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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1893
Page
5
A multipart sale listing Lot Nos 1 through 5 on leather goods including pockethooks purses card cases pocketbooks and real seal items with varying anniversary sale prices. Also features oil stoves ice chests uprights and miscellaneous home goods with discounted prices and new patterns. An extensive catalog style notice with numerous item descriptions and prices.
An old advertisement lists anniversary prices on carpenters tools including nickel plated ratchet braces chisels hammers hatchets and try squares with standard prices and discounted sale figures for quantities and various sizes. It mentions Underhill and Engineers' hammers and lath hatchets, plus hand saws and try squares with reduced pricing.
English dinner sets offered in sizes 112 and 130 pieces with Versailles Melrose Loretta shapes and hand painted florals. Regular prices range from 12.00 to 28.50 with anniversary sale prices from 9.98 to 16.69. Gold edged edges and under glaze colors highlighted.
Pouyat and Carlsbad tea sets offered in 56 piece packages with floral hand-painted or sprayed designs and gold trim. Regular prices range from 8.00 to 12.00, reduced to sale prices shown as part of an anniversary promotion with multiple color options.
Readers are urged to send brief memoranda of social events. On Wednesday March 15 receptions are planned for Miss Lucille Eaton Hill and her class, Mrs. W B Richards, Mrs. Charles Dickinson Divis, and Mrs. James M Barnard, with train to Wellesley at 6 20 p m. Weddings for Miss Josephine Gans and Mr Jacob Charles Morse and Miss Martha Neal Howe and Mr George Adams Woods at First Church Dorchester. Dances at Pierce Hall and Harvard Hall with a ladies night at the Allston Club featuring progressive whist and dancing.
Louise Imogene Guiney, a Boston literary figure, translates and stages new plays while her late General father patently shaped her talents. Mrs Lynn Linton prefers traditional plot devices. The 50th anniversary marks the Sisters of the Holy Cross Mercy and Good Shepherd orders. Euge nia Dunlop Potts launches Illustrated Ken tuckian. Dresden rides crown Theresa Brooks. Mrs Jefferson Davis comments on women’s rights from a conservative, old fashioned stance.
The Lilian Durell opera company presented The Bohemian Girl at the Boston Theatre with Louise Natalie as Arline and Mme. Lizzie Macnichol Vetta as the Gipsy Queen. MISS JULIA MARLOWE starred as Rosalind at Hollis Street Theatre with Imogen to follow. Charles Hoyt spoke after A Temperance Town’s 100th Boston performance, defending balance in portrayal. Elks Club anniversary promises a grand entertainment, and Mrs. Albert Barker will present new recitations. William Gillette’s The Private Secretary comes to the Grove, while Bowdoin Square Theatre features a high kicking Miss Forest in A Mad Bargain. John L. Stoddard tours and Calcutta trip noted for lecture material. Dexter invites distant towns to share impressions.
Winter training for all class boating crews moves to the gym as prep for the summer lake race. Scientific oarsmanship began last autumn and full physical training was established in 1891. Each freshman undergoes thorough exams with measurements and strength tests, and three hours of exercise weekly. Resulting gains include better physique, vigor, carriage, and enhanced mental focus.
A man gathers courage after a long chat to marry a rich heiress. He plans to ask her father, a blunt old millionaire who accepts only cash payments. She prompts him to call the father and seek consent, asking for his telephone number.
The Princess of Wales discarded crape during mourning for the late Duke of Clarence, ending a long standing custom. A new protest emerges against heavy crape worn by widows, and observers expect a noticeable change within the year.
A wry note on fashion revivals mocks the return of the hair switch and unwieldy headpieces. It laments the loss of the clearer, healthier looks women had without such styles.
The passage details two period gowns. One features old wool fabric with velvet trim, a velvet bolero, silk chemisette and collar, and a velvet ribbon skirt. The other gown uses delicate soft silk with velvet embroidery and a ruched silk shirt with embroidered bands and velvet accents.
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