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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 10, 1878

Page

3

Gentlemen Offered Bargains on Washington Street Stock

Special to Gentlemen announces purchase of the entire stock of a major Washington Street dealer in gents furnishings. The retailer will offer the stock in their retail store on Monday June 10 at a very small margin. Goods are top quality and priced to clear before season end, with best grades described as exceedingly costly.

Boston Washington Street Messrs A.shuman & Co Children’s Department Messrs A. Shuman & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co Boston Ublic Penang

Divinity School baccalaureate sermons across three schools

Rev. Dr E H Chapin of New York delivered the baccalaureate sermon at Newton Theological Seminary, urging graduates to pursue Christian ministry with sincerity within the church. Alvah Hovey preached at Newton Centre on how Christian truth can be unwelcome yet must be proclaimed. Bishop Foster at Lasell Seminary urged reverent study of God’s plan, noting man’s dual earthly and heavenly humanity and calling graduates to continue upward.

Divinity School E. H. Chapin New York Terry and Nash Sawyer I. Timothy, iii Chapin Chris*tians Jesus Christ Christ Newton Theological Seminary Alvah Hovey Newton Centre Paul Jesus R. B. Foster Boston Lasell Seminary Auburndale Goa Earth Heaven

Prize Declamation at Public Latin School Honors and Prizes

The annual prize declamation took place in Music Hall with Germania Band music. Judges included Flint May Bowditch Eliot Oliver and Ames among others. Edward L. Underwood won first prize. Sprague and Loring shared second. Numerous regular and Gardner prizes followed for conduct, translations, essays, and academic excellence across classical and modern departments.

Music Hall Germania Band Charles L. Flint Abby W. May Henry P. Bowditch William €. Collar Charles W. Eliot James Barr Ames Henry K. Oliver William W., Greenough G. G. McClary John D. Bryant J. M. Manning D. D Henry F. Jenks Charles H. Swan Samuel W. Mason Edward L. Underwood N. P. Sprague W. J. Loring C. H. Dunton G. C. van Benthuysen John L. Bates John A. Squire William A. Hayes M. F. Murphy James N. Garratt George Santayana Perrin BE. White Robert W. Frost James Shepherd C. F. Klinger James F. Phelps Franklin K. White F.C. Woodbury J. A. W. Goodspeed G. A. Stewart H. B. Twombly H.N. Glover K. W. Frost F. H. Barnes G. R. Nutter J. K. Slattery W.W. Fenn W. Winslow Isaac W. Crosby T. C. Bachelder J. R. Slattery Willard Winslow G. B. de Gersdorff Ferdinand Shoninger F. C. Woodbury J. C. Bachelder G. A. Steward W. H. Langdon Isaac Lewis F. S. Coolidge F. F. Bullard Gardner C. B. Moseley John Milton C. H. Holman

Prominent Arrivals at Principal Hotels Last Evening

Among the guests who were registered at some of the principal hotels last evening were the following notable figures and visitors, listed from the prominent establishments in the city.

Horace Greeley praised as self made hero in Columbus Ave sermon

Reverend C T Steck of Pennsylvania delivered a discourse on Horace Greeley at the Columbus Avenue Universalist Church. The speaker lauded Greeley as America’s greatest self made man, tracing his rise from poverty to influence, praising his fidelity to truth, reform zeal, and humanity. The audience included Rev A A Miner who suggested the address and a large Sunday audience.

C. T. Steck Pennsylvania Columbus Avenue Universalist Church Horace Greeley Steck A. A. Miner Greeley Gree Erie New York Isms Lincoln Congress Feliers Mackers

Creditors' meetings and assignees named in bankruptcy cases

On Saturday first creditor meetings were held and assignees chosen for multiple bankruptcies including Henry S. Draper of Dedham with Amory Fisher and George W. Chipman of Boston and Everett W. Webber of Needham with Edward Sullivan of Boston. A third meeting for Edmund Rice of Boston ordered a dividend. Other notices report assignees for Hill Tibbetts and Co and Byron A. Osgood, with a 40 percent composition accepted for George W. Wyatt & Co. and various asset-liability tallies and potential settlements.

