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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1899
Page
4
The Boston Post urges immediate full opening of public baths and parks to combat the extreme heat. It criticizes city officials for delays and questions why the Marine Park pier remains closed during hot evenings, calling for rapid adaptation to summer conditions.
The piece contrasts Kitchener receiving a cash grant and high social rank with a republican approach that would seek a presidential nomination for honored veterans. It argues Miles and Dewey face political backlash despite service, and favors the monarchical mode of honoring valor over partisan defamation and delays.
The editor recalls Frederick O Prince as a courteous, generous Bostonian and democratic aristocrat. He shaped the city through park expansion Back Bay development and library growth while serving as mayor and long time Democratic secretary. His humane leadership and cultural polish left a lasting legacy.
Yale crews prepare at Yale's Ferry on the Thames ahead of the annual race against rival university crews. The contest is scheduled for the 29th, with Yale believed to be well positioned and ready to contend.
The article weighs early training value for Harvard and Yale crews ahead of their New London race. It notes Harvard may benefit from observing Yale while Yale trains, and suggests Harvard’s preparation shows a businesslike approach. It questions whether Crimson luck has turned in athletics this year.
The piece notes the Philippines theater is small with operations near Manila Morong and Malolos and Lawton’s Santa Cruz expedition on Laguna de Bay. It contrasts Otis’s optimistic cables with the prolonged campaign and difficult Luzon geography. It also mentions local social notes and veterans groups joining in Boston.
The Observant Citizenene notes George H. Brennan, a Boston journalist turned New York theater manager, visiting town and plotting new schemes. Samuel Melhkee, Museum business manager, ill with appendicitis but improving. Mr. McKee also ill but recovering. Police adopt summer uniforms. Parker House bars reflect neatness in mirrors. Fanny Davenport’s jewels sold to Blanche Walsh for 10000 dollars. Cedric Laighton of Oceanic and Appledore hotels dies at West Medford. Malden to get a 100000 opera house on Converse land. Decoration Day fountain use tallies show 9335 drinks on Washington Street. Temperature around Medicine Hat Moose Jaw near 60 degrees. cooler weather expected. L Street bath house opens.
A nostalgic poem recalls Dolly's early whist failures with risky plays and finessing missteps. Years later Dorothy plays with polished skill, knowing Fisher Ames, signaling, and leading fourth best cards. The piece contrasts old errors with a refined shift as she dominates at Pole's domain.
May Loring, an eighteen year old country teacher in Greendale, attracts three suitors. Harry Hayford loves her, but May spurns him for a virtuous life and later encounters Sidney, who proves untrustworthy. After Harry’s rumored mine death, she moves on as a preceptress, years pass with sorrow kept private.
Our summer line brings in Big Fellows and stout customers with comfortable clothes shirts and underwear at low prices. Soft shirts are our best selling item and we offer the largest stock and best value. Blue Serge suits headline summer wear from $6.50 to $17.50.
Felicity mirrors old memories as May revisits a past life when a photo triggers a reunion with Harry Hayford. The return of the beloved schoolmistress shifts to marriage as May leaves teaching to begin a new life.
A collage of light hearted snippets from Chicago Post and Detroit Free Press humor columns. Jokes about hotel rooms and mosquitoes, marriage neckties, courtship, and collegiate antics reveal social foibles with sharp one liners.
The Becker Vorenberg wedding at the Hotel Somerset featured a lavish ball room ceremony and elaborate decorations. The bridal party included ushers A Frank and Frederick Vorenberg, with Miss Vorenberg as maid of honor and two flower girls. A large breakfast followed as telegrams from distant friends arrived and guests from many cities attended.
Mrs Jennie Childs Potter and the Rev Walter Laidlaw of New York wed at Harvard Church Brookline supported by Rev Alfred H Plumb Rev Harr s G Hale. Best man Prof Paul Van Dyke Princeton ushers include Everett D Burr Brookline and others with reception at 153 Strathmore Rd Boston and several out of town guests.
Miss Jessie Marielle Downer daughter of Mr and Mrs Timothy Willis Downer wed Louis Gill Eaton at St Marys Episcopal Church Dorchester. The ceremony was by Rev Walter E C Smith with attendants Miss Ethel Downer Mrs Laura Toleman Miss Cook, best man Louis Hosmer, ushers Stephen Townsend Arthur Hadley Marcus Jackson Walter Starbuck, organist B J Lang. A wedding breakfast followed at the Old Dorchester Club.
Miss Anna B Lane daughter of Mr and Mrs Eliot Toll Lane married Henry Ward Bird of the Boston Advertiser at Grace Church Brooklyn The ceremony was at noon with Rev Dr Charles S Wing officiating Josephine Toll Lane served as maid of honor J Oswald Lane was best man Ushers included Dr Lewis Gregory Cole Joseph K Hodgson Fred E Benjamin and Clarence E Hall
General J M Schofield and family arrive at Bar Harbor for the season along with Charles Carroll and Jackson and their New York families from Europe. General Carlos Freta ex president of Salvador is gravely ill in Oakland California. Jane Stanford leaves San Francisco for Europe and will limit Stanford University admissions to 509 women at once. Blanche Walsh buys estate jewelry from Davenport heirs for 10000 dollars after overestimated value. United Daughters of the Confederacy set reunion at Glen Echo with McKinley expected to attend, Fort Myer Band and Generals Corbin Wheeler joining. Virginia and Maryland days marked.
In Providence June 6 the wedding of Miss Nancy DeWolf Pegram daughter of John Pegram and Bruce Clark son of Mr and Mrs John L Clark of Chicago was held at St. John’s Episcopal Church. A fashionable crowd filled the church for this social event.
A new reference room in the Boston Public Library's children's department invites teachers and students to explore books and materials illustrating the Battle of Bunker Hill. The exhibit runs until shortly after the June 17 anniversary and includes juvenile books, histories, Revolutionary biographies, period newspapers, maps, portraits, and uniforms.
Congressman Fitzgerald announces an examination for the West Point vacancy in the ninth district to be held at the Eliot School on Saturday morning June 24, 1899 at 9 oclock. Eligible cadets must be 17 to 22 years old by June 1900, unmarried, at least five feet three inches tall, free of infectious or immoral disorders and disease, and generally fit for military service. The test covers reading writing arithmetic geography and US history.
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