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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1900
Page
3
An advertisement touts Dr Liverpool at 360 Tremont Street offering free consultation and diagnosis for chronic and obscure diseases. It claims rapid disease localization, detailed symptom mapping, and high cure counts across many conditions with medicines supplied free during treatment.
Dudley Roxbury match sets three new records with Armstrong rolling the highest single game by a Massachusetts bowler, a 288 in one frame, and Caldwell tying a pace record of 29 consecutive strikes. Commercials win two of three strings as Dudleys post a 2628 total.
The dispute over George F. Murray of Lynn being disqualified by referee John Ligan for improper language in the Snyder bout at Saco on Thanksgiving Day is debated in papers. Letters from Ligan defend the ruling while praising referee Mulligan, and other notes cover Jack Bonner stopping Jack Butler in Philadelphia, Jim Jeffries letters, and upcoming bouts including Dan Creedon versus Pat Scanlan in Memphis.
Readable text shows a fragmentary report mentioning a Hockeyland-Rooklen game at Roc with an unclear score and incomplete event details. Further readable specifics are not present in the excerpt.
Mrs. L. C. Wachsmuth of Chicago, who has defeated all local rivals and rolled a 243 in a game, issues a nationwide challenge to women bowlers. She plans a January Chicago women’s tournament alongside the men’s national event, offering valuable trophies and open to all American women bowlers.
The dispute between English High and Boston Latin is settled by informal talks and is deemed closed. English High admits error in playing the ineligible Harrison. An agreed outcome is a drafted code of arrangements for future meetings to prevent a recurrence.
Michael J. Lawler of Waterbury has been elected captain of the Holy Cross College football team. The article notes shifting coaching rumors at Penn and Yale, adds proposed cross-college eligibility rules for Western colleges, and mentions rugby teams seeking matches in Massachusetts and Chelsea players seeking opponents.
New England chess champion John F. Barry played eleven games at the B A A rooms last night and won every match in a simultaneous display. Spectators watched as experts including Dr Sumner Paine, Mr Ames, Mr Brownell, Mr Cook, Mr Penhallow, Mr Morris, Mr Barstow, Dr Galloupe and Mr Pear offered strong opposition, yet Barry answered with precise play to secure a clean sweep.
The schedule lists games from Tuesday to Saturday with matchups in Lawrence Brockton Plymouth East Weymouth Clinton Salem and Clinton. The league standings show Plymouth leading with seven wins three losses, Lawrence eight wins five losses, Pawtucket eleven losses, Salem seven wins twelve losses, and East Weymouth two wins sixteen losses.
Judge Fallon issues finding inquest into the killing of John Johnson at the House of Correction on November 15. He states officer Deane shot and killed a sick prisoner in his cell in the presence of two other officers. Deane is committed to county jail without bail pending grand jury action.
Assistant District Attorney Forbes J Hennessey acting for Colonel Gardiner sent eighty five notifications to owners of property listed as disorderly and immoral resorts. The notices offer owners a chance to rectify before legal action begins. Names include well known holders of estates across the city.
Harry Vardon, famed golfer, near deciding to reside in the United States and become a citizen. He may tour the Pacific coast this winter and meet Willie Smith and David Beil in California, before returning East for spring matches and then heading to England to settle affairs. He plans to base in Chicago but spend winters at Nehurst, North Carolina, a winter social hub.
The United States Lawn Tennis Association ranking committee released the official 1 year rankings for American players with handicaps for next year. Top classes list M D Whitman and D F Davis among others, including Larned, Wright, Collins, Ward, Ware, Hackett, Hardy, Paret, Fisher, Clothier, Stevens, Foster, Samuel Hardy, Davidson, Larned, Waldner, Alexander, Carpenter, Codman, Haughton, Keyes, Fuller, Wright, Grant, Plummer, and Avery.
Officials of the American Bicycle Company deny any plan to reorganize or reduce capital stock after a conference with President Coleman. George Pope asserts there is no truth to the report and the company’s business is satisfactory. The piece covers cycle salesmen on tour, the New York cycle show January 12–19 at Madison Square Garden, lamp business shifting to dealers in Lawrence, and social events for Dudley Marks and local racers with six day racing in view.
Dedham observed the 90th anniversary of the Society in Dedham for the Apprehension of Horse Thieves at Greenleaf building. The organization, oldest of its kind, formed to mobilize citizens to catch and bring horse thieves to justice. Officers elected: President William, Vice-president William A. Fales, secretary treasurer Stephen KR Jacobs, captain Stine Bienna, William am A. Sohn, D. Fisher and Alfred Genvia.
New York police yesterday arrested a man known as Max Pearlman Berman or Bergman in connection with the Beck robbery and a Lowell street store break in. He was photographed for the Jones gallery and later arraigned, held to await requisition papers. Aaronberg implicated him, claiming he planned the robbery and hired the thief. Police doubt the story but hold Pearlman for the grand jury on a $2000 bond. The Morse brothers store on Lowell street was robbed of about $2300 in jewels and cash, with the safe carried away.
William R. Dyer of Compton Street Boston pledges to serve workers if elected street commissioner. He critiques capitalist influence, calls for higher taxes on large taxpayers, and urges wage workers to elect class-based representatives to protect liberties amid rising plutocracy.
Dr. A Donadson Smith, Philadelphia explorer, returns home after two and a half years on a second African expedition. Accompanied by a Scottish taxidermist, he traveled 3000 miles inland from Berbera along Lake Rudolph, spending ten months in uncharted regions and meeting tribes never before seen by whites.
Among Lake Superior passengers from Liverpool are over 100 Russians Austrians and Hungarians headed to various U S locations including New York and Council Bluffs. Most are copper smiths or farmers and carry an estimated 100000 in cash silver and gold ornaments.
State Detective Hodges of Taunton and Railroad Detective Arthur Sherman of Central Falls pursue a clue in the murder of Miss May Fosberg daughter of R L Fosberg of Pittsfield. They tie a Pawtucket robbery gang named Jonathan Smith William Smith and Hackett Paterson to the wider investigation while tracking the Smith gang's August movements.
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