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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1913
Page
6
Demand for cheaper seats makes the morning sale at Symphony Hall lively. The $10 rehearsal seats sold out in yesterday's session, covering the last eight rows on the floor and last five rows of the first balcony. Prices averaged higher than last year.
The first row sold KK seats averaged over 30 in premiums, beating the 18 dollar seats. Most of the $10 tier also commanded high premiums, with only the very back rows under 20. The last five rows of the first balcony followed the same pattern with premiums from 13 to 28. Rehearsal seat sales overall were satisfactory. $8 seats for the 94 Saturday concerts go on sale Thursday at 10 in Symphony Hall.
Boston artist Joseph Knowles returns after two months living primitively in Maine. Wilton residents prepare a royal welcome led by his parents and younger brother Leander. His mother and father, Civil War veteran, await his tale and possible Harvard museum interest.
Harvard students and professors show keen interest in Joe Knowles the twentieth century Adam. His Maine woods experiment to live without normal human abilities attracts attention from Harvard Medical School faculty and Cla clubs. As Knowles nears emerging from the woods, discussions dominate meals and gatherings about his feat.
The annual Disciples of Christ convention opened in Toronto with about 8000 delegates, mainly from the United States. The keynote topic is a Plan for a central organization to direct and support the missionary societies.
Members of the adjustment committee for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers reassemble in New Haven to distribute ballots on a potential strike. The count is set for Thursday at the committee rooms by grand officers, with a possible public statement later in the week. F S Evans denies a strike set for midnight.
Three Worcester water department employees were seriously hurt when a stick of dynamite exploded in a clay bank at the Kendall reservoir site in Holden. Nicola Veldoline and Nicola Baunsanto, both of Worcester, suffered severe facial injuries likely costing sight, while Francisco Caparlo of Worcester broke his right arm. The blast occurred during drilling for a new blast and is believed to have set off a dynamite charge left from a prior blast.
A vintage skin care note warns against constant cosmetics to avoid clogging pores. It promotes mercorized wax as a cleansing aid that absorbs a bad complexion and promises smoother skin after nightly application for a week. It also offers a face bath mix of 44 pint hazel and saxolite for wrinkles, claiming harmless miracle results.
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