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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
2
Sanford's Ginger is advertised as a remedy for colds, chills, grip, fevers, indigestion, loss of appetite, and travel fatigue. It is described as healthful, valuable for many everyday ills, and guaranteed pure with the OWL trade mark noted for authenticity.
Testimony recounts improper dances in chapel during doctors visits, uncovered corpses at the morgue, and poor food and clothing at the island institution. Major Murray describes supervisor Hartwell's acquiescence, staff mismanagement, and neglect amid a lengthy impeaching inquiry led by Mrs. Lincoln and Chaim Bresnahan.
Mrs. Sarah J. Shannon a 40 year old woman displayed a memory sharpness and knowledge of several languages while a drunkenness arrest occurred near Dover and Washington streets. She aided a Russian detainee by interpreting and later recalled a felonious assault case involving Sergeant Manning from years past. She resisted arrest and then accompanied Manning to a cell. She claimed residence in Concord and previously in Lowell.
Delegates debated substitutes for carriers, urging one substitute per three carriers and examinations. A pay raise for rural carriers was favored, while Sunday delivery kept its status quo. A telegram from Postmaster General Payne offered cordial greetings to the convention.
Commissioner Hary S S Russell cites the good of the department for a major captain shift set to take effect at 7 tomorrow night. Ritchie moves from Engine 8 on Salem Street to Engine 44 the fireboat. Sparks leaves the fireboat for Engine 21 on Columbia Road. Lally transfers from 21 to Engine 8 in the North End. Murphy of Engine 34 Brighton swaps with Flanagan of Engine 3 on Bristol Street.
Jacob Hertz Sirk, 82, longtime Jewish community figure and humorist, died Tuesday afternoon at his daughter’s home in 82 North Russell Street. He leaves sons Charles Sirk and Israel Sirk, prominent in real estate and building. Funeral at Wall Street Synagogue with Rabbi Margolies eulogizing, interment Beth Jacob Cemetery, Woburn.
Salem Steed fired three times at Richmond V. Latham at 157 Western Avenue Brighton over jealousy about his wife. All shots missed. Steed, a coal heaver, was arrested soon after after fleeing toward 7 Smith Street.
At 10 o clock Saturday morning the Boston and Albany division machinists will strike if the railroad refuses a nine hour day with a 12 12 per cent raise per hour. Blacksmiths and boilermakers join in, uniting 400 machinists across Springfield Alliston and Rensselaer with unions urging action after unresolved wage and hour grievances.
Thomas Quinn James P Dobbs James O Connor and James Keefe formed a rules committee for Boston Plasterers Union. union will not parade Labor Day. 421 members. 12 applicants 10 transfers. William F McCarthy elected business agent. Metal workers unions to form district council Friday at Wells Memorial Hall. Frank Murray named delegate to Typographical Union convention in Washington.
Editorial by Miss Alice Spencer Geddes argues that women’s shift from home to factory work spurred a newer, active womanhood. She cites 30 000 graduates 40 000 undergraduates and rising female influence in education religion and reform, urging unity with nature and social progress.
A brief but powerful storm hit St. Louis on Aug. 5 at the World’s Fair grounds. One man was killed, another fatally hurt, seven seriously injured, and property damage reached about $10,000 as winds toppled structures in the heat of a 94 degree day.
An ad emphasizes multiple waste elimination routes the bowels kidneys bladder skin and lungs use to keep the system clear. Iron Ox Tablets are said to restore natural digestion without harsh purgatives and build up bodily functions slowly without creating a habit. Fifty tablets cost 25 cents from The Iron Ox Remedy Co Detroit.
Senator W. T. A. Fitzgerald accuses Dr. Pierce and police of dropping long time residents from precinct registers in Dorchester Ward 2. He presents a list of 14 names with addresses and years in home, arguing broader bias in in town wards and promising fuller reports from all wards. He calls the police blundering an outrage and vows to show Boston readers the careless results.
Chairman Emmons said the police listing of polls at headquarters reached 21 on Aug 8 and 37 on Aug 4. The listing covered two wards with four names from Wards 9 and 18, the largest for a single day. He noted the gap between police lists and official voting lists, citing 182,000 names on police lists versus 95,000 on the current year’s voting list and a 90,000-name potential pool for registration.
A large crowd attended the funeral of John Keliher at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross after his death in Hull last Monday. Relatives, business leaders, politicians, and common citizens gathered for the high mass of requiem and later followed the cortege to Calvary Cemetery.
In Highland Hall Roxbury a farewell reception honored Isaac Harris president of the executive council of Zionists of Greater Boston and first elected Zionist delegate to the Basle Congress. Speakers included ex-Representative Samuel H Borofsky Alderman Edward J Bromberg and Elisha Greenwood.
Judge Sheldon in the Superior Court division reduced the attachment on Boston Tunnel Construction Company from 25000 to 15000 in a suit by Thomas Marcella over injuries said to have occurred June 19 during work in the East Boston tunnel. Claims included possible hearing loss amid caisson disease allegations.
Mrs Frances M Hill of Reedsdale Street Allston Massachusetts recounts her family's battle with consumption and her daughter's long symptoms. After seeking treatment at 361 Boylston Street Boston the child was cured after two months and is now strong and healthy.
Professor S P Langley arrives in Boston and denies a dispatched story that he faces eviction from Clappawarmsis Island Virginia controlled by the Mt. Vernon Docking Club. Truxton Beale, club charter member and island part owner, allegedly protested the airship project’s presence and its machinists.
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