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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1906
Page
2
Revere Beach attracts more than 150000 visitors as trains and trolleys run at capacity. Park crowds, bathhouse lines, and a record 8377 bathers mark a scorching day. Paragon the lion cub fights heat with ice cream as turnout tops 83000 at Paragon Park.
Aug 19 report notes scarce ice cream at Paragon Park in Nantasket causing queues and complaints as visitors sought treat shortages amid hot weather and limited supply lines.
Aug 19 Nantasket sees heavy crowds as residents flock to Paragon Park Centre Hill Surfside and White Head. About 30 000 gather at Nantasket Point while Wade's Hotel harbor fills with yachts. Columbia Yacht Club holds its annual Point run and hosts dinner. Host Irwin feeds 1200 including South Boston Yacht Club members amid island camps and political talks.
Midshipman Kingiro Matsukata of Tokyo died at the Naval Academy Hospital Annapolis after a two week illness from typhoid fever with peritonitis. An operation was attempted by Professor James C. Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore at 2 o'clock this morning in a bid to save his life.
A long promotional piece extols Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and All Healing Salve for cleansing the blood and treating ailments from sores to digestive disorders. It also praises Favorite Prescription with unicorn root and golden seal, quotes medical authorities, and invites readers to request a pamphlet for details.
Harvard great and Wisconsin candidate Henry F. Cochems uses his famed energy and discipline from football and athletics to campaign for Congress in Wisconsin. He touts a strong political and social network, recalling a 100 yard dash win at a Welsh picnic and a 16 pound shot put success as proof of his appeal. Everett F. Lake also aims for state office in Connecticut, running for Lieutenant Governor while pursuing Governor in 1908.
Director Thomas Martin of the closed First National Bank of Chelsea insists the bank is solvent and that depositors will recover all funds. He cites forced deed transfers by Hinckley to protect depositors and says the bank’s equity in Hinckley’s real estate will cover losses. Hinckley’s condition lingered as doctors warned death could come weeks away. Other directors avoided discussion, while Holman reaffirmed solvency and full repayment.
A fast Pennsylvania Railroad freight struck a slowly moving work train at Long Hollow near Johnstown Pennsylvania during a blinding rainstorm. Seven work crew members died and seven were seriously injured, with three believed to die. The freight engineer was fatally injured after leaping from his cab. fireman survived.
A day of search trails the Brookline Parkway woods for the elusive wild man terrorizing residents. Police and citizens’ squads, plus hounds, failed to find him as hundreds from nearby towns joined the hunt. Authorities warn capture may come in days or he may starve.
Two employees argued over etiquette blocking Washington street near Madison place. On an East Boston ferry car an elevated guard refused to give up a rear seat, delaying about 800 passengers in 15 cars for 20 minutes until the burly motorman intervened and the guard left.
Despatch from McCormack says white citizens moved Jack Samuels after he assaulted a negro girl to Greenwood. There the Abbeville county sheriff met him and jailed him for safe-keeping to avert a lynching threatened by the Negro population.
Providence reports mill agents estimate a 10 percent shortage of experienced help due to weather and summer conditions. Robert Knight of B B & R Knight, which runs 15 mills in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, says heat and humidity hinder workers. He expects arrivals to resume as temperatures cool. Colonels Goddard of Lonsdale Company echoes the assessment.
Minneapolis hosted the 4th annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment where about fifty thousand veterans gathered. Many non marching veterans watched from the line showing aging and fatigue. New Jersey donated a silk United States flag to aid California Nevada amid the San Francisco earthquake relief efforts.
R E Wishart of Ocala Florida was killed in San Antonio Paco county by Burton who believed Wishart to be Nichols. Wishart had accompanied his two daughters to Nichols dental office when Burton fired a shotgun blast into his body pleading Nichols had ruined his wife. Wishart had moved from Lumberton North Carolina eight years ago and owned property on Florida's west coast.
The passage argues that meat lacks starch, potatoes lack meat, eggs lack carbohydrates, and fruits lack essential nutrients, suggesting a balanced diet is necessary rather than reliance on any one food.
An advertisement touts Apitero cereal as rich in vegetable iron and a Nature tonic for blood, with Apitezo biscuits sold at 15 cents and Apitezo Gierna at 10 cents. It promotes thirty days of use and claims easy digestion and broad availability from grocers.
In a pointed missive Thomas W. Lawson attacks Henry M. Whitney alleging bribery and corruption in Massachusetts politics. He urges Governor Guild to withdraw if Whitney secures the nomination and accuses Whitney of collusion with Standard Oil interests and powerful financiers Rogers and Rockefeller. He details a historic fraud involving the New England Gas and Coke Co. and warns of intensified public campaigning.
Deaths and funeral details for Cox Hayes King Mallard McGourty Roach Souden and Tower listed with birth ages addresses and service times in Charlestown East Boston Brighton Jamaica Plain Roxbury and Quincy with relatives invited to attend and funeral massdates Aug 18 to Aug 21 noted.
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