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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1903
Page
4
One of the year’s largest gatherings attended the 12th annual ball of the Boston Cooks Benevolent Association and Cooks Local Union 328 at Paine Memorial Hall 9 Appleton Street.
A Boston advertisement touts Caputine a vegetable remedy to remove scalp scales and revive hair growth. Prof. Albert Parker offers free examinations at Room 416 218 Tremont St Boston with mail orders available for $1 a large bottle and a personal advisory letter.
Charlestown's carnival association announces a larger parade with five divisions and a distinctly patriotic tone. Richard H. Hanson has been chosen for a key role.
The chief marshal for the occasion returns as former chief of staff. Charlestown residents anticipate a celebration featuring churches and schools as central attractions this year.
Be particular as you please about your shirts the Cluett Peabody kind will satisfy you. Cluett Shirts 1 50 up Monarch Shirts 1 00 Cluett Peabody Co.
The St Quentin from Liverpool docks with 4701 tons coal anchored at quarantine. Captain Bennett reports typical weather. An iceberg sighting on April 9 at 41N 47W marks the southernmost ice sighting this season by American port liners. Additional ships including Admiral Farragut, Admiral Schley, Trold, and Sylvania pass or dock with cargoes of bananas and fruit. A flotilla of schooners and sloops deliver haddock cod hake pollock and cask goods to the harbor while Bohemian and Georgian prepare to sail today.
The April 15 shipping almanac lists sun and moon times and high tides. It records arrivals of steamers such as Kingstonian Parker Loveridge and Admiral Schley from various British, Caribbean, and American ports, along with cargoes of coal bananas and tugs. Cleared and sailed vessels include Bohemian Georgian Admiral Farragut Fuaclarence Mabel Jordan and others bound for Liverpool Manchester Port Antonio Baltimore and more.
Chicago April 14 A meeting tomorrow could trigger a strike involving up to 100,000 Great Lakes dock workers. Longshoremen demand 30 cents an hour for 10 hours, 3 cents overtime, and 40 cents for Sundays plus time lost during steamer shifts, with employers offering 30 cents flat.
Representative Jeremiah F. Donovan of Cambridge received a complimentary dinner at Young's Hotel. About 30 people attended the event, where he was presented a solid gold Assessor badge engraved to honor his services.
The advertisement extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent as antiseptic treatments for female ailments including ulcers inflammations and nervous debility. It claims widespread use among women improving health beauty and strength with safe economical products sold worldwide and via depots in London Boston and Boston outlines an offer to request a book for women.
Mrs Henry C Roberts 16 and her sister in law Emma Roberts were located on Pleasant street by Patrolman Gibson and detained after trying to pawn silverware. Claimed to be from Providence and to have won a prize at a church fair but admitted being missing from West Warren after careful questioning. They stayed at Hotel Benedict and planned theatre outings in Boston.
Newton April 14 No trace found of William Daniels Clark ten year old son of Mr and Mrs Fred Clark missing from his home at 19 Montford road Newton Highlands since late yesterday afternoon.
The Victorian Club committee arranged a reception for the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of London at the Country Club. John Hodgson resigned as secretary after taking a post in England and received a gold watch from Professor de Lumichrast. Photographs from the Shamrock III launch, offered by John L. Denny, were shown amid cheers for the ship. J Mackintosh Bell spoke on The Resources of the Hudson Bay Territories.
Two alarms from Box 311 at 2 oclock this morning sent Roxbury engines to a brisk fire in an unoccupied stable at 76 Kemble Street Roxbury owned by J H Harrington. Firemen had trouble getting water but soon gained control and the building was badly damaged.
Miss Cora Campbell Wolcott of Stearns Chambers and Mr. Charles Albert Watrous of Des Moines Iowa were married at Leyden Church Brookline last evening by Rev. Dr. Hale. The ceremony occurred in a church adorned with palms ferns and smilax.
A boy left home after school saying he would see the world and has not been heard from since. He passed Newtonville at 6 15 PM and was last seen in old clothes with a covert overcoat gray blouse corduroy trousers tan shoes gray cap and 4 cents. He speaks with a slight lisp and is slow of speech.
A large meeting led by President W. N. McKenna discussed the opening of the club's new quarters at 3740 Washington street on April 21. Prominent speakers and an extensive musical and literary program are planned amid rapid organizational growth.
A body of a man believed to be Italian was found in a barrel on East Eleventh Street near the docks in New York. The throat was cut from ear to ear and the victim’s identity remained unknown. The notice also includes unrelated promotional lines about Dr Agnew’s Catarrhal Powder and Triscuit biscuits.
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