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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 12, 1892

Page

5

Lottie Collins Coming to Boston for Debut Night

The famed Ta Ra-Ra dancer Lottie Collins arrives in Boston next Monday amid strong advertising for her Boston Theatre debut. She brings a cast of pretty faces and elaborate costumes backed by a mounting. A benefit for comedian George Coes, sidelined by rheumatism, is planned at Tremont. Babes in the Wood continues at Boston Theatre with afternoon and evening shows. The program follows Fire Patrol at Grand Opera House with German dialect comedian Mr.

George Coes Coes Luke Schoolcraft Tremont Boston Theatre Grand Opera House Siberia George Kennan Tremont Temple Kennan Cambridge Frost Century Magazine Tremont Row Messrs Stone & Shaw Laloo Laioo Europe Tremont Theatre Russell Amelia Glover Braham Maud Williams Lon Brine Marion van Buren W. H. Fessenden Fritz Geise Regaloncita Milbank Barney Reynolds Hustler Dan Hart Two Johns la Petite Kittie Brodsky Symphony String Quartet Boston Chickering Hall Adolph Brodsky Jan Roert Ottokar Hovadok Ahton Hekking the Park Theatre Ruth Maude K. Williams Dorothy Leila Seymour Experience Hopestill Anna Bowker Paul Joseph F. Sheehan Jonathan Pebbers Herbert Dodd Ethan Rand Elmer E. Randall Areal Buck Allen B. Davenport Joseph H. Plunkett George H. Hayes Bostonians Lyceum Theatre Prof Gies Miltons Jessie Boyd Oaks Professor Baker Kittie Bingham Fox and Ward Edith Monson Morton Kelly Emily Zola Burlesque Company Association Hall Marie Geselschop

Salome Merritt D M Boston physician and educator

The article profiles Salome Merritt M D of Hancock and Myrtle as a prominent Boston physician and president of the Ladies Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity founded in 1850. It notes her lectures on brain and nervous system physiology at Wesleyan Hall, her public stance on health education, and describes her personal habits and the queenly diets of monarchs as side anecdotes.

Hancock and Myrtle Streets Salome Merritt Ladies’ Physiological Institute of Boston and Vicinity Merritt Wesleyan Hall

Enticing Society Items Highlight Women Leaders and Talent

In Buffalo a debutante prize winner is noted for wit and beauty. Washington prepares a portrait for the White House gallery. Marlborough, Md sees Mew Balva A. Lockwood admitted to the bar after a long delay. Miss Lucy Booth, daughter of General Booth, works in India. Mrs. Erving Winslow presents The Tempest at Pierce Hall with music. Isabel L. Johnson leads a zoological class for the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union and is a pioneering woman scientist.

Lucy Booth General Booth Salvation Army India Erving Winslow Pierce Hall Isabel L. Johnson Women’s Educational and Industrial Union

Tolstoi on feeding nations and dining habits

The passage contrasts Tolstoy's view of people becoming what they consume with notions of celebrity dining. It notes that great and famous figures should feast on divine fare, while Chicago might settle for beans, and mentions royalty and prima donnas with boiled dinners and sirloin, plus Victoria's modest drink preference.

Tolstoi Chicago Queen Victoria

Brunette Versus Blonde Dominance in Britain and Europe

Dr Beddoe studied 726 women finding 369 brunettes and 357 blondes. Among brunettes 78.5 percent had husbands versus 68 percent of blondes. He argued that English men prefer darker-haired wives, a trend visible across Germany France Switzerland and beyond.

England Continent Beddoe

A Demi Saison Cloak Described in Paris Herald

A Paris Herald feature notes a fashion item titled A Demi-Saison Cloak. The red cloth garment features four coachman capes and astrakhan trim in front.

Astrakhan

Massachusetts Thanksgiving Proclamation 1892 by Governor Russell

Governor Russell proclaims Thursday November 24 as a day of public thanksgiving and praise. The text urges prayer, gratitude, and charity toward all people, thanking God for mercy and blessing to the nation, Commonwealth, and citizens. Given in Boston November 9, 1892 with secretary’s endorsement.

Council Chamber Boston United States of America William E. Russell William M. Orn God Save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Boston Stage Notes Highlight Family Circle and Broadway Acts

The Boston theatre scene features the Family Circle with a dance interlude by a last named city performer, plus a parade of acts at the Columbia Theatre and Park Theatre. W H Thompson, Nanette Comstock, Mollie Fuller, and Wallie Eddinger are named among performers. 1492 closes a ten week run at the Park Theatre with extolled success.

Columbia Theatre Family Circle Boston New York W. H. Thompson Frank Burbeck Thomas Burns Harry Mills Adolph Nernard Columbus

Among the Musicians at Park Theatre Concert

Music lovers are promised a fine evening at the Park Theatre Sunday concert, the eighth in the series under E. E. Rice. The program will match previous offerings with particularly popular pieces anticipated by the audience.

the Park Theatre E. E. Rice

Bad eczema on baby cured by Cuticura remedies

The Harris family from Webster Indiana report a four month old boy with a severe scalp eczema that covered the head ears and face. After trying three doctors they used Cuticura three remedies for eleven weeks and seven months of treatment until the head healed and scratching stopped.

Geo. B Janetta Harris Webster Ind

Harvard Board of Overseers to Meet in Boston

Special notice from Harvard College announces a meeting of the Board of Overseers at 50 State Street Boston on Wednesday November 16 at 11 o clock am The meeting will receive communications from the President and Fellows and reports from committees and handle other business. Alexander McKenzie secretary Cambridge Nov 9 1892.

Board of Overseers Harvard College State Street Boston Alexander McKenzie Cambridge

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