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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1900
Page
5
A description of a trick that may involve deceit or skill and claims Ivory Soap bears no deceit and will stand tests and do all it claims for. The text asserts Ivory Soap is reliable and capable in display or performance without deceit.
Tufts College English department presents The Shepherds as first of Townley mysteries on Web 27. Students omit modern effects and wear period costumes under D L Maulsby and Whittimore with Lewis directing music and chorus. Cast includes Primus Pastor Kingsbury Foster and Maria F Leslie Hayford with mayor and dignitaries. reception for Wellesley guests precedes performance.
A Lehigh Valley midnight express struck a carriage near Tuttle’s Crossing east of Rochester, killing five members of the Porter Smith family and injuring two others. The deceased were Amy Smith 48 Dert Smith 25 Miranda Smith 24 Glee Smith 14 Catherine Smith age unknown. Injured include Porter Smith and Gardner Smith 21.
Captain Charles E. Smalley, longtime collector of customs at Nantucket, died this morning at 2 o clock. He piloted the yacht Lillian for twenty years from Nantucket to Wanwinnet and ferried thousands to Wanwinnet shore dinners. He leaves a wife and two daughters. burial will be at Harwich.
Theatregoer notes Fanny Le Grand and her lover appear from a chamber as the act loses significance.
A New York theatre review notes changes in Sapho with Olga Nethersole and Fanny Le Grand while a separate Hayes Caldwell case details Dr. Hayes’s tribute to his wife killed by Caldwell. Hayes reports his wife’s decline from drug influence and reveals hours leading to the murder with morphine, a hidden gun, and three letters found in the couple’s apartment.
The Rev. Dr. Hugh O. Pentecost spoke at Mott Memorial Hall urging that attempts to suppress the play Sapho by law are ill-advised and wrong. He argued against government interference with amusements, calling for freedom in entertainment.
New York February 2 Magistrate Mott denying he attended the Wallack theatre Friday night in the Olga Nethersole Sapho case. He states he did not go to the theatre as it would be improper and that he stayed home at 67 Last Seventy-seventh Street until court adjourned. He adds he went to his home and did not leave until returning to court this morning.
The Boston and Maine railroad awards Continental the contract to supply uniforms for conductors, brakemen, and porters. The firm, known for Fitchburg and New York New Haven Hartford uniforms, secures the deal for quality and reliability over price. Boston’s leading clothing house notes rapid business growth across departments.
The town reports the state s oldest advertising sign was whitewashed this week. Residents threaten to punish a Panhandle section hand seen near the rear end of the old section house at the north end of town.
In 1875 a hand painted the wall sign later linked to the verse When the Frost Is on the Punkin. Middletown residents urged the Panhandle Railroad to protect the sign, but the vandal damaged the artwork despite requests to preserve it.
In Barre, Hiram F. Babbitt was found dead near Barre Plains after spending the night in a winter storm. Medical Examiner J. H. Walker Jr. ruled death due to exposure, noting the victim was exposed outdoors when found by Henry Boutelle, a milkman.
Peter Maher has asked for a one week delay due to a hand injury before a twenty round bout with Stockings Conroy in Youngstown. The Youngstown Athletic Club refused the request and will replace him with Gus Ruhlin if he does not appear.
Paris reports a heated clash between Sarah Bernhardt and Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, after Rostand objected to Bernhardt’s interpretation of a passage. She retorted that his reading was idiotic and mocked his career, and the pair have not spoken since.
Mme. Melba angrily denies rumors of engagement to Joachim the violinist saying she is married and loves her husband. She adds that if she ever married again she would prefer a warm hearted man under forty. The chatter stems from Vienna season and close companionship.
Mrs Penn Symons widow of General Penn Symons who died at Glencoe has remarried a younger subaltern and is honeymooning in South Europe. The Queen disapproves after granting her an extra pension following the general’s death and the marriage comes despite royal sympathy.
Physicians announce Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris is convalescing after an operation and will be about in a few days The statement adds there is no evidence cancer ever existed despite public claims to the contrary
Grace Atwell Boston’s popular actress has been engaged by Daniel Frohman as leading lady to Howard Gould in A Colonial Girl. The Castle Square Theatre plans The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau in succession with elaborate staging and strong casts for the stock company. The Prisoner of Zenda is announced for Monday March 5. Cadet parties form for Merri Osborne in The Girl from Maxim’s at the Boston Museum, with her rising popularity noted after Little Miss Muffet.
West Everett soprano Lizzie L Gaffney impressed at a Lawrence recital with Gounod Ave Maria and Se Crudele Il Cor Mestral. Edwin Milton Boyle duo debut with Tripp's Troubles in Keith's. New and classic acts, including Camille D Arville and Barbara Frietchie close to Boston debuts, with multiple shows at Castle Square Keith's and Grand Opera House.
A one story frame building at 7 Es sex avenue used as a produce shop by J. J. Lomasney was damaged by fire to about 1000 dollars at 11:50 last night. An overheated stove caused the blaze. The owner is Quincy Market Corporation.
General B. E. Cook, father of Captain Cook who commanded the Brooklyn during the Cuban blockade, died at his Northampton home. He was among the town's best known and oldest citizens.
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