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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
7
The ad touts Sanford's Ginger as valuable for cramps pains colds chills indigestion bowel troubles weakness nervousness sleeplessness and travel fatigue. It claims healthful benefits and urges buyers to look for the Owl Trade Mark on authentic bottles sold by druggists and grocers everywhere.
City Solicitor Babson will file a bill in equity to compel New England Sanitary Product Company to remove its garbage plant from Cow Passage Dorchester. Equity Court reconvenes in October, delaying action. Willidgm Gooch, a principal company officer, travels to Boston amid firm resolve to fight or concede.
Fifty Horton and Hubbard trunk factory workers at 35 Myrtle Street Somerville quit in protest after a dispute involving a firm member. Exiting workers gathered outside and hurled stones and insults at firm members while an Armenian employee, deemed the innocent cause of the trouble, and a crippled boy remained inside. Police escorted the Armenian to his car after work.
Early July 4 an attempted murder of Officer Michael J. Sullivan of Station 5 was announced. Albert Johnson, a colored man, stands trial in the Superior Criminal Court with Ex-Judge Dewey defense arguing the arrest was illegal.
Charles H Sullivan of Cambridge died at his home 33 West Street Cambridge yesterday afternoon. He worked 28 years as a music plate printer for Oliver Ditson & Co and the last five years as janitor of Parker School. A Civil War veteran of the Eleventh Massachusetts volunteers and a member of Post 30 G A R, the funeral will be held Saturday afternoon.
Jerry Watson, a mayoral candidate, plans to become editor of a new weekly political paper the Democratic Independent. He will serve as editor publisher and full staff and offer free first editions to spread his views using his own funds and paper.
Thomas Allchin of Bolyston terrace Jamaica Plain was instantly killed when a ladder broke his fall while he worked on repairs at the Wyman School. He landed headfirst on the brick sidewalk twenty feet below, breaking his neck and fracturing his skull. He was one of the city's oldest school janitors and leaves a widow and three children, a daughter and two sons, with the son in Brighton Seminary and another in the millinery business on Summer street.
On the Meadow Club courts, Larned and Doherty advance to the semi finals after play was halted for the day. William A. Larned, the American champion, William J. Clothier of Philadelphia, and H. L. Doherty, the English champion, secured spots in the next round. It is expected Larned and Doherty will meet in the finals.
Secretary Root left for New York and will be absent until Saturday after a conference with Judge Henry C. Ide financial officer of the Philippine commission who is en route to Manila to discuss finances.
Work accelerates at the Charlestown navy yard as a night force joins regular crews. No cement can be used in winter, so progress aims to precede frosts. The dock will span 800 feet by 100 feet by 60 feet, with completion in about two years.
Boston & Albany officials announced plans for a railroad machine plant in Worcester within 24 hours to service all running repairs on the Boston and Albany division. Vice-President Van Etten said the plant would be smaller than Springfield but sufficient for local needs and costs. He also noted layoffs of 20 carpenters in Allston and a 60 percent cut in Springfield due to the strike.
Yesterday at 1 20 p m Mrs Bernard M Wolf entered the engine room of My Clothier s new electrical plant and opened the throttle sending a blaze of light through the store The new store opens this morning with entrance on Hanover street between Washington and Portland three doors west of the old corner entrance
Timothy W. Coakley Boston lawyer author and politician is ill at his Forest Hills home after returning from abroad on the Mayflower. He has been confined to bed since Monday with rheumatism and nurses limit visits as his condition worsens though not yet critical.
Augustus F Lash longtime Boston building wrecker died at 72 at 147 Neponset avenue. A Lincoln, Maine native, he began wrecking in 1857 and helped remove about 3000 structures including Tremont and Boylston corners Trecothick Hall and the Wendell Phillips house. His widow and three children survive.
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