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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1903
Page
2
An advertisement extols Paine's Celery Compound as spring medicine for fatigue nervousness sleeplessness and rheumatic or neuralgic complaints. It cites letters from Olive J. Merrill of Kirksville Missouri and Madge E. Sisson of Castile New York praising relief and improved health after use.
Milford reports a serious defalcation at the Milford Co operative Bank after a detailed examination by G W Manson. Forged checks allegedly used President Eldredge’s name, with dishonesty traced to 1897 and a total shortage of 21 217 22 dollars.
A general building trades strike starts in New York area affecting 15,000 to 20,000 workers from the Bronx River to the Connecticut border and reaching parts of Connecticut. Unions seek an eight hour day with Saturday half holiday and wage scales including plumbers four dollars a day and carpenters three dollars sixty cents.</s>
On April 1 two major strikes began in Chicago. Three thousand tanners walked out over a nine hour day wage hike and union recognition, affecting 14 tanneries. Marine firemen and other lake laborers threatened a lake fleet tieup as talks stalled. Ironworkers at Pease Company and Chicago Joliet electric railroad workers also escalated or demanded higher pay, reshaping local labor leverage.
In St Louis on April 1 Judge Elmer B Adams dissolved the injunction dating from March 3 that barred officials of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Railroad Trainmen and other leaders from influencing a Wabash strike. Officials expect an amicable adjustment and no strike.
Leominster April 1 Edward M Rockwell proprietor of Rockwell mills posts a notice that spinners receive a seven percent wage increase on and after today under a voluntary profit sharing plan to favor employees.
About 1800 miners and boys in Shamokin Penn strike three colleries operated independently as owners move to start half an hour later and lengthen mealtime. An additional 300 workers at a fourth colliery walk out over not adding a third shift for firemen under the eight hour day.
About 400 wagon makers, members of the local union, walked out in Pittsburg today after an order last night calling for a 15 percent wage increase, union recognition, and a nine hour workday.
About 200 journeymen plumbers walked out in Philadelphia on April 1 to demand 3.60 dollars for an eight hour day for first class men and 8 dollars per day for apprentices with three years of service.
Seventy workers at the Rogers Bros. silverware factory in Wallingford Connecticut walked out in protest against the hiring of a non-union man. The walkout highlights tension between workers and management over labor representation.
The United States cruiser Topeka is being fitted with wireless telegraphy at Charlestown navy yard. Sailors welcome the upgrade as it allows the ship to send and receive messages with other equipped vessels, and the apparatus will be installed on more ships soon.
In South Groveland a would–be poisoner doctored tea with paris green and placed it at the McCormick home. Frank McCormick, former Boston athlete and newly elected constable, uncovered the attempt and remains unafraid while vowing no retaliation. The town, though outraged, supports his enforcement of the law and questions the assailant’s identity.
A special election in Stoneham elected a three member board of public works replacing the town’s sewer and water boards. At the adjourned town meeting a dispute over salaries led to questions about the board’s authority and when duties begin. James H. Murphy says duties start next annual town meeting and contracts on peril. James A. Stockwell asserts the new board is in power. The salary issue was tabled pending resolution.
All humors are impure matters the skin liver kidneys and other organs cannot manage without help. They accumulate and litter the body causing pimples boils eczema loss of appetite tiredness bilious spells indigestion dull headaches and many troubles are due to them.
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills claim to remove all humors and strengthen the system. The ad offers testimonials of remarkable cures and requests readers mail for them from C. I. Hood Co. in Lowell Massachusetts.
Arthur Smith 21 of Somerville attempted to poison himself with aconite in a Washington street newspaper office rather than stand trial for stealing a case of eggs from the Boston & Albany railroad. Police intervened before he could fatally act, and he was arrested after a brief struggle.
Affidavits filed in New York deny Southern Pacific is run for Union Pacific. Key statements from Harriman and Kuhn LOeb officials allege a Keene pool of 170k to 175k shares and options to force sales or dividends to influence control, while other executives insist SP serves its stockholders, not Union Pacific.
Miss Josephine S. Fiske of the New England Deaconesses spoke on Boston tenements and alleys at a YMCA gathering. She described dire South End poverty in a two-room home with sick husband and starving elderly couple, lacking furniture, food, or fuel, and vowed to notify health officials for action.
From Boston April 17. Twenty five dollars covers all expenses for week long trip with five days in Washington, visits to Philadelphia and New York, longer stop overs possible. Gettysburg battlefield and Washington trips June 5 and Sept. For itineraries and full details contact Joseph P. Taggart, N E P A, 360 Washington street, Boston, Mass.
Gloucester April 1 The merchants carnival opened today with decorated streets attractive store windows and frequent band concerts drawing crowds from near and far. Tonight the streets glowed with colored electric lights.
Buffalo April 1 report on the Burdick inquest shows no grounds for believing the case is dead. The district attorney plans to present the findings to the grand jury on Monday April 6 unless plans miscarry.
Letter urging passage of the Curley bill to establish a 12 hour workday for firemen in Massachusetts. The author argues the 24 and 18 hour proposals harm families, reduce moral improvement, and lower work quality, citing married firemen, child welfare, and public safety, and contrasts with eight hour pay for police. ALAN HUDSON endorses the measure from Brockton.
In Stoneham on Monday, a surge of drunkenness prompted confidence that a major cause involved local suppliers or financiers. Chief of Police Green presented a long list of suspects at a Tuesday trial session, while residents report Election Day celebrations spiraled into excess and a citizens committee vows to investigate who funded the drinking.
Stephen Ballas of Roxbury Massachusetts testifies after a week of Koch Cure treatment at 861 Boylston Street Boston. He says chronic asthma bronchitis and catarrh faded within three months with no medicines or drugs and no work missed. He offers to give a verbal testimonial to prospective patients who call.
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