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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1909
Page
2
Immediate Piano Sale Forces Big Stock Clearance
Warerooms to be rebuilt within ten days with over 250 instruments both new and used and priced low to move. Immediate sale prompts drastic cuts as contractors begin work and all stock must be sold now.
All Must Be Sold in Ten Days at Piano Warerooms
A ten day alteration sale at a famous piano maker attracts buyers from all areas with deep discounts on uprights grands and player pianos. Knabe Hallet Davis Kimball Conway Krell Bowen and others feature prices slashed from $350 to $465 on new models and major reductions on used pianos. The sale aims to clear stock before ten days while offering easy terms and extended hours for out of town customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knabe
Hallet & Davis
Kimball, Conway
Krell
Bowen
Two Saw Melrose Firebug Linked to Multiple Blazes
Reports from Melrose say police located two witnesses who saw a man fleeing the Boston & Northern Railroad car barns on Green Street just before they burned. The same arsonist is accused of burning the Lynde house on Tappan Street and a Stoneham barn later that night. Authorities value the car barn loss at 75000 dollars and the Lynde property at 8000 dollars. A separate tip mentions a barn fire at Hiram Joslin in Stoneham, likely by the same suspect. Witnesses Thomas Connors and a 94 year old woman described a man in a cap and brown overcoat fleeing the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Msmielrose
Boston & Northern Railroad Company
Green Street
David Lynde
Tappan Street
Lynde
Hiram’ Joslin
Pine Street
Stoneham
Thomas Connors
Carpenter seeks American citizenship after Russia extradition denial
Chicago February 8 Christian Rudowicz applied to become an American citizen. He had been linked to extradition to Russia but Secretary of State Root refused to countenance that action. He works as a carpenter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Christian Rudowicz
Russia
Root
Pyramid Pile Cure Promises Quick Relief for Piles
An advertisement touts Pyramid Pile Cure as instant relief for piles and rectal disease. Readers are invited to request a free trial package from Pyramid Drug Co at 138 Pyramid Bldg Marshall Mich, with a 50 cent box available after trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyramid Drug Co
Pyramid
Ask Court to Block Graves
A petition seeks an injunction in Superior Court to stop Edward G Graves of East Boston from filling the presidency of the Republican city committee. Plaintiffs claim Graves was unlawfully elected after losing a ward race and intend to use the post to strip them of their legally elected rights. Hearing set for Thursday. Larkin and McKee represent Campbell and supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward G. Graves
East Boston
Republican City Committee
Benjamin F. Campbell
Governor's Council
M. F. Goodwin
Waves
Graves
Richardson
Larkin & McKee
Campbell
Dead Man and Injured Harbor Worker After Docks Accident
Dennis Connolly 35 of Haynes Street fell from a Leyland dock staging at Clyde Street into the water. He died at East Boston Relief Hospital. Captain Andrew Maur of the British steamer Minx Esels was injured after falling into a bunker hold and later hospitalized with probable fatal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leyland Dock
Clyde Street
Dennis Connolly
Haynes Street
East Boston
Connolly
Andrew Maur
Minx Esels
Wood Island Flats
Commercial Wharf
Lincoln Day Celebration in Boston Adopts 150 Voice Chorus
The Fraternal Welfare League hosts Lincoln Day at Faneuil Hall on Thursday evening. Speakers include Mayor Hibard Rabbi Charles Fleischer Joseph Lee Lincoln Steffens and Mrs Susan C Eagan. Charles H Baker opens the program Saul Shore presides and 18 singers from the Select School chorus perform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Fraternal Welfare League
Faneuil Hall
Hibbard
Charles Fleischer
Joseph Lee
Lincoln Steffens
Susan C. Eagan
Charles H. Baker
Saul Shore
Selict School Chorus
Tuesday February 9 Religious Meetings Schedule
Noonday meetings at Tremont Temple Park Street Chelsea and Allston Brighton services at 3 to 4 p m. Central conference on personal work in Lorenier Hall. Evening services at Tremont Temple Park Street Bowdoin Square Tabernacle and Tremont Street Methodist with multiple pastors listed. Other group churches hold their usual sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central
Tremont Temple
J. Wilbur Chapman
Chelsea
William Asher
Allston
Brighton
John H. Elliott
D. D
Lorimer Hall
