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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1901
Page
5
Boston Sunday Post announces the final coupon for a prize contest with 58 cash awards. Competitors rush to increase ballots as prizes go to the top 58, with many newsboys seeking wins for a nest egg and broad interest across Boston and New England.
A compiled list shows entrants and addresses with coupon submissions up to 5 PM yesterday. Many names from Roxbury to Cambridge and Somerville are listed, each with street addresses and neighborhoods, reflecting broad participation in the Sunday Post coupon drive.
A set of letters and notices from readers urging Boston Post coupons and prizes. Contributors from Somerville Charlestown Roxbury Stonington and East Boston urge support for candidates like George A Nelson and Mary Donahue, Otty Mack, Abe Widrich, and J A Grady with coupons and votes.
Sir enclosed you will find eighty four coupons for Max W Miller. He is another one of Boston's most popular newsboys. If all of his friends would send their coupons in for him they would land him a winner. Blue Hill Avenue.
The Municipal Court postponed the examination of Mrs Grace M Breckenridge charged with a statutory offense with Julian de Cordova sponsor of Union Glass Works. Bond set at 800 dollars for Mrs Breckenridge who pleaded not guilty. de Cordova未 located.
Mayor Hart releases a comparative table of department salaries for the Hart administration versus the Quincy era. The document enumerates numerous city departments from Fire and Police to Public Library and Public Works, outlining pay comparisons and noting the transition from Curtis to Hart terms.
Amos Barnes of Barnes & Dunklee proposes a grand hotel on the Hotel Brunswick site in Back Bay, aiming to rival New York's Waldorf Astoria. He notes high hotel costs, consulting a New York architect, and envisions a non sky scraper modern structure on adjoining land.
Red is dominant as Chinatown observes the second day of the Chinese New Year. Visiting cards draperies and ropes glow red while new shoes tops and burnt firecrackers decorate the streets. Fiddles gongs and incense fill the air as residents mark twenty seventh year of Quong Suah dynasty with vegetarian meals.
George W. Kehr of Harrisburg won the McLean prize at Princeton last June for An Ideal of American History. Frank P. Heilman of Gettysburg College had delivered a similar speech titled Abraham Lincoln, and Kehr confessed to plagiarism and was dismissed. the Touchstone and Gettysburg Mercury exposed the case, shocking undergraduates who trusted Kehr's character.
New York February 18 Foreign B Baldwin organizer of the Baldwin Zeigler polar expedition plans to depart mid June to seek the North Pole. He outlined a new uncharted route through Franz Josef Land between the British Channel and the Austrian Sound aiming to map the Inter-Channel area before striking for the pole from its farthest point.
A large herd owned by Charles W. Lillibridge of Seekonk was poisoned while feeding, with no motive found and police noting no known suspects. The incident occurred near Attleboro on February 18.
Edwin S. Gill editor of the Republican shot Mortimer Stevens staff member of the Advertiser in the Republican office. The incident followed a dispute over Gill’s article about young ladies staying at the Hawaiian Hotel.
Society notes report Miss Marion A Hall of Dorchester to wed Baltimore man Allen Stuart in Elm Hill Unitarian Church Roxbury with a large reception at Old Dorchester Clubhouse. Also: Mary Gambrill to William MacKay wedding in Boston. numerous teas and lectures. Back Bay church sale debate stirs residents.
The article notes opposition to selling St. Paul’s Church and calls for an extraordinary meeting of real estate shareholders at 3 o clock in the parish rooms behind the church. It hints at a vote and cites James Means of 196 Beacon Street as an example of potential voters.
William Hayes of Amherst was brought to District Court on a drunkenness charge and identified as the man sought for a 1895 assault on a 6 year old girl in Granby. He was rearrested on the old warrant and held in $1000 for a February 27 hearing.
Orders issued for the transport Rawlins to move from New York to San Juan Porto Rico and return with the Porto Rican battalion to take part in inauguration ceremonies in Washington.
The bark Hancock of Boston under Captain Carlson from Oran? bassa bound for New York or Chester Penn arrived here in distress. The schooner Ella M. Storer of Boston with Captain Dix from Fernandina Jan. 23 for Boston also arrived leaking.
At the adjourned town meeting the special committee exploring high school and primary school building plans requested more time and asked for a $250 appropriation to obtain plans and estimates from architects. the sum was approved.
In Portland Maine February 18 Municipal Court heard the Uno beer case with State arguing Uno beer is malt liquor and cannot be sold in Maine. Expert chemists from Boston Dartmouth and Bowdoin testified with conflicting opinions. Robinson denied malt content while others described the beers as malt liquors and intoxicating. The court reserved decision.
Fall River, Feb 18. Mrs. Elizabeth Mace Millan of Whipple Street collapsed and died on South Main Street. Medical Examiner Tuck ruled heart disease as the cause of death.
Former teachers and pupils of Lasell Seminary held a reunion at the Hotel Vendome yesterday afternoon. About eighty ladies attended. The program featured a vocal solo by Evangeline Winn and readings by Blanche Martin including The Fiddler Told The Midnight Minuet Angelina Johnson. Charles Bragdon addressed the group and a tea reception led by Caroline Carpenter closed the event.
Dr. W S Rice notes growing ruptures in cities as people avoid exertion. He promotes the Rice Method, a home cure claimed painless nonoperative. An office is set at 459 Broadway So Boston for consultations with descriptive circulars available.
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