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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1900
Page
5
Monday advice promotes Ivory Soap as a superior dirt remover that preserves whiteness and leaves linens free of coarse odor. It argues any soap cleans fabrics but Ivory Soap offers clearer white results and milder scent.
Harriett M. Farwell an 18 year old Allston girl shot herself in Amherst after an impulsive romance. Her grandmother Mrs Young recalls a bright student with emotional unsettled mind. She wished to marry the young man but he urged delay and the tragedy followed. Remains to be interred at Mt Auburn as towns mourn.
Francis Truth, the so called divine healer, and his wife and family have left Truth's Boston premises. They reportedly traveled toward Keene New Hampshire to visit relatives. U S authorities hold vast evidence and thousands of letters remain at the post office awaiting processing.
The Rev. Newton Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Congregational Church faces possible trial over a sermon last Sunday. He condemned the confession of faith claiming it predicts foreordained eternal death and denounces the creed as falsely aligning with God and eternal mercy.
The Somerville Board of Health confirms J. E. Richardson as inspector of milk and vinegar with a salary of 400 dollars yearly. An office will be in the drug building he occupies at Broadway and Marshall, Winter Hill. He has run a drug business there for five years and twelve years in Boston area. He trained at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and married last year to Miss Lottie Planta, living at 17 Sewall Street Somerville.
Members of the Harvard Improvement Association and Dorchester citizens petitioned railroad commissioners for improved station facilities at the Harvard street station of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad. They asked for an on inward track station and ticket office to avoid crossing tracks, with a view to an April 9 inspection.
Miss Wilson daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture nears completion of a romantic Washington based novel. The piece, likely to be published later, follows high life in the capital and rivals Miss Hay among Cabinet women for literary achievement.
Edward T. Beakes of Jersey City claimed the Francis Truth Institute of Divine Healing in Beaton offered an “absent treatment” for paralysis. He paid $5 for a month, followed strange instructions, isolated daily, wore a special handkerchief, and saw no health improvement.
Immanuel Pfeiffer, a physician, will attempt a prolonged fast from March into April with a group of volunteers. He aims to educate participants for a week before the fast, supervise a committee of observers, and use music and social activities to fill time. Pfeiffer will begin anew after a brief meal in Bedford.
A historical ledger lists large legal fees paid to prominent lawyers and firms for settling major disputes and estates. Entries cover figures for Carnegie, Frick, Vanderbilt matters, the Sugar Trust, will settlements, railways, and public franchise defense, with totals ranging from tens of thousands to millions. The document cites 90,000 lawyers in Martindale’s directory and notes millions in aggregate payments.
The $1,000,000 fee paid to James B. Dill, famed healer of corporate wounds, drew scrutiny amid the Carnegie Frick dispute. Dill, 46, a Yale graduate and leading New Jersey corporation expert, has built a vast web of trusts and chaired banks and railways while directing major formations with hundreds of millions in capital.
Illustrated pamphlet promotes a personally conducted tour to Washington on April 6 with expenses covered for a week and Easter stay options in Washington or New York. Additional tours set for April 20 and May 4, plus a special trip to Gettysburg Caverns of Luray and Washington on May 18. Applications sent to A. J. Simmons of the N. E. P. A. at 211 Washington Street Boston.
London dispatch says Richard Croker likely arrives in New York in mid April. His health is fair, though his leg causes a limp and pain at times. He has avoided political commentary while abroad and will not discuss the New York situation.
Mrs. W. W. Rice of Worcester Massachusetts died at the Richmond Hotel in Washington where she had been a guest of Senator and Mrs. Hoar for several weeks. She was the widow of the late Honorable W. Rice who served Worcester in Congress starting in 1877 and became a prominent member during his ten years in office. Mrs. Hoar was her sister and a daughter of Henry Miller of Worcester.
Josephine Hall returns to Boston next week at the Columbia Theatre with Rag Time Liz and a newsboy cake walk. Carolyn Heustis Graves joins to play Mamie Gilroy’s role. Mary Sanderson’s New York engagement and a possible return near Boston are noted. Florenz Ziegfeld Jr buys Education de Prince. Anna Held to play the prince next season. Women in male drag seen in L Aiglon with Bernhardt and Maude Adams. Annie Russell in Miss Hobbs draws ticket demand at Hollis. John B. Kellerd set for The Heather Field at Tremont Theatre April 17. A A Haskin arrives to launch vaudeville at Boston Theatre next Monday. George B McClellan to sail for England after settling with Lederer. Easter Monday Boston Museum tribute planned for McKee Lothian Keen. Alice Nielsen in The Singing Girl highlighted. Chris and the Wonderful Lamp on New England circuit. Company members visiting Boston friends keep the week lively.
In Boston, Coralie & Co. runs smoothly at the Park as earlier defects vanish. Henry Miller’s Boston Museum engagement is the strongest yet, with The Only Way drawing large audiences. The Boston Theatre nears the end of Primrose and Lew Dockstader’s minstrels.
Last evening in Music Hall the Musical Art Society of New York conducted by Frank Damrosch with Wallace Goodrich and twenty eight Boston Symphonchestra members performed a two part program. Part one included works by Lotti Palestrina Haydn Praetorius and HerzogGenberg with instrumental pieces Robert lines and a cantata titled Ode of Mourning in part two.
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