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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1911
Page
5
A boatload of soldiers from harbor forts and the crew of the United States quartermaster steamer General Thomas Jesup faced extreme danger when the rudder head snapped. Wind reached 50 miles per hour as the small steamer veered wildly in the harbor chop, leaving them in utter helplessness.
After leaving Fort Strong the General Jesup suffered a rudder head failure forcing the vessel broadside to the gale. The George A. Hibbard assisted, preventing a collision with a coal barge, and the Jesup was towed to East Boston to be laid up for a week for repairs with the General R. N. Batchelder substituting in the interim.
A New York manager, at Harvard dramatics department request, tallied door counts at five major houses last week. Women comprised 68 to 89 percent of audiences across varied plays, from fantasy poetry to farce, with even the male-targeted farce drawing 6 percent female attendance.
Excerpt extols the St Regis at Fifth Avenue and Fifty fifth Street as a hotel with home like comforts privacy and superb entertainment facilities. It notes dining at the St Regis restaurant as unmatched and lists transient room rates from three to twelve dollars per day with private baths and parlors available.
Boston’s Mayor Fitzgerald arrives at Palm Beach to enjoy the sea and golf with officials, notes warm water and a first swim, plans a golf lesson after Taft’s advice, feeds baby alligators and entertains English nobility while awaiting district aides and a Panama Canal trip.
Nathan Sallinger owner of the People's Credit Company returns to Boston after a three weeks rest in Lakeville and Atlantic City. He notes 1910 was the firm's best year and predicts 1911 will break all records, with a stronger business outlook than ever.
St Pauls Parish in Dorchester hosts its annual reunion at Navilus Hall with Rt. Rev. Joseph G. Anderson as guest pastor. Organizers Rev. Frederick J. Alichin and Rev. William E. Connor lead committees to offer a bishop reception, whist games, and a dance program. Garrett W. Scollard chairs the executive committee. Thomas A. Jennings is secretary.
England actor Lewis Casson told the American Drama Society at the Lenox that Boston should lead a revival of the stage, faulting Puritanical attitudes and urging a repertory theatre. He warned against overinvestment and suggested staging Ibsen in drawing rooms if needed, predicting American drama will rise again with Boston at the forefront.
The St Stephen's Young Men's Lyceum ball in St John's Hall Moon Street promises a brilliant event tomorrow evening. Governor Foss will lead the grand march with an orchestra of 40 to provide promenade music and dancing late into the night. Noted guests include Adjutant General Gardner M. Pearson and other staff and officials, Congress members, and local dignitaries.
Harry Plate a Hanover plumber was raised to life membership of the Prussian House of Lords on the Emperor's birthday. He worked from apprenticeship to trade leader and endured years of travel before settling in Hanover and leading artisans’ congresses. His selection marks first non noble inclusion in Prussia's upper house by petition of artisans.
High snow banks along the Pictou branch rail line prevented serious damage after two freight trains collided at Campbell's siding. Crews leaped into the snow to escape, an engine and six cars leaving the track but suffering only minor damage. Both trains were en route to Truro, a fast freight and a special freight.
An advertisement claims Pape's Diapepsin cures fermentation and sour stomach in minutes. It describes symptoms from gas and dyspepsia to heartburn and says a fifty cent treatment at any pharmacy will prove relief within a single dose.
Richard Snell, after a sensational probate trial, gained control of $750000 from his father Colonel Thomas Snell. He convened relatives and redistributed $400000 among them, keeping $350000 for himself. A widowed sister in law received $100000 and her children $100000 each.
Rev C E Mimann an Episcopalian from Salmonhurst New Brunswick urged revising the Ten Commandments in line with an English movement. He suggested abridging several commandments including the fourth commandment to “Remember that thou shall keep holy the Sabbath Day.”
The speaker argues against the six day creation view and urges renaming the Sabbath as the Lord's Day. He suggests abridging the fourth commandment to remember the Lord's Day and notes that Lutherans and Catholics omit the second commandment, supporting revision. He identifies as Lutheran and voices general support for updating the commandments.
The Rev Andrew Mowatt 72 collapsed from heart failure at Erskine Presbyterian Church Montreal while about to deliver a sermon titled A Vision of Christ He had resigned due to ill health two months earlier but agreed to serve until a successor was appointed He arrived from Fredericton New Brunswick in 1890 and died without regaining consciousness as the choir sang a hymn
In Sutton West Virginia seven people died when a fire at J D Hardin home early today gutted the building. Only Mr Hardin survived as six Hardin children and a girl who lived with them perished. The blaze started from a gas grate and the stairway collapse trapped the family. Mrs Hardin died from injuries after leaping from a second story window.
James E. Whitney of Washington DC is under arrest in Jacksonville awaiting extradition to New Hampshire for allegedly passing a $1500 worthless check at a local bank. The check, drawn on the International Banking Corporation of DC and signed by H. Lyon Smith, cleared after Whitney’s convincing story but later bounced. Whitney vanished from Massachusetts years ago before officers caught up.
Rev. George Luther Cady of Pilgrim Congregational Church argues a single $10,000 minister replacing ten $1,000 pastors would streamline church operations, save money, and boost charitable giving. He urged congregations to unite, warning that lack of consolidation wastes resources and helps discord.
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