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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1897
Page
8
East Boston Post Doctors cared for a motherless baby by a sister while Charley Ganzel's Children Aid aided others. An East Cambridge boy with cholera infantum died. earlier diagnosis might have saved him. Thirty eight patients were added to the list yesterday.
The Post reports a rising Sick Baby Fund aided by community donations to provide a free Doctors' Corps for ill children. Doctors and nurses expanded to 38 new patients across South Boston East Boston and East Cambridge with 221 calls, funding prescriptions milk and care. A moving story from East Boston shows a young sister caring for a sick child while seeking aid.
New York August 10 1900 story of a strange transaction where Hannah Robinson sued for divorce after selling her husband John to widow Jennie Grey for 25. The women arranged the sale with Notary Samuel Niner but Robinson later sought the husband back as Grey refused to surrender him. The couple fled to New Berney before service of summons.
A doctor who spent a day in East Cambridge observed a family scene where the husband of a six child household sulked in a corner while the doctor was in the dwelling. The report notes a contrast to a prior scene and mentions North Cambridge.
In a poor East Cambridge district a five year old boy lies dying from cholera infantum as parents quarrel over a five cent bribe for aid. The mother pleads for medical help while the father, drunk, delays, and the doctor laments the unlikely chance of saving the child.
W L Gray tailor at 1900A Washington Street Roxbury was robbed by three thieves who took about $50 in bills. Two men entered the shop to view suitings while a third worked in the back. Gray chased the robber who grabbed the money but the thief produced a revolver and escaped. two accomplices fled with the others.
The High Court of Justice divorce division grants Countess Cowley an absolute divorce from Earl Cowley. Alimony of 2000 pounds yearly for life and 650 dollars annually for their son Viscount Dangan, born 1890, are provided. The case recalls the earl’s lineage from the first Lord Cowley and ties to the Wellington era.
New York on August 10 Gladys La Rue a waif with aristocratic handwriting discovers her true name. At 18 she hoped for a romantic end singing of dying and planning suicide by gas after two loves disappointed. She cried for help as the window was raised but survived.
A decision was issued today involving Countess Cowley and the heir to an earldom. The case centers on a question of succession from a baron in 1828 to a son who became the second holder of the title and later a successful ambassador to Paris.
The steamship Peru arrived from Yokohama with Japanese advices stating Japan will issue a gold currency from Oct 1 and will exchange Bank of Japan notes for gold. Japanese papers also favor arbitration for the Hawaiian issue.
A gas filled apartment revealed Miss La Rue dead in a white night dress with blue ribbons, her Bible on her heart as onlookers note she was a prisoner at Yorkville Police Court and lived through an attempted rescue. The scene is described as pale and beautiful, with air rushing in to save.
A Brooklyn girl, Sadie Shaughnessy, 17, reports a man with a waxed mustache insulted her near Fulton Street confectionery. Her brother William, six feet four, and friend Richard Hanover confronted the assailant and administered punishment for the insult.
In a tense street scuffle near William and John Shaughnessy’s home, a masked attacker slashed Shaughnessy and cut Hanover before being overpowered by the brothers. Police officer Patrick Dunn intervened as the assailant was subdued.
Fred A. Smith is jailed awaiting requisition papers for transfer to Brooklyn on a bigamy charge. A former Citi zens' Gas employee, he and his wife shared a garage at 22 Elton Street and planned to move to a larger Hendr Street residence by July 31, with move day approaching.
A garbled 19th century style notice describes supposed remedies for illness and power restoration. It mentions fumip baths and blood purity as key to magnetic power, with unclear references to annexes and sanitar terms. The text resembles a stray advertisement or medical oddity from a defaced page.
Mrs. Smith discovers her husband staged a furniture move to a different house. He later marries Laura A. Fair in Jer sey City, with a mock wedding on a trolley ride aided by Justice McAleer. The ceremony is ruled a valid marriage by Judge Paxton.
Justice Thomas E. McAleer of Hoboken solemnized a wedding in a moving trolley car at 2 am on Sunday. The couple, described as joyous, reportedly included a bridegroom and bride who were residents of Hoboken and New York, with local witnesses present.
Judge Lathrop of the Supreme Court to decide if Joseph B Johnson of Malden is unlawfully restrained. Alderman Dean sought a writ of habeas corpus to compel Marcellus Hutchinson to produce Johnson in court at the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates et Formebero. The writ directs Hutchinson to bring Johnson before the court next Tuesday. The Adirondacks are oddly accessible this year with Fitchburg Railroad offering drawing room car service to our yards.
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