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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1902
Page
7
Large stock of Sircom's Petticoats advertised as best-made. Five dozen wash skirts listed with prices in cents. Ten dozen wash skirts offered at 1.50 each. Mercerized black and white striped skirts in sizes from two twenty five dollars.
The Earl of Dundonald, named to command Dominion troops in Canada, is praised as a high class soldier and inventive officer. His career spans the Second Life Guards camel corps in Egypt, relief of Gordon, and notable Nile service, with later rise to prominence during the South African War.
Crowds gathered on the Common and Public Garden as nine speakers from varied backgrounds voiced religious and political views. Doherty focused on the Philippine War while Socialists attacked current conditions and praised Carey and Mac Cartney. Elder speakers, including three old men in blue skull caps, preached with earnest fervor.
The Rev. A C Dixon celebrated the first anniversary of his pastorate at Ruggles Street Baptist Church with a sermon on The Church Problem. He reported 218 members added in the year, including 169 baptized or by letter restoration, and spoke of revival and mission, urging a return to the apostolic motive and the cross. He announced next sermons on The Amusement Problem and The Race Problem.
A new summer park called Paul Revere Park is under construction in Lexington near the Bedford line in the Shawsheen Valley. The 40 acre site will include meadow and woodland with a grand entrance and a zoo theatre restaurant and other modern amusements. It aims to open this summer and attract Boston visitors.
Rev C E Davis read the fifth chapter of his pulpit novel Paul Leonards Sacrifice at Tremont Street M F E Church. The Lancaster slum work critique escalates with Paul Leonard refraining from answering the Gazette, urging saloon removal and urging conversion progress. Paul preaches at First Church and faces a personal breakup as his sweetheart urges separation.
Miss Josephine Holman, who broke her engagement to Professor Guglielmo Marconi, is to marry Eugene Boross of Budapest on May 22 at St. Margaret's Chapel Westminster. The engagement followed encounters on a transatlantic voyage with her mother Mrs Helen Bowen Holman noting the romance blossomed in Paris and Budapest before the wedding plans.
Governor Crane signals disbanding Company K of the Eighth Regiment if Somerville Aldermen do not erect a battalion armory for the unit. The hall lease costs the city 24 dollars weekly while recruitment lags and questions arise about the armory funding and authenticity of the company. The State would fund the armory with the city repaying over 30 years.
May 4 The Rev. C. O. M. Fisher, pastor of the Beverly Universalist Church, resigned his position. His letter to inform the parish was read from the pulpit this morning.
The Philo Celtic Society held a Sunday session at Pierpont School Hudson and Oak streets with Superintendant James Drinan assisted by Miss Fitzgerald and C J Lyons. Attendees included J J Ahern J Lyons John King Nellie King as entertainers and the Gaelic School met at 1151 Washington Street with F J O Daly addressing in Irish on language interest. Jeremiah Quill sang in Irish and Geer, a former Waterford resident now in the two hemispheres, performed melodies half English and half Irish.
Colonel A A Pope of Boston and G Henry Whitcomb of Worcester back a scheme to build Custer near Bassick mine in Custer county. On June 10 a full town with houses stores a town hall electric lights and water works will welcome new residents and a dedicatory statue of a famed general will be unveiled with Governor Orman present. Excursions will run from many cities along the Denver Rio Grande and hundreds plan to settle there.
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