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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1902
Page
3
A bold Osmo-Chemic treatment drive runs across New England with free consultation and X ray examinations through April 15 for those labeled incurable by others. Doctors invite sufferers to begin treatment by that date and list numerous supporters and applicants from Boston to Providence and beyond, highlighting dramatic crowds and widespread interest.
A list of New England residents who report relief from the Osmo-Chemic treatment. Names include Sumner Bi Bowman of Dover Street West Somerville Massachusetts and Joseph M. Bacon of Knox Street Worcester among others, with partial addresses in Massachusetts Connecticut and New Hampshire. The document invites others to provide testimonials of the treatment’s effects.
The National Spinners Association of America faces a wage debate as mills delay advance until yarn prices improve. Lowell spinners demand a raise, with wages up to 16 dollars weekly, while Fall River and New Bedford offer higher pay. Some Rhode Island mills have granted raises, and overall prospects for a general increase look brighter. The convention resumes at 9 AM with focus on wage conditions.
An advertisement by Dr. Shoop promises to cure rheumatism after six bottles of Dr Shoop’s Rheumatic Cure, with a money back option if it fails. It urges postal requests for an order and a book, noting mild cases may be cured in one or two bottles and naming Racine Wisconsin as the address.
Persons living at a distance are requested to write describing symptoms in detail. Doctor Plunkett will forward literature and provide advice free of charge.
The Osmo-Chemic System of Medicine lists J L Plunkett MD and J P Naughton MD as consulting physicians with permanent offices in the Colonial Building at 100 Boylston St Soften Mass. Office hours are 9 am to 12 pm, 2 to 4 pm, and 7 to 8 pm daily, closed Sundays.
Harvard men have pledged 234.50 for Boer relief funds and will cable the money to Cape Town by early next week. The surge of interest follows Boer envoys speaking at the Harvard Union Club. In Heidelberg Transvaal, April 1, Commandant Alberts calls a meeting near Springs to discuss possible general surrender. General Hans Botha reportedly plans a similar assembly at Amsterdam. Commandant Mears says his unit will follow Boer government decisions, while Commandant de Villiers in the Kimberley area sends a flag of truce seeking terms.
The class of English High School held its seventh annual dinner at Young's last night. Professor W W Sylvester was guest of the evening. A L O'Toole served as toastmaster and President Walters Bintchelder presided over attending members.
In a testimonial from Delaware IA, Thomas Craven reports his wife suffered neuralgia for years before feeding on Grape Nuts Breakfast Food. He claims she quickly became free from pain and appears cured, praising Grape-Nuts as the greatest food in existence and the base of the cure through rebuilding cellular tissue.
In Altoona on April 1 mass meetings of Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and Iron miners at Punxsutawney and Sykesville formally declare a strike involving about ten thousand workers. The action threatens to cut rail traffic by nearly the same number of railroad employees on the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg line, with support pledged from district and national treasuries of the United Mine Workers of America.
In Fall River on April 1 unrest grows as mills seek to depart from the union scale heading for the 10 percent wage advance. Complaints come from card room workers, overseers, and other unorganized staff, with some departments showing only 6 to 12 percent raises. Small strikes arise, but manufacturers remain wary of large conflicts while workers continue to relocate from mills offering lower scales.
The Michigan coal miners strike began today after failed talks over a wage scale. About 1100 miners in Saginaw County are out, with similar numbers leaving mines at Bay City and in the St. Charles district. No demonstrations occurred as the men stayed away from the pits.
Mayor Collins released a report by real estate expert John H. Duane on Faneuil Hall market rentals. The assessment estimates land at 27,400 square feet valued at 50 cents per square foot totaling 1,370,000 with buildings valued at 280,000 and gross income projected at 5 percent of valuation. Taxes and running expenses are deducted at 18 percent of valuation.
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