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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1903
Page
5
Fringed white laces sold for making bags belts and Fringed Spreads with Marseilles patterns offered at regular price $1.50. No further details available from readable text.
Bright skies and warm air attracted the season’s largest crowd to Revere Beach with about 380000 visitors in one day. Officers managed traffic to help women and children cross the boulevard while bathers enjoyed the day. No arrests or lost children were reported.
Hatless summer crowd in Winthrop enjoys late afternoon promenades along the boulevard. Fashionable men and women stroll and drive, while bathers appear at the beach and Highlands. Water temps are mild and air remains chilly as the Yacht clubs sail short spins offshore.
June 28 Nantasket attracted about 20,000 visitors with 6000 at Nantasket Point. Early arrivals by car train and boat filled the day with crowded band concerts and busy midway amusements. The Hotel Nantasket piazzas and reservation areas were packed, and attractions like the steeplechase and old grist mill drew large crowds.
Fully 15,000 people attended three communion services held at 9 am 11:30 am and 2 pm with Professor Hermann S Hering in charge. Mrs Eddy selected the Communion sermon Loving One Another from scripture and the Christian Science text. A despatch will be sent to Mrs Eddy praising the success of their efforts. A social scene of affluence appeared as worshipers knelt in devotion and collections netted a large sum. Tomorrow the annual meeting for Christian Scientists only will be held.
Town Clerk A W Curtis issued 35 marriage licenses by June 28 1903 far surpassing 1902’s pace of 17 by the same date The year 1902 saw 46 licenses total and officials attribute the rise to Spencer’s booming business and overall prosperity.
In Lewiston Maine a Russian Pole named Vecant i La bunsts aged 2 was drowned while swimming in the Little Androscoggin this afternoon. He was unmarried.
Anita George, 14, in St Louis, has never eaten by mouth due to a throat muscle derangement. Doctors tried skin absorption for three years, then operated to restore swallowing. partial success but two more operations may be needed. For years she has been fed via a tube from the abdomen to the stomach.
Loo Sutton a long familiar figure in Chinatown and South End Sunday school circles died of consumption after a Chinese lover married another white girl in Providence. Relatives buried her in South Boston following her ostracism and heartbreak.
Gloucester reports by M Slayton, the egg king, that eastern potato supplies are tightening. Call valley Memphis and Virginia regions hurt yield, Chicago shipments down to 2 carloads from 334, price up to 4.35 a bushel from 2.5. Onion crop near total failure, farms uprooting onion beds for other crops. relief expected only if luck changes.
An unknown Chinaman jumped from a Brookline car on Tremont Street last night and landed on his head. City Hospital doctors reported a fractured skull.
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