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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1898
Page
5
Officials say cheap food is the cause and deny the possibility of the claim at Harvard. The head of Chicago University remarks on the issue, framing it as impossible within the discussed context.
President Harper warns that three of five student deaths at Yale in five years were linked to insufficient and improper food. He cites widespread cheap boarding clubs near campus offering substandard meals, with as little as $2.25 to $2.50 weekly, contributing to dyspepsia and ill health among students. Memorial Hall offers meals at about $4 weekly.
Corresponding Secretary Cobb of Cambridge's Harvard asserts no student has died from insufficient nutrition due to university medical supervision. He notes some may eat too little and injure health, but deaths from undernourishment are practically impossible under care, though food expenditures vary by individual.
An opening chapter sets Mars as a rival intellect to humanity, detailing Martian ambition and preparations to strike Earth as the 1900s approach. The piece contrasts human vanity with Martian breadth of knowledge and readiness for interplanetary conflict.
A Martian attack narrative follows a fiery jet from Mars drawing nearer earth and a mysterious hollow cylinder found on the sand pits. Ogilvy and Henderson discover inside the cylinder a man or men, alive but unresponsive, as townsfolk rush to witness the unfolding encounter.
New Haven January 8 Yale employs a commons system offering affordable board. Students may self board in rooms or eat at a 5 cent restaurant for dinner, with some paying as little as 4.15 dollars weekly. Sick students are rapidly referred to the Yale infirmary for free medical care, preventing starvation.
Charles Abraham of 18 Pleasant Street Dorchester was riding on Bur roughs street near Pond Street yesterday afternoon when his horse shied and threw him. He sustained a slight head injury and was taken home by his coachman.
The Norton line steamer Miramar arrived from the River Plate and Brazil with three packages of yellow fever serum. The serum was forwarded by Dr J Sara nelli of the Instituto de Higiene Experimental at Montevideo.
Morning sighting of a burning meteor streak over northern New Jersey described by Yale’s Albin and meteorite expert Dennings. Ogilvy discovers a massive crater near the Lincoln turnpike, with a 30 yard diameter cylinder buried in sand amid scorched grass and a shattered apple tree. The scene is still hot and quiet as dawn breaks.
The death of Shepard Homans Sr a wealthy Englewood New Jersey resident occurred on a crowded crosstown horse car at Fifty ninth street and Fifth Avenue. He grew pale and ill suddenly and died on a park bench before medical aid could arrive. Homans a former president of President Life Insurance Company was well known in New York business circles and resided with his family on Palisades Avenue Englewood. He is survived by his wife two sons and three daughters. His son Shepard Homans Jr formerly played fullback for Princeton. Homans was a member of the Union League Century Yacht Englewood Field Club and other associations. A card of membership to the Englewood Field Club was found in his pocket.
Dr Thomas Jefferson Sawyer dean emeritus of Tufts Divinity School and oldest living Universalist minister aged 84 or 94 depending on reporting is celebrated at College Hill residence. Born 1804 in Reading Vermont he shaped Tufts College and related theological schools. Married 1831 to Caroline Fisher. seven children with daughter Alice Knight surviving.
At the Cottage Associates meeting in the South End, William Smith was elected president J L Curry vice president Tom Driscoll secretary and Charles S Borgard treasurer A five member committee was named for the first annual costume party to be held at Columbus Hall 994 Washington Street Monday February 21 The Waverley Orchestra will supply the music.
A crowd gathers around a massive earthbound cylinder, hearing a faint rumble and watching a lid fall away. Creatures with gray bodies, tentacles, and glowing eyes emerge, stunning onlookers as panic spreads through the common. The scene ends with more monsters appearing in the shadows. Continued in Tomorrow's Post.
Harvard professors graduates and students honored Marshall Newell killed at Springfield on Christmas Eve. Dr Francis Peabody led prayers and praised Newell as a modest true type of man whose life was more meaningful than length. A large civic and university presence attended with pallbearers and honorary pallbearers named among faculty alumni and officials.
At the Portuguese Catholic Church on North Bennet Street Father A J Pimentel praised the Post for assisting the crew families of the Susan R Stone. He spoke of generosity to Provincetown widows and orphans after his church suffered fire damage and plans an eventual charity entertainment.
The Portuguese Political Club of Boston held its annual election at 231 Hanover Street. Elected were Joseph Enos as president Zeurino Machad as vice president J L Almeida as financial secretary Noe Rodrigues as treasurer J C Rose as sergeant at arms and John Gomes as member selections completed for officer slate.
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