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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1893
Page
5
World’s Fair Commissioner E C Hovey spoke at Tremont Temple detailing the Columbian Exposition grounds and buildings in progress. The lecture used dissolving views of the fair areas and Massachusetts building drawing applause amid notes on space shortages and demand.
The Boston morning Post circulation remains within 2000 copies of its rival and narrows daily. The gap is shrinking rapidly, with several weeks likely before the Post becomes the clear leader locally. It is also expanding quickly in the wider region.
The Hyde Park Comedy Club staged two plays at the Chapel Club evening. The Deacon by Arthur Henry Jones and Miss Francis by Grace Livingston Furness were performed by a cast including Frank R. Houstis H. Percy Maxim D. G. Thompson Jr. Florence H. Maxim Addie Teel Henry Mandell Herbert I. Jackson Ethel Reed and Bertha M. Thompson.
The firm offers wedding rings made in their own factory with prices from six to twelve dollars and promises two hour custom orders. Warns buyers to beware of imitators and directs to The Big Clock at 14 and 15 Tremont Row.
Marriage notices read Ricard J. Elliott and Mary Mutrie wed by Rev J J Harkins in this city on February 12. Also Somerville nuptials William Keeton to Minnie G Thomas reported by Rev George W Durell.
Obituaries list multiple residents with ages and dates across Massachusetts towns including Ames Cambridge Neponset Melrose Highlands Somerville and Chelsea. Entries cover spousal names and statuses with funeral details and burial locations, noting several aged 80s and 70s and specific dates in February.
The list shows filings by Hyman Glauzman and Sarah Shandrovitz, Richard S. Kepan and Bridget Dempsey, Charles Whitbur and Hattie Bell, H. Galmes Pettison and Christina Petterson, Fdoward T. Miller and Margaret Cronin, John J. Dwyer and Elizabeth Kennedy. Each pair appears as applicants with the registrar’s office noted.
In this city on February 12, the Rev. Thomas Magennis joined Martin Hardiman and Catherine Koan in marriage as recorded by the City Registrar on February 14.
Dainty Annie Lewis returns to Boston theater, holding a warm corner with her performance at Bowdoin Square Theatre. The show features a vaudeville cast and famed workers led by Dixon’s manager Thomas O’Rourke, plus a Rentz-Santley Burlesque Company. A colossal 1492 sign at Columbia Theatre illuminates Washington Street with over 350 bulbs, visible well outside the city.
Readers are asked to send brief memoranda of upcoming social events. Mrs A Dudley Dowd hosts a reception at Newton Centre from 4 to 6. Henry Clapp lectures on The Theatre in Modern American Life at the Algonquin Club. Mrs Frederick Stackpole hosts a reception at 39 Dudley Street from 4:50 to 10. German at Brattle Hall Cambridge at 8:30.
Dr. Helen Densmore offers a pamphlet claiming an unfair Maybrick trial. proceeds fund the Maybrick cause. Miss Ward of Connecticut elopes after a $10,000 check. their brother pursues toward San Francisco. Julia Marlowe to speak at Chicago World's Fair. Duke of York and Princess May of Teck betrothed. California typesetter is a woman. Mrs. Burton Harrison lauded for wealth, brains, beauty. Notables include Rose Coghlan Emma Eames and Countess Tolstoi. Tolstoi's wife assists in publishing. Elizabeth I’s rib on Isle of Wight exhibit. plan to move to World's Fair. Mrs M. M. Anderson becomes assistant sergeant-at-arms in Arkansas House. Lady Florence Dixie attacks fox hunting. Susan B. Meredith on marriage and money.
In Turin countrymen near the River Poplant plant poplars as a girl is born. The poplars become a dowry by age sixteen worth about $550, enough to buy a gown, shoes, and a veil for a wedding. The heiress may be a girl whose father planted a garden of trees when she was a baby.
The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution has started a fund to place a full length portrait of the late Caroline Scott Harrison in the White House. The plan arose during her illness and follows a pledge from revolutionary sisters to hang the portrait in the nation's home. The society aims to commission a renowned portrait painter and will strive to complete the undertaking.
An invention useful to every cook, a glass door for ovens, earns a patent by a Michigan woman. Cooking instructors stress careful opening of oven doors to watch progress, with examples from Maria Parloa. The new door allows cooks to monitor rising dough and browning fowl without disturbance. The feature is lauded as a long overdue idea.
The New England Woman's Club celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary as the first U S women's society, outdating Sorosis by about a month in organization. Two features mark the club: male members have long held regular standing, and the club has maintained its own clubhouse for many years.
The Academy of Science in Bavaria elects Princess Theresa, sister of the prince regent, as a full member, making her the only woman whose scientific works have been deemed worthy of such recognition.
A lively Bowdoin Square Theatre souvenir night marks the reprise of A Nutmeg Match with Miss Lewis, who will perform My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon. Park Theatre sells out. Temperance Town continues strong. cast changes and theatre notes fill the bill across Boston venues.
A dated etiquette piece notes changes from allowing a man to precede a woman on stairs to granting her precedence in all settings. It also recalls past norms of escorting positions on sidewalks, now out of fashion in modern environments.
A husband toils late at night in the office and fears his nerves. His wife admonishes his money anxiety and jokes that he should try the new gold cure to ease his strain.
Dr. Mary Walker expresses she would rather be called a dude or the smallest kind of man than bear the title Queen. The remark highlights her preference for a plain, unpresuming nickname over regal recognition.
A Paris hairdresser unveils the Marie Louise headdress likely to attract many women undecided about the current vogue for heavy chignons. It is lighter and more flattering, resembling the Grecian knot popular a few seasons back.
Ottawa dispatch reports an Official Gazette extra states 1898 tolls on eastward passage through Welland 19 cents per ton and through St Lawrence canals 10 cents per ton with 10 cents sand toll to qualify for free St Lawrence passage. The plan favors American grain moving via Welland and Montreal. Ogdensburg rebates end.
In a joint convention at the school committee rooms last evening the vacancy on the School Board created by Dr Russell B Elliott’s resignation was filled. Thomas J Emery was elected with 18 votes needed from a 30 vote total as candidate Dunn and others trailed. The Wyman School on Wyman street in the Lowell district was named to honor the Wyman family. The school houses committee reported needs for new buildings sites and alterations, asking city council to appropriate 627600. Resolutions honoring Bishop Brooks were adopted by a rising vote with President Capen noting the late address at the Robert G Shaw schoolhouse dedication last fall.
John E. Pearson of Whatcom Washington reports a nine year battle with a spreading skin disease. After trying doctors and many medicines he used three boxes of Cuticura, Cuticura Soap and Resolvent and says his skin cleared to a childlike whiteness. He notes reaching friends in Chicago and St Paul.
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