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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 27, 1897

Page

6

Boston Theatre Season Shifts To The Circus Girl

The long Boston engagement ends tonight at the Museum with Never Again and The Circus Girl takes the stage led by Amanda Fabris and John Slavin. The program also includes A Ward of France and The Belle of New York with Dan Daly and other Boston favorites. Mme Sembrich performs a matinee in Music Hall today with Lavin and Gogorza.

Museum Boston Amanda Fabris John Slavin Mabella Hine Mabella Baker France Dan Daly George A. Schiller George Fortescue Harry Davenport Margaret Mather Parisian Widows Burlesque Cosmopolitan Trio Cushman and Holcombe World’s Trio Phyllis Allen Co. W. Littlefield The Howard Hope Booth Haines Pettingill Delmore Les Hodges Launchmere Mrs William Robyns Tokio Jap Emily Castle Square Mr. Pitman Charley Park Theatre Rosson Bowdoin Square Theatre Grand Theatre Oliv Emile Gautier Keith’s Mme. Sembrich Music Hall Ernani Strauss William Lavin Signor Gogorza New York Grand Opera Hi Henry Columbia Chimmie Fadden Myrtie Austin & Stone’s Mattie Lee Price Georgia Magnet Banda Rossa Boston Theatre Sam T. Jack Tenderloin Suplant Rite & Barton the Palace Colonel Austin Cora Beckwith Zoo Europe Austrian Poland

Mme Sembrich Sees Boston Growth and Opera Gap

Polish prima donna Mme Sembrich visits Boston staying at Parker House. She notes the city’s growth, absence of an opera house, and calls for a regular musical season with government support, while outlining future plans to tour San Francisco and the Midwest.

Mme. Sembrich Boston Parker House Times New York Madrid Russia San Francisco Chicago Middle West

Boston Big Week Kickoff Sets Stage For Weekend Merchants

The Big Week launches in Boston with daily features through Saturday as merchants estimate costs versus results. Canadian and New England visitors are expected to swell crowds, aided by heavy railroad discounts across 405 stations on the Boston and Maine system and similar concessions elsewhere.

Boston New England Boston & Maine Canada Dominion New York & New Haven

Heavy Exports Drive Cotton Demand in South and Weaken Woollen Trade

R G Dun its weekly trade review notes large cotton exports and strong wheat shipments as supplies and prices shift. Imports lag, creating a likely $22 million excess over imports in four months. Wheat rises, corn stays high, and cotton fall to 5.81 cents amid heavy mill demand and record boot and shoe output.

New York R. G. Dun & Co Bessemer Gray Pittsburg Chicago Boston United States Canada

Certificate of round trip fare with 25 percent refund

The document certifies purchase of a full tariff fare round trip ticket to Boston and return valid on the specified date and train. It notes an office stamp impression and a 25 percent refund available on the day of excursion upon presentation of the properly filled certificate to listed Boston firms, signed by W. D. Quimby secretary, Boston Retail Merchants’ Association.

Boston W. D. Quimby Secretry Boston Retail Merchants’ Associaon

From Hospital to Jail Frank McLaughlin to be arraigned

Frank McLaughlin is to be arraigned December 3 for the alleged murder of his wife Margaret at their home 46 West Third Street South Boston on November 15. He appeared in South Boston Court yesterday. a continuance was granted at prosecution request. He was committed to Charles Street Jail after being taken from City Hospital where treatment for self inflected injuries was given.

Frank McLaughlin Margaret West Third Street South Boston Charles Street City Hospital

Thanksgiving crowd and hotel Colson praised in Corbetts column

Corbett recalls a 2500 strong Thanksgiving crowd at the Brown Wesleyan game with Brown winning 12 to 4 as he admires Hotel Colson in Somerville noting its luxury fittings. He urges sending remembrances to distant relatives and promotes Klondike & Boston Gold Mining stock via E C Davis & Co. He praises Raymond Syndicate stores for honest advertising and original outreach.

George J. Raymond Raymond Syndicate of Stores Raymond

Bradstreet's Report Signals Mixed Holiday Trade Mood

Bradstreet's notes mixed holiday demand across regions with weaker activity in the South and Chicago, but stronger buying in territories west of the Mississippi and north of Missouri and Kansas due to cold weather. Philadelphia shows a pullback in textiles while iron and steel stay steady on sufficient orders. Bank clearings fall 17 percent from last week, though exceed Thanksgiving eve levels and outpace prior years.

New York Bradstreet Chicago St. Louis Mississippi Missouri Kansas Philadelphia

Missing papers in Flynn saloon disturbance case

Police Board case against Patrolman John Flynn has missing papers after documents were filed at headquarters. Superintendent and commissioners cannot locate them. General Martin suspects the records were mislaid rather than stolen.

