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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1892
Page
5
Boston theatre pages announce the Kendals will begin a farewell engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre with a repertory lineup. The program includes Impulse, The Squire, All for Her, A Scrap of Paper, The Ironmaster, A White Lie, The Queen's Shilling, and All for Her, across the week.
In the Senate a measure to raise the Connecticut River Railroad Company's capital was amended to authorize public auction of the stock and to set a 2 cent per mile rate on the increase. House members argued germane status, and amendments passed as the bill moved toward a third reading.
The Nantucket monitor, built in 1863 at East Boston, 596 tons, 200 feet long, 46 feet beam and 11 feet 6 inches draft, will join the naval reserve at Charlestown and be attached to the receiving ship Wabash for weekly river drills. The Nantucket, moved from Wallabout Bay to Brooklyn for repairs, is expected by May 15 and will be used by three reserve divisions on the river and one on the Monitor. Commander Suley supports the move, praising the vessel for battalion use.
The seventy seventh meeting of the committee on new members of the General Theological Library met at 6 Mt. Vernon Street with Frank Goodwin presiding. J Edward Addicks accepted corporate membership Rev J M G Foster Bangor Me annual membership John J Marsh Haverhill honorary membership John G Whittier corresponding member Rev James Sallaway Bedford Samuel J Gregory Lewis E Lincoln Watson Mayo annual members Matuin M Balou Carl Fehmer annual corporate members plus many ladies, gentlemen, and two churches elected conditionally.
A historical note claims a ScotcHMAN invented postage stamps in 1840 and suggests using a 2-cent issue to order G. O. Taylor Old Bourbon or Pure Rye Whiskey. It warns the genuine product is sold in sealed bottles by growers and druggists and urges insisting on G. O. Taylor.
In Suffolk county Probate Court a hearing debated Moody Merrill’s account as trustee of Isaac Samuels will. The $15,000 trust for Rebecca Appleton and her life income, then to her children, faced charges Merrill used trust funds personally. Warren Appleton objected to interest charges. Judge Harrison overruled, awaiting Supreme Court ruling. Appleton appealed.
After long winter, sunny days invite lighter wear. Jackson & Co. at 110 Tremont Street leads city hatters with correct styles and shades. They are sole agents for the celebrated Dunlap hats and boast top patronage nationwide.
The fishing schooner N. B. Stetson crew sparked a quarrel off T wharf as a shindy broke out. Harbor police arrested Andrew Ennis, 31, John Malcolm, 24, and Charles King, 24, charging them with mutual assault and lodging them at Station 8.
Boston daily brief reports Baldwin's Cadet Band awarded a contract to provide forty one open air concerts next summer at a cost of 2975 dollars. Other bids ranged from 3381.50 to 4000, with eleven concerts on the common and thirty elsewhere.
Harvard boys face disappointment as a shipment of Easter Joggery smuggled from England by Henry Bb. Kendrick is seized by U S marshal and set for auction. The import consisted of fifteen suits two trousers a white cotton vest and four woolen overcoats valued at four thousand dollars. Kendrick was indicted for smuggling but fled and is believed in Canada.
Robert H. Dickson a substitute letter carrier at the Jamaica Plain office pleaded guilty before US Commissioner Hallett on embezzling letters charges. He was held in 1000 bond for appearance before the grand jury of the United States District Court in ay.
The ninth annual reunion and dinner of the class of '83, English High School, was held at Young's last evening. A business meeting elected officers: President W. Burgess Fay, vice president C. Lane, secretary A. B. Gilman, treasurer J. R. Stuart, Jr., and an executive committee including M. D. W. Greene, C. W. Gam mons, C. S. Baxter, Maurice Sterne and C. B. Roberts.
Dominico Merrello is held on $1000 bond for the grand jury after being charged with assault and battery with intent to kill Stephen Flaherty at 331 North Street during the night of March 12. Authorities say the case is proceeding to the grand jury.
A compact list records ships and origins with dates and ports: Norseman from Liverpool and Milanese from London both in Boston on March 24. Assyrian from Glasgow in Boston. Polaria from Stettin and Montana from New York. Germanic from Liverpool to New York via Queenstown on March 23–24. California from New York at Hamburg on March 24. Wandrahm from Boston arrives Antwerp on March 22.
A claim offers $500 cash if a Ghre for Catarrh does not exist in your case. The offer is presented as a bona fide proposition by the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy, who state they are willing to take the risk on the result.
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