Ralph €. Norton
Quincy
Calvary Baptist
J. W. Weddell
Field's Corner
Trinity Church
Harry Taylor
South Boston
St. John's Methodist
C. T. Schaeffer
Park Street
W. W. Weeks
Bowdoin Square Tabernacle
South End
Tremont Street
Tremont W
Concord
Daniel
Toy
People’s Temple
Columbus Ave
Berkeley St
H. D. Sheldon
Rafters Ring With Gospel as Prayers Rise in Meeting
At the People's Temple a large revival gathering drew nearly 1000 attendees. Speakers urged prayer and donations only through local churches next Thursday, recalling 1857 revival warning of possible national calamity and bloodshed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Temple
Revival At Tremont Temple Sees 75 Conversions
A late evening revival at Tremont Temple in Boston drew a crowd so large hundreds were turned away. Dr. Chapman urged immediate commitment as 75 men women and children stepped forward for prayers and declared their intention to follow Christ. A 12 year old and other attendees also spoke of their conversions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorimer Hall
Tremont Temple
Christ
Lowell
Chapman
Mr. Alexander
Jesus
Revival talk ends with handclasps at Tremont Street church
Reverend Daniel S. Toy, speaking before about 380 of 600 attendees, urged avoiding dances, cards, and theatres as he praised Boston's revival, noting his 31 years in Christianity and contrasting Boston with San Francisco in his appeal. He pledged gentler rebuke to hypocritical churchgoers while praising the movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel S. Toy
Tremont Street
M. FE
Boston
Toy
Tremont Temple
Jesus Christ
San Francisco
Dubinsky
Havre Street
Hickey
John F
Bridget
John Hickey
Cottage Street
Church of the Assumption
McCormick
Roxbury
Margaret M
Annie
Andrew McCormick
North End
Highland Street
St. Joseph's Church
Ungvarsky
Dorchester
Anna E
Church Day to be celebrated in city churches today
The city churches observe Church Day with regional services and district officer conferences to plan how to promote church aims. Dr. Chapman suggests early morning services for workingmen's churches and Tremont Temple for an afternoon sermon on Church Day purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapman
Tremont Temple
English King in Germany arrives in Cologne on way to Berlin
King Edward and Queen Alexandra reached Cologne in a calm journey from London via Dover Calais and Paris en route to Berlin. The Times critic praised Loeffler's music as atmospheric impressionism noting the pieces The Pool and The Bagpipes as ravishing and memorable performances by artists Longy and Gebhard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Edward
Queen Alexandra
England
Berlin
London
Dover
Calais
Paris
Mr. Loeffler
Berlin Awaits Edward as Monarchs Readied for Meeting
Berlin awaits King Edward and Queen Alexandra with cautious optimism that the royal visit may ease international tension. Official circles note the encounter as a reciprocal gesture for the Emperor’s England trip, while offering no confident expectation of concrete political results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Edward Tomorow
Edward
Alexandra
England
Longy Club Concert Closes Season in Potter Hall
The Longy Club’s final season concert in Potter Hall featured Enesco’s Symphonie for winds and strings for its U.S. premiere, Loeffler’s oboe viola piano rhaposodies, and Pierne’s Pastorale Varie. The reviewer notes a melancholy slow movement in Enesco and criticizes remaining movements as dreary and lifeless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longy Club
Potter Hall
George Enesco
Roumanian
France
America
Charles M. Loeffler
Longy
Gebhard
Pierne
Enesco
Railroad Hymns Move Boston & Maine Engineers at Noon
More than 100 engineers firemen and car washers gathered at the East Cambridge roundhouse of the Boston & Maine to sing He Will Hold Me Fast and Nearer My God to Thee led by Mrs. William Asher with a folding organ. Arthur E Gateley aided the Asher indoors as Mr Asher spoke of turning to Jesus after dangerous work. The meeting lasted about 45 minutes and concluded with an open air talk atop freight car wheels drawing about 100 men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Cambridge
Boston & Maine
William Asher
Down
Maine
Mr. Asher
Jesus
Education Day set for church service next Saturday
Education Day offers teachers and college students a chance to hear Dr. Chapman preach at 3 p.m. at People's Temple. Committee includes Dr. A. E. Winship as chairman and Rev. E. C. Simpson with Eugene Clark Worman, plus Harvard, Simmons College, College of Oratory, Wellesley College, N. E. Conservatory of Music representatives and four Boston school committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Chapman
