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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1897
Page
5
A claim highlights constant free services with no charges for examination, advice, or medical attention. It stresses consistent treatment of numerous stubborn cases and declares no payment is taken at offices or patients' homes.
Mr H Howard of 8 Ingleside Street Roxbury Boston recounts seven weeks in hospital for dyspepsia and liver trouble. He says Munyon's Remedies cured him permanently over a year ago and he has had no further trouble.
Munyon advertises special apparatus for every case and asserts doors are open to all. Courteous treatment awaits with specialists offering an honest opinion and clear guidance on cure or incurability. No charge for the doctor's attention and free personal medical advice by mail.
The Manyon Offices advertise a treatment for catarrh asthma bronchitis and allied diseases. Their apparatus targets diseased spots with soothing lotions and internal remedies that claim to eradicate the illness without cutting burning or caustics. A free trial treatment is offered to those with throat or lung complaints.
Munyon's static electricity apparatus claims rapid relief from paralysis stiff joints back pains rheumatic gout neuralgia and female troubles. The ad touts benefits for nervous prostration brain weariness and general bodily pains with quick improvements.
A separate cure for each disease is sold by all druggists. With them everyone can become his own doctor. Thousands of homes rely on Munyon's Remedies. Hundreds of Boston residents report cures. Open all day and evening.
John P. Connolly appeared in Municipal Court for murder with marked indifference in the Lulu Hurst case. He waived exam and was held without bail until the April term. The mothers of both families attended. Hurst urges accidental shooting. A related case involving another woman may go to the grand jury next.
The Massachusetts Nurses' Association voted to celebrate Dorothea Dix's birthday on April 4. F E Horton is to deliver the address at the event.
In Boston at Hollis Street Theatre, E. H. Sothern’s annual engagement features An Enemy to the King set in France during Henry III and Navarre times. The performance, praised for atmosphere and closing act, earns strong crowd response. supporting cast includes Mary Hampton Rowland Buckstone Rebecca Warren and Roydon Erlynne with Gerridge and Frank Gillmore.
The Park Theatre hosts a two weeks engagement of the Casino burlesque Gay New York. The show features clever dancing music and burlesque skits including parodies of Mrs. Leslie Carter Parisian quadrille and Henry Irving Macbeth. Notables Walter Jones David Warfield Lucy Daly and Lee Harrison receive praise for management, Hebrew specialty, dances, and dunce-steering.
John Hare returns to Boston in Robertson's Caste at Tremont Theatre delivering a restrained yet vivid Old Eccles. The English comedian’s refined portrayal contrasts with tradition, aided by a capable supporting cast including May Harvey Mona Oram Susie Vaughn and Frederick Kerr. Gilbert Hare as Sam Gerridge also earns favorable notes.
Ralph Lumley’s Thoroughbred comedy staged at the Museum last night features Henry E. Dixey in a leading farcical role with a strong supporting cast. The three act farce centers on turf betting and culminates in a Christy minstrel masquerade. The ensemble shines, delivering brisk dialogue and light, polished scenes. The piece plays one week only.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre staged Rosedale last night to a packed crowd. Charles Barron and Grace Atwell led as Elliot Grey and Tabitha Stork with praised support from H. G. Carleton as Miles McKenna and Kate Ryan. The gypsy camp and ballroom scenes drew special acclaim, and Olive Smith also impressed. The production is expected to attract full houses for the rest of the week.
The current bill features Mignon revived with lavish costumes and scenes. Iss Lane in the title role charms vocally and dramatically, with Mise Diard as Filina and Miss Ladd as Frederic delivering standout numbers. Supporting performances include Mr Ling and Mr Murray, a strong chorus, and a capable orchestra. A next program follows Mignon.
A full house at the Columbia Theatre last night enjoyed Hogan's Alley a three act farce led by Gilmore and Leonard. Dick Gardner delivered a clever Mickey Duure spoof with baton dancing while J F Leonard as Michael Hogan and Barney Gilmore as Martin Brogan drew hearty laughs alongside Joe J Conlan as Mrs Hogan. The show featured Gardner brothers Hagan Conlan sisters and Irish sketches with lively musical numbers and specialty acts.
Duetists and performers including Leslie and Halvers present in a program featuring Fagan's Alley for one week with Sarena 4 and Saturday matinees. Next week Hoyt's Ya Temperance Town is listed as the attraction.
The production enters its third week at the Boston Theatre and is hailed as a landmark American melodrama. Review praises the show as a major stride in U S stage art and a triumph for American dramatists and Brady’s management despite noted challenges.
The Boston Museum will present William Gillette’s Secret Service, a Civil War era drama praised as the strongest American play. Gillette stars with a strong company including Amy Busby Odette Tyler Joseph Brennan Ida Waterman Walter Thomas and others, with the same cast and staging as the Garrick Theatre production in New York.
A large audience gathered at the West Newton street rink for an evening skating event tied to the upcoming costume carnival on March 24. Skaters are urged to compete in nine classes including most original and effective, richest and most elegant, best operatic or dramatic, and best national character.
Miss Marguerite Hall assisted by Juanita Manen gave a concert at Steinert Hall last evening. Hall showed fair progress in select numbers while the performance lacked expressiveness and contrast. Manen the young violinist displayed fine technique at times but offered inferior pieces. Accompaniments by Mrs B Fiela and Mr Manen Sr were well executed and a large audience attended.
