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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1905
Page
9
An Illinois elevated road official says the system continues hiring for car service and aims to place at least 50 new workers within a week. Superintendent Karl S. Barnes defends the high merit standards, detailing age, sight, height, physical fitness, and honesty as requirements.
The Henry Siegel Co store on Washington Street unfurls a grand holiday display with a Santa Claus house, live ponies, a Punch and Judy show, and vast toy pavilions. Shoppers are invited to explore on multiple floors with escalators, while clerks increase staffing and generous employee dividends boost buying spirits.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets in a Vest Pocket box as a portable health aid. It claims the six candy tablets act like gentle exercise for the bowels and liver, avoid purging, and reduce future dependence on laxatives. The copy urges authenticity and warns against bulk sales.
Advertisement announces a French designed hard-enameled gold plated bonbon box offered for ten cents in stamps as a sign of good faith. It invites readers to send payment and mentions Cascarets included with the trinket, directing inquiries to Sterling Remedy Company in Chicago or New York.
Labor leaders report on organizing efforts by the Sheet Metal Workers in Boston and New England. P J Downey discusses wage aims, with Boston wages cited and a plan to raise pay toward regional levels. Multiple unions endorse labor candidates for city offices and report lodge installations and meetings.
A six story wooden structure at 23 Conant Street Roxbury owned by Cc H Gilligan and occupied by several families caught fire shortly after nine. Logan & Company grocers on the first floor burned upward while the Montclairs Club members rescued five children. Patrick Halligan rushed from his home and was run over by Imagine 13, suffering a knee contusion. Estimated loss stands at $3000.
In East Persia on December 7 Lieutenant General Sakharoff, former minister of war, was assassinated as the government had sent him to Sara to quell agrarian riots.
John Dillon presided over Jefferson Hall gathering with over 200 delegates from divisions and military captains. A gunny AOH parade is set for March 17. The body approved forming a Roxbury division and named a committee to organize the event.
The 17th annual concert and ball of Division 10 A. O. H. took place in Granite Hall Chelsea last night. The grand march was led by Dennis F. Connolly and Nora Donovan, John J. Riley and Mary O'Sullivan, Dennis Keohane and Nora Murphy, followed by 75 couples.
The daily giving of Double Legal Stamps every morning until noon at Wolf's My Clothier corner Hanover and Portland streets has produced a gratifying rise in morning business.
Pauline Markham, famed stage beauty once hailed as England’s velvet voiced Venus, is dying at her home in New York. The 19th century actress rose to fame with Lydia Thompson’s British Blondes after arriving in 1869, performing at Daly's Theatre and alongside stars like Henry Irving.
A citizens rally will be held this evening in Union Hall Somerville. Speakers include Abraham A. Elston candidate for Mayor Senator William Taylor of Boston James H. Vahey of Watertown James W. Kenney Representative elect John Diggins and Dr Michael W Dr Charles E Mongan will preside.
The Boston Post lists donations for Widow Petersen led by William E. Muir. Contributors include William E. Muir G. Muir J. B. Christie George P. Bullard George Duggard Arthur McIntosh F. C. Nichols C. M. Munro R. Gibson F. M. Elkins Robert Gallagher W. W. Johnston Whit ney J. H. Townsend D. F. Donovan and W. Hearn with various amounts totaling a sum not fully shown.
Peter Lavoid, a 2 middle aged man of Wesley street East Boston, was assaulted near Prescott and Chelsea streets late last night. He was thrown into the gutter and robbed of 38 dollars. He told police he met a man in a saloon, took a walk, argued, then was struck with a blackjack or similar object. He remained in an undetermined condition.
Governor-elect Guild is recovering rapidly from back abscess surgery. He plans to attend next week's Governor's Council meeting where Joseph J. Corbett's nomination as Charlestown District Court justice will be considered. Corbett, an admirer of Guild, is respected as a man of affairs. Afterward, the governor and council visited the Westboro insane hospital and the Lyman School for Boys.
James A. Watson, candidate for Mayor advocating municipal ownership, addressed large crowds at Faneuil Hall Ward 6 Tom Fohrde's Hall Ward 22 and Minton Hall Ward 23. He challenged Fitzgerald and Frothingham to a joint debate and invited Congressman John A. Sullivan to debate as well.
The Fruits of Enlightenment was staged in English for the first time in the country under the Twentieth Century Club. A cast from Emerson College Tufts Chapin Club and Harvard acted in an abridged two and a half hour version. The performance balanced humor with Tolstoi’s satire on spiritualism and peasant land reform. An accompanying Russian chamber music program by Schutt Arensky and Wieniawski complemented the evening.
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