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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
11
Plans approved for a Billy Sunday Boston tabernacle on Huntington avenue opposite the Opera House. The 18000 seat brick structure will have a 34 foot roof, steel pulpit and choir platform for 7000, with a fixed three month permit and pledged financing through collected donations.
Work to be started about Aug. 1 and finished Oct. 1 to create first class brick walls eight feet high and a canopy wooden roof rising to 34 feet. Steel roof supports and pulpits. Seating for 18000 in blocks of 13 with five foot aisles. Pulpit and choir platform steel. Structure not to remain standing over three months.
Metropolitan park police reported extensive vandalism at the Riverside Boat Club on the Charles River near River Street Cambridge. The interior suffered shooting and destruction with mirrors pictures pallets torn billiard cloths and other furnishings damaged totaling several hundred dollars.
Former Metropolitan Opera singer Dr Gianetto Bottero of Brookline reportedly plans to go abroad to join the Allied medical staff in Italy. His wife Madame Lydia Bottero, once with the Metropolitan Opera, was granted a divorce on Wednesday.
A major shop lifting scheme spanning New England and the East to Chicago was uncovered by Boston detective agency operator. The investigation tracked a couple as they traveled from Massachusetts to guard munitions plants, suspected as German spies.
A mysterious German couple aged 58 and 61 traveled under aliases from Concord Junction to Boston Albany Worcester and New York. Police say they shoplifted from Eastman Brothers Porteous Mitchell and Braun and Libby stores and mailed loot home with money orders.
Exeter Maine February eighteenth residents fought a severe fire that destroyed the home of former State Senator F W Hill the stables behind it and the Washburn and Chase general store. The town lacking firefighting equipment relied on a bucket brigade while Dexter helped as the blaze grew. The telephone exchange inside the store was damaged and several other buildings were burned.
Simon Swig settles with Homer Albers dean of Boston University School of Law to recover for professional services in securing a charter for the Tremont Trust Company. Swig, vice president of the bank, had claimed $200 due and the amount was reduced to $160 by agreement.
Advertisement touts $12.50 women’s winter coats for $5.00 at Wolf's My Clothier corner Hanover and Portland streets. Buyers are enthusiastic and legal stamps accompany every purchase.
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