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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1898
Page
6
Urgent nationwide campaign offers a free full sized treatment to women suffering from female weaknesses and related conditions. The Dr Mary Lock Co invites letters with name and address to 855 Station O Chicago Illinois for delivery by mail within thirty days.
A Boston feature on Rosenbaum Bros. custom tailors at 8 Tremont Row. The firm, founded twenty years ago in the West End, earns praise for progressiveness, personal attention to cutting, and high quality wool fabrics. The concave shoulder, their claimed flagship innovation, defines their garments and fits, drawing steady patronage.
A letter received in San Francisco from Admiral Dewey to local friends reports he will arrive around December 6 unless hostilities resume. The steamship Doric carried the letter yesterday.
In old times women faced deadly feminine ailments but now Dr. Pierce offers Favorite Prescription. The ad touts his Buffalo clinic and says the remedy strengthens nerves, cures inflammation and ulcers, and aids wifehood and motherhood. A Montana woman reports recovery after using the Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription.
Israel Zangwill, the noted author and lecturer, is in Massachusetts and will lecture at Smith College Northampton on Fiction the Highest Form of Truth and in Boston within about two weeks. He discusses America, publicity around his drama remarks, and the balance between artistic truth and market demand. He notes the vast, diverse country makes quick opinions futile and reflects on how authors influence readers and earn a living.
The interview reveals a writer emphasizing human happiness as the core aim. He rejects binding himself to a single form, preferring to let ideas shape into fiction, essays, or stories as needed. He also speaks on resisting public labeling and cherishing the uplift of the Hebrew race alongside artistic goals.
From The Hague comes word that the young Queen of Holland Wilhelmina has become engaged to her second cousin Prince William of Weid. The announcement follows the Stuttgart wedding of William’s elder brother and fits a Protestant, non-royal-allying match.
In about two weeks the reorganized Shawmut National Bank will open for business with a nine member board, expected to surpass fifteen directors. President James P. Stearns leads, joined by D. J. Hallett, Horatio Newhall, Jeremiah Williams, and A S Woodworth among others. Wallace B Draper to serve as assistant cashier. Capital set at 3 million dollars with a 1.5 million surplus. Kidder Peabody notes most desirable business will move to Shawmut. savings banks limited to 500 shares each.
Oct 19 General Wesley Merritt arrived from Paris and will marry in London this week. His intended wife is Miss Laura Williams of Chicago who is already in the city. The wedding will be conducted privately.
A large gathering yesterday celebrated patriotic society gifts decorating the new Paul Revere School and Hancock School. Displays include busts, portraits, and flags from Sons of the Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution, and Sons of American Revolution, with a closing ceremony as gifts were formally presented to the city and school officials.
Attendance remained strong despite rain as Mount Vernon day drew crowds at the Chari table Mechanic Association exhibit. Miss H S Coggins discussed Mount Vernon history and preservation while donations and lectures supported the fund. Edith Castle sang patriotic hymns and later events featured the Sons of the American Revolution and Ladies Physiological Institute sessions.
If police suspicions are correct, Harry Fleming of Salem, Massachusetts, is under arrest charged with uttering a forged $15 check on Austin L. Littlefield, a Danvers clothing dealer. The check was drawn on the Warren National Bank of Peabody and bore the name John W. Porter.
The Boston theatre scene highlights Maude Adams in The Little Minister at Hollis, plus the New York Empire troupe presenting Phrase with Jessie Millward. Plans include Cyrano de Bergerac and Off and On in London, The Christian touring, and varying engagements at Castle Square, Bowdoin, Tremont, and Grand venues with many stars and new burlesque programs.
At the Grand Opera House last evening a new version of The Bells by Louis Cardot was staged with a prologue planning a murder of the Jew and a dramatic climax in tableaux. Thomas F. Shea as Mathias drew strong audience response in the dream confession. Henry Testa as Walter and Frank Buuman as Hans gave notable support. This afternoon and evening The Man o W ar s Man will be presented.
Captain John W. Weeks of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade retires today after directing the auxiliary naval force and related duties in the city and its vicinity.
Kutnow Bros of New York markets an effervescent powder claiming to remove uric acid from blood and relieve gout and similar ailments. The ad touts springs as the traditional cure, offers a free sample by mail to Boston Post readers, and invites applicants to mention the Boston Post.
In Superior Criminal Court yesterday Lesie Botarsky aged 20 was sentenced by Judge Stevens to two years in the Reformatory Prison for Women at Sherborn for killing her infant child on August 4 in a house on I Street South Boston where she had been employed.
A light editorial note on Ulves not life threatening yet a source of misery and profanity. It mentions Dean's Ointment as providing relief in this and other exasperating skin diseases.
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