John Flynn Cornelius O'Leary Martin

Croker Takes A Rest At Lakewood Getaway

Lakewood New Jersey becomes the temporary HQ for Tammany leaders led by Mayor-elect Van Wyck with Richard Croker and Asa Bird Gardiner among delegates. Croker says politics will be barred as they seek rest and recreation at the Jersey resort.

New York Lakewood N. J Tammany van Wyck Richard Croker Asa Bird Gardiner James B. Eustis John F. Carroll John J. Scannell W. E. D. Stokes Nathan Straus

Zola Rallies Behind Dreyfus Case In Silence

Emile Zola delivers a strong letter praising Scheurer Kestner, a French Senate vice-president, who claims solid proof of Dreyfus’s innocence and warns against a grave miscarriage of justice in branding him a traitor and sending him to Devil’s Island.

Paris Emile Zola Dreyfus Zola M. Scheurer-Kestner Senate Devil’s Island

Chicago to San Francisco by First Class Sleeper Lines

Travel note describes three day journey from Chicago to San Francisco via Union Pacific and Northwestern routes with dally first class and tourist sleepers. Excursions from Chicago Thursdays and Boston Wednesdays 3 a m with Monday morning arrival. contact J E Brittain New England Passenger Agent 368 Washington Street Boston for fastest route and details.

Chicago San Francisco Union Pacific Northwestern Line Boston J. EB. Brittain New England Pasgenase Washington _ street Oston

Heart Rescue in 30 Minutes Cure for the Heart

A vintage promotional notice touts Dr Agnew's Cure for the Heart as a divine formula. It claims rapid relief from heart disorders and urges readers not to ignore heart fatigue. Sold by C E Woodward & Co and Jaynes & Co at specified street addresses.

Agnew C. E. Woodward & CO Bromfeld St Jaynes & CO

When a man visits a chiropodist there is something on foot

A jumbled column of advertisements and quips notes various local services and products. It mentions chiropodists Edward Bellamy plans for wealth, furniture and piano chair shops, a Dr C E Page obesity treatment, a Brooklyn judge granting divorces, and other brisk anecdotes. It ends with Christmas reminder and sign-off A Corbett.

Stocks End Higher After Dull Trading On Friday

A late session push lifted shares with People's Gas Light up 1 percent and Sugar up more than 3 percent on Nether lands Sugar case rumors. W J Ladd to take over as treasurer of the Bigelow group of copper mines December 1. Market notes include Isle Royale surface work at No 1 shaft and pending shaft house completion.

Shorts People’s Gas Netherlands Treasury Department W. J. Ladd Bigelow Group Marquette Mining Journal Isle Royale Ashton Valve Company St. Louis San Francisco United Electric Securities’ Company West End United States Rubber Company H. A. Jaquith The Northern Pacific Osceola Kearsarge Tamarack, Jr Iroquois St. Paul Hocking Coal & Iron Company Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Mississippi River Pinkham

America’s Task: Abolish Poverty and Unite Races

Rev. Herbert N. Casson spoke at the Lynn Labor Church on 188 Hanover Street under the National Educational Society about abolishing poverty. He urged ending racial prejudice and forging an international republic, plus instituting industrial freedom to distribute wealth as produced.

Herbert N. Casson Lynn Labor Church National Educational Society Hanover Street J. L. Albert America Mr. Casson

Sunday Religious Services Cheer City Congregations

A dense listing of Sunday sermons across Boston churches led by Rev. Nathan E. Wood, Dr. Lorimer, Dr. Dickinson, and others. Highlights include First Baptist, Tremont Temple, Berkeley Temple, Old South Church, Tremont Street M. E., and Peoples Temple with varied sermons and musical programs. Attendance urged. seats free.

First Baptist Church Commonwealth Avenue Nathan E. Wood D. D Tremont Temple George C. Lorimer Charles A. Berry Congregational Union of Great Britain Lorimer Onthank Austin Berkeley Temple Charles A. Dickinson William S. Kelsey Lawrence Phelps Charles H. Washburn Falmouth Mass Mr. Washburn Methodist Old South Church Third Church George A. Gordon Tremont Street M. FE Concord Tremont Streets John D. Pickles Epworth League Chiniquy People’s Temple Columbus Avenue Berkeley Street Brady France McKenna Supreme Justice McKinley First Presbyterian Church Scott F. Hershey Ruth Roxbury Presbyterian Church Comer Warren Woodbine Streets J. J. Dunlop Jacob Christadelphians Arcade Hall Park Square UNION Music Hall New York Gertrude Walker Eli Benjamin Fay Mills Richards Land of Rest Boston Young Men’s Christian Association Association Hall Boylston Berkeley Streets Enry Varley Doni. Browne Josephine Curtis Woodbury American Legion of Honor Hall Huntington Avenue Zion's Herald Henry Varley Sands Evangelistic Association of New England

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