrill left Manchester in July 1893 amid the city panic and later died in Argentina from a fall.
A basement fire in a three story brick block owned by the General Kimball estate at Limerock and Main streets in Rockland Maine threatens total loss. Occupants include G H Wiggins drug store and P H Donahue drug store, with Limerock National Bank likely to be destroyed. The blaze started just before 8 o clock Friday morning and caused extensive damage across the block.
A poem preserving a sentiment of awaiting revival as a beloved person rests. The speaker insists she is not dead but sleeps, promising reunion when morning comes and she awakens radiant with light, awaiting his embrace. The verse ends with the signature P. Thomas Stanford.
Mrs. Jennie Hartwell describes impulsive elopement with Arthur W. White from 74 Hane Street Allston and arrest in Fall River. Bond set at 500 dollars for both. she returns home reconciled with husband Mr Hartwell who forgives and hopes for a brighter future. Hartwell mother laments son’s imprisonment as she weeps.
Mrs. John Hi. Lee of 187 Huntington Avenue says the Mona Ryle keeping story is sensationalism and born of nothing more than sensationalism. The despatch from New Haven reports the effort to keep the child at home amid public interest.
A Washington Iowa message reports fifty-one school children skating on the river near Foster Iowa when the ice broke and forty-nine were drowned.
Mayor Hart approved the Board of Aldermen action naming the Bennnington and Preserdt streets junction square Day Square in memory of the district's late Alderman Frederick W. Day. Thomas J. Giblin, former Alderman candidate, credited for mobilizing the Citizens Trade Association to push the naming forward.
Former Representative Franklin Old Barnes a well known Chel sea resident and familiar to state politicians died at his Everett avenue home last night.
A court hearing features Hartwell willing to let the speaker return while discussing the fate of a jailed young man. Mrs White and Mrs Hartwell interrupt as the mother of the boy defends her son, arguing blame should be shared and punishment should be balanced if Hartwell’s ally is punished.
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