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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1904
Page
20
Mrs Mary Bass known as Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was dismissed in Police Court after facing a charge of throwing slop on Mrs Emily Smith. Judge McCann cited notoriety from a literary work and ongoing disturbances as reasons for dismissal.
Patrick Gately aged 45 of 1 Clover Place West Roxbury saved three horses from death when a fire at his farm stable last night caused a blaze spreading to nearby sheds. The barn burned down before fire crews arrived. damage estimated at 350 dollars.
The Board of Police faces midnight deadlines as 15 plus license applicants seek renewals. Star chamber hearings yesterday trimmed the list and today more renewals are expected. Abutters complaints drive decisions while some notorious resorts regain renewal with assurances of changes this year.
Jane Eyre of the Sunday Post interviewed the two Curleys from Boston’s South End after their recent civil service law convictions. Their comments offer a compelling read and reveal the public figures behind the case.
Kenneth Wade and Thomas A J Hoag, awaiting Middlesex grand jury sessions, were visited yesterday by their mothers at East Cambridge jail. Sheriff Fairbairn’s office hosted the meetings as the women expressed grief over their sons alleged crimes.
The Sunday Post previews a dramatic struggle over a vast Crocker fortune between a powerful family and a single woman. The narrative centers on a widow and the influence of a second wife, as Jane Eyre weighs in on the case Tomorrow.
Reading April 29. Warren F E Beard, a retired furniture manufacturer, says his wife Jennie eloped with another man and he will not pay any of her bills. He claims she left after a quarrel, shipped her trunk to Boston, and has not been seen for weeks. He suspects an older man and says he is done with Mrs. Beard, noting they have no children.
The committee on relations between employer and employee reported a bill authorizing the State Board of Health with the Bureau of Statistics and Labor and district police to inspect sanitary conditions in factories workshops and other workplaces. An appropriation of 1000 funds the effort with a report due to the next Legislature by January 15.
In the Senate yesterday Senator Craig recalled a bill for a Nahant public bathhouse costing 75000 dollars, to be funded from last year’s Metropolitan Park Commissioners appropriation. The Governor opposed diverting funds but the recall prevented a veto.
A Chicago sequel to a Brookline wedding ends with Mrs George Brown Jr abandoning alimony and returning to Chicago. Charles G Brown sues for divorce from his wife, who moves into Prairie avenue mansion only to lose the home to the second Mrs Brown. The Brookline beauty had been famed in local society and active in women’s groups.
The Society of Colonial Wars observed its eleventh anniversary at Young's Hotel last evening. Professor Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper titled The Westward Advance in the 17th Century, outlining colonial expansion and frontier settlement.
Michael Beggan of South Boston says his brother Edward J Beggan was murdered after his body was found in the Charles River near the Craigie bridge. He notes a head wound and missing nearly $100, while officials warn decomposition may hinder definite results and say autopsy is possible if desired.
In the House yesterday the Ways and Means committee reported not to pass on the bill to raise the salary of Charles Mann, clerk of the Board of Railroad Commissioners. Mann, a Bates appointee, was at Bates headquarters during the Bates Guild campaign. He was appointed a year ago with a salary of 2500, the requested raise is 500.
Creditors report Dr W E Woodend owner of W E Woodend and Co has left the city with no filed assignment or suspension notice. A petition in involuntary bankruptcy is filed against the firm and deputies seize offices as creditors with claims from 60 to 4000 press for authority. Wall Street voices fear a collapse of a major brokerage house as Western Union cuts wire lines at Woodend offices.
Wealthy merchants and drivers in Back Bay face police scrutiny as Superintendent W H Pierce pushes enforcement of city speed limits. Police auto in Division 16 patrols boulevards and parkways to log names, licenses, and speeds, with crossings limited to eight miles per hour and general limits set at ten or fifteen miles per hour.
The Vincent theatricals are Boston's most exclusive event with Back Bay society well represented. Photographers and artists chase swell portrait subjects as a young woman artist from the Sunday Post plans to print her sketches in tomorrow's issue.
The Phi Alpha Gamma Fraternity of Boston University medical department presents a musical and dramatic program at Jordan Hall tonight. Performers include students from the New England Conservatory Faelten School of Music Emerson College of Oratory and others. A playlet Ye Knightly Confessor by Eva Ansell of the University of Kansas will follow the musical numbers.
Advertisement asserts the medicine boosts nourishment and tissue growth, claiming it strengthens weak and run-down people by providing essential food and nourishment for blood and tissue.
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