May Go to Congress From the Seventh
Speaker Barrett of Melrose pursues a Congress seat in the seventh district with long range plans. He engineered district lines in 1891 and expects Lodge’s Senate move to create a vacancy. Barrett says he would accept a nomination and run the best possible campaign if offered.
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Melrose
Hach
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Barrett
House
Arlington
Winchester
Wakefield
Stoneham
Brackett
S. W. McCall
Lodge
Senate
Where Is He and Why Is He Not at His Home
A fragment titled Where Is He and Why Is He Not at His Home outlines a curious social scene framed by club life and one woman’s approach. The readable bits hint at social amusements and local personalities without revealing a clear narrative or outcome.
Best Recipe for Keeping a Husband at Home Contest
The Post in Boston offers a gold eagle for the best short letter not exceeding 100 words proposing “Best Recipe for Keeping a Husband at Home.” Submit on one side of paper, with equal merits given to early entries. Address Husband Competition, The Post, Boston.
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The
Post
the Post
Boston
Boston Post
Howard Athenaeum
Howard
Three C’s for better home life by E Hupnes
A note urging wives to study the three C’s in themselves and at home. First cleanliness, second cheerfulness, third carefulness. Signed E Hupnes from 1 St Paul Street, Chester Park.
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E. Hupnes
St. Paul Street
Chester Park
Why He Stays Home a Brookline Letter by C F Page
A Brookline correspondent advises wives to keep husbands content at home by reversing roles, boosting cheer, and giving him good meals. The letter urges patience, trust, and avoiding nitpicking, claiming a cheerful home life discourages pestering and favors domestic harmony.
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C. F. Page
Brookline
Always to court and never to wed in Dorchester advice
A Dorchester reader counsels couples to balance social life and home duties. She argues that keeping a husband at home requires shared entertaining rules, aligning married life with the habits that made courtship appealing. She urges spouses to imitate the early home ambiance to keep evenings together.
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Dorchester
Homemaker Advice From E Corie Boston Mass
A dated note urges wives to keep a neat home and pleasant demeanor for their husbands. It advises sewing on missing buttons, keeping husband’s clothes ready, and making home feel superior to the club, reflecting social norms of the era.
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E. Corie
Boston
Mass
Advice for Wives From A 19th Century Letter
A short editorial piece exhorts wives to avoid irritation toward husbands. It urges careful study of a spouse, measured talking, and giving space, while preserving courtesy. It advocates sweet discourse, neat homes, and calm forgiveness to appear loving and valuable.
No Place Like Home Brightens Husband's Evening
Advice from A. G. G. urges wives to make home cheerful and welcoming. Greet him with a smile, share sympathy for daily worries, minimize household nagging, and maintain courting-day personal appearance to keep a husband content at home.
Novel Deserts Freeze Suppers With Refreshing Fruit
Frozen fruits add novelty to dance suppers as refreshing, uncommon treats. Prepare like water ice by grinding fruit and using the juice and rind. fresh or canned work, with sugar adjustments. For oranges: juice from 12 oranges, 2 lemons, 1 quart water, 1.5 pounds sugar. rub rind into sugar, peel and remove pulp, mix, dissolve sugar, then freeze and serve.
Greek dress reform provokes social reaction
A famed physician urged a law to make women's garments hang straight from the shoulders. Observers note ancient Greek beauty was cited, yet his wife wearing a Grecque straight falling gown at a social event appeared peculiar rather than elegant, illustrating theory versus practice.
Women Talked About in Society and Culture News
A column notes Mrs Ballington Booth mothering a newborn, Lillian Russell designing costumes for The Mountebanks, and claims of corset patents and crinoline origins. It recounts a Mexican presidential wife’s pilgrimage to the Virgin of Guadalupe to seek cholera protection and mentions Dumas’s Camille and Renan’s sister Mlle Renan, who supported her family through teaching and debt relief.
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Pere Hyacinthe
Eugenie
Diaz
Mexico
Guadeloupe
Marie Duplessis
Alexandre Dumas
Camille
Mile. Renan
Jesus
Ernest
Mlle
Renan
In the Jeweler's Window
From the Jeweler's Circular a silver scallop shell on mounted supports holds a clock a winged heart becomes a jeweled brooch and a gemmed circlet ends with a bow knot. Empire buckles in fashion as flower holders slippers and other novelties appear. A gemmed owl with spread wings and a tassel eyes plus a diamond star centerpiece adorns a cirelet. Silver atomizers prove most popular as perfumes gain use.
Fragment of Apocryphal Gospel of St Peter Found in Egypt
In 1896-97 a parchment discovered in a Christian tomb at Achmim in upper Egypt yielded the Apocryphal Gospel of St Peter. It has reached Europe and been published for archivological societies and students. Dr Edward Everett Hale translated the roughly 1500 word fragment detailing the crucifixion and resurrection. Published by J Stihman Smith & Co Boston.
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Achmim
Upper
Egypt
Peter
Europe
Edward Everett Hale
J. Stihman Smith & Co
Boston
Chrysanthemums Rise in Paris as Food and Decor
Chrysanthemums gain popularity in Paris for home and table use. Besides the chrysanthemum salad prepared by a Japanese recipe, epicures boil the flower and eat it hot like potatoes or mix the blossoms with truffles and cloves, then steam and pepper the result.
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Paris
Epicures
Marry Me Delia And I'll Buy The Ring At Wilson Bros
An advertisement from Wilson Bros promoting Australian gold wedding rings crafted in their own factory. They offer special rings to order in two hours from their shop at The Big Clock, 14 and 15 Tremon Row, urging customers to beware of imitation rings.
