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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1905
Page
8
An advertising blurb promotes Cascarets as a ten cent weekly health insurance style product. It claims Cascarets prevent sickness by treating indigestion and constipation and act like exercise for the bowels. The ad urges keeping a West Pocket Box handy and buying only the genuine Sterling Remedy Company tablets stamped CCC.
Free to friends a French designed gold plated bonbon box hard enameled in colors. Ten cents in stamps requested to cover Cascar ets costs. Send today mentioning this paper to Sterling Remedy Company Chicago or New York.
The new West Roxbury branch police station was informally opened yesterday at the corner of Corey and Centre streets. A sergeant and 16 policemen are assigned there and praise the station as one of the best in the State for appointments and equipment, ensuring protection of law and order and officer comfort.
The two story Queen Anne building, once the Highland Club, was bought by the city for about 20000 dollars after unsanitary west Roxbury lockup closure. Interior fitted with oak and cherry, six steel cells, dormitory for 16 with space for 20, a drill room and two large rooms. Sergeant Charles B Brazer leads the new annex, hailed as Police Station 17.
Federal official confirms Boston Post story that Mrs. Burton Smith of Portland Maine may possess the missing pin tied to the Tucker case. James H. Vahey says a full investigation will follow with visits to Mrs. Smith and possible new court actions including a petition for a new trial and an appeal rehearing on technical grounds.
Edward Robinson, former Boston Museum of Fine Arts director, named assistant director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He will represent Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke with a salary of $8000 yearly. a Harvard graduate and former Harvard lecturer, he directed Boston’s museum until his resignation on December 9.
Henry M. Whitney urged Connecticut and Massachusetts to support tariff revision and broader trade with Canada. He argued New England relies on manufacturing, needs a nearby market, and that Canada will stay agricultural for decades. He called for freer trade to boost overall U.S. prosperity and urged Connecticut to join Massachusetts in the effort.
Arlo Bates warns that if Warren remains, an ultraesthetic regime could seize control, suppress casts and disperse key collections including Morse Japanese pieces and Greek vases. He states no contact with Robinson, critiques directoral aims, and urges preventing a degeneration he says is already humiliatingly bad.
Jack London told a Post reporter his life story at 32 Folsom Road, Newton. He spoke of sailing before the mast, sealing, the Klondike, and why he began to write, saying he was born to poor people and needed money. He discussed writing rejections, sociology, environment shaping life, and plans to tour the world by yacht with his wife.
Captain Nathan Appleton seeks a divorce from his wife on grounds of desertion after 17 years apart so he can marry Edith Russell Wills of Newburyport. Appleton is 62 and frail. Wills is 32, both say the match will bring happiness. The couple married in 1887 in New York and separated a year later, with Mrs. Appleton reportedly not contesting. Their past included a sensational 1890s episode involving a Parson's daughter and alleged hypnotism. They are currently staying at the Hotel Grenoble in New York.
Land for a new Union Hebrew College was bought in Clinton, a Cincinnati suburb, for a campus to serve Hebrew colleges nationwide. The site near the University of Cincinnati will host early work, and planned buildings demand more than 200000 dollars.
Jesse Joyall 25 of Charlestown faced larceny charges for stealing 40 pounds of lead pipe valued at $4 from 3886 Main Street in Charlestown Municipal Court. He pleaded guilty and said he stole to help his hospitalized mother. He was given six months in the House of Correction and held on $300 appeal bond.
A young woman rescued from a Westminster Street boarding house gas incident in Providence has recovered enough to leave Rhode Island Hospital. She supplied the name Elsie Love and claimed to be a New York interpreter born in Africa forty five years ago, with a London son, but she refused details about her affair here or the mysterious French and English notes found with laudanum.
Superintendent William H. Pierce of Boston police issued a broadcast circular with a description and photo of Mary S. Dean, named by a grand jury as an accomplice in the death of Susan Geary. Geary’s body was dismembered and cast into the harbor in three dress suit cases.
The Crown Worsted Mill of Olneyville announces a 10 percent wage increase effective January 1. Fewer than 100 workers are affected.
The text describes a market slump triggered by a Chicago bank failure tied to Lawson’s influence. United Copper and North Butte stock dropped sharply while banks were placed in receivership after simultaneous examinations. Lawson allegedly influenced actions that jolted the market and bank solvency.
The text alleges large scale illegal manipulation of public funds by New York banks and trust companies. It calls for a swift, surprise-wide inspection of major institutions to prevent a systemic banking crisis, referencing Chicago tactics and warning of a looming financial collapse. It includes sharp depictions of figures criticizing the system and stock sales maneuvering.
At the February 15 meeting of the American Association of Masters Mates and Pilots of Volunteer Harbor No 4 held on State street plans were made for the 10th annual bell to be held in the Odd Fellows fall on February 15 1906 A musical and literary entertainment will be one feature of the evening.
A bold offer promotes Callahan Home Whiskey sold direct at wholesale price. Four quart bottles priced at 3 with free delivery to any New England railroad point, prepaid express, risk on the seller, money refunded if not satisfied.
Boston based John F Callahan and Co charters a long established firm near Federal Street. Advertisers highlight reliability with endorsements from Bradstreet's Don's Mercantile Agencies and the National Shawmut Bank of Boston.
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