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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
7
An advertising appeal urging men to ensure Ivory Soap is in every home, stressing its value for housekeeping and noting its floating property. The message targets both men and women, highlighting Ivory Soap as a superior, affordable helper for general cleaning.
The House favored the phonetic system proposal with Representative Fitts of Somerville leading. Speakers cited reformers and dictionaries, while opponents warned against eroding standard spelling and reform via custom. The rest of the session covered arms imitation bills, minor contracts, and debates on a East Boston hospital proposal.
Mr Post of Berkshire opened the debate on the teachers retirement fund bill for Boston calling the measure wholly wrong in principle. A motion to postpone until next week carried after Soule of Bristol and Joy of Middlesex signaled Senate opposition. The bill was placed first on the calendar. Mr Reynolds of Essex amended the rebate redemption bill for railroad cash fares to remove time limits.
Mr. MacCartney of Rockland presented petitions for the states purchase of the Boston and Albany railroad and for state purchase of gas and electric light plants. Other petitions sought state regulation of telegraph and telephone companies. Leave to withdraw was reported on petitions regarding compensation for investigations into the Massachusetts Benefit Life Association and for Nantucket seat seating. Additional measures favored include summer schools for teachers and a school for the feeble minded.
The railroad committee discussed the Albany lease with R M Morse seeking adjournment due to pending McNary order questions and gas hearings. John W Ayers urged copies of contracts and alleged stock dividends while claiming alliances between Boston and Albany and New York Central. Hearing adjourned to March 21 at 10 30.
Miss Olga Nethersole and associates face trial over the play Sapho with proceedings held in secret before Magistrate Mott. Witnesses described suggestive stage movements and a clerical guard on moral impressions, while photographs of scenes were presented as evidence.
Kath erine Grey leads in Cyrano de Bergerac opposite Robert Edeson while suing the star. Her prior success came with Richard Mansfield's company where she played Louka in Arms and the Man and created the lead in The First Violin. She left Mansfield’s company after a clash.
An attachment of 10000 dollars was placed with Deputy U S Marshal McDonald to serve on Collector James D Gill in a case involving Her ert L Hildreth manufacturer of a candy advertised as a cure all. Gill held the candy taxed as a patent medicine and demanded returns since the tax began. Seta ur seeks to recover money paid since then.
Fourteen year old Franklin A Rideout, son of Assistant City Registrar Franklin D Rideout, sought to learn how his father’s revolver works and discharged a shot into his thigh, the bullet lodging just below the knee.
Malden prepares to debut the new Auditorium with an April 19 show Mam'selle of the Varietes. Local writers Hadaway and Snow provide the book, George Lowell Tracy supplies music, James Gilbert directs, John Coleman choreographs, and W. O. Lowell handles business. Boston visitors and local favorites fill the cast as Pats’ Day seats sell fast.
Miss Marlowe opens at Hollis in a promising city engagement with Barbara Frietchie. Chauncey Olcott brings A Romance of Althone to Boston Theatre next Monday. Louis Mann and Clara Lipman present The Girl in the Barracks at Park Theatre next week. May Irwin returns at the Museum in Sister Mary with new songs. Mrs Sarah Cowell Le Moyne appears at Tremontin in The Greatest Thing the World to await fashionable audiences. The Cherry Pickers at Grand Opera House features a dramatic gun scene. Darkest Russia repeats at Bowdoin Square and The Heart of the Klondike follows. Madge Lessing stars Priscilla in The Rounders at Columbia tonight. Castle shows The Firm of Girdlestone for one more week.
A health ad explains sleeplessness from poor digestion and nerves and promotes Casgarets Candy Cathartic as a mild vegetable laxative and liver stimulant. It claims to restore sleep by invigorating the liver and bowels and offers 10c 25c or 50c packs, with mail order options from Sterling Remedy Co. and locations in Chicago Montreal and New York.
Exchange of stars between Boston venues and New York Theatre firms signals Madge Lessing joining The Rounders at the Columbia for Priscilla while Mabel Gilman heads to Casino New York for The Casino Girl. Planned transfers aim to stage The Cadet Girl at Columbia then Casino and finally Shaftesbury London.
In Brighton Municipal Court Sebastian Becker faced Frank Claff over a $9 debt. Claff sought repayment via a questionable scheme with a third party, William Devine, but Judge Baldwin found Claff not guilty and dismissed Becker.
Personal conducted tours to Washington and Philadelphia depart Boston on March 9 and 23, April 6 and 20, and May 4. The $25 price covers all week long expenses with stopovers at Old Point Comfort, Richmond, and Luray. Illustrated itineraries available from A J Simmons, Royal Blue line, 211 Washington Street, Boston.
Joseph Cook will speak Monday at noon in Park Street Church under the Evangelistic Association of New England on Helps and Hindrances to Revivals. The address will address factors aiding or impeding revival efforts.
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