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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1903
Page
5
The Boston Post invites readers across New England to submit photos and a 200 word sketch of the oldest married couple by age combined. Include birth and marriage dates, address, children, and life details. The chosen couple will receive a Morris Chair and Rocking Chair, with delivery prepaid.
An overflowing crowd watches Jacques D'Oro as Don Jose and Signora Rene as Carmen in a passionate performance. Intrigue offstage hints at past love and rivalries, culminating in a climactic onstage tragedy as jealousy and betrayal lead to murder.
A romance of the navy is announced with Miss Edith Barclay daughter of Captain C J Barclay U S N and Captain Charles G Long of the Marine Corps at the Charlestown yard. Both hail from Massachusetts and a mid summer wedding is planned likely to be a brillant naval social event.
A Boston area funeral and tributes mark the passing of Cyrus Cobb poet painter sculptor and musician age near. Attendees include Post 30 G A R Cambridge Tufts College figures and local art circles. The service at Harvard Street Church ends with cremation at Forest Hills.
Miss Mary E G Coughlin aged 16 was arrested by Chelsea Patrolman Edgett as she left Walnut Street Church Chelsea on a warrant from South Boston sworn by her mother Mrs Mary Coughlin who lives at 118 West Fourth Street South Boston The charge is stubborn and disorderly and she says she left home January 12 to join a marine sweetheart in Charlestown navy yard She denies plans to marry last night but says she is keeping company with a respectable young man She was taken to South Boston by an officer.
All members or descendants of the Donohue family in Skibbereen Leap Diremagh Droom league or Cahara are asked to mail their names and current addresses, parish name, and any other family members to Mrs. J Haley in Binghamton NY, Mrs. M Collins in Brockton, or Mr. D F Donohue in South Framingham.
The Somerville police are gathering evidence against George L. O. Perry, colored, charged with killing Agnes McPhee. They plan to present it to the grand jury on Feb 9. Chief Parkhurst met with a Boston source who will be a key witness. details of the interview were not disclosed.
Feb 1 report notes Cardinal Parocchi’s death would have likely led to a papal election. It remarks Leo XIII. remains frail yet active, with 1810 birth and 1878 pontificate start. Projections and jokes about the Pope’s long life circulate amid health rumors.
Fall River February 1 Drs Jelly and Stedman will examine Professor Philip H Clark now jailed on a poisoning charge. Insanity experts have done two examinations and require a third to finalize their opinion. A report is promised next week as trial looms midmonth unless insanity declarations redirect to Taunton Insane Hospital.
Report from Fez confirms a decisive Sultan Tangibor victory over the Moorish pretender. El Menebhi led dawn assault, his forces routed the followers, and Bu Hamara was reportedly captured or killed. The Sultanist camp was overwhelmed, provisions and artillery seized, and the pretender’s saintly claim dismissed amid widespread rejoicing.
Nine arrests were made by Station 1 officers in North End yesterday for wilfully obstructing foot travellers. At 3 p m at North square and Moon street officers nabbed Nicholas Weeda Ignacio Cecere Vincenzo Veza and Tomaso Molle. At 4 30 p m five more men were seized at Garden Court and North square. Crowds filled the area as the day wore on.
Arrangements are under way for a Methodist Sunday schools observance of the Wesley bi centennial in the city on June 28. John Wesley, founder of Method ism, was born on that date 200 years ago. The day will be observed in all cities and mission fields worldwide with a mass meeting likely in each city.
An ad notes Orangeine relieves headaches by taking two powders 20 minutes apart. It claims to banish pain and cure the cause, presenting a quick remedy for readers seeking swift relief.
A Reliable Remedy, proven by thousands, claims to be unequaled for dispelling stomach and liver disorders, offered as a trusted internal cure.
The Massachusetts militia and state forces will undergo reorganization into a national guard under a bill signed by President Roosevelt. Key points include arms and supplies saving, nine month service limit, pay parity with regulars, state accountability for matériel, joint encampments, and five days of instruction per unit. The act applies Persian laws to those injured in service.
