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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1904
Page
1
Public forum at People's College and Recreation Place to discuss loans, sanatoriums, and a school for mechanics. The event outlines plans for a new public program and charitable institutions in Boston.
City Hall hearings on the Franklin Fund debated how to spend 411000 with public input from labor representatives and civic groups. Speakers proposed a people s college free for young men, recreation facilities, a sanitarium on Parker Hill, and a ten year electricity study while Mayor Collins warned against overreaching funds and tax assumptions. The forum adjourned at 10 o clock without a final decision.
A morning blaze at the Hecht building at 641 643 Atlantic Ave opposite South Station started in the rear and spread to Linwood Place. Four fire brigades battled the flames, wrecking Wymans restaurant on the first floor E Auerbach & Co wholesale tailors on the third and Bigelow Jordon on the upper floors. No injuries reported and damage estimated at $100000.
Mrs. C. B. Colby of Portland Ore spoke in favor of the French bill providing woman suffrage in congressional elections. She said voting requires brains, a remark cited by Representative Hardwick who pointed to the last election.
Saturday brings fair conditions then snow or rain at night with light variable winds. Sunday expects snow or rain followed by clearing in the afternoon or night.
The hearing opened shortly after 2 o clock with Mayor Collins presiding and trustees including the Rev. present as many men of many minds presented their ideas before the board representing Ben Franklin.
Mrs Olive F Dorman of Waltham Massachusetts says Father John's Medicine cured her severe cold and cough after two months of illness. She reports two bottles restored her health and praises the remedy.
An advertisement touts Sanford's Ginger as a remedy for muscle, bone and nerve aches caused by colds and chills and grip. It also promotes Piso's Cure for a cough and cold at 25 cents.
Thomas W. Lawson recounts a morning meeting with Colonel Greene and associates in Boston. He denies raiding Greene Consolidated stock and pledges to press actions against the Standard Oil faction, warning Amalgamated stockholders to sell before a rumored crash.
In a hotel caper featuring Colonel Bill Greene and Tom Lawson a crowd of Pinkertons police reporters and spectators gathered as eight idle hours passed amid champagne corks cigars and feasting. A staged clash produced no blood and a photographer set off flashlight powder as the scene collapsed into a hoax ending with Lawson and Greene retreating amid laughter.
Col. Bill Greene states he and Mr. Lawson settled their differences without violence and that Lawson did not own stock in Greene Consolidated mines. He clarifies no ties to H. H. Rogers or John D. Rockefeller, and confirms he kept his word by appearing in Boston to address the matter.
Henry Sporing of St Peter Minnesota, once a wreck from asthma, regained robust health in forty days using the Austrian Dispensary treatment ascarco. The notable citizen, who had retired from business, will return to work, having secured the drug from New York with free treatment offered to sufferers who write.
In Hyannis a four man schooner crew from the Ella and Jennie went ashore in a heavy snowstorm at Bishop and Clerks Ledge six miles offshore. After a perilous six hour rescue they reached land exhausted and then attempted a salvage mission before deciding to abandon the pounding vessel.
The steamer Algerin arrived at St. John's reporting a terrible ordeal. She was driven off the coast and buffeted by the sea for four days, waterlogged with pumps choked, and only saved by engineers and stokers who worked waist deep in water to clear the bilges. Several sailing vessels from the recent gale remain unreported.
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