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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1905
Page
7
The column reads as a reader letter from Tony W a 45 year old second mate in Boston harbor asking if his cigarette habit should block marriage to a young woman. Miss Champagne advises he quit as much as possible and meet halfway since love may not overcome a hard habit.
A 22 year old woman asks Miss Champagne if she should continue courting a 17 year old college student against her parents’ wishes. The columnist warns the man is too young, urges waiting until he reaches majority, and notes the risk of changing feelings and disobedience’s harm.
Richard Griffiths Marshall of Dallas says his wife, widow Mrs. Sarah Jane Preston, deserted him with his trunk and $500 he traveled with. She had lured him via a Denver matrimonial ad and a bride’s letter promising a happy home. The pair wed March 9 after a 16 hour courtship and planned to tour before England.
Herbert Bar Num Seeley takes a ticket seller post at the Hippodrome in New York. He, famed for hosting the Seeley dinner at Sherry's, is Phineas Barnum's grandson and inherited one ninth of his fortune. He aims to learn the show business from the ground up.
Providence reports: John Chadwick, 68, being treated at Rhode Island Hospital for injuries from a street car crash, jumped from a story of the surgical ward while a nurse was away, fracturing his skull. He lived briefly.
A man claiming to be Dr Austin Francis O Malley of Clinton Massachusetts appeared before the Maine Board of Registration in Medicine after failing to attend. another doctor from Baltimore accompanied him with a plan to pass the exam and obtain a certificate. If convicted both men face up to two years in prison.
Clinton report says Austin Francis O’Malley of this town was arrested in Portland today. He is 30, son of Mr and Mrs Thomas F O’Malley of 8 Winter Street. After graduating from the Medical School at Baltimore a year ago he spent months in a Philadelphia hospital before moving to Canada.
Adjutant General Stopford received an option to use Hampden Plains between Holyoke and Westfield for state militia mobilization in July. If adequate funding is secured for troop transport the site will host the maneuvers.
The Athletic Association of Harvard Graduate members host a dinner at Hotel Westminster Copley Square for Harvard baseball nine of 1904 tomorrow evening. Toastmaster John Lowell 77 and speakers including William Everett 59 William H Coolidge 81 E H Nichols 86 Louis Frothingham 93 Barrett Wendell Jr 02 and Captain Randall of the 1905 team will attend. William Reid Jr 01 newly named Harvard football coach will also speak in his first public appearance.
Thomas OBrien sues Moderator Bates for 1000 damages over a vote denial at town meeting. Bates faces prior charges in Quincy for election law violations, with Judge Avery yet to rule on arraignments of Bates and Town Treasurer Newcomb Tower.
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