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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1905
Page
5
Boston bartenders defend their trade amid sermons calling drinkers vile. They describe themselves as abstainers during work, loyal spouses, and good citizens though many would quit the business if possible, with several leading bartenders reinforcing their views.
Burlington Kans resident claims six years of relief after using Pyramid Pile Cure suppositories. The ad promotes home use, quick painless results, and requests trial orders with a free booklet from Pyramid Tag Co. Marshall Mich, with testimony from bartenders and ministers endorsing sobriety and reliability.
An outward bound L car jumped the track in front of the central fire station blocking travel for about 30 minutes this morning in Malden.
An accident at Portsmouth water department pumping station cut the city water supply causing a chain reaction. The New Hampshire Traction Company power station halted and electric cars stalled in Nashua Rochester Dover Portsmouth Haverhill and Amesbury leaving the city in darkness overnight. A Boston and Maine freight train bound for Manchester stalled for lack of water.
Miss Maria W. Howard advised Simmons College girls on market timing and small scale buying. She urged shopping early at farmers markets for fresh vegetables and meat, noting bargains exist and freshness declines as the day wears on.
A 19th to 20th century advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as conquering tumors and avoiding serious operations. It cites a testimonial from Fannie D Fox Bradford Pa praising cessation of periods, a uterus tumor disappeared after five bottles, and a physician finding no signs of a tumor plus restored menstruation. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to letters from women.
A sudden blaze in the drying room owned by George W. Morrison at 65 Wareham street drew much of the Boston fire department. Two people who discovered the fire pulled alarms. Fire was extinguished quickly with about 10 dollars in loss, steam pipes thought to overheat.
Roxbury minister Rev William W Bustard assails Back Bay and Fifth Avenue residents who do not vote, calling them enemies of the republic and traitors to American citizenship at the 74th meeting of the Woman's Baptist Social Union in Park Street Church.
A horse pulling a sleigh driven by Martin Frack ran away on Oliver street in Malden. The sleigh tipped the driver his wife and daughter into a snow bank before the animal fled toward Hastern avenue near Holy Cross Cemetery where a pedestrian captured it. The sleigh was badly wrecked but the occupants were uninjured.
Concord New Hampshire February 6 Anson Phelps Stokes Jr of Yale University has declined to accept the rectorship offered by the St Pauls School board of managers.
A large influx of Russian immigrants, mostly unskilled and speechless in English, crowd rooms of the Federation of Hebrew Charities on Chardon Street seeking jobs. The Baron De Hirsch fund funds daily meals for 150 to 200 at Stamford Street. Shelters open in synagogues, with 600 hired for snow shoveling by railroads during a recent storm. Many are placed in lumber, mining regions, farms, shops, and factories.
The testimony centers on Helen McNally and Robert E Lee amid a tangled engagement. Letters reveal past vows and a broken plan at Murray Hill Hotel. McNally recalls a child born July 6, 1899, named Erasmus, and discusses without detail the home deaths.
A pet dog pulled a cloth from a table with a lit lamp at 26 Cleveland Street, Roscoe Morella’s home in Malden. The lamp exploded, starting a small blaze that damaged furniture and filled the house with smoke. Firemen extinguished the fire without an alarm.
Soley Lodge of Somerville A F and A M held Ladies Night last evening at their Gilman Square apartments. About 50 attended. After the banquet the Schubert Male Quartet performed with reader Miss Laura Marion Belden and entertainer Charles T. Grilley. Dancing followed with floor officers T Franklin Preston assisted by Louis Murphy A E Keating Eugene C Lombard and Edward B Ladd.
The Board of Election Commissioners will be in session today from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. to register male voters residing in Ward 17 for the Ward 17 special election for a Representative to the General Court. The session is limited to Ward 17 residents.
United States Marshal Henkél announced that William D Masterson known as Bat Masterson will be appointed deputy U S marshal for this district. Masterson, former town marshal of Dodge City Kansas and Ford county sheriff, earned a reputation for stern action against lawbreakers. The appointment comes at the personal request of President Roosevelt who regards him as suitable for the post.
The Immaculate Conception Choir Association hosts its annual whist and dancing party at the Catholic Union Hall this evening. William L. Burt leads arrangements with James White James J. Waters Kathryn Casey and Kathryn Haley assisting.
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