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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1904
Page
4
A Buffalo physician extols Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as safe charcoal remedies for gas in the stomach and bowels improving complexion breath and purifying the mouth throat and blood. The lozenges cost twenty five cents a box and are praised for daily use and perceived health benefits.
Delegates from Boston to the New England Conference of Bakers Unions met in Lowell Friday and Saturday. They endorsed a 25 cent per member assessment for Fall River textile strikers, totaling 75 dollars. Union leaders from several locals spoke on labor issues including pattern makers and electrical workers. Jacob Goldstein of the Hebrew Bakers Union addressed the meeting.
Somerville police seek a roughy dressed attacker who accosted Miss Gertrude Gallagher on Prospect street about 11 30 at night brandishing a knife and threatening to cut her head off if she screamed a police description is on file and an arrest is expected soon
The Scots Charitable Society observed its 247th anniversary at Young's Hotel with a banquet and speeches. President Duncan D. Russell presided as speakers including Hon. John D. Long, Captain William Wyndham, Gov. John L. Bates, Rev. Andrew Gillies, and Prof. F. C. De Lumichrast. performances featured Miss Adah Campbell, John Daniels, and Henry J. Clark reciting Burns.
Statements from Newton and Chadwick case claim a $500,000 note tied to Mrs Chadwick bears Andrew Carnegie's signature. Lawyers in New York and Boston indicate they saw or do not dispute the Carnegie signature, with mentions of bank officers Beckwith and Spear.
Andrew Carnegie through his secretary says the $500,000 note report is absurd and that he knows nothing of Mrs Chadwick or the affair. He emphasizes there is nothing for him to say and that he learned of the matter only from newspapers.
Oberlin Ohio residents fear effects of the Citizens National Bank failure as details emerge about Mrs Chadwick securing loans through overdue payments and possible schemes to raise funds. Bank officials caution the Chadwick affair could shake the money market.
A lamp explosion caused a fire at Forest E. McFarland’s store at 119 Harvard Street Cambridge resulting in about 500 dollars in damage around 6 o clock last night.
The Franklin Square House young residents under superintendent Mrs. Alice Gray Teele opened a fair to help repay the house debt. Evening entertainments led by Miss Ida Shepard and others include readings music tableaux sword drill and a fortune teller. Personnel duties span many committees with notable donors including Roosevelt Eliot Hale and Booker T. Washington among others and publishers donating Roycroft books and Webster's dictionaries.
A Pleasant street pawnbroker sale of postage stamps led to the arrest of James F. Blake alias Edward Co Sprague and William Gordon alias Paul Richter. Police link them to six or more post office burglaries in southeastern Massachusetts. They pleaded not guilty at arraignment before United States Commissioner Fiske and are held on $2000 bonds for a December 7 hearing.
In Boston the steamfitters’ 12th week of strike ends with unanimous vote to continue the action through winter. Twelve firms have signed, and at least one large shop is expected to sign this week, strengthening the labor stand for higher wages.
Thomas H. Dalton clerk of the East Boston District Court and Grace E. Roberts daughter of Mr and Mrs George Roberts were married last night at the groom's sister Mrs Alvan Ham 112 Marion Street East Boston Rev L B Bates officiated Best man was James Maguire and maid of honor was Elinor I Roberts sister of the bride
H Heustis Newton Republican and George M Nash Democrat compete for Everett mayor. Newton has six legislative years and two speaker nomination bids plus two years as city solicitor. Nash, a lifelong Democrat, urged municipal nominations, helped Mayor Boynton accept a party ticket, and served ten years as Parlin Public Library trustee. He is a business and social figure and former Glendon Club president.
Free test treatment prepared for anyone giving a short description of the case and sending the names of two other asthmatic sufferers. Ask for booklet of experiences of those cured. Frank Whetsel, M. D., Dept. B. American Express Bidg., Chicago.
A donation party at the Dorothea Dix House in Dorchester from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. supports the Children's Dramatic Club. Miss Doris Bramson, club president, organized a unique program to raise funds for winter needs. Mrs. Harry B. Glover, association treasurer, will handle all money contributions as the Dorothea Dix Association prepares to incorporate on December 7 with a reorganized board.
General Edgar R. Champlin, head of the Non-Partisan Municipal Party, rebukes ex-Mayor McNamee for alleging bribe offers to Cambridge City Council members over the Coolidge estate. He says such charges are false and invites McNamee to present evidence to the district attorney, promising to pursue prosecution.
A banquet at the United States Hotel last evening honored John O Callaghan national secretary of the United Irish League for his services to the Irish cause. Dr. T J Dillon served as toastmaster as a host of league representatives from Greater Boston attended the event and heard speeches praising his work and his return to the United States.
James A. Monkley of South Boston, late druggist and state organizer for the Improved Order of Heptasophs, is heir to a $3,000,000 fortune from his uncle James A. Wescott of California. Wescott, a San Francisco transportation businessman, left a sizable estate to several nieces and nephews. Monkley is employed at Klein & Co. druggists at Tremont and Boylston streets and expects details before commenting.
A committee from metal polishers buffs platers and brass workers unions with several Aldermen will meet Mayor Collins next week. They seek city department brass and metal work contracted only from union shops, alleging fire and water department purchases largely go to nonunion firms.
Henry Sterling of Boston Typographical Union 13 disputed Parryism claims that unions suffer. He noted a 210 000 net gain in national union membership for the year despite strikes and member losses. Parry asserted progress by open shops replacing closed shops amid employer efforts.
The text warns that heart affections worsen without removing the cause and stresses the heart cannot rest like other organs. It urges stopping progression at the first sign of trouble and implies a remedy, though the specific cure is cut off in the fragment.
Rev W A Robins of Port Elgin Ont credits Dr Miles Heart Cure and Nervine with reversing two months of serious heart trouble. He states the first bottle helps, and if not, the druggist returns the money.
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