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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1895
Page
5
New book announcements highlight works by John Luther Long Menie Muriel Dowide and Joseph Hatton with reviews in Philadelphia Record and Boston Courier marks. The catalog promotes Japanese covered editions and Lippincott Select Novels series with pricing and formats.
Boston’s Gay Bates Hall hosts the Woman's Charitable Club bazaar with decorated arches, booths, and a crowd drawn by Miss Marion Osgood's Lady Orchestra. A charity dance funds the drive, with net receipts expected over 300 dollars. Proceeds support the club and related charities.
A Fitchburg line freight train of 25 cars carries 4425 gross bottles of Hires root beer and 4025 cases of carbonated beverage to New England dealers. The shipment, organized by Sawyer of New England Hires and Davis of the Fitchburg railroad, traveled Philadelphia to Mechanicville to North Adams and back, backed by photos at Hoosac Tunnel and welcomed by the North Adams Board of Trade.
Amasa Clarke of Brookline Massachusetts agent for Norway Plains Manufacturing Company toured Rochester New Hampshire and stated the plant will not resume under current ownership. The mills once employed about 700 making blankets and cassimeres and include tenement houses reservoirs at Middleton and water privileges. Estimated value is about 250000 and the mills have been idle for nearly two years.
Harry Steele age 28 living in Elizabeth New Jersey was arrested by a police inspector on a fugitive from justice charge. He is wanted in New York for allegedly stealing silverware valued at 75 dollars from Gregor MacGregor of 338 West Forty sixth street on March 15. He will be held to await a New York detective.
Henry W. Foster appeared before Judge Burke in Municipal Court for an 1893 embezzlement charge involving 300 dollars from J. I. Brooks. Brooks is Foster’s brother in law. A. F. Means represented Foster. At hearing end the court discharged him.
James McCarthy 22 was arrested by Station 7 officers yesterday for writing policy at 117 Sumner Street East Boston. Simultaneously Michael Lawrence 20 Patrick Quigley 48 John Dobbins 58 and John Wright 64 were arrested for being present where gaming implements were found.
Bristol Bank & Trust Company assigned this morning in Bristol Tennessee with assets totaling 50,159 and liabilities of 24,720 and 16,900 due to depositors. It is the second assignment in fifteen months, but officials expect full payment.
The Boston theatre season offers Olga Nethersole in The Transgressor at the Museum and a last week for Charley's Aunt at the Columbia. Robson opens at the Tremont with The Henrietta, the Kendals bid farewell at Hollis, and Rob Roy draws crowds at Castle Square. Tristan and Isolde opens at the Boston Theatre as demand for seats remains high.
At Ottawa a conference with Chief Justice Davie Premier Bowell and officials Daly and Hagegart ended the long dispute over lands in the railway belt. The dominion will receive funds from the province for lands and issue Dominion patents. Delimitation of the railway belt boundaries was also resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.
From Samoa advices dated March 23, disturbances are still threatened by the Tauiers. Chief Justice Ide sentences Thomas Taylor to three months for accusing rebels of arms supplied by the late Robert Louis Stevenson. Taylor prosecuted by Stevenson's friends. court holds Stevenson innocent of the charge.
Whitinsville March 29 Despite the closure of the American Axe and Tool Company last Saturday a notice says work will resume Monday if enough men return else the works close permanently. The syndicate will stand firm for a reduction. The workmen voted not to return under the cut. About one third have left town and the outcome remains doubtful.
College presidents from north central states meet at Northwestern University Evanston called by President Angell of Michigan to discuss forming an intercollegiate association and a method for admittance of students. The session continues tomorrow with aims to agree on a practical admission plan.
On March 29 in New York the Kansas Pacific consolidated first mortgage bond holders named a new committee with F. D. Tappen as chairman and members Louis Fitzgerald Thomas Denny William Emlen Roosevelt Oliver Ames 2d George E. Leightor. The Mercantile Trust Company was named depository.
George Hay Watt was ordained a Baptist minister at Quincy in a service at the First Presbyterian Church attended by many friends. He will stay in Quincy a few weeks to lead Calvary Baptist Church before moving to Ira and West Rutland Vermont for his pastorate.
A historical verse hints that cost of garments, notably the cloak, burdens the payer. The poem notes thrice the cloth in the sleeves and a form the woman fills, suggesting domestic expense shadows fashion and gender roles. The piece reflects social tensions around money and appearance.
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