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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1916
Page
5
The Boston Symphony Orchestra under conductor Karl Muck opened its 1916 17 season yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall. The event featured an unusually attractive program and highly brilliant performances, plus the welcome reunions the annual opening concert inspires.
Friday and Saturday audiences in Boston enjoy a close, familiar atmosphere with long-standing subscribers beside neighbors. Dr. Muck conducts a balanced program featuring Beethoven Eroica, Berlioz Corsair overture, Liszt Mazeppa, Strauss Till Eulenpiegel, with praise for orchestral unity and detailed tone color.
War reduces butter and cheese prices as submarine activity tightens exports. Meats hold steady while fruit and vegetables edge up due to sustained low temperatures. Poultry prices stay high due to Jewish holidays but are expected to drop soon. chicken turkeys reach up to 10 pounds while remaining costly. Quincy market prices cover meats, butter, eggs, fruits, vegetables, and seafood with specific per unit costs.
The Licensing Board ordered a three day suspension of H. M. Lewis & Co. at 430 Amory Street Roxbury for alleged liquor sale to drunken persons. The firm will close at 11pm Oct 16 and reopen at 6am Oct 20.
A record crowd of 2000 women packed Park Street Church to hear organizers outline their role in the Billy Sunday revival campaign. Leading figures included Mrs. Everett O. Fisk Mrs. C. H. Talmage Mrs. A. H. Nazarian Mrs. Charles H. Jones and Mrs. H. Lathrop, with Boston activists driving preparatory plans.
Reverend James E Walker and Grace Copeland Lathrop spearhead Boston effort to recruit 2800 women from churches for a Billy Sunday revival. Key women chosen October 3 at Chipman Hall briefed on invitation and luncheon duties at Park Street Church, with emphasis on reaching working women and coordinating noon Bible classes.
A love poem sent by Helen Thompson to her future husband Billy Sunday features in Paul Waitt's intimate Sunday Post biography installment. The piece blends personal history with religious public life, offering a glimpse of private affection within a notable revivalist narrative.
Charles E. Hughes moved his campaign through Missouri the fourth solid South state visited on his trip. He spoke in Joplin in a large tent focusing on the protective tariff after a daylong journey with one stop at Springfield.
Mr. Hughes told a crowd that current prosperity rests on sand and warned that the European war will end the stimulant of war profits. He attacked political opportunism during wartime, condemned Democratic tariff policy and the Adamson law, arguing that real laws arise only from informed justice.
In Springfield Convention Hall George Hughes condemns government by hold up and urges reason and fairness. He cites war driven European demand, unresolved prosperity, and a labor strain as his reasons for economic concern, noting crowds waited hours and many were turned away.
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