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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1893
Page
6
A Valley Falls Rhode Island woman credits Paine's celery compound with curing neuralgia and chronic gloom. The ad touts its ner vous low mood remedy and claims it treats dyspepsia biliousness liver complaint and rheumatism from a disordered nervous system and impoverished blood.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology held graduation exercises for the class of 1893 in Huntington Hall Rogers Building yesterday afternoon. President Francis A Walker presided and conferred degrees while reading brief congratulatory remarks. A large audience including relatives and friends attended as graduates received their diplomas and titles such as S B and C E after their names.
At Clyde Park the Country Club meeting continued with seven races drawing three to four thousand spectators. Key results include Little Monarch winning the first race and Red Mike taking the second. Hustler and Ballad split the third division, Swindle edged Lady Rowena by a nose in the fourth, Jack High won the steeplechase, Easterbok led the two mile race, and Mogul captured the pink coat hunters’ handicap. The meet will run Thursday through Saturday with six races daily.
Do not pass by on the other side. Paine's Furniture Company at 48 Canal Street promotes a charming dining-room table. The illustration underplays its splendid proportions and massive beauty, noted as one of the finest tables Boston has seen in many days and surprisingly affordable.
Twelve young nobles arrested in Bage on May 30 for high treason. They are charged with conspiring to separate Trieste from Austria and annex it to Italy.
The second annual open air horse and cattle show by the United States Horse and Cattle Show Society will run next week at Eighth Avenue and One Hundred Fifty-fifth Street New York. The grounds boast a quarter mile track circling a grass lawn with hunting field style fences and a trotter carriage and saddle display area. Grand stands seat 10 000 and prizes total 18 000 plus special prizes of 3500 from donors including Belmont Havemeyer Havemeyer Logan and others. Noted horsemen across the nation back the event.
The Rhode Island General Assembly met in separate sessions with party lines evident. The Senate re elected Eugene F. Warner as clerk and Orlando R. Smith seated in place of contested seat. the House chose Franklin P Owen as Speaker. Seats of Landers and Hoxsey declared vacant. Samuel Smith seated for Landers. The Bay Queen carried members elect to the State House as officials sealed seven trunks of public records for shipment to Newport.
Fifteen shipwrecked Wandlahn sailors from the Hamburg steamer arrive in Montreal in distress after the May 15 wreck on Apple Island St Lawrence River. Most are famished and penniless, aided by the German consul and the New London collector who arranged food and two overnight passages to New York. Only one man speaks English. The Wandlahn sailed from Hamburg April 29 with 680 passengers and ran aground due to pilot error.
High water threatens destruction in the Prairie du Pont district near Mast Carondelet Illinois as the Mississippi rises again. A large low land area between Fish Lake and the river is submerged and farmers fear washouts after recent plantings. On the Missouri side the river also climbs.
Joseph Kingsbury, longtime Waltham harness dealer and temperance advocate, died at his Pine street home aged 76 after Bright’s disease. Born in Wellesley, he moved to Waltham forty years ago and led the Reform Club as president for several years. A widow and one son survive. funeral set for Thursday at 2 30 PM.
The Times argues that even if three Chinese detainees in New York are expelled under the exclusion act the Chinese government should ignore the grievance rather than provoke American public sentiment with defiance.
The annual reunion and picnic of the Seventh Massachusetts Volunteer Association will be held on June 16 at Crescent Park in Providence Rhode Island.
The Brookline Suburban Club house at Clyde and Newton streets, opened last December, was sold at auction to mortgage holders to cover debts estimated near $20,000. The sale, conducted by J J McCormack, ended the club’s finances as creditors take control. An adjacent auction of building lots occurred the day before.
Mrs Marie Nevins Blaine and Dr W T Bull were married at 11 40 this morning in New York. The ceremony united two prominent figures in a quiet, formal service.
The ceremony at the South Reformed Church on Madison and Thirty-eighth streets, led by Rev Dr Frederick Roderick Terry, featured a bride in pearl gray silk with white lace and a harmonious hat. The bride was given away by her father with no attendants, followed by a wedding breakfast at Mrs Blaine's apartment.
intimate friends and relatives attended the ceremony at Belmont with no more than fifty people present. After a wedding trip in this country they will sail for Europe.
In London the House of Commons rejected postponing discussion on clause 8 of the Irish Home Rule bill by 273 to 240. MPs also refused to adjourn for Derby at Epsom, voting 281 to 169 to stay in session.
A Tuesday dawn blaze at a one story bakery owned by John Lang on 12 and 14 Ohio Street started when a kettle of fat boiled over onto the stove. Damage estimated at $300.
Post reporter meets Mrs. Sarah J. Hall a middle aged working mother living in a three room tenement behind 817 Albany Street near Hampden. For nine years five months her paralysed husband John Hall has been unable to work. She supported three with washing until she fell ill January 18. Daughter Mary Alice 15 works at a Washington Street store earning 3 a week. Charity aid from St Patrick's Church and Clarendon Street Association provides some income. Mrs Hall now speaks of needing work with a wringer as her hands fail to wring clothes and her husband suffered another stroke. They live on 3.50 a week with 2 a week rent for two rooms and an attic. Meat is often unaffordable, yet Mamie never complains. The couple deserve aid.
The Times Piedras Negras reports Don Luis Caravanges of Durango's Bank of Durango was killed during a squatters’ plot at a distant ranch. Four men chosen by lot murdered him and his servant. Durango authorities caught sixteen of the twenty-two implicated and executed them.
At about 5 AM yesterday John Carr aged 35, employed at Davis's stable on 56 Northampton Street, was found nearly suffocated by gas in a stable room. Watchman James P. Lee traced escaped gas from two fully opened jets and reported to City Hospital where Carr is in critical condition. Police view the case as attempted self destruction.
Boston police officers await a policy shift with new commissioner Robert F. Clark amid unrest and rumors of reshuffles. Officers recall Osborne era changes and fear for liquor raid dynamics, station base shifts, and potential moves affecting captains and the liquor division.
Large crowds watched as staff cleared dusty fossils and taxidermy from the Boston Museum to remodel the interior. Giants of extinct beasts were moved along Tremont Street while plans replace glass cases with a long lobby and temporary homes for specimens at the Natural History rooms.
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