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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1901
Page
7
A vintage sales pitch promises Thanksgiving style and fit with Swagger Overcoats and Smart Suits. It touts readying customers for invitations to dine at the White House and claims gratefulness for bargains on clothing.
A descriptive look at the exterior and interior of the Fine Theatre reveals a white and gold scheme with green drapings. A stage stairway opens to a redwood Dillaird room linking to Mr Sears's private apartments on the second floor, highlighting the lavish home and its suitability for large social gatherings.
Frank C. Bostock’s grand zoological congress and trained wild animal arena opened to a packed house last evening. The program featured a bear and hyenas group, Himalayan sloths, a royal Bengal tiger, and a black Canadian bear, all trained by Herman Weadon. Mme L Morelli impressed with South American jaguars, while Captain Bonavita presented two dozen forest lions under a dramatic lights failure and recovery. The lions formed a throne tableau with two majestic lions as supporters, and Mme Gertrude Charlotte Pianka starred with a lion in a “Lion’s Bride” pose, all amid well kept cages and dens forming a sizable menagerie.
The new South Boston High School on G street near Dorchester Heights is to be formally dedicated today at 2 p.m. in the grand exhibition hall. Pupils will perform elocutionary and vocal pieces, with remarks by President Gallivan and the school committee. Principal Augustus D. Small will speak, as will Rev. Edward Everett Hale and Thomas A. Mullen, a graduate of local schools and Harvard Law, noted for his distinguished career.
Stockholders meet to organize Boston and Worcester Street Railway Company elect directors including Butler Eldredge Sprague and Trumbull with Butler as president and Eldredge as vice president. Shaw & Co. awarded construction of the line, cost over 1.6 million dollars, to run cars to South Framingham by next summer.
The Institute A M of East Cambridge defeated Hillside A M of Somerville 46 to 1 in a one sided basketball game played at East Cambridge gymnasium.
Pittsburg switchmen on seven railroads vote to strike at 6 tomorrow morning. About 600 members attend a Brotherhood of Switchmen meeting. Pennsylvania Railroad requests 60 officers in union depot yards at 7 am and Baltimore and Ohio yards to deploy 100 officers amid tensions. Two lives are lost.
The Church of the Blessed Sacrament presented a minstrel show at Columbia Hall with the St. Alphonsus Orchestra. Dressed in plantation costumes, the 60 member chorus of ebonized belles performed plantation songs while Miss Mary G Maloney and six others sang ragtime numbers to lively applause.
Teutonia Dramatic Society of the German Catholic Holy Trinity Church presented The Fouth Commandment by L Anzen gruber in the casino hall with Robert Kirchgaessner as stage manager. The cast featured Anna Mischler Louise Becker C Kelter Rosa Ecker Herman Fickers Georg A Mischler Anton Freier J J Korman and others. Proceeds from the performance go to Holy Trinity Church.
Judge Knowles grants a partial dissolution allowing dividend payments to creditors by Boston & Montana Mining Co. from the injunction blocking sales to Amalgamated Co. John MacGinniss opposes through counsel. Bond set at 500000, company to qualify in double that amount.
Michael Cleary, a Malden letter carrier, was badly injured yesterday afternoon when a runaway horse struck the wagon he was boarding. Cleary was thrown from the box and carried home by ambulance after the horse kicked up and pulled away before he could seize the reins.
Charles Sieger of Hoboken, sparring partner of Young Corbett, boxed D Scully of Danbury to a standstill in seven rounds at catchweights at the Opera House in Danbury Conn on November 25.
Dr Liverpool offers one week of free consultations at 360 Tremont Street Boston to diagnose and treat a wide range of illnesses without prior examination or information. He provides medicines free and reports high cure counts across numerous diseases, inviting skeptical patients to seek his advice and verify results.
Public vaccination drive runs from 8 a m to 8 p m daily this week and next. The Post covers all costs, with top physicians and premium materials used.
Health officials led by Dr Samuel H Durgin report 12 new smallpox cases since Saturday with nine oclock last night tally. East Boston accounts for seven cases linked to one Ziegler of Webster Avenue, while Roxbury South End and South Boston report unvaccinated cases. Vaccination clinics open at Harrison Avenue and North End. city employees urged to vaccinate.
A letter from C. Z. Preston, president of the Ward 13 Republican Club, defends Hatch against charges of misrule in Ward 13. The notice alleges Hatch abused power, manipulated elections, and paid staff, while supporters claim the caucus and leadership harmed independent voters and drew opposition from German citizens and longtime workers.
At the Brunswick Episcopal Club gathering in San Francisco Bishop Lawrence called the city provincial and lamented closed convention doors. Arthur J. C. Lowdon and Hon. Charles S. Hamlin chaired as Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts offered impressions of California life and commented that the general convention resembled a congress with diverse views and unclear aims.
The fourth pronounced smallpox case in Somerville was found last night and three suspicious cases are being watched. The quarantined patient is Mrs. Lucy Noreau of 14 Dell Street, who is unsure how she contracted the infection.
President James Donovan met with the Democratic city committee at headquarters to discuss the municipal campaign. Enthusiasm ran high with strong ward organization and a promising outlook for a large Democratic vote, aided by 60 percent of 8000 supplementary registrations. General Collins was favored by a wide margin, and Donovan would soon name speakers for rallies with over 100 young Democratic orators planned.
The George A. Fuller Company building the Associated Board of Trade at State street is overwhelmed by three days of exceptional tides. Twice daily 480000 gallons of harbor water pour into the excavation through subterranean rivers, flooding the site and forcing workers to abandon the job. Pumping and sandbagging river mouths are the only tasks possible since Saturday, risking thousands in losses if weather does not improve within 24 hours.
An afternoon whist party at Mrs. James M. Morrison's 66 Crawford Street Roxbury raised funds for the Daly Industrial School. More than 40 tables participated as the first of three events with a luncheon and prizes awarded including a Kaiserzian silver dish to Miss Barry East Boston and a Tiffany cut glass bowl to Mrs. Murphy Roxbury.
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