Social Calendar Readers urged to send notices for events
Readers of the Post in all city sections are requested to send brief memoranda of forthcoming social events. Saturday March 25 features Ladies Day at Harvard A. A. Hemenway Gymnasium at 2 30.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1893
Page
5
Readers of the Post in all city sections are requested to send brief memoranda of forthcoming social events. Saturday March 25 features Ladies Day at Harvard A. A. Hemenway Gymnasium at 2 30.
A Chicago woman plans a family dormitory to provide home comforts at reasonable rates during the World’s Fair. Other notes highlight women’s civic activity in Kansas City and Boston, including political candidacy, legal work, charity loans, and exhibit committees chaired by Mrs. Homans and Miss Lee with a broad roster of prominent local women and supporters.
The Pierce building hosts a Colonial exhibit en route to the World's Fair. Highlights include a braided straw poke bonnet from Framingham circa 1500, a Myles Standish pewter platter, a Washington miniature tied to Rembrandt Peale, a $200 silver Paul Revere porringer, a John Hancock silver fork, a Burgoyne silver spur, and a silver tankard once owned by Governor Roger Wolcott now loaned by his descendant, the lieutenant governor.
Citizens with colonial heirlooms are urged to bring 1800 era antiquities to the Pierce Building Copley Square for a preliminary exhibit by the Woman's Columbian Exposition Committee of Massachusetts. Miss Isa Coolidge chairs the temporary exhibit and invites each county to send representatives.
In this city on March 17 the Rev FE W Darst united John H Hosterman and Mary A St John in marriage.
A list of recent deaths with names, ages, and places of death across cities including Newburyport Boston Chicago Dorchester East Cambridge East Bridgewater and Baltimore. Notable entries include Arthur Henry Choate 30 years and Edward C Bates 52 formerly of Boston. Funeral details given for Joseph E Power East Boston.
Michael Maguire and Mary Stranahan. John Lystall and Elizabeth McDermott, William Cotter and Ellen Tracy. Eugene Sweeney and Ken Sullivan, Simon Strock and Lina Mycrowitz. George J. Moulton and Hellen J. Kellar. Henry J. Nelson and Agnes Bb. Anderson.
In this city, March 16, by the Rev. P. M. Mc Donald, Dana Dacey and Sarah K. McCleod. In this city, March 16, by the Rev. Edwin J. Wheeler, Francis Hall, Jr., and Jennie B. Wilson.
The Manola Mason company receives extraordinary notices with crowded Columbia audiences praising John Mason and Marion Manola. L'Ami Fritz adaptation is hailed as a dramatic event, while Hoyt's A Temperance Town enters its fifth month and remains popular at Park Theatre. The Private Secretary proves a hit at Globe Theatre with Gillette.
Governor Russell proclaims a day of fasting humiliation and prayer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The document designates Thursday April 6 next as the observance, noting historical roots, statutory recognition, and the choice for public participation. Signed February 23, 1893, by Secretary William M. Onn. God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The New England Street Railway Company, formed by Dill Chandler and Seymour, filed in New Jersey for capital increase to 2 025 000 dollars with authorized cap of 5 000 000 dollars. Directors include Albert C. Pond John R Bullard James Ems John H Cunningham W H Ferguson William H Learner Dr A F Mason A R Mitchell Thomas F Robinson and James B Dill.
A legislative committee visited Wakefield and Melrose to examine Boyntonville’s proposed annexation. After gathering at the Melrose Highland Club, the group traveled to Melrose and Boston. Key attendees included S. K. Hamilton Rep E. S. Miller W. P. Strong C F Boynton Levi Gould and George G Bicknell among others. Opinions appeared favorable to the plan.
The New York dispatch reports that the April 20 stockholders meeting for the Northern Pacific railroad to vote on selling St Paul and Seattle Pacific stock to pay float debt has been rescinded. It is expected that collateral notes will be issued to cover the debt.
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