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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1894
Page
2
A pitch for a seaside home auction in 1894 markets Orient Heights as a country and seashore blend within 312 miles of State Street. It highlights sea air and easy access to bathing, fishing, and sand-digging for families with children.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology held its annual graduation in Huntington Hall with 137 graduates. Degrees included Master of Science to Frederick H. Fay and Bachelor of Science to a long list of students from diverse cities and states. The event featured papers and diagrams by 12 presenters and a subsequent diploma ceremony followed by a reception hosted by President and Mrs. Walker.
A reflective tribute notes returning soldiers who escaped trenches and faced war with courage. It honors those who survive scarred by Southern prisons and swamps, stressing that glory lies also in enduring hardship and honoring fallen comrades tomorrow.
The Layman Day session featured Rev S Hale presiding, and Rev Francis Tiffany and Rev Minot J Savage addressing lay church relations. Governor Greenhalge was absent. Officers were elected at the morning business session and several by law amendments proposed for next year.
A benefited performance for the Kindergarten for the Blind at Tremont Theatre drew long-lost applause as blind pupils searched for raised print on souvenir programmes while laughter and music echoed through the five act comedy Is It Best to Marry Twice. The Boston authored piece featured Deacon Hardstone, editor Chesterfield, Jerusha Jacobs, and other named actors with Frederick A. Brayley as manager. seats nearly sold despite poor weather.
Hastern railroad and electric line rails at a crossing are 2 inches apart causing cars to lose electric contact. Local officials urge Rail Commissioner attention. Also mention fare changes delayed until July 1 and summer schedules. Four out of town bicyclists fined for riding on footpaths in Revere. Memorial Day land sales planned in Revere with band concerts and fireworks. Winthrop Highlands and The Heights host events. Winthrop Yacht Club opens summer season with Saturday hops.
The Patrie reports Turpin proposed a powerful new explosive for an automatic mitrailleuse firing 25 000 bullets, refused by France, then sold to Germany. La Presse says England bought the invention. Patrie calls France’s refusal treasonous.
In Fall River on May 29 Alder man Michael Byrne had his left ankle broken after a quarrel with Thomas Timms near his Bedford street shop. Timms, charged with drunkenness and assault, was arrested as Byrne received treatment from City Physician Cummings.
The triennial congress of American physicians and surgeons began in Washington today and will run for four days. Delegates from major medical bodies gather to discuss standards, research, and policy implications for the profession.
The passage contrasts two sides in a Civil War battle, using vivid metaphors of storms and beasts. It lists Union generals Hooker Burnside McClellan Sherman Sheridan and Grant versus Confederate leaders Longstreet Hampton Hill Stonewall Jackson and Lee, framing their heroism as mutual.
The Boston Land Co challenges competitors in the Real Estate Market to show land as Orient Heights. Much of their land is suitable for immediate gardening with peas beans cucumbers. The land shown on inspection lacks ledges sage bushes or boulders and promises reduced living costs in summer.
George Tucker an insane inmate at Deer Island died by own action after attempting to escape Saturday evening The Medical Examiner and officials state he jumped from a window ran toward Shirley Point gut and drowned not shot by guards Tucker had been committed May 19 as a pauper and had a son on Tremont Street The officials report no firearm injury and await any protest.
Major E. P. Reed, a prominent Plymouth county figure in business and secret societies, died this morning in a Boston hotel. A Civil War veteran, he endured injuries at Antietam and Fredericksburg and led local development efforts including the Abington electric plant. He leaves a wife and three children. brother A. Newton Reed of North Abington.
A Provincetown letter dated May 28 notes the schooner Benjamin Oliver Harding of St. Mary's N B 8 arriving after severe Bay of Fundy weather with deck-pile loss and minor damage. The whaling brig D A Small Captain Rose also arrived from New Bedford for repairs after abandoning a voyage due to serious injuries near the start. Captain B Collenette, Boston navigation teacher, heads to Wilmington Del to assume charge of the steam yacht Au Revoir likely staying aboard until late September. The Whitehall boat race for seamen’s boarding houses is set for 10 this morning as a sweepstakes with $10 per boat and two prizes, featuring Thomas Newman Gustave Motto Andrew Olsen and John Martin. A tug will ferry racers' families along the course amid strong local interest and side bets.
The Herring Pond Indians held an indignation meeting at Cedarswamp's Pondville Baptist Church to protest white interference with their Commonwealth granted right to take herring from the river. Plymouth officers attended to maintain order as a large crowd listened attentively.
St. Peter's T A Society of Dorchester will be represented at a temperance convention in Hudson today by a delegation of twenty five members. The event gathers local reform groups to discuss temperance measures and aligned civic efforts.
The text argues it is better to buy land near a city center where annual value increases keep rents modest. It warns against boomed localities and notes city property gains from ongoing improvements like Commonwealth avenue and Beacon boulevard. It cautions that taxes outside towns could rise to 18 to 20 dollars per thousand. Read this over twice.
A near two million foot log drive from the Ammonoosuc owned by Fall Mountain Paper Company was boomed at Comine Vermont on May 29. The upcoming Connecticut River drive for Connecticut River Lumber Company totals about eighty million feet and is scheduled to arrive in Holyoke by late June, about five million more than last year.
Boston travelers board the White Star steamer Teutonic headed for Liverpool. The saloon list includes W. S. Baker George Melvin R. M. Field Arthur Beresford J. Weaver Rev. Dr Reven Thomas Mrs Thomas Lydia Cotton Norman McLeod Mrs S. G. Page Cadwell Hall T. M. Brown and wife Alice Wakefield George W. Newell Mrs Newell A. S. Fowler Davidson Clara Davidson George H. Fowler and Mrs Fowler. Also leaving for Antwerp on the Red Star line steamer Rhymond are Richard H. Weld Mrs A. Davis Weld Helen C. Weld Cuvelier Catherine McPherson Howe Elizabeth E. Manson.
Justice Williams at an extraordinary term of the Court of Oyer and Terminer ordered the murder trial of Bat Shea in the Ross case to begin Monday. An extra panel of 200 jurors was drawn for the proceedings in Troy New York.
President Eliot of Harvard College will speak to the Prospect Union at Prospect Post building Cambridgeport this evening on reasons the American republic may endure. The meeting is open to all men.
Despatch from Pictou reports the schooner Alta went ashore on Pictou Island in dense fog yesterday. The vessel is storm laden and bound from Wallace to New York, and is likely a total loss.
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