Easter brings warmth and tailoring rush
Easter season arrives with warmer weather and a surge in tailoring work as customers prepare for spring outfits.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1906
Page
3
Easter season arrives with warmer weather and a surge in tailoring work as customers prepare for spring outfits.
The United Colony of Pilgrim Fathers shows the largest year over year membership increase since 1888 at its 27th annual convention held at Odd Fellows Hall. Edward P. Lincoln is elected supreme governor and a new $250 policy with a 10 year endowment is approved. delegates exceed 50 with 20 080 members including 10 429 men and women. The treasurer notes $593 963 in death and emergency funds with a $123 963 surplus.
The Pride of Massachusetts Foresters No. 34 held its 24th annual reunion with guests including Grand Sub Chief Ranger Joseph Santasuosso and Supreme Quartermaster-General J. Stafford. Organizers listed R. Su Milzer as chairman and P. Rice as toastmaster among others.
Odessa April 4 Governor General Kaulbars, in an interview, said he could answer for no anti Jewish disorders at Easter but would not guarantee order beyond that time as events would depend on election results.
In Willing, April 4, observers say anthracite miners are ready to modify their wage and concession demands for the operators. Committee members admit the original goals were optimistic and will be reduced when presented to the operators, preserving worker satisfaction.
The article reports on potential settlement talks between miners and operators. If the operators meet key demands such as a rebuilt conciliation board an eight hour day and higher pay for some workers the miners may renew the strike commission award for up to one year. The miners oppose a three year binding agreement. President Mitchell avoids committing when asked about rumors of arbitration and a miners convention.
Edward Hamlin, president of the Metropolitan Coal Company, told Secretary Olin at a State House hearing that keeping prices down would have emptied coal stocks in two days. He argued the rise aimed to prevent hoarding and protect regular customers and the poor during a strike. Lawyer Horace Allen supported the move as public calm and supply protection.
William R. Carter, held on $1000 bail for perjury, spent a night in Charles Street jail after a jury ruled against his $15,000 damages claim against the Boston & Northern street railway. He testified July 24, 1903, that a subway car threw him at Haymarket square, but witnesses disputed his intoxication and the car’s time and location. He was arrested as he left the courtroom.
An excerpted health note explains the alimentary canal from esophagus to anus and how peristaltic waves move food through the intestines. It contrasts laxatives like castor oil and calomel with Cascarets, praising the latter as a natural stimulant produced by exercise and muscle action, and notes the West Pocket Box costs ten cents.
Free to our friends an elaborately French designed gold plated bonbon ark in hard enamel colors. It is described as a dressing table beauty. Ten cents in stamps asked as good faith to cover Cascarets cost, with a dainty trinket included. Reference to paper page 724. From Sterling Remedy Company Chicago or New York.
Sadie and Ellen O Neal of 724 East Seventh Street remain ill but expected to recover after inhaling illuminating gas. They were unconscious and near death when their father Cornelius O Neal discovered them yesterday morning at their home.
A gas leak poured fumes into a sleeping chamber for hours before a father detected the odor. He found his daughters Sadie, 20, and Ellen, 22, unconscious and frothing at the mouth. Their gas jet was partly on. both were revived at Carney Hospital after removal. Mildred, the third daughter, helped until the doctor arrived.
Parishioners and friends of All Saints Church Roxbury plan an Easter festival at Paul Revere Hall on April 25 to celebrate the parish tenth anniversary and founding milestone.
Frank Chandler son of Benjamin F Chandler U S N and president of Chandler and Farquhar Company died yesterday at his home 41 Waverley street Waverley of pneumonia age 54 He leaves a wife a son and a granddaughter and a 90 year old mother The funeral will be Sunday at 2 PM at the Waverley Unitarian Church under the direction of several Masonic bodies
A promotional notice touts Dr Miles Restorative Nervine as remedy for nervous disorders and loss of vitality in women. It cites strenuous household and social duties endured by women and claims thousands improved health by the medicine. A testimonial from Mrs Maud B Oplinger of Philadelphia praises transformative effects and offers a money back guarantee if unsatisfied.
French aeronaut Paul Nocquet died after attempting to reach land from a sand bar off Long Island near Amityville and Jones Beach. After a balloon flight and hours battling tides he reached the final island and collapsed. physicians cite heart failure. Searchers from Aero Club of New York recovered his body on the boggy shore.
A rumor in East Boston says the new Atlantic avenue L station connecting the L line and the tunnel could open for use today. Officials for the company declined to deny or confirm the report.
Five Somerville boys aged 12 to 14 sought excitement in the West but grew lazy upon arrival in Newtonville, calling it a slow place and returning home. Names listed: James Brady, Francis Boaga, Joseph Hamill, John D. Rogers, and Frank Williamson, with street addresses in Somerville.
The Board of Police responded to a Supreme Court suit by the O'Brien Bros alleging unjust discrimination in denying a first class liquor license for Sea Grill at 152 Summer Street. The board cites the South station footfall of 75,000,000 travelers and nearby female and youth traffic as justification.
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