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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1916
Page
3
Orville L Story a well known scenic painter died at his Arlington home 10 Devereaux street yesterday aged 55 born in Charlestown. He painted drop curtains for many theatres in the United States and Canada. He is survived by his wife.
Acting Mayor Hagan denounces Boston streets as a disgrace due to snow and slush. He calls for complete removal of snow, criticizing current practices of leaving eight to ten inches and urging city spending to match New York’s street cleaning standards.
The Harvard junior prom and Hasty Pudding tea dance ran from 3:30 yesterday afternoon to 3:30 this morning, featuring 20 dance numbers and 20 tunes. The Union hosted a garden decorated first floor for 160 couples from Boston New York Philadelphia Washington and Baltimore. A press agent would call it a rollicking ragtime riot with pieces including The Battle Cry of Peace and The Junior Prom composed by Samuel P Sears.
Shortly after midnight the prom supper was served in the Union. Patronesses included Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell and others. The prom committee featured Richard Harte and H B Cabot among members. In the afternoon a tea dance at the Hasty Pudding Society clubhouse drew all juniors and guests, followed by dinner parties at Back Bay hotels and private homes.
London reports three more ships taken into Kirkwall for examination: the Danish steamship Helrig Olav from New York to Copenhagen with cargo mails and passengers, the Norwegian steamer Alf from New York to Copenhagen with a wheat cargo, and the Swedish steamship Osman from Baltimore to Helsingfors with maize.
Revere City Hall was crowded as hundreds of city children joined the 71st annual ball marking Revere's split from Chelsea. It was a leap year party with Frances May Kimball guiding the grand march alongside J. Farrington Sanborn.
An advertisement touts Elmer & Amend's 2851 as rheumatism relief. It claims thousands endorse the remedy and notes reliable druggists carry it.
The Massachusetts Nautical School Commission seeks a larger training ship than the Ranger due to a looming officer shortage for the expanding U S merchant fleet. More applicants than cadet spots are expected as the spring class is named, prompting the push to equip Massachusetts with a bigger vessel for officer training.
President John J. Martin of the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange commends Congressman Allen T. Treadway for pushing an appropriation for the 40 foot Boston Harbor channel to the House floor. The committee chose to strike the appropriation from the bill. A copy of Martin’s letter was sent to all New England Congressmen.
Grace E Baldwin formerly tied to Dwight Baldwin and the Boston Terrier Club has become Mrs Alexander Campbell of Minneapolis Minnesota. The alimony obligation ends as court action relieves Dwight Baldwin from payments since Grace remarried.
Superior Court awards relief to Bald win after he pays $84 in back alimony. Decree allows dismissal of the $12 weekly alimony order issued June 18, 1915, following Mrs Bald win’s remarriage to Alexander Campbell of Minneapolis on Dec 22, 1915. Campbell, an insurance man, is described as a man of wide affairs. Lawyer George W Reed notes limited details of Campbell.
Henry Crowley, son of Dorchester police superintendent Michael H. Crowley, was successfully operated on for appendicitis at City Hospital by Dr. Howard Lothrop. He rested comfortably last evening and resides with his parents on Bakersfield Street.
The will of late Deputy Superintendent of Police Laurence Cain filed in the Suffolk registry of probate leaves all property to his wife Ellen A. Cain. If she dies first, 3000 dollars is placed in trust for James BE Toumey to provide 50 a week to his mother Annie E. Toumey for life or until funds run out. Should Annie die before 3000 is paid, the balance is shared between James E. Toumey and William B. Toumey, with issue to their children if either parent dies before Annie.
Dr. William H. Dana longtime author composer and music teacher and cofounder of the National Musical Association of the United States died in Warren at age 72. He studied music in London and Berlin and was born in New York 72 years ago.
New Yorker leases a 44 room flat with 13 baths on Park Avenue for 25000 a year. The lessee is identified as not from Utah. An ad promotes Adamson Cough Balsam as a nearly universal cold cure.
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