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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1887
Page
5
A long committee report debunks Major Walter’s Walterian claims about Washington portraits. It questions Sharpless links, eye color changes, and alleged letters from Irving, Hawthorne, and Gallatin, finding no solid evidence Washington’s pictures existed before 1854.
Arthur Warren of the Home Journal and Miss Abbie Gunnison wed at St Mary s Chapel Dorchester in an Episcopal service officiated by Rev L W Saltonstall. The bridal party entered at 4 30 with ushers Henry Meserve Walter Cutter Frank Williams Herman Page and Henry Perkins.
A large wedding was held yesterday morning at the new Catholic Church on Howard street Brookline for Michael Driscoll superintendent of streets and Miss Mary O Iearn daughter of Michael O Hearn. The ceremony was by Rev Father L G Morris with a brother and sister as wedding party. Guests included Brookline officials and town staff. The couple plan to reside on Harrison place Brookline after a trip to New York.
The second annual Great Head Yacht Nub ball was held last night at Odd Fellows Hall with about 176 couples attending. Guests from Sandy Bay Boston Jeffries West Lynn and South Boston yacht clubs joined in the festivities and the Germania Band provided the music.
In a quiet day at the state legislature the railroad commissioners annual report was submitted along with routine petitions. The House corrected an overstaffed liquor laws committee while Senators moved temperance related petitions, and shifted the employers liability bill to the joint judiciary committee. An order was adopted to curb unlicensed sale of intoxicating liquors in towns voting for licenses.
Senator Glines of Middlesex joins the roads and bridges committee replacing Senator Keith of the Cape district who requested excusal. Senator Slattery of Framingham is appointed.
The State Agricultural College trustees convened at the State House with Governor Ames presiding. Officers chosen include James S. Grinnell as vice president and George Noyes as secretary. They authorized $200 for six months of newspaper advertising and moved to reallocate Whiting street fund interest to scholarships for poor students. Resolutions honored Marshall P. Wilder and William Knowlton, praising Wilder as a pioneering figure for agricultural education and noting the institute's growth under Morrill’s act.
J Thomas Vose longtime Boston merchant and railroad executive died at his Jamaica Plain residence after two years of declining health from Brights disease. Born 1819 in Boston son of hatter Joshua Vose he headed Lyon and Vose dry goods firm before its 1872 fire. He later led Concord railroad Maverick Wharf Co Mt Washington Bank and was a Warren Street Chapel figure leaving a widow and one son.
Charles H White of 31 Salem Street Malden died yesterday afternoon aged about 81. He collapsed during a Christmas carol rehersal at the Baptist Church and had been unconscious since. He worked in the Boston and Maine railroad auditors office and left a widow and child. Isaac B Brown longtime Charlestown resident and former city official died at 25 Mt Vernon Street He was the first traveling Boston salesman to sell on the road by sample. He was a salesman for the New York House of R W Weir Co Rev Edwin A Eaton retired Universalist clergyman died at Union Terrace Forest Hills He leaves a widow five sons and three daughters.
The Boston Light Infantry Veteran Association held its annual meeting and dinner at the Quincy House. Officers elected included President Captain J. F. Murray of Cambridge and Vice Presidents George I Pinkerton and others.
George Fairbain and others attended as officers and guests at a dinner where forty members were present. Speeches were delivered by Major Jones Captain Follett Captain White Captain Langley and several others.
The page lists showings at several venues including the Museum with Held by the Enemy and Park Fortescue in Frou-Frou at 8, Boston Theatre presenting Martha at 7:30, Bijou Theatre with My Aunt Bridget at 2 and 8, Hollis Street Theatre with Modjeska in Camille at 7:45, and the Athenaum with Sly Partner at 8.
Stocks raise at R. L. Day & Co. sale at 11 30 a m and Francis Henshaw & Co. sale at noon Damaged Havana tobacco offered by Horatio Harris at 11 a m
The record lists multiple January marriage notices from Boston and nearby towns. Couples include Marion Burrage and Charles Morse of New Haven, Michael Driscoll and Mary O Hearn, Samuel Gamble and Martha E Robinson, Holmes Hinkley and Susan Stearns, Samuel T Manning and Henrietta Scott, William Reed and Grace Atkins, George A Smith and Mary Muldoon. Additional entries show D R Reed and Grace Evelyn Atkins, with a series of reverends officiating.
Deaths reported in Charlestown Worcester and Boston areas include Isaac E. Brown 73 in Charlestown Annie M Eaton 39 and Rev Edwin A Eaton in Jan 12, Sarah Gill 65 in Worcester Susan King 43 in this city William Lowry 80 in Boston Highlands Margaret Merrifield 34 in this city William Peirce 2 in this city Elbridge C Donnell 46 in Chelsea Josiah Fletcher formerly of Boston in New York Annie Hibbard Hallett formerly of Boston in New York Dr William Perry 98 in Exeter Cyrus W Pratt Concord NH Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Volunteers and Sarah Augusta Richards Brooklyn NY daughter of the late Nathaniel Richards of Hingham.
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