People’s Temple
A. E. Winship
E. C. Simpson
Eugene Clark Worman
Harvard
Simmons College
College of Oratory
Wellesley College
N. E. Conservatory of Music
Boston School Committee
Hood's Sarsaparilla: unique formula and cures highlighted
The ad explains Hood's Sarsaparilla differs from other medicines by its unique formula and process combining more than twenty ingredients. It claims direct effects on blood and organs, with a precise proportion from careful study, plus a tested mixing method. A testimonial from Mrs. Protz describes dramatic skin healing in her child after use. The piece promotes liquid or Sarsatabs forms, priced at 100 doses for one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
May Back Fin Com Charter
The Finance Commission's charter recommendations are sent to a joint Merchants' Association and Chamber of Commerce committee. President Rothwell says the committee will back the Finance Commission and support its proposals before the legislative committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Commission
Merchants’ Association
Chamber of Commerce
Rothwell
Merchants Association forms committee to study Finance Commission report
President Rothwell and President Storrow announce a new committee from Merchants Association and members including Bangs Bloomfield Bowen Capen Cunningham Eldredge Hardy Lehy Minot. A ninth member will be added. The group began reviewing the commission document and plans another meeting later this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rothwell
James J. Storrow
Merchants’ Association
Francis R. Bangs
Meyer Bloomfield
Henry J. Bowen
Samuel B. Capen
Henry V. Cunningham
Edrie Eldredge
Alpheus H. Hardy
Geoffrey B. Lehy
Lawrence Minot
Storrow
Finance Commission
Finance Commission Suggestions Prompt Legislative Review
In support of the Finance Commission's suggestions before the committees of the Legislature the article notes calls for careful examination and action. The piece emphasizes fiscal oversight and planned reforms to improve state budgeting and taxation policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Commission
Hold Boy Who Bit Professor Holds On
On request of Garcia Leao Brazilian vice consul the Ellis Island authorities delayed deportation of Louis Leite a supposedly demented youth. Leite bit Professor Charles A Strong of Columbia University and son in law of John D Rockefeller aboard the Barbarossa returning from the Mediterranean. Leite claimed Strong tried to poison him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Garcia Leao
Ellis Island
Louis Leite
Senor Leao
Para
Leite
Charles A. Strong
Columbia University
John D. Rockefeller
Barbarossa
Professor Strong
Lynn Mayor to seek five member labor arbitration board
Lynn February 8 Mayor Rich plans to ask the city council to create a permanent local board of arbitration with five members to settle labor differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Rich
Mi o na tablets touted as stomach cure in Boston ad
An advertisement claims Mi o na tablets cure dyspepsia by cleansing the stomach and bowels and toning stomach walls. It argues pepsin digests only animal foods and promises relief from sour stomach dizziness belching and bad breath. The claim is backed by Riker Jaynes Drug Co with a money back guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Miona
Riker-Jaynes Drug Co
Booths Laxative Pills Proclaimed Cure for Constipation
Advertisement claims Booths Laxative Pills wake up a lazy liver and cure constipation. Describes them as gentle, sure and harm free with a price of 25 cents at Riker Jaynes Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth
Riker-Jaynes Drug Co
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Mr. Chapman
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College Girls In Chorus
Franklin
N. H
New York City
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Harry T. Taylor
Andover
Parkman Street Methodist Church
Salvation Army
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Charles W. Washburn
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W. W. Evarts
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A. P. Polyard
Archibald T. Davison
Dorchester Centre
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Dorchester Avenue
Peare
Slahover
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Evangelist Toy
Germany
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Boston Commercial Bodies
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Lynn Labor Board
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