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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1902
Page
5
A New Year’s eve party labeled La Societe Culinaire drew about 1000 attendees. Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth students mingled with others amid risqué costumes and a late grand march, while police watched as dancers vanished from the floor.
An article explains most heart troubles arise from poor digestion and stomach fermentation. It promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after meals as a safe aid, containing pepsin and diastase, said to digest food naturally and prevent acidity, gases, and weak stomach conditions. The piece notes widespread use in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
The fourth annual ball of the Sons and Daughters of Zion drew one of the season’s largest Hebrew gatherings at Odd Fellows Hall last night. A crowded hall left little room for dancing as a young, animated crowd enjoyed a concert and grand march led by Chief Marshal Adolph Hubbard and Miss Jennie Brady, under Goldstein and Millmaster.
A lively event last night at Union Hall Somerville marked the 2nd annual concert of Division 17 A O H. A large attendance included officials from other divisions with genuine Irish dances showcased in the lower hall. John Coogan served as chief marshal, John J. McNamara as floor director, and Patrick Barry as assistant floor director.
A calendar by A G Van Nostrand of Bunker Hill breweries stands out for its artistic design. The 20x30 inch piece features Carle Blenner’s painting of a girl with a blue white curtain backdrop, praising the lithographer’s craft and the calendar’s refined color work.
A Boston tale extols Captain Rand's Oriental Lucky Stone claiming riches follow the bearer. After a Ceylon episode and a loss, the captain regained luck and wealth. He now sells a limited number for one dollar each, by visiting 170A Trent Street or mailing six dollars for six stones.
New York on Eighth avenue between Twenty sixth and Twenty seventh street burned last night destroying the Miner’s Eighth Avenue Theatre. The Merry Maidens burlesque show had finished. audience left about 15 minutes before the fire started from a lighted cigarette. Chorus girls and staff fled in a panic. all believed evacuated safely. Loss estimated at 200000 dollars.
At the Chelsea Board of Aldermen meeting last night a severe arraignment of the Board of Health was presented in a finance committee report led by Alderman McClintock. The panel adopted three orders to transfer 2539.94 from the contingent fund to the Health Board, study merging clerk and plumbing inspector roles, and have the city engineer review ash collection costs by the highway department.
Ward 7 Councilman Daniel Donnelly, gravely ill with pneumonia, left his sickbed against doctor’s orders to attend the Democratic caucus and back Arthur W. Dolan for president of the Common Council. He was driven home after the event and quickly returned to bed, with friends fearing for his recovery.
The Somerville Police Court crowded as Florence Dobson, 22, of 3% Irving Street West Somerville, faced a charge of assault with a loaded revolver against her father James R. Dobson, 49. The case was continued to Wednesday, Jan. 22 on request of Captain Perry. The father remains in Somerville Hospital with expected recovery.
Havana reports the general election on the island is in progress with presidential and senatorial electors, House of Representatives members, provincial governors, and provincial council members voted. Counting ongoing at a late hour with no definite results yet.
An alarm from Bar 98 reported a blaze in the three story brick Swelling house at 19 Wellington street owned by the Museum of Fine Arts and occupied by L. A. Webster. A lace curtain touched a gas jet and sparked the fire. Celestin J. McPhee, 13, fell at his Roxbury home and injured his left foot. Cornelius Cronin, 80, of South Boston, was arrested for larceny of a brass sign from the Boston Bank Note Company at 152 Pearl street. sign recovered.
The Cambridge Board of Aldermen unanimously voted down two mayoral vetoes in last evening’s meeting, the final session of the current board. A vendor’s ad touts Orangeine powders claiming to cure headaches with a brief, unrelated note follows.
A fashionably dressed couple identified as Sylvester Breed of Lynn Massachusetts and Mrs Charlotte McKim of Boston attempted to secure a marriage license in Newark New Jersey. They could not show divorce records and County Clerk Kuebler refused the license citing the five days notice requirement. They left for New York with a clerical companion and had earlier visited the Mayor's office for guidance.
A private Rome dispatch reports Pope Leo XIII in excellent health after a half hour audience with New York auxiliary bishop J. M. Farley. The Pope asked him to convey an apostolic blessing to Archbishop Corrigan the clergy and the people of New York for the New Year.
At the American Physiological Society session in Chicago Dr. Jacques Loeb extended yesterday’s talk with new work on the evolution of life. He contends that higher organisms arise from electro dynamic processes and that foods and medicines derive value from the amount of positive and negative electric atoms they contain.
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