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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1901
Page
4
A promotional appeal asserts Munyon's Rheumatism Cure relieves pain within hours and permanently cures many sufferers. It touts quick results, low prices, and suggests other Munyon remedies for cold, dyspepsia, kidney trouble, constipation, and inhaler treatments.
In East Boston Douglass Club members and ward leaders danced at Isoceum Wall while Hickory Club hosts invited Roxbury ward leaders to Jam alica Plain. The events aimed to ease long standing rivalries with music and social mixing, drawing about 400 attendees. Prominent guests included Rep Healey Alderman Kelly and many city officials, signaling a potential political reconciliation.
A general alarm sounded in Quincy on Hancock Street as a brisk fire damaged a one-story wooden building owned by Tirrell & Sons. Fred E. Gross fish market and James Dunn bicycle repair shop occupied the premises. Damage estimated at about 800 dollars.
London report on the first division of the new Parliament reducing the government majority to 45 from 150. Winston Spencer Churchill’s Westminister debut and Chamberlain’s defence of policy mark a charged session. Davis Lloyd-George and Dillon clash over South African war conduct and ministerial questions.
The Boston College ball drew Rev. W G Read Mullan and other clergy alongside prominent figures like Hon H F Naphen Congressman Fitz gerald and James J Roach. Attendees wore magnificent gowns in white, pink, and blue with lace, satin, and jeweled embellishments as Mrs J W Kenney and Miss May Kenney stood out.
Miss Hope Booth, famed actress at the Howard Atheneum, plans to lease a Boston theatre to form a first class stock company modeled after New York’s Empire. She notes prior London Royalty Theatre lessee experience and says a Boston manager and a wealthy New York backer will finance the project.
George R. Eager of Seminary avenue Newton filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition. Liabilities total 1 407 341 42 with only 10 assets in real estate. Unsecured claims 1 008 502 65, secured 315 222 08, notes and bills 83 616 69. Debts contracted 1888 to 189, mainly Tennessee. He notes debts are outlawed but the failure is the district's heaviest since the act.
Cambridge woman Mrs Kate Keating chased a thief from a lodger’s room to Pear Street after spotting him rifling bureau drawers. She seized his coat tails and collar in tandem style pursuit, securing his arrest despite injuries to her shoulders. The report notes she is a medium height youthful woman of sturdy build.
Feb 8 dispatch notes Vo sburg occupation by Boers with communications cut. About 100 Boers at Studenburr and others at Houwater twenty one miles from Dritstown. Feb 18 Halifax reports schooner Kearsarge from Blackscar with 509 barrels of frozen herring arriving at Whitehead after rough weather.
Four firemen are dead and one fatally injured as a New Haven factory on Winchester Avenue burns. Captain Joseph Condren Edward Hale and William Riley of Steamer 2 Frank Williams of Truck No 1 die. Henry Powell of Truck No 4 badly burned. Rescue efforts locate Powell near the edge of the ruins but other bodies remain missing as the fire destroys the unoccupied building.
The Unitarian Church of the Messiah at Michigan Avenue and Twenty third Street unan imously calls Rev. W Hanson Pulsford of Waltham Massachusetts to succeed Rev William Wallace Fenn who departs March 1 to join Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge Massachusetts.
The Daughters of the American Revolution opened their annual congress in Washington at the Grand Opera House with sea of flags, palms, roses, and a display of gowns as 30 000 members gather for the event this morning.
A man is believed drowned after a splash heard at 10 15 last night near Commercial wharf. The watchman found a derby hat bearing a London maker’s mark but no body was recovered.
Lewiston Maine February 18 The resignation of Rev H C Wilson pastor of Hammond Street M E Church was accepted to take effect immediately. Nearly all the Howard people planned to join him in forming an independent church in the same area.
Charles Francis Adams delivered an address on issues linked to the street railway franchise before the Wellesley Club at the Brunswick last evening. Dinner was served with President Joseph E. Fiske presiding.
Attendees including Mrs. James E. Ryan and Miss M. C. Fitzgerald showed off pinks and white chiffons, silks, and laces. Black velvet trim, jade roses, and pearl jewelry highlighted gowns from Brookline to Roxbury, with numerous ivory and blue ensembles and intricate headdresses.
The St Francis de Sales parish Roxbury women staged a coffee party at Orizenta Hall to aid the church building fund under Rev. John Harrigan. The event featured a grand march led by James A. Watson and wife, with Mrs Watson in blue muslin, and drew notable attendees including Dr. Murphy and Mrs. Dolan.
The seventh annual ball of the Quincy House associates took place in Corinthian Hall last evening with about 100 couples in attendance.
The Newton Aldermen granted the Boston and Worcester Street Railway a double track franchise from the Wellesley line through Newton Centre to the Brookline line with strict conditions. The costly widening to ninety feet, central reserve, lighting, five cent fare, free transfers, school carriage, and a $100 bond must be completed within six months or the franchise is void.
Yesterday the College Club held a gala day in its Grand nn studios with flowers and guests. Mrs Helen M Weir read an abridged bridge of Stephen Phillips Paolo and Sauncesea, presented delightfully. Weil wore a black gown with diamonds and greeted guests, assisted by Miss Alen Griswold.
Two women claimed as wives of Louis M. Hatch sought military relief in Somerville. Georgie Hatch admitted posing as the widow of Hatch who had died over two years earlier. Sarah Hatch, another claimant, provided details tracing her first marriage to Daniel Adams and Hatch’s later life, with investigations prompting legal action.
A Daily Mail correspondent reports General Dewet failed to reach his objective being turned back from Strydenburg and Hopetown distances thirty eight and fifty five miles from Friday night’s action. Burghers protest flogging of men and half the force threatens to surrender prompting a decision to continue fighting independently.
Fire at the Union Railway Company sheds in Elmwood destroyed one building and gutted another, with thirty trolley cars inside. Loss pegged at 152000 dollars, fully insured, plus damage to the NYNH&HRR signal tower and main line apparatus.
Washington February 18 The House passed a 5 million appropriation for the St. Louis exposition in 1903 by 191 to 41 as the sundry civil bill moved through late session. Chairman Joseph G Cannon asserted further totals would rise to about 694 million excluding a 53 million sinking fund, criticizing the minority for not aiding economy.
The Boston Methodist Social Union held its annual Students Night and banquet last evening at the American House. Over five men attended the tables with the president, the faculty and students of the Boston University School of Theology as guests, hosted by the Hon. Edward H. Dunn.
Boxer Young Woods and an opponent were arrested during an exhibition at the Isoteric Club on Pitts Street January 7. Woods pleaded guilty before Judge Sheldon in the Superior Criminal Court and was placed on probation.
The Revere Board of Selectmen held a hearing last night on the petition by Suburban Gas and Electric Company to open the streets.
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