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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1904
Page
7
An early 20th century advertisement urges readers to avoid alcohol in kidney tonics and promotes Dr Pettingill s Kidney-Wort Tablets as a permanent cure for kidney and liver troubles. It includes patient claim Ida Frey of Brooklyn and offers free consultation and advice.
An advertised remedy named Dr Pettingill's Kidney Wort Tablets is promoted as a concentrated cure containing no alcohol. The short claim emphasizes alcohol-free formula and curative intent.
April 24 report says Fore River Works may end the walkout over the 55 hour week as Rhode Island Vermont battleships could return to work by Tuesday or Wednesday. Italian workers union activity noted and a 54 hour basis settlement is expected. no Italian laborers at the plant Monday. Fire in Kennedy bakery Cambridge causes minor damage from water and spontaneous combustion in paint shop.
Rep William E. Hannan of Dorchester introduces a bill to divide Boston into 10 aldermanic districts and raise the board to 15 members with a chairman elected at large. Salaries would be 2000 for members and 2500 for the chairman. Districts align by ward groupings, with several districts returning one or two aldermen.
Massachusetts statue display in public garden prompts Edwin D. Mead to praise police risk and social service. At the New England Watch and Ward Society meeting in Central Church, leaders cite police sympathy and city improvements. The secretary cites no open gambling, theatre influence, and 53 convictions for immorality, obscene materials seized, and rising divorces as signs of social decay.
Margaret Mc Guinness, recently divorced from Michael Roche for abuse, wed Charles Rex of Leonard Street Dorchester two days later. Judge Hardy sent her to jail in Charles Street on $800 bail after arraignment in District Court, with the case set for next Saturday grand jury review.
The Church of St. Joseph in Somerville celebrated the feast with a solemn high mass yesterday morning. Rev. H. J. Cleary served as celebrant, with Rev. A. J. Mullin deacon and Rev. M. J. Welch subdeacon. Evening vespers were sung by the same clergy.
Lynn April 24 report notes shoes in tan shades dominate women fashions with matching stockings urged. Tan ties with rib bones through eyelets replace laces while patent leather styles rise in demand. Higher heels and pointed toes mark a radical, fashionable year for show shoes.
Deckhand Carlson of the towboat Mercury earned high praise after sighting a newsboy fall overboard near Lewis wharf at dusk. He sprang to the vessel’s side, pulled the boy from the salt water, and helped him back aboard, narrowly averting a drowning incident.
Police expect numerous women to testify against Rich ard R. Jordan charged with obtaining 350 dollars under false pretences from Mary E. Wade of Fall River. A prominent Back Bay woman is said to have lost several hundred dollars to his alleged romance scam. Wade says they met 18 months ago when she lived on Chandler Street Boston. She lent funds to help him start as a furniture dealer before he vanished. Jordan was arrested by Inspectors Burr and Cronin on Tremont Street Saturday evening.
Chairman Emmons of the Police Board spoke to three audiences Sunday. He addressed Harvard Square Baptist Church Charlestown at 10 30 am and the First Presbyterian Church Columbus Avenue in the evening, ending at the Blackstone Association West Canton Street. He discussed liquor reform and police actions to curb it noting in 1903 Boston arrested 43033 people for drunkenness including 3214 women and 5386 minors and stressing protection of bar owners while preventing sales to minors.
Dr Edward Everett Hale, longtime Senate chaplain and former South Congregational Church pastor, preached in his old pulpit yesterday morning. Crowds filled the church, many longtime friends, as Hale conducted the service and read announcements. He spoke of moral forces, faith, and worship in Washington, noting the shift from doom-laden preaching to the gospel of good cheer.
Two feared but non fatal panics hit yesterday with electrical faults from a short circuit. A Boston & Worcester Street railway car burned and crowds, mostly women, were trampled during the rush to safety as a Cambridge street manhole cover flew into the air and a fire followed.
Three Sunday liquor raids were conducted by Division 3 at Mary Block’s 44 Leverett Street, seizing seven gallons of lager beer three quarts of whiskey and assorted ale and wine. Division 11 raids netted additional confiscations and charges. Louis M Irving of 305 Norfolk Street faced a charge for selling liquor on premises. From 3 Corbett Street officers seized two and a half gallons of whiskey.
Dredging for gold in rich river beds promises large dividends and steady profits. Isis opportunity for small investors claims stock at twenty five cents a share. Free information mailed to inquirers. The Gold and Platinum Dredging Co. of Boston at 5 Park Square, Boston.
AMALGAMATED COPPER COMPANY 42 Broadway New York April 21 1904 announces a dividend of 1 percent of par payable to stockholders of record at 3 PM April 28 1904. Transfer books close 3 PM April 28 1904 and reopen 10 AM May 9 1904. William G Rockefeller secretary treasurer.
Notice announces Annie Elizabeth Clark as administratrix of Benjamin Clark late of Boston Suffolk County deceased intestate. She has given bond and invites all creditors to exhibit claims and all debtors to pay. Address: 27 Geneva Ave Dorchester Mass. Boston February 18 1904.
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