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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1902
Page
2
Urgent notice promotes free one month treatment and X ray examinations by Osmo-Chemic Physicians. Crowds flocked nationwide with testimonials from Edward Blake and William Lynch praising recovery and lasting relief after the physicians identified causes of maladies. Offer ends August 15 with no extension.
Edward Blake of Everett Massachusetts says his right arm was broken seven years ago and he could not raise it or place his hand in his pocket. After failed treatments and hospitals he sought Osmo Chemic care and, following examination with an X ray, doctors diagnosed ankylosis and claimed success beyond prior cures.
At 6 pm the Gloucester Fish Skinners and Cutters Union began a city wide strike of 800 workers, with 500 Fishermen and all city teamsters backing. Dealers refused union demands, some arranging to ship fish to Portland or Boston. the fight centers on union recognition and wage increases. A mass meeting is planned for tomorrow morning. Potentially profound upheaval looms in Gloucester’s salt and fresh fish trade.
A local notice extols Doctor Plunkett publishing names and addresses of proven cures from the community. It urges inspection of residents who suffered long and are now sound, asserting merit and conscientious work behind the record.
A Boston man William A. Lynch of 16 Milton St South Boston recounts eight years of general debility and failed treatments by multiple specialists before finding relief, suggesting strong faith in a remedy advertised to restore health.
Boston strikers from the Fish Handlers and Cutters Union meet after wholesale firms reject union terms. A committee will confer with firm representatives before Tuesday on a proposed schedule of 13 dollars weekly and 54 hours for time men, with piecework, replacing current 60 hour weeks at about 10 dollars. If no concession is reached, a walkout is expected Wednesday.
Groans from a Jamaica Plain shanty drew Officer Richardson to Daniel Toohey of 34 Adams Street Roxbury who lay with a broken leg after a sand cave in at a nearby sand pit. Three boys rescued him and dragged him to safety.
An unidentified man about 45 years old and 150 pounds died yesterday evening at Relief Hospital after being brought from Station 1. He stood 6 feet 10 inches, had gray eyes and brown hair with a gray mustache, and wore a black and white checked suit with dark striped trousers, a blue outing shirt, black derby, and black lace shoes. Police seek his identity.
Ralph Samuel a 17 year old Everett resident and son of B A Samuel of 103 Cleveland Avenue drowned in the Malden River behind the U S Steel plant in West Everett. Accompanied by Fred Carlisle and Fred Colby he swam near the wharf before diving and disappearing. Police recovered his body around 10 PM after friends failed to locate him.
A French laborer about 30 years old and 160 pounds drowned in a North Cambridge clay pit yesterday afternoon after entering the water at 5:30. Several boys saw his disappearance and police recovered the body, with clothing described as a light negligee shirt, check underclothes, diagonal coat and vest, corduroy pants, black derby, and tape belt.
Mrs. H N Allen of Somerville Massachusetts reports cough and left side pain leading her to seek Osmo-Chemic physicians. She says X-ray diagnosed laryngitis and renal calculi and credits their treatment with rapid recovery.
Persons living far away are asked to write detailing symptoms of their case. Osmo-Chemic physicians will review submissions and provide advice free of charge as literature for distant patients.
The Osmo-Chemic System of Medicine lists J. J. Plunkett M D and J P Naughton M D as consulting physicians with permanent offices in the Colonial Building Boston Massachusetts. Office hours are 9 a m to 12 m 2 to 4 p m and 7 to 8 p m daily with Sunday closed.
A broad reorganization moves Patrolman Henry Pierce and other officers among divisions and stations as part of a sweeping shift in the police department. Goode joins headquarters while many patrolmen transfer across divisions 1 through 19 and into the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
Twelve hundred state troops are encamped above Shenandoah while rioting subsides. Miners union officials urge Governor Stone to withdraw soldiers, citing alleged exaggeration of the trouble and demanding an official inquiry. One riot victim, Joseph Beddall, dies. sheriff and district attorney press arrests for the night’s violence.
Bartholomew Haggerty alerted the blaze at 11 40 p m in a rear one story fish curing shed at 868 Maverick Street. Engine 40's foreman escaped as roof supports failed and the shed collapsed but all firefighters reached safety as a second alarm brought more apparatus.
Police commissioners report Granville B. Stone a Morton Street sergeant is missing and presumed eloped. His wife Mrs Stone and a brunette housekeeper also vanished raising neighborhood concerns as investigators seek clues to the sergeant whereabouts at Station H.
Massachusetts Old Guard members gathered at the Point Shirley Club in Winthrop yesterday. About 80 gentlemen attended and 31 new members were admitted. Special guests included Surgeon General Robert A. Blood and Lieutenant-Commandant Robert B. Edes.
Clifford Brooks of Roxbury established a new 36 hole public links record at Franklin Park yesterday by shooting 169. He finished the last round within two strokes of the nine hole record, with a sequence of scores indicating strong play across the course sections.
A Boston firm reveals a $200000 embezzlement involving VanDerlip of the Emerson estate. He admitted dissipating funds and misreporting accounts. Authorities, led by Lowell and Sohier, prepare to pursue legal action as his 10 day grace expired.
Willard C. VanDerlip was approached by a Post reporter at Berwick park around 9 p.m. as he walked home with his wife and a young man. The reporter asked to discuss a matter about the $200,000.
Beverly correspondent reports William D. Sohier nephew of the late Judge Lowell will apply in Municipal Court Boston for a warrant against Willard D. VanDerlip on embezzlement charges. VanDerlip, 16 years trustee of the George B. Emerson estate, admits bond shortages and theft of bonds valued at $5000. He says $40,000 misused and destroyed check books, with proceeds partly used for Fullerton estate shortages and personal use. He may surrender a Cottage City hotel interest.
Dr. Starbuck tells a Post reporter at the dental office on Hanover street that he knows nothing of George B. Emerson or the Emerson estate until conversations with James A. and John Lowell. He declines to comment on forged allegations and asserts no statements without Lowell brothers' prior disclosure.
John Lyons of Beach Street states he did not sign the trustee bond related to the VanDerlip estate and that Willard C. VanDerlip confessed forging his name about 16 years ago. Lyons notes the Lowell estate is about 150000, and hopes no prosecution occurs unless necessary to protect himself.
Margaret Scanlan beloved wife of James Scanlan died at Roxbury July 31 Funeral services held at St Francis de Sales Roxbury at 9 o'clock Saturday August 2 Kindly omit flowers.
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