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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1909
Page
3
In South Norwalk Connecticut on February 2 193? a plan to reopen the hat plants divides work with employees outside the union. Strikers would arrange half day shifts to avoid treasury aid.
Mrs Mary Wilhelm endured a five hour police examination seeking evidence to arrest the killer of her husband Frank Wilhelm a Boston contractor and justice of the peace found dead in his cellar with a bullet wound as investigators pursue a theory of a plot.
The United Hatters' Association directors ordered weekly strike benefits for workers unemployed due to the tie-up at the Guyer factory in Philadelphia.
The 15th annual meeting will be at the American House on Feb. 22 with a 1 pm Boston versus All-New England match. Local players within 10 miles of Boston should send names to J. B. Greehan. those beyond to F. L. McLellan, 213 Munroe Street, Lynn.
Professor Munyon publishes a comprehensive almanac with moon phase data across latitudes and illustrated articles on phrenology palmistry birth month and dream interpretation. It covers card reading birth stones beauty culture weights and measures and anti dotes for poison. Free to applicants from the remedy company in Philadelphia.
Accompanied by reporter Lewis E. Smith the evangelist visited five wards at Boston City Hospital and cheered hundreds of inmates by singing with autoharp accompaniment. He performed in men and women wards, sang Scotch songs and hymns, eliciting visible smiles even from the gravely ill, and offered bedside prayers if desired.
An electric light pole collapsed near midnight at Haymarket square while workers connected the subway with the Elevated system. The fall pulled down telephone and telegraph lines, injuring a laborer and plunging the area into darkness for about an hour as street cars were halted.
Mrs. Sarah Dillon of New York reports Nicholas Sicea, a Wilhelm boarder, was friendly with Mrs. Wilhelm and the contractor threatened divorce and naming Sicea as co respondent Sheca is taken into custody and Mrs Wilhelm questioned The wife says she knew Sicea and he promised to marry her if Wilhelm obtained a divorce The property thought to be Wilhelm’s is in her name She Wilhelm last saw her husband in New York on Sunday then at home yesterday.
Francis O'Neil aged 33 of 20 Anson Street Jamaica Plain was fatally struck by an outward-bound express on the tracks near Forest Hills station while shoveling snow. He stepped from the inbound track to escape a train and did not hear the oncoming express. He was single.
The East Boston Catholic Literary Association staged its eighth annual minstrel show at Fitton Hall East Boston drawing over 1300 attendees. The program opened with traditional numbers then featured a comic opera by Fred eric B Munro, with Joseph A D Toomey as interlocutor and performers Emily Sullivan Mildred Reardon Greece Carroll Adelaide Maccrone Happy O'Neil William Nolan Edward Hoey and William J Cummings in the endmen and chorus.
The House rejected a bill requiring cities and towns to publish the names of the poor and aid recipients by a vote of 114 to 92 after a lengthy debate led by Representatives Quinn McCann Holman Mellen and Fay. Proponents argued against shaming children and beneficiaries. opponents feared public exposure.
About 500 Brunonians attended the 36th annual reunion at the American House in Boston. Richard Olney declared the nation has lived outside the Constitution for a decade, criticized imperialism, and praised President Eliot amid remarks by Faunce, Bus ard, and Keen. Eliot spoke of shared ideals across colleges and universities nationwide.
The W. and A. Bacon Employees' Benefit Association held its ninth annual concert and ball at Catholic Union Hall last evening with about 850 attendees. Richard J. Savage led the grand march with Miss Katherine E. Doherty, after an 8 to 9 pm concert, followed by supper and dancing late into the night. notable guests included A. Bacon H. D. Gillis Alderman W. Dudley Cotton and others.
A home remedy blends whiskey glycerine and Concentrated pine compound in half pint and two ounces and half ounce measures. Shake bottle for recurring doses of a teaspoon to a tablespoon every few hours. Pine product sold by druggists in half ounce tins, labeled Concentrated.
United States Senator Jonathan P. Dolliver of Iowa delivered an impressive eulogy to Abraham Lincoln during a banquet of the New England Hardware and Tool Association held last evening at the Hotel Somerset. He spoke before a bust portrait of Lincoln, flanked by national emblems, after a silent toast to the Great Emancipator.
A nurse recounts observed timings and conversations about a doctor and two nurses in the operating area. Other testimony questions nurse propriety and mentions of favoritism toward Miss Lemay, with partial remarks about nurse behavior and morphine use.
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