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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1897
Page
5
A consumer calls out counterfeit food products. The speaker warns that imitations lack the original Postum cereal coffee’s health value and urges buyers to choose the genuine product endorsed by physicians ministers educators and brain workers.
The Post repudiates the Printers' Ink canvass of morning newspaper sales by 100 Boston newsdealers as inaccurate and unfair. George W. Tuohy notes errors and supplies corrected figures from dealers, illustrating widespread discrepancies. The Post clarifies it has no evening edition and urges rivals to outpace each other in circulation.
Warren Johnson of Winchester filled in for the ill Foreman Eagle as testimony resumed. William Power Wilson, Hayes step-brother, described family ties as cordial with Mrs Hayes and the younger members. He noted Hayes sailed October 11 and a will dated October 10, with a trust deed in process. Wilson recalled a $200 request and watch safety concerns amid creditor pressure.
At the New York show, three young women rode astride in Class 63 provoking comment and criticism. Miss Beach won the blue ribbon on Mrs Danielson's horse, with Miss Holloway applauded. Mrs Gardner attended with a party, admiring horses and grooms as others watched the performances.
Thorp & Martin Co advertises hub files available at 21e each or $2.00 per dozen. All other leading files also priced low with the same store offering. Located at 13 Mik Street.
The Big Show faded into a tranquil scene as thousands watched horse and rider. Notables like Senator James A. Gallivan and Mrs. Gardner attended with guests, while Charles W. Hutchinson won ribbons and several ladies led the saddle class. The audience, fashionably dressed, filled the galleries and promenades with remarks and admiration.
The report notes attendees dressed in black silk garments, featuring a bolero of black and white spotted silk, complemented by a chic Parisian hat, highlighting formal fashion of the event.
The list details awards for harness horses and saddle horses, with prizes up to 150 dollars. Winners include Brilliant and Your Grace in harness, Warwick and Chester in saddle classes, plus tandem and jump class victors from Radnor and Myopia hunts.
The Brighton High School building, 100 by 140 feet and three and a half stories, was formally dedicated last evening. About 1000 attendees viewed the fire brick and marble trimmed structure with a stage draped by an American flag as Rev. Robert Walkley gave the invocation. School committee president Henry D. Huggan and State Board of Education members J. Co. Pp. Winship Thomas J. Murray Isaac F. Paul and Frank Hill spoke. ushers were KE W Campbell Thomas F Tierney EK H Hara and C H Hamblin. Mayor Quincy could not attend.
Colonel John S. Mosby was thrown from a buggy at the University of Virginia and sustained a cut that may seriously injure one eye.
Testimony piles praise for Agnew’s Cure for the heart claiming rapid relief within thirty minutes of ingestion. Sold by C E Woodward & Co at 52 Bromfield Street and Jaynes & Co at the corner of Washington and Hanover Streets.
The second Boston Historical Festival evening at Music Hall featured depictions of Puritan departure aboard the Arbella, early home life, the tea meeting at Old South, and Wexler era pageantry. Performers included Adams, Winthrop, Eliot, Dudley, and others with support from the Colonial Dames and Old South Historical Society. The Civil War sequence closed the program with veterans, flags, and a Governor Hancock reception.
Relief in six hours for kidney and bladder diseases claimed by the New Great South American Kidney Cure. The ad stresses prompt pain relief in the bladder kidneys and back for both sexes and immediate relief from retention. Sold by Geo Goodwin & Co at 36 Hanover Street.
A cable car accident at Ninth Avenue and Fifty third Street in New York City kills an unknown man and injures James Hughes of Brooklyn with a skull fracture.
Final arrangements for the presidential trip to New York were announced. The party travels Monday by special Pennsylvania train, with the President, family, Secretary Porter, and the Pennsylvanian president in private cars. The cabinet, Supreme Court, army, and navy members travel with families. Mrs. Grant and Miss Sartoris occupy state rooms. notable attendees include Secretary Sherman, Justice Peckham, General Miles, and Admiral Brown. Secretary Bliss will join the cabinet party in New York.
The Department of State letter to Mayor Strong, signed by John Sherman, says ambassadors and ministers will not press for precedence in Grant ceremony seating. It instructs officials to assign seats to the President, Vice President, cabinet, and foreign diplomats without giving any group priority.
James E Thorp, a motorman, was shot in the thigh by Ira Stansbury in front of City Hall St Louis. Stansbury driving a buggy refused to turn out, fired after Thorp bumped the buggy off the track and claimed a car had no right of way.
The case of Joseph E. Kelley for the Stickney bank murder moves toward an 8:30 a m transfer from Dover to Somersworth guarded by Deputy Sheriffs Parker and McDaniel. A May grand jury is anticipated and Attorney General Eastman will take over evidence after the hearing. Detective Campeau surveyed the scene for the reward, with Montreal officers cited in the dispute over the award.
Bank directors met to decide who deserves the reward in the Ashton woman case. Some say she is entitled to nearly all, others to local officers. no decision reached and settlement not immediate.
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