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Newspaper
Massachusetts Cambridge Chronicle
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1900
Page
8
In a New York Cleveland advertisement the baking powder is touted as boosting health by improving the quality of baked goods. It promises lighter, sweeter, finer flavored foods and urges careful purchasing to ensure wholesome, palatable results.
Miss Georgie Sanborn leaves town for Rockport with civil service exams for drawtenders and janitors set for Oct 15 at city hall. Reports on vacations, local enforcement of Sunday laws, health notices, council caucus delays, and a Cuban teachers visit with a $100 prize for top pupils.
The article reports no new developments at the Willow street schoolhouse case this week. Mayor Champlin notes no further action expected. Tillerman Thomas H. McCourt faced charges over leaving Cambridgeport without permission to East Cambridge, where he dined with family. case awaiting public finding. City Messenger Pratt returns from Sugar Hill, N H, visiting Hon. C. W. Kingsley.
Alfred E. Hughes says he will not seek re election to the aldermanic board this year and remains a candidate for the general court as ward 4 representative. His name appears on the Republican caucus ballot in September. The William E Russell Democratic club asks members to indicate preferred action by August 15 via a cross mark on a sent circular noting five options from supporting Bryan and Stevenson to disband.
Amateur track and bicycle events will headline the St Augustine's parish field day in South Boston next Saturday at Charles River Park. Harvard Cornell Columbia Georgetown Holy Cross and Boston colleges will compete in various events. Four baseball games begin at 11 am with a vaudeville and cake walk at 7 pm. bicycle heats run between acts, program ends at 10 pm. Rev M C Gilbride pushes a banner outing with band concerts and dancing music.
Henry Lee continues the headliner at Keith's Theatre with Great Men Past and Present and introduces several new impersonations. The bill includes Bouman and Adelle, Willis family instrumentalists, Dorothy Neville, Mazuz and Mazette, Armstrong brothers, Mark Murphy, Crawford dauters, Mile. Christina troupe, Kathryn Osterman in a new comedy sketch, and multiple featured acts plus biograph reels.
A letter laments abuse at Captain's Island bathing beach and Magazine street, noting wicked language and property damage by a small portion of bathers from Cambridge Somerville and beyond. It praises Clarence C Mann for organizing Cuban teachers expedition efforts and calls for solutions to keep areas around the beach safe.
East Cambridge St Johns council Knights of Columbus announce their annual moonlight excursion to Bass Point Nahant on Monday Aug 27. G K Daniel B Shaughnessy Jr chairs the arrangements. Two orchestras will play on the boat and at the Relay House. Also notes personnel changes and local deaths and travel.
Henry E Wells 23 died instantly Thursday night at the electric light works after touching a live wire with his foot while on an iron crane. He lived at 342 Pearl Street with his parents and left two sisters, with a funeral set for Sunday at St Philip's Church Allston Street.
The Cambridge bridge project has not begun on eight stone piers as contractors await a license from the state harbor and land commissioners to excavate and dump riverbed material. Holbrook Cabot Daly of Boston will use new machinery including a hammer pile driver to drive about 25,000 piles for the coffer-dams, aiming to finish well within two years.
Councilman Walker, a Tremont building lawyer and Allston resident, drowned in the Charles River near Captain's Island. A diver recovered his body about 300 feet from the sinking point, with police estimating heart trouble or cramps as likely causes. His uncle, C W Storer, collected his clothing at station 2.
Cambridge reacts to the death of Michael T Brandon aged nearly 32 a son of the city with a wide circle of friends and prominent ties to St. Pauls church the Knights of Columbus Riverside boat club and Cambridge council He was foreman at P H Sanford bookbinders Boston before illness and death at Park Street home. Funeral services were held at St Marys Norfolk Street with Requiem high mass and burial in St Pauls cemetery Arlington
A sample of unsolicited testimonials shows broad appeal for the Plant line with trips through the Provinces. Travelers request maps or charts to Charlotte town and describe the ship itineraries. A Raymond & Whitcomb party, Zin gari Cricket club of Boston, and Rhode Island Cricket club plan tours to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Maps offered by mail for two cents.
Arthur C. Parker of 28 Bigelow Street, a member of the city staff of the Boston Journal, will spend the next two weeks at Saratoga Lake, New York.
W B Chamberlain, a Cambridge native, joins River Street real estate and insurance circles. Longtime associate of his father Newell Chamberlain, he handles building and renting, with expertise from years in the business. He offers policies from top insurers, including Home Insurance Company of New York.
Glens Falls Lancashire of England and Fire association of Philadelphia join Aetna of Hartford Preferred of New York and Northwestern Mutual Life as insurers. Maryland Casualty of Baltimore covers employers and general liability. He aims to secure insured interests at low costs and can finance good real estate. Call for desirable houses and tenements.
Rev. F. W. Hagar Jr of the Baptist Tabernacle Boston will speak at tomorrow's outdoor service in front of the First Baptist church. Everyone welcome, peach ice cream at Warren's. The real thing.
In Greenville Maine on August 16 W Arthur Wells wed Lou M Caswell at her aunt Mrs J Walter Teasdale s summer home. Multiple Boston Cambridge and Brookline couples tie the knot in July and August with officiants including Rev J A Alexander Rev I Charles Edward and Justice of the Peace F W Sleeper.
A string of local obituaries and birth notices list residents with ages and addresses. Names include John Colman Edwin F cock Mary Hickey Pauline Osthues Winnefred McFarlane Alexander Wallace Herbert Norris Hugh Campbell Michael T Brandon Maria Silva Catherine Kane Thomas Gargan Dennis Cronin John H Shults with ages from a few days to 63 and hospital or street locations across the city.
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