Henry S. Draper Dedham Amory Fisher George W. Chipman Boston Everett W. Webber Needham Edward Sullivan Claudius A. Pease Newton Henry L. Washburn George E. Eaton Edmund Rice Register Sherman Hill, Tibbetts & Co Quincy Market Byron A. Osgood Wakegeld Frank L. Ripley Charles L. Fessenden George W. Wyatt George W. Wyatt & Co Cambridge Samuel W. Brown Charlestown Street Chapman Street Thomas W Levi P. Hersey High Street W. A. Roberts Portland Street Charles BE. Hall Everett Torrey John D. Allan Jonathan Kendall Lowell Committee of Investigation Kendall Frederick Guild of James 8. Ramsey Shawmut Avenue George P. Bakeman Asylum Street Charles Boutwell Butcher Woburn James Rowland & Co Kensington Iron and Steel Works Philadelphia James Leavitt Dorchester Avenue Joseph Brierly Carpenter Lynn John W. Pellengill Hannibal H. Ingham Washington Street

Stay Law Enjoins Fall River Bank on Payouts

The Stay Law bars The Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank led by President S Angier Chace from paying more than 10 percent of deposits for six months and the next six months. At the last annual report deposits totaled 1 551 407 83 with 5489 open accounts. Previous year deposits were 217 798 60 from 13 579 receipts and 309 withdrawals totaling 257 637 38. The bank held about 100 000 of Chace's paper.

Fall River Five Cents Savings Bank S. Angier Chace Chace

Boy and youth injured in city accidents

Edward Orr eight years old of 1871 street South Boston was run over by a team at Albany and Way streets Saturday afternoon and slightly injured. George Burnham fourteen years old of 165 Chelsea street Charlestown was handling a bottle of powder when a blast burned his face Saturday afternoon.

Edward Orr Boston Albany Way Streets George Burnham Chelsea Street Charlestown

Womanhood in Shakespeare to be read by Wallace Bruce

Commencement oration for the National School of Eloquence and Oratory to be delivered by Wallace Bruce on June 1 at the American Academy of Music Philadelphia the topic Womanhood in Shakespeare. Also notes on dress and a large sale by Jordan Marsh Co offering reduced prices on menswear and accessories including gloves shirts and neckwear.

National School of Eiocution and Oratory Dr Holland Henry Ward Beecher Bayard Taylor Wallace Bruce American Academy of Music Philadelphia Stewart’s Sudbury St

Local Notices And School Anniversary Reports

Advanced standing and Freshman make up will begin Tuesday Sept 24 with anticipatory exams Sept 25. Juniors gain voluntary recitations next year. Blakey to foreclose on club boats, unpaid debt. Sunday school anniversaries and totals, including 250 members and 180 average, and a Cambridge water works leak. Chelsea death storms, Stephen Sibley dies. long service in Chelsea Dye House. St Lukes Sunday school marks 36th anniversary with 108 attendees, 425 books, and funds totals. Secretary Henry A Hall Jr to Cape Palmas for missionary work.

Christ Church Henry Burroughs Pierce Julius Waterbury Andrew Gray Nev Burroughs E. McDonald Blakey Charles River Baptist Nathan A. Fitch Boston O. M. Wentworth Fremont Temple H. A. Boynton John Anglin Cambridgeport Massachusetts General Hospital Thirty-eighth Regiment SuppEn Stephen Sibley Chelsea Williams Street Chel Sea St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Col. W.H. Hart J. T. Burrill Schoo Henry A. Hall, Jr Cape Palmas Gulf of Guinea

Famous Ocean House Hotel Opens at Revere Beach

89 THAT FAMOUS SEASIDE Hotel the Ocean House at Revere Beach, run by Tarleton and West for seventeen years, is now open with a newly painted exterior and a new separate cooking department. The outbuildings form a village, the grounds shade filled and distant from other houses, ensuring delightful cool days and rapid, top quality meals for any number of guests.

Ocean House Revere Beach Tarleton & West

Marston’s Dining Rooms Offer Reduced Prices in Boston

A reduction of prices is announced for Marston's dining rooms at 23 and 27 Brattle Street, starting June 6, touted as among the cheapest first class options in Boston. An ingenious system with long overhead cords and machinery drives swinging fans two feet wide to cool patrons during visits. The Bangor Steamer Katahdin and Cambridge will run four weekly trips to Rockland Bangor Camden, etc., leaving Foster's Wharf, Boston at 5:30 P. M. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday with return sailings from Bangor on Monday Wednesday Thursday and Saturday.

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