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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1899
Page
5
The advertisement warns against counterfeit infant remedies and endorses a trusted product used for over 300 years. It claims safety, non narcotic ingredients, and benefits for teething feverishness constipation and digestion, touting it as a reliable mother’s friend for children.
A Newton youth Cadet Leonard Hugh Campbell drowned while on a liberty party aboard the Enterprise near Boston. The North Arctic Squadron placed colors at half mast and his body was brought ashore for burial arrangements as officials reviewed the incident.
The Catholic church observed St. Ignatius Day with annual Jesuit changes. Rev. Thomas I. Gasson becomes ethics professor at Boston College. Rev. John Colgan succeeds in the senior class professorship. Rev. John Quirke and Rev. George Keelan take new roles. Several Jesuit priests move to other colleges including St. Joseph's Jersey City and Philadelphia. Fordham and Loyola College also gain assigned faculty.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of York ruled that incense and processional items are not required or prohibited by Church law. They urged clergy to discontinue such adjuncts in services to keep church peace, though they noted incense may be used for sweetening or ceremonial purposes.
A. B. Turner, banker of Boston, was elected president of the Winchester Avenue Railroad Company at New Haven. Sidney Harwood A. R. Mitchell and E. B. Floyd, all of Boston, were named directors. The move shifts power to Boston owners and removes local control.
Report from Pekin says a three week old plot to blow up an imperial palace occupied by the Empress Dowager was uncovered. A mine with a fuse was found in the cellar and ten men were arre sted and handed to the board of punishment for trial.
Five conductors at the Newport & Fall River Railway carhouse in Portsmouth were bound by four robbers with revolvers after midnight. About $600 stolen, telephones cut, a safe drilled, and the gang fled as volunteers and police joined a manhunt. Conductor Sullivan remained bound but unharmed.
George W. Lederer and Boston financiers seek to remodel the Columbia Theatre into a music hall near South Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester with proposed train stations from the New York New Haven Hartford and Boston Elevated railroads. A 30 000 signature petition supports a station at Shawmut Avenue and Castle Street. Liquor access is described as limited to rear buffet areas.
A burglar states if the safe cannot be accessed they will repair it and leave. The quoted segment appears in a fragmentary transcript with unclear provenance and context.
A July 31 despatch reports that Khan and three Afghan officers were publicly executed in Kabul by order of the government for embezzling funds meant for soldiers. The executions provoked tremendous excitement among onlookers and officials alike.
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