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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1895
Page
6
At Roxbury's Winthrop Street M E Church Reverend Edward M Taylor preached on The Woman Who Makes Home Unhappy. He grouped wives into scolds nagging women housekeepers and ultra suffragists noting marriage happiness hinges on mutual respect and shared duties. Special music followed.
London reports protest at noblemen marrying American women amid Marlborough Vanderbilt engagement. A Dowager Duchess portrays a life of decadence with daughters trained to seduction while newspapers debate equality and wealth driving marriages. Willard accuses his wife of abuse, drink, and theatrics, detailing violent episodes and marital strife.
Miss Ida May Schieren daughter of Brooklyn Mayor Charles A. Schieren has been invited by Secretary Herbert to christen the cruiser Brooklyn at the Cramps shipyard Philadelphia. She is a 20 year old Packer Institute student and president of the class of '21. The Schieren family is currently at Islip.
A fragment notes satisfaction at the invitation to his daughter, reflecting a personal moment without clear context or names. The brief text suggests a reaction or sentiment tied to a family invitation.
Thomas Hughes a Southfield blacksmith whipped his 18 year old daughter Maggie when she chose a swain. He pursued her to her uncle’s and was then beaten by a crowd before leaving Pontiac on the first train. Maggie stays with her uncle.
La Porte Indiana reports the remarkable homecoming of William Chambers aged 69 after a forty six year absence. He left in 1849 to seek fortune, learned his wife had remarried and raised five children, and returned to discover his former wife dead. He reunites with his son and plans to live with his first wife’s widow.
Arabella Willard sues Walter J. Willard for cruelty and desertion in the Court of Common Pleas. She, 41, accuses him, 31 years her junior, of beatings and bizarre acts since their 1889 marriage in New York. No children are listed. defendant denies the charges.
A jumble of notes records Paris bicycling slang enCalottees, a Kansas woman at a threshing machine, and bloomers invading Pottawatomie. It also notes a New Hampshire tombstone born 1699 died 1802, a Central Park bicyclist with a negress attendant, a London drinker named Cakebread, and Olive Shreiner, 23, living on a South African farm and taking her husband’s name after marriage.
Ephraim W. Bull founder of the Concord grave was honored with a funeral in the Unitarian Church Concord. Colonel William Barrett led arrangements. Services were by Rev. George A. Tewksbury with scripture life sketch prayer and benediction. Twenty one Social Circle members and fifty five Corinthian Lodge members attended. Floral offerings came from both groups at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery a Masonic burial was conducted with Worshipful Master George H. Hopkins and Chaplain Henry F. Smith officiating.
The funeral for John Asten veteran fireman of Somerville was held yesterday at 2 PM from the McLean Asylum where he served forty years as a plumber. Rev George J Prescott of the Church of Our Good Shepherd Boston led the service with attendance by friends relatives and the Somerville Veteran Firemen's Association. Interment followed at Waitham.
Over New Hampshire September 29 Funeral services for Professor Louis Polléns were conducted in Rollins Chapel by President Tucker with assisting clergy Reverends Leeds Huntington and others. Bearers included Professors Fletcher Hitchcock Chase Campbell Wells and L B Downing.
Mrs Thomas Gavin wife of a Watertown contractor died at her North Beacon street home after a two year illness. Born in Ireland she came to the United States at fifteen and lived in Watertown nearly fifty years. She leaves a husband two sons and two daughters. The funeral will be held Tuesday morning.
Salem dates list October meets for the Myopia drag hounds with venues including Rowley Common Hamilton Meeting House Seven Pines Wenham Day Farm Kennels Topsfield Common Baldpate Inn South Georgetown Ipswich brick yards and Rock Maple Farm. Breakfasts and hound mornings noted for several events.
Fire in East Braintree Massachusetts destroys Albert E Avery's Union street stable. Six tons of hay burn and a loss of about 1000 dollars, insured. Fire department saves the house.
George W Warren, formerly manager at Commonwealth Clothing House and recently with Spitz Bros. & Mark, now works at Somerset Clothing House located at the corner of Somerset and Howard streets.
Samuel Gompers and Peter McGuire arrived in New York after attending the Trades Union Congress in Cardiff Wales. They contrasted British labor progress with America noting greater public recognition and generations of unionism in Britain, while McGuire praised American workers as better off yet urged more practical continental European agitation.
A busy Boston theater scene features Sutton Vane's In Sight of St Pauls at Bowdoin Square under authorial direction, Michael McGonigal in Rory of the Hill at Columbia Theatre, and a full slate including The Bells Nance Oldfield and King Arthur. Henry Irving Ellen Terry arrival at Union Station, plus Otis Skinner in Willon the Vagabond at Park.
The Central Labor Union in Brockton chaired by W A Martin held a meeting with new delegates from Mixed Union 38 and Boot and Shoe Workers. It elected officers last week and will elect more the week of Oct 7. A resolution opposing biennial elections was referred to the legislative committee and will be sent to candidates in several Representative districts. The union set its semi annual officer election for next Sunday.
A crayon portrait of Karl Marx was unveiled at Wells Memorial Hall under the People’s Union and Jewish section of the Socialistic Labor party. William Murray opened the meeting and introduced A. Cohan of New York who spoke on Marx’s life and Socialistic doctrine. The unveiling featured a red curtain reveal and a program of recitations and speeches by local volunteers including James Kay Applebee Morris Inchocosky Albert Fancon Rev James Kay Applebee and Miss M Kendall.
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