Audiences laughed and applauded at Keiths last night with Thomas Ryan and Mary Richfield delivering top comic turns. The Quigley brothers, Charlie Littlefield, Rice brothers and others kept the program lively while Morris’s pony circus drew strong applause for its finale. Also featured were Gotham four, Edith Kingsley, Deets and Don, Sam and Kittie Morton, the La Rosas on flying rings, whistling star Little Louise Truax, dramatic sketches by Bell Johnstone Blair and Murillo, and new biograph reels including Rolla Heikesson breaking glass-ball records and a spoof about a business man and his typewriter girl.
The famed trio Mrs. Tom Thumb Count Magic and Baron Littlefinger continue their two week extension at the Zoo. They showcase dancing singing instrumental imitations and a disappearing cabinet act with the baron transforming into a statue Dutch girl and an old woman. Chiquita grows in public favor while Madame Pian ka and five lions remain on exhibit.
An immense audience packed the Howard Athenäum yesterday and again today for a varied bill. The program features the sensational Little Egypt and Miss Cora Routt in a Gotham-buzzing banquet act, plus acts by Haines and Pettin gill, Mills, Hanley and Hanley, Foote impersonations, and several musical and comic performances.
A customer notes Postum costs more than coffee due to six daily drinkers but calls it nourishment and healthier for the family. Dr. J B S King of Chicago expresses willingness to adopt Postum for children. The piece also lists a lineup of vaudeville acts including Jett with 100 faces and a curio hall bill featuring Punch and Judy and various performers.
The snippet notes grocers selling cheap imitations of Postum Cereal Coffee to customers willing to try substitutes. It highlights deceptive practice in retail without detailing locations or dates.
Proprietor Lothrop presents a lively program featuring seriocomic duo John and Jeffrys Pendy and the old-time favorites John Phillips and Ed Banker. Helen St. Clair performs the descriptive story song "Twas Not to Be" by Jere O Halloran with notable success this week at the Howard Atheneum.
The Grand Opera House stock company presented The Silver King a popular English melodrama. Wallace Campbell and Florence Lytelle delivered strong performances while James Levering and the others drew solid applause. The Mimic Comedy Four filled in after Billy Emerson’s illness and Lenona Lewis captivated the audience with Rose Sweet Rose.
A large audience gathered at the Y M C A Hall last evening for a testimonial concert honoring the Beethoven Ladies' Quartet. The group performed beautifully with harmonious blending. Ma goun and Butler duet and Orms on and Holley solos drew praise, while Arthur Brahm played Popper's Gavotte No 2 with finesse. Charles J H Mailes offered dialect selections and impersonations in Negro Irish and Italian styles.
A noon and afternoon crowd enjoyed a $1 show for 9 cents at the New Grand Theatre. Highlights include Casper Hillis and Clara Moore, Myrtle Peek with Boston the horse, Dolph and Susie Levine in The Rival Arts, Healeys in What It Is, and a lineup of jugglers, comedians, and curiosities led by Isabella Carolini and her dog monkey act and the Tokio troupe.
Bonnie Jean Gordon, noted for her straight athletic figure, modeled in a new kilts costume among Scotch athletes at the museum yesterday. She competed in broadsword contests with Captain Tom Shields as part of a large entertainment lineup featuring Captain Webb’s sea lions and a long list of vaudeville performers including the Bailey sisters and Marie Arkwright.
Manager Straffin presents Ed Manning the egg crank who swallows hundreds of raw eggs daily. The Mathewson brothers perform boxing stunts while comely girls punch bags. Alds the strong man breaks horse shoes and bends iron bars in a lively variety program.
A fragment claims Dr Bull's Cough Syrup is sold everywhere and always cures coughs and golds, presenting a sensational pitch with no verifiable details or sources.
Grieves’s merry burlesque troupe presents The Chimes of Normandy in two acts with Emma Krause Mlle Nina Colville Lillian Curtis Clara Cole in a lively show. Gaspard is played by Mr Grieves with a cast of singers dancers comedians and specialty acts including Electra and the Big Four.
John S. Smith of Chelsea, pardoned by President Cleveland after a four year sentence for robbing Boston letter boxes, is returning home today. His wife is ill, eight children stay well, and the family hopes his return will lift their spirits after years of hardship and stigma.
From Augusta Maine authorities learn Edwin B Hall of Bangor may be in Orlando Florida. Hall is accused in the July 8 1888 Elliottville murder of rail foreman Thomas McKimmie. McKimmie was shot and $700 missing. Hall vanished after the crime and a $1000 reward had been offered.
Edward R. Donovan the city treasurer and his brother James C. Donovan were arrested in Lowell on charges of offering Councilman Lang $250 in notes to secure the treasurer’s retention. Lang accepted the notes and alerted police. A warrant was issued for lawyer O Connell as an accessory before the fact. The brothers pleaded not guilty and were held in $2800 bail set for March 9.
The French Canadian Dramatic Circle stages a musical and dramatic evening at Odd Fellows Hall North Cambridge tonight. Proceeds after expenses benefit the parish relief fund for the poor of Notre Dame church in North Cambridge.
Mrs Margaret McCarthy wife of Thomas F McCarthy long known as a Brooklyn ball player was buried yesterday at Calvary Cemetery Funeral services were held at St Augustine’s Church South Boston with Requiem Mass led by Rev Albert M Readdy
Ernest Carom confessed to City Marshal Hart this afternoon that he committed the murderous assault on Mrs. Frank J. Rolfe on Fort Avenue on February 22. Carom was released from Ipswich House of Correction on the morning of the attack. Charles Greenlaw, arrested on suspicion, will likely be released.
No stoves may heat cars on steam railroads after ruling by the New York Supreme Court. The decision upholds a state law prohibiting stove use in steam cars for heating.
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