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Wilson Bros
Peterson Johnsons wed in city ceremony
In a city ceremony January 7, Carles O Peterson and Hulda C Johnson were married by Rev C F Johansson. On January 12 at Longwood Church of Our Saviour Florence Mascarene Hubbard daughter of James M Hubbard of Boston and Robert Rantoul of St Paul were married by Rev R H Howe.
Obituaries of several residents with multiple death notices
A list of death notices dated January detailing ages and residencies. Albee, Sumner aged 67 in Cambridge. Charlotte H Carpenter aged 87 formerly of Cincinnati. Hopsey A Coolidge widow of George Coolidge in Haddonfield. Thomas Farrington aged 54 in the city. Henry H French aged 66 in Stoneham. Francis H Gardner aged 45 in Roxbury with church services on Jan 15. Mary E Hammond. Daniel W Job aged in his 50s in Bermuda. Charles R Jones aged 26 in Boston Highlands. Kjersti Lyon aged 82 in Everett. Mikke B Nielsen aged 22 in Boston Highlands. Maud Gardiner aged 32 in Milton. Cynthia T Tribble widow of Captain Thomas Tribble aged 80 in Plymouth. Samuel Humphrey Turner aged 80 in Scituate.
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Albee
Cambridge
Sumner Albee
Carpenter
G. A. Schmitt
Charlotte H. Carpenter
Cincinnati
Ava C. Carpenter
Vermont
Coolidge
Haddonfield
N. J
Hopsey A
George Coolidge
Farrington
Thomas Farrington
French
Stoneham
Henry H. French
Gardner
Roxbury
Francis H. Gardner
Church of First Religious Society
Eliot Square
Hammond
Mary E. Hammond
Job
Bermuda
Daniel W. Job
Jones
Boston Highlands
Charles R. Jones
Lyon
Everett
Kjersti Lyon
Nielson
Mikke B
Carl W. F. Nielson
Roberts
Milton
Maud Gardiner
Lewis. A. Roberts
Henry J. Gardiner
Tribble
Plymouth
Mass
Cynthia T
Thomas Tribble
Turner
Scituate
Samuel Humphrey Turner
List of Applications to the City Register Jan 11
A dated compilation lists the names of couples applying to the City Register on January 11 including Thomas Brogle with Mary McInnis, Joseph E. Claymore with Lillie Casey, Bartholomew Golden with Margaret Malson, Albert J. McDonald with Annie J. Donald, Phillip Young with Jane Bell, Everett P. Coughlin with Lottie D. O'Brien, James M. Halligan with Dela M. Davitt, Harrison Thompson with Annie Costavee, Abraham Dailey with Henrietta Adams, Patrick J. Flynn with Mary Sullivan, George A. Robertson with Annie L. Kelley, James D. Caseley with Maud Mansfield, Perick J. Manning with Catherine Barrett.
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Thomas Brogle
Mary McInnis
Joseph E. Claymore
Lillie Casey
Bartholomew Golden
Margaret Malson
Albert J. McDonald
Annie J. Donald
Phillip Young
Jane 8
Bell
Everett P. Coughlin
Lottie D. O’brien
James M. Halligan
Dela M. Davitt
Harrison Thompson
Annie Costavee
Abraham Dailey
Henrietta Adams
Patrick J. Flynn
Mary Sullivan
George A. Robertson
Annie L. Kelley
James D. Caseley
Maud Mansfield
Perick J. Manning
Catherine Barrett
Married couples listed in city register filings
In this city, two marriages are recorded. On January 10, by Rev Everett D Bull, Joseph J Dunnee wed Eva B West. On January 9, by Rev Philo W Sprague, Edwin A Smith married Margaret A Runnells.
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Everett Dd. Bull
Joseph J. Dunnee
Eva B. West
Philo W.W. Sprague
Edwin A. Smith
Margaret A. R Runnells
First Night of Lady Windermere's Fan at the Playhouse
The Old White Horse in A Temperance Town and new bills promise varied attractions. Wilson Barrett will perform Claudian at the Globe next Tuesday, with praise from John Ruskin. Stage gossip highlights Babes in the Wood ballet at the Boston Theatre and praise for Signorina Salmoiraghi and Signor Biancifiori.
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Old White Horse
Wilson Barrett
Claudian
Globe Theatre
John Ruskin
Barrett
Boston
Signorina Salmoiraghi
Signor Biancifiori
Park Theatre
Messrs. Richards
Canfield
Elsie Lombard
Ruth
Hoyt
Theatrical Notes From Boston Theatres This Week
Boston theatre scene features Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan at the Columbia with May Brookyn as the adventuress and Elsie Lombard in A Temperance Town at Park Theatre. Major acts include Manola Mason company in Caste, Prindle Hunt in Cheek, Flora Walsh in A Texas Steer, and plans for The Isle of Champagne at the Columbia with Transatlantic run.
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Columbia
Jim the Penman
May Brookyn
Prindle-Hunt Company
Roland Reed
Grand Museum
Jay Hunt
Dick Smythe
Graudeville Entertainment
Flora Walsh
Texas
Tremont Theatre
Tim Murphy
Mr. Hoyt
Columbia Theatre
Globe Theatre
Paderewski Recital Draws Boston's Fashionable Crowd
A packed Music Hall witnessed Paderewski's refined touch and versatile program including Weber Momento Capriccioso and Liszt Polonaise. Encore greeted by enthusiastic calls as next Boston dates and related concerts by Damrosch's New York Symphony and other figures were announced.
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Weber
Chopin
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Tremont Theatre
Adolph Brodsky
Tschaikowsky
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Dvorak
Wagner
Plunket Greene
Thomas E. Clifford
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