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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1900
Page
8
Lowell investigators and local mill men form a task force to locate four year old Arthur Dent who vanished March 28 after leaving home to spin a top. A $500 reward stands as families seek clues amid river flood dangers and reports of two women seen with the boy.
General Alejandro Rodríguez, Nationalist, won the Havana mayoral race with 13 073 votes over independent Senor Estrada Mora who received 6 534. The National party claimed the full council slate, plus key judicial posts, amid subdued turnout and no election excitement observed by an American observer.
Ellen Martin, owner of a merry go round in Sullivan square, reported to Cambridge police that around dawn Sunday her trunk was opened and between 200 and 300 dollars in bills were stolen. Two Frenchmen employed by her are suspected. one 22, 5 feet 6 inches, dark, in a checked suit and cap. The other similar age and height, stout, in a black overcoat. Police Stations 1, 2, 3 and 4 notified.
Patrolman Frederick D. Zahn of Division 4 died at his residence 345 Washing ton street yesterday morning after a weeklong illness. Born in South Boston February 15, 1857, he joined the force December 14, 188?. He previously served with Divisions 10 and 13 before transferring.
A ceremony was held tonight to honor the successful candidate. Local officials and supporters attended as speeches highlighted campaign promises and community hopes for the future.
Division 3 officers arrested Joseph Defaro of 13 Prospect Street for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor to Patrolman Shaw. Fifteen gallons of lager beer were seized. Division 6 officers seized from Margaret Manning of 345 Fourth Street two gallons of ale three gallons of beer and nearly a ton of whiskey. They later visited Margaret McMelie of 65 Baxter Street where Margaret mourned the loss of 212 gallons of beer and a small amount of whiskey.
Michael Carbont 8 of 18 Cleveland Place cut his foot crossing Warren Bridge at noon and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in a patrol wagon from Station 16. Lucy Hazlett 32 wife of 32 Hancock Street cut her right wrist with a glass tumbler at home about 2 30 Sunday morning severing an artery and was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital by patrol wagon per Dr Green order.
Bishop Potter defends wealth as a social power yet warns of peril in large capital aggregations. He cites the acts and the constitution, urges balance between money and higher goods, and extols vision love and self sacrifice as life’s true riches. Harvard Lampoon president Dudley writes a hymn for the baccalaureate service. Class Day Week events begin with baseball on Thursday and a senior procession to Appleton Chapel.
Tufts College held baccalaureate Sunday in Goddard Chapel with a 4 30 p m service. President Elmer Capen spoke on catholicity and the value of respecting diverse views. He urged looking from all perspectives to achieve unity, breadth of knowledge, and tolerance.
Miss Mattie Hartford a waitress at a Tremont Street restaurant refused to be cheated out of meals for three. A lone patron attempted to dine and dash but she stood firm, aided by an officer who helped the man home. She urged women to defend themselves in such situations.
The baccalaureate service for the New England Conservatory of Music class was held at the Church of the Messiah. Rev. Charles H. Brent preached from 1 Corinthians 12 31 urging musicians to seek greater gifts beyond music and pursue spiritual refinement through disciplined character and devotion to God.
A devotional exhortation urges openness to divine guidance and emphasizes that worldly gifts gain real worth when set in a consecrated life. It cautions that special gifts without spiritual life lack saving efficacy, while sanctified gifts gain force and beauty.
In Andover June 17 the Abbot Academy seniors heard a baccalaureate sermon in the Andover Theological Seminary Chapel delivered by Rev. Daniel Merriman of Worcester. He compared educated youth to knights of old, bearing armor and a talisman of wisdom to guide them as they face life after graduation.
The thirtieth annual Massachusetts Agricultural College commencement at Amherst opened with student choir music. Professor John E. Genung delivered the baccalaureate sermon. Rev J C Wilson of Brooklyn spoke in the evening on moral and spiritual strength, urging obedience to a higher voice.
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