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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1895
Page
2
Queen Victoria reached London this afternoon with strict privacy at her reception due to worsening rheumatism. She was helped from the car to a platform chair and carried to her carriage at Victoria station. The Duke and Duchess of Connaught welcomed her at Buckingham Palace, where a large dinner party was held.
Elizabeth May sells a sixteen room Dorchester house with 15000 sq ft land on Morton street to JL Merrifield Worcester for assessed 10500. Celia Bravman sells a frame dwelling and 9500 sq ft land at Eline and Erie Dorchester to N D Parker. Ginn & Co plan to move manufacturing to a large First street East Cambridge tract. Francis A Beal sells 12000 sq ft land on Institute Hill Newton Centre to Harvey G Ruhe. Michael Roughan buys brick building and 123 sq ft land at 15 City Hall Square Charlestown from Joseph Stone.
The exclusive Saturday Morning Club of the Back Bay presented Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale in Copley Hall with rule bound ushers and no men admitted. Led by Mrs. Alice Kent Robertson, the cast included Mrs. Burien as Hermione, Eleanor Blake as Polixenes, Miss Cobb as Camille, Miss Hopkins as Paulina, Miss Whittemore as the clown, and Miss Ticknor in the seacoast scene, all praised for makeup, voice, and stage presence amid a refined audience.
The Saturday Morning Club presents a period piece with minimal scenery and antique props. Miss Ticknor and Miss Colburn receive praise for masterful delivery and makeup while Mrs. Mil ler and Mrs. Stoddard anchor scenes with harp and songs. The Marietta Sherman-Raymond Orchestra outfits the upper box in blue and brown as costumed players enact a charming pastoral. The production ends with a buoyant outdoor dance and a cordial call for future patronage.
Miss Maude Guild daughter of Pay Inspector and Mrs Charles Fox Guild married First Lieutenant Lawrence H. Moses United States Navy in a large ceremony at St Johns Church New York City The event drew over 1000 invitations and featured prominent guests and a reception at the bridegrooms parents residence before the couple departed for a voyage then to reside in New York at the navy yard
The second triennial gathering of the National Council of Women of the United States began in Washington with two weeks of events tied to Congress. Prominent attendees include Countess of Aberdeen, Miss Frances B. Willard, Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. J Ellen Foster, and ministers Annis Ford Eastman and Anna Howard Shaw, among others. Twenty societies are represented, such as the Woman's First Dental Association and the National Auxiliary Keeley League, with opening address by President May Wright Sewall.
The deposits of gold, on account of the new loan, in all sub-treasuries and legal depositories nationwide closed at 29 million dollars. Local sub-treasury deposits totaled 12,507,332 dollars.
Newspaper style sales note touts Dr. Greene's Nervura as spring cure for nervous and chronic ailments. Claims to restore vitality, cites Mrs. W A Cutler testimony from Worcester, Massachusetts, and offers direct access to Dr. Greene for consultation.
In Canton, 14-year-old John E Flemming died from a gunshot believed accidental after being shot by Everett Ellis in a store incident. Ellis, arraigned in Stoughton District Court on manslaughter charges, remains held on $1000 bond. The town mourns, with family statements stressing the boy’s good character and sympathy for the deformed victim, Flemming. Funeral set for St John's Church with burial in Foxboro.
Atlantic Works of East Boston to construct the hull of a side-wheel steamer for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company. W. A. Fletcher Company to handle boiler and engine work. joiner work to be finished in New York. The vessel will operate between Newport News and Norfolk, linking with the railroad, and is expected to be very fast.
Kidder Peabody Co leads with 100 dollars and others including Jordan Marsh 100, Colonel Charles H. Taylor 100, and various smaller gifts. Public meeting in Boston on February 16 raised 1720.35, total 2162.55, with James Lee adding 1 dollar to the post.
The Evangelical Alliance assembles tonight at Park Street Church with General William Booth of the Salvation Army as speaker. It was initially limited to ministers, but will now be open to the public.
Secretary Carlisle ordered immediate printing of 62.4 million dollars in 4 percent bonds at 33 4 percent interest for 30 years. Delivery is to Belmont Morgan syndicate under a contingent agreement signed ten days earlier.
An 80 year old advertisement touts a vital and muscle nervine that allegedly relieves and heals a wide range of ailments from fevers and aches to coughs colds and nerve pains. It lists numerous conditions including catarrh cholera morbus diphtheria mumps laryngitis rheumatism and scalds claiming speedy cures.
The advertisement touts Johnsons Anointed Liniment as a universal household remedy created in 1810 by Dr A Johnson and endorsed by families and physicians for over eighty years. It promotes internal and external use, ease for children, and claims of rapid inflammation relief urged by O H Ingalls of Bangor Maine.
The Freeland-Loomis Company Mutual Benefit Association honors S W Loomis on retirement as president. Employees present a diamond studded Mason’s jewel with a parchment address praising his fairness, kindness, and leadership across Boston Omaha Des Moines Newton Iowa.
Joseph P. Whitmore, longtime Continental Clothing Company employee in Boston for twenty five years, was honored with a Knight Templar jewel by colleagues led by M. A. Dowling. The inscription reads Joseph P. Whitmore from Continental Employees Heb 18 1895 as he prepares to move to Omaha to manage a larger store for the same firm.
The Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in South Boston celebrate Washington's Birthday with matinee and afternoon events to aid the kindergarten fund for visually impaired children. Proceeds aim to raise 5000 dollars. tickets are 50 cents at the door or salesroom No 87 Avon Place. Local performers Tommy Stringer Willie Elizabeth Robin Edith Thomas participate in morning drama The Dream of Fair Women and afternoon literary exercises on Washington and Our National Standards.
Pittsburg February 18 The verdict in the case of George M. Irwin a discretionary pool operator charged with conspiracy to defraud is not guilty, but the defendant must pay costs.
Mayor Curtis and Rep Hibard discuss a city charter bill seen as too radical with doubts on passage in the Legislature. Keenan visited the chamber as the bill may be amended, while City Clerk Galvin faces a mandamus petition from George Y Bancher over a Ward 17 recount bid. If granted, Bancher’s nomination could topple three sitting councilmen and trigger a new election. Roxbury district foreman Francis E McCarthy to replace John I Kelly next Thursday after a civil service exam. Sanford appoints special committees for a new bridge to Cambridge and Squantum annexation with Dever Sanford and Folsom.
Dr George L Barney, famous in Boston, caused a prior similar attack during intense Harvard Medical School study. He jumped onto a Boston and Albany passenger train near Pittsfield last Saturday night. His brother Charles N Barney of 938 Mt Vernon Street traveled to New York and returned with the doctor as he was taken to the McLean asylum.
The American Wringer Co. at 18 and 15 Broadway extension, city manufacturers of wringers, mangles, spring beds and carpet sweepers. All kinds of wringers and sweepers repaired. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Telephone Tremont 764.
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