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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
3
The message advises contentment and happiness regardless of temperature readings, urging readers to value inner peace over material costs. It presents a practical mindset shift, prompting personal fulfillment through attitude rather than external conditions.
Possessors of these Voice Cameras can enjoy reproductions of classical music and voices of great opera singers, offering pleasures beyond weather and business worries. The message touts the marvel of the re production and the enjoyment available to owners.
A labor voices clash over the Franklin Fund contract awarded to Woodbury & Leighton, with former mayor Nathan Matthews noting it hinges on a contract and that Foster, though ill, remains a central figure. Doctors describe Foster's nervous condition, knee injury, and slow recovery while Henry Abrahams lauds his labor courage and leadership. A $5000 union fund grows, with the Central Labor Union contributing $50 as supporters rally to Foster’s cause.
Ipswich ex-Senator Schofield told a Post reporter he has not declared candidacy for Lieutenant Governor on the Whitney ticket. He said a decision will come in time, prefers party nomination but none yet, and defended mergers under state control, noting Boston streetcar consolidation and past legislature minority reports.
The Central Labor Union votes to urge Frank K. Foster to resign from the Franklin fund board due to serious illness at his Dorchester home. A union committee will likely visit him Friday to deliver the message, with secretary Henry Abrahams expressing cautious optimism he will resign promptly.
City departments have drawn deeply on their appropriations with the street department leading. Of 961,195 allocated, 607,792 has been spent including August drafts, leaving 358,402 for five months. Public grounds shows 66,470 left of 175,000, public buildings 94,498 left of 250,000, ferry 151,286 spent with August draft, leaving 98,763 for five months.
Entries for the American Power Boat Association Gold Challenge Cup races are closed in Ogdensburg New York. The event runs on Chippewa Bay Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday. Thousand Islands Yacht Club selects Simplex X1 owned by Commodore Bourne of New York as challenger. Chippewa Yacht Club names Chip IL owned by Jonathan Wainwright of Ogdensburg as defender.
C K Shue, proprietor of the Washington Chinese American case, envisions a Newport baseball team of former pigtail wearers now embracing the American game. He returns from China with a popular Empress menu, notes long lasting Chinatown feuds, and cites intense inter-society jealousy among rival families amid local social intrigue.
The Appendixine Co of New York markets Appendixine with testimonials from Dr William Proteman praising its therapeutic value for appendicitis gall stones and constipation. The letter notes 35 years of use by leading physicians and offers bottles at $1 each with free booklets by mail from 340 W 70th St New York.
A Boston newspaper paid notice claimed Miss Mary B Coffin, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles P Coffin of Ivystreet Brookline, was engaged to Edward Brusch a New York broker. Coffin rejects the match and says Brusch is a myth amid questions of the notice origin and identity of Brusch.
In front of City Hall over 100 spectators watched as two cats named Fitzgerald and Berwin battled near Josiah Quincy and Ben Franklin landmarks. The fight ended when a poodle intervened, bets were off, and the two cats cooled off on a tombstone at King's Chapel Burying Ground.
Freeman Funk and Wilcox of Boston won a $60,000 contract for the Brookline village fire-engine house. The Brookline Board of Selectmen accepted their competitive plans. George Funk, 25, a Technology graduate, is the firm’s member. H. B. Freeman is senior partner. Mr. Wilcox, junior member, is a Newton resident and Funk’s Technology classmate.
Mrs. Frederick R. A. Knowles, wife of the secretary of the New York National League baseball club, died today in Orange, New Jersey after a long illness.
The Garri sons defeated the Massachusetts squad by 19 runs in Halifax Nova Scotia. Massachusetts batted first for 165 total with Murray 55 Page 27 and Thorp 28 contributing notable scores.
Druggists refund money if Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil fails. Aimed at chronic catarrh relief with a household remedy priced at 25 cents.
At Saratoga, Aug 5, a fair crowd saw Tom Dolan win in the fifth race while McCarter and Running Water, racing for Newcastle stable, finished first and second in the $10,000 Saratoga handicap. Other winners included Tom McGrath, Fair Play, Tom Dolan, and Aimee in the earlier and later races.
The Bartlett campaign intensifies as he vows to wage a personal stump fight against Whitney. Bartlett’s backers include longtime political veterans and leaders from Holyoke to North Adams, with Feeney and many others prepared to push the Bartlett line. County and city figures jockey over alliances as Ward 17 and Ward 8 tensions surface amid shifting mayoral loyalties.
Herbert Nickerson eight years old fell twenty five feet from a rear fire escape at his father's Cambridge street store. He struck a shed then the ground, bruising his face and body but avoiding broken bones. He was treated at Cambridge Relief Hospital and sent home. A two and a half year old boy from 1019 Cambridge street died hours later from a fractured skull after a fall from a window.
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