The Eleanor A. Percy George W Wells and the Addie M Lawrence are the three remaining wooden six masted schooners owned in the United States. The Lawrence, though smallest, sails from Fairfield Maine owned by J S Winslow Co of Portland and captained by W R Kreger. It arrived off Nobska with coal from Norfolk and is due soon at port, its keel length 292 ft 4 in breadth 48 ft 3 in depth 22 ft 2 in gross tonnage 2807 net 219. The crew and equipment reflect advanced loading gear and two 80 lb stockless anchors with 240 fathoms of 9/12 inch chain.
Harvard will preserve Hollis Hall, a 1768 building linked to 18th and 19th century undergraduates. Notable residents include Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips and others who lived there during their early years at the college.
Bangor Maine February report tells how Richard B Davis of Howard Street Brewer owed his life to holding a rope line between his teeth after ice broke under him. He swam to ice, cried for help, Mrs Pelkey alerted rescuers W S Hillier Charles Bennock and John Pooler freed him. Bennock broke ice, others pulled Davis to safety with a rope and line.
The Rev. Edwin Pickett Farnham, pastor of Salem’s First Baptist Church since 1888, resigns to become superintendent of combined missions for Brook Baptist Church Extension Society Home Mission Society and the Long Island Association. Born in Morris Connecticut in 1849 he graduated from Brown University in 18%.
James Pierce of UXBRIDGE reports a tame pheasant from the Whitinsville road area roosts with his hens in the hencoop each night, a recurring visitor that now appears fully habituated to the farm on the Rivulet road.
Police seek Mary Marshall 17 who escaped from the Industrial School for Girls at Lancaster and is believed to have traveled to Fitchburg.
Worcester on February 1st reports John Dolan a 17 year old former store clerk from San Francisco arrested by Officer John Keyes. He said he sailed on coastwise vessels since age 15 and preferred confinement to roaming. Also Captain Matthews processed a Worcester man claiming consumption and asking to be jailed after a peculiar plea. Lowell police are asked to locate Flora Welch missing from West Derry a 25 year old woman in a gray raglan coat navy hat blue veil and rubber boots.
In Rome on February 1 Queen Helena granted a private audience to Miss Carew sister-in-law of President Roosevelt. The Queen expressed goodwill toward America and made an exception due to Miss Carew's mourning for her grandfather. Also on February 1 General Miles dined with the King and Queen at Windsor Castle, with the Prince and Princess of Wales present, and Alison Armour of Chicago lunched with Emperor William.
Francis G. Montague prominent farmer of West Hamptom and representative from Hampshire's first district in the 1900 01 Legislature has been taken to hospital suffering from glanders contracted from a horse. Such cases as a rule prove fatal to humans.
Six hulls will be built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast and six more in the United States. Each costs 500000 dollars and will complete the ocean crossing in eight days. The River Falloch, Captain Ballantine, has been at sea for 182 days from Samarang with sugar and 18 days from Barbados, and may duplicate the Nile's voyage from these ports.
February shipping notes list sun rise and set times, high water, and moon phase. Arrivals include steamers Pinemore, Colpitts, and Evelyn with merchandise, coal, or passengers to firms in Boston Norfolk Philadelphia and Baltimore. Sailings announce steamers Cambroman and By lands with routes to Azores Gibraltar Mediterranean and Mata. Port traffic features numerous barges and coal transfers, with vessels listed by name and destination.
George Wolf twenty eight year old Boston Belting Company employee fell from a third story window at his Columbus avenue home around nine last night. He was found unconscious and rushed to City Hospital where he remains on the dangerous list.
Sailed United States cruiser Albany and gateamer Dorchester toward Baltimore via Norfolk Buena Ventura Newport News towing barge W H Connor. Lehigh Valley tag camtea tite wiena alley tag toree barges. Steamers Howard Boston bound for Baltimore James 8 Whitney Cto for New York with Lehigh Valley tug and four barges Parran Boddan. Wind south moderate. Chatham Feb 1 Passed 8:40 am steamer North Star New York to Portland Me.
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