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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1903
Page
5
The Boston Post invites readers across New England to nominate the oldest married couple. Send photos and a 200 word sketch with birth and marriage dates, address, children, and life details to Old Couple Editor, Post, Boston. Chairs will be delivered express prepaid to the couple.
Annie Borack, 20, attempted suicide by gas at 60 Poplar street after her husband lost work and rent went unpaid. She collapsed in the hall but regained consciousness with the aid of fresh air and is expected to recover at General Hospital.
Major Henry A. Snow and his wife of Atlantic celebrate fifty years of marriage. He was born in 1817 in Boston and joined the Boston Fusiliers, later running Bradstreet's agency. They married March 19, 180, at the North End Unitarian Church and have two children and 11 grandchildren.
Marjorie Mortimer frets over a lemon pie on St Valentine’s Day. John Smythe shares lunch, discovers the pie’s saltier effect. Humble mistake triggers a failed kiss, then a marriage proposal arrives, and Marjorie credits the pie for the turn of events.
A chain of engagements from Cambridge Winona Roxbury Waltham and Newtonville lists multiple couples. Eva Helen Merrill to Edgar C Hodsdon Miss Bridith Nevins to Charles Quincy Adams Jennie Priestman to Otis J Redden Miss Winifred G Hennelly to Dr Richard Hinchey Miss Della H Flanagan to Joseph Aloysius Power Walter F Howard to Alice Wells Linnie M Burton to E W Higgins. The marriage of Della Flanagan power will be at Mission Church Roxbury on February 23.
An advert promotes Orangeiie as a remedy to dispel headache neuralgia all pain colds grip blues. It promises quick effect and broad relief across multiple conditions. The text targets general readers seeking fast, broad symptom relief.
Miss Edith Lawrence, daughter of Amory Lawrence, recovers from an appendix operation at her Commonwealth Avenue home. Doctors say she can wed Harold Coolidge within two weeks. Cousin Miss Sarah Lawrence will be her only attendant as the society wedding proceeds.
Kingston reports the British steamer Para carried news of the suicide on January 30 of former Colombian revolutionary general Uribe Uribe. The dispatch notes implications for possible renewed opposition to the Panama canal treaty and hints at a new political stir in the region.
Draperies S68 Fortieres now called Taco Curtains priced at 148 pair, available in 2 and 3 pair lots with a third off. Musling Irish Points listed at 12.00 and 18.00, with a 10 percent department discount for three days only. See advertisement on another page for details.
Miss Elizabeth Browness a Boston nurse recovers 1300 dollars and a gold watch from Chicago broker Allan F Gordon after a sensational suit. The county attorney Crowe vows to continue the case despite Browness wish to drop it, and Gordon may be jailed. Browness returns to Boston.
Newton Feb 8 Superintendent Albert B Fifield is likely not to seek re election in June He plans to enter the publishing business His predecessor George S Aldrich now heads Brookline schools Aldrich left Newton after long disputes with the school board and some citizens
A parliamentary drill led by Mrs. Susan 8. Fessenden will occur this afternoon at the Boston Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting in Park Street Vestry.
Springfield police inspectors yesterday arrested Frank Mosher 24 of 10 Boylston Place on a fugitive from justice charge and wanted larceny case. Authorities say he stole a diamond ring from Robinson Son of Springfield and will be taken to Springfield today.
At a Technology Club meeting in New York, MIT President Pritchett announced a plan to sell Boylston Street buildings in Boston and build a new institute in a suburban site. The move aims to ease overcrowding, reduce student life costs with 100-student houses, and add a post graduate engineering research degree with fellowships.
Chicago and Northwestern Railway cuts second class rates from New England to California Oregon Washington and British Columbia by over 17 dollars. Tickets and information available from J. E. Brittain agent 868 Washington St Boston.
A Boston matterstirs Daughters of the American Revolution over badge misuse. Members formerly wore the D A R insignia in many ways including as a belt pin or dog ribbon. The order declares the badge to be worn only over the heart or, for officers, on a virgin gold chain.
Police from Station 18 searched Delia Hillen at 121 Brookside Avenue and Patrick Corrigan at 157 Green Street Jamaica Plain for liquor. They seized a gallon of beer and two quarts of wine at Hillen's house and nine gallons of beer at Corrigan's.
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