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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
5
A vintage ad promotes Cascaret Insurance as a small weekly health safeguard costing 10 cents a week. It claims to prevent sickness by addressing indigestion and constipation and touts Cascarets as a non irritant digestive aid that strengthens bowel muscles.
Aug 23. An attempted robbery and assault on Ethel Perkins 13 at Fisk Avenue and Chatham Street was halted by Frank C. Cash who arrived from 258 Chatham Street. The suspect a well dressed man about 45 years old, 140 pounds, medium build, dark mustache wore a dark suit and sailor straw hat.
Filene's and Brown, Durrell & Co. meet for their second season baseball game on Saturday at the Point of Pines. Filene's won the first game 4 to 3 on a ninth inning rally. Brown, Durrell hopes to reverse the result with a nearly unchanged Filene lineup and a strengthened Brown, Durrell squad.
Arrangements are complete for the annual veteran firemen muster and field carnival of St Josephs C T A Society in Waltham on Labor Day. The event is ranked second in the veteran world with engines entered to compete for many prizes. The programme includes horse races running and trotting sanctioned events and a long list of athletic contests plus baseball and football for all ages.
Joe Walcott the colored boxer will move from Belmont street Malden to Boston. The move follows earlier controversy after he bought a Belmont street dwelling in an exclusive Malden neighborhood near Col Harry Converse and Dr Grace Jordan estates. Neighbors opposed his stay at first, but the boxer has lived quietly there.
Arrangements are being made for a public reception to Hon. William H. K. Redmond at Huntington Avenue base ball grounds on Sept 14. The day runs 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with an athletic program under the New England Amateur Athletic Association including Tom Burke in charge. A Gaelic hurling match, a football match, and a tug of war are planned along with a baseball game featuring old-time stars and a younger local club team. John Boyle O Reilly Military Club will perform in a drill exhibition and speeches by Redmond and others will cap the day.
The daily yellow fever bulletin lists today’s new cases 58 raising the total to 1556. There are 5 deaths today bringing the overall total to 219. Ten new disease centres were added today, with 312 patients under treatment and 353 centres in use overall.
United States Senator Winthrop Murray Crane and Representative George P. Lawrence escaped injury when their automobile exploded two miles from Pittsfield as they traveled to Manchester Vermont. They found William McDonald badly wounded by the roadside from a self inflicted shotgun accident and rushed him to hospital with a farm team assisting. He is reported to recover.
Medical Examiner MacDonald reported after an autopsy that Mary K. Walsh, 23, of 121 West Seventh Street South Boston died at 8% West Rutland Square in a boarding house. She and a woman named Campbell took a room last Saturday. Police seek the men involved in this criminal operation.
At a 12 hour secret session in New York, representatives from seven eighths of the Royal Arcanum membership of the United States and Canada passed resolutions demanding the supreme council rescind the May rate increases at Put-in-Bay next week. They warned of wholesale secessions and lawsuits if not reversed.
A drummer believed to be George Goodyear, a salesman for Sipe & Sipe of New York, collapsed and died suddenly last night in a Dartmouth street restaurant. Police and medical staff investigated the sudden death, with witnesses reporting a rapid collapse before aid could arrive.
Holcombe Ward of New York and Beals C. Wright of Boston defeated F B Alexander and H H Hackett of New York in straight sets 6 2 6 1 6 2 to retain the national tennis doubles title at Newport R I The day also saw the completion of the singles second round and a record 75 tennis matches over two days Wright delivered a aggressive performance with 12 shots to 9 by Ward and 29 errors to 20 by Ward the latter easing with a deliberate late game.
Cedrino the Italian driver who carried the colors in Gordon Bennett and Vanderbilt events will come to Boston for the Bay State Automobile Association Labor Day meet. He is entered for all open events and a match race is arranged between Cedrino in the Fiat and William Hilliard in the Napier.
Hugh MacLean joined the training colony at the Revere track yesterday. He will face Moran in a 25 mile match race next Saturday night with Moran training hard for the showdown. Two amateur championships also on the card for Saturday night.
The motor boat race at Marblehead originally set for Saturday is postponed to Sept 2 and will be run alongside the races scheduled for that date.
Elmina owned by F F Brewster of the New York Y C wins the Eastern Yacht Club ocean race from Marblehead to Halifax with a time of 46h 58m 18s. Hope Leslie captained by Commodore Laurence Minot finishes second in her class with 49h 51m 49s. Corona loses the lead in fog. Black Hawk slimly trails and time allowances affect prize. The Elmina sails 90 foot with a 30 man crew and veteran adviser Captain Leonard Miller aboard.
Federal officials say diamonds seized from Moritz Mordell the St Petersburg jeweller en route to Boston are valued at 25 000 dollars or more. Indiana June. Philip Kreigh known as Indiana's 700 pound man dies at home in Stilwell after months with dropsy.
Alonzo Ferris a farmer of Sound Beach Conn perished while trying to save his favorite horse as his barn and its contents burned early today neighbors reported the fire broke out shortly after midnight and the horse was feared lost in the flames authorities said Ferris died attempting to rescue the animal from the burning barn in Sound Beach Conn
Sherlock Holmes journeys with John Turner and Charles McCarthy to Ross to investigate a murder case. Lestrade of Scotland Yard and Miss Turner plead for Holmes to prove James McCarthy innocent as Holmes contemplates new evidence and a fresh approach at the Hereford Arms.
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