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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1906
Page
5
Ginger product promotes change of water and food, relief from fatigue, nervousness, sleeplessness, cramps, chills, and ills from weather. It claims to strengthen, with a ginger aromatics and French brandy mix sold widely for 1.00 and branded with a Waterloo wrapper. Forty years of purity and flavor praised.
Stephen Deatt once a respected lawyer and judge in St Johns Quebec is now sick and homeless in Providence. He has lived in moving wagons for years and a saloon keeper gave him a room, but his illness worsened and charity alone may not keep him alive, with a State almshouse possible soon.
A Portsmouth fire caused $12,000 damage to a wharf owned by the Boston and Maine railroad and $2,000,000 worth of shingles and lumber in Thomas Call’s yard. The lumber yard loss is $10,000 and will be total. Origin of the fire remains unknown.
Lief’s bronze ship at Back Bay Fens is severed after sculptor Anne Whitney with permission from the City Park Board removes the beak and stern. Critics lament the loss of unity and symbolism while Whitney defends the alteration as improving the monument’s balance.
The fleet of battleships under Rear Admiral Evans arrived in Rockport Harbor at 6 45 p m after a slow run from Newport R I enveloped in fog. The Maine led with Missouri Alabama Kentucky Kearsarge and Iowa in double column. Indiana trailed about half an hour due to a machinery accident.
An 11 year old girl from Leith claims she was lured to America by Elder Bachman as part of a Mormon recruitment scheme. Washington authorities say they will monitor Mormon imports to Boston and beyond. Brigham Young’s remark about 20 years to grow the church is recalled in connection with the episode.
New York August 9 Rockefeller is having a portrait painted with his wig on. Norval H. Busey is the artist and the work nears completion while Rockefeller awaits return from Ohio to complete two more sittings. The idea came after Busey painted Samuel C. T. Dodd, former general solicitor of Standard Oil.
The Bryan reception fund in New York seeks rapid gains as several hundred dollars arrive. Hotel keepers will be urged to contribute amid expected visitor influx. Col. Alexander Troup, fund treasurer, has asked evangelist John C. Collins to solicit subscriptions, aiming for about $10,000 total cost.
John Drew returns from Europe aboard the Oceanic to New York. His niece Ethel Barrymore greets him with a yearly kiss on the pier. Mrs Drew and daughter Louise accompany him as fans and crew smile at the reunion.
Apitezo is advertised as a balanced cereal aiding blood health by supplying essential nutrients in easily assimilable form. The ad says it matches beef and eggs nourishment, is easy to buy and digest, and urges a month trial with milk or cream. Available as Biscuits 15c and Grains 10c at grocers.
Peter Lerone a boy immigrant detained at the Long Wharf immigration station escaped yesterday believed to have slid down a water spout from the roof garden where he was allowed to go for a shirt. He vanished as officials searched local addresses and police and immigration officers investigated the case.
The United States Land and Development Company sold multiple Ardmore Park Forest Hills lots this week to buyers including Mary C. Davis Stella Jones Mary E Ludovic Anna G Magner Michael Doyle Madeline B Magner William J Otto Catherine Liston Donald C Mc Pherson Hugh Francis Scanlon Theresa Craft John H Morris George E Brown Anna B Berghaus William P Hobbs Louis Buitta A Robert Martin and others for prices ranging from 300 to 1700 dollars per lot with several two or three lot purchases and a corner lot of 4710 square feet.
The first bale of 1906 New York hops was harvested Sunday in Waterville by William Livermore. Massachusetts Breweries Company of Boston bought it and it is on exhibit at their offices. Officials say the bale surpasses early 1900s hops in quality.
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