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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1903
Page
5
A sensational ad claims a mysterious Vital Life Fluid can cure all diseases and restore health. Dr Sargent Ferris of Cleveland promises free doses and rapid, dramatic results for ailments from kidney disease to paralysis, urging readers to write today.
Frank L. Howard of East Boston vanished last Sunday evening near 155 Everett Street as he headed from the Narrow Gauge ferry slip toward home. His wife and two children waited for supper as anxious friends and police search for the 5 foot 10 inch, 160 pound man in a blue suit and black derby.
Kansas teachers protest a rule pushed by school boards and endorsed by the State Board of Education that forbids courting during school terms. Harvey County teachers at the Normal Institute closed with a resolution decrying restrictive measures and urging vigorous rebellion to defend teachers rights to courtship.
Worcester County Democratic Club hosts Col William A. Gaston and Rep John R. Thayer at Lake Chaubunagungamaug. Thayer cites 34 incorporations in 21 days as warning of unsound firms under the new law. Gaston urges fiscal reform and tighter state economy to curb debt and taxes.
The presiding officer jokes about Thayer as a fox hunter then Thayer denies a Brockton report claiming he named three Democratic Massachusetts Governors. He cites opposition to a new corporation law and argues against watered capital, urging reform to protect the state's integrity. The event ends with a lake sail and Gaston catching an early Boston train.
About 200 delegates from Concord Manchester Lowell Lawrence and Merrimack Valley cities attended the Merrimac Valley boards of trade outing at the Pines Groveland led by President Frank H. Ruff. Secretary Moody and Charles S. Hamlin urged river channel improvements and broader boards of trade to aid regional transportation and commerce.
At the Zionist congress in Basle on a British proposal to set aside East Africa for Jewish colonization, 225 votes to 177 supported a nine member committee to travel to East Africa for an on site investigation. Russian delegates opposed the plan and left the hall in protest.
In Framingham and Lynn the tale of Gertrude Duprez now Mrs Clarence Bell unfolds as police trace her three week disappearance and a new romance. The couple from South Framingham arrived together and Mrs Bell worked as a domestic in Lynnfield street while her father seeks clarification. Mr Bell plans to bring her back to Framingham and she may return on Sunday.
In Wakefield on August 2 Drs. Johnson and Mahoney of the National Board of Animal Industry inspected George R. Tyzzer’s Wiley street farm where hoof and mouth disease was found. They burned hay grain and stable contents and will whitewash the building. Tyzzer cannot explain how the disease spread. no other local cases have appeared.
A mail order pitch asserts deadly symptoms such as hacking coughs bronchitis and sore throat signal consumption. Dr Derk P Yonkerman offers a free trial package by mail to recipients who send name and address to Kalamazoo Michigan. The ad claims instant relief and superiority over other medicines and climates.
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