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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1907
Page
2
An elderly Brooklyn man aged 73 credits Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey with curing several grip episodes and preventing after-effects. He praises the remedy for thirty years of use to stimulate his system and maintain health despite age and recurrent colds.
An advertisement touts Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a universal remedy for consumption nervousness typhoid malaria and all forms of brain and body weakness. It asserts medical endorsement hospital use and family medicine status with a one dollar sealed bottle sold by druggists and retailers.
An explosion on Torpedo Boat No. 3389 during a steam trial in Toulon Bay kills nine stokers and one engineer plus injures two others. A safety tube burst in the evaporation system allowing flames to surge into the stoke hole as automatic doors failed to close.
The passage identifies a white package cold tablet labeled Bromo Quinine as the first and original cold tablet. It mentions similar remedies that may mislead and notes the original package bears the signature FE W Grove. 268c.
Robert McGraw the night watchman at the American Gauge and Valve Company was indicted for murder in the first degree following new evidence said to be found by the dead man’s mother. The 1904 shooting of Benjamin F. Farwell involved a hammer and revolver in which Farwell died after McGraw claimed intruders.
Public installation of officers for Father Scully Court 205 of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters drew the largest crowd in years at Knights of Columbus Hall in Cambridgeport. D. H. C. R. Ellen L. Power of East Boston presided with Alma Mater Court staff, installing chief officers and presenting retiring chief ranger Nellie McCarthy with a necklace. Mrs. Graham received a gold pin, and new chief ranger a basket of roses. Brief addresses followed from several dignitaries including Dennis Murphy and Charles Bowning.
Antonio Small of the firm Small & Rose fish dealers died at his home 226 Havre street East Boston. A longtime Portuguese resident of the island ward he was 57. He leaves a widow six daughters and five sons. Funeral from St Johns Church North Bennet street North End tomorrow at 1 30 PM. Cause of death blood poisoning from a slight hand abrasion.
Guarantee promises cure of itching bleeding or protruding piles in 6 to 14 days or money back. Advertisement notes price 50 cents for PazO ointment.
The contralto soloist from Lynn secretly married last Saturday to Elmer C. Clements, a machinist employed at General Electric Works.
Nellie V. Flynn contralto with Roe stock company and Elmer C. Clements machinist at General Electric Works married in Providence last Saturday with Rev. Horace Sweetland. Flynn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Flynn of Prospect Street Place, will live in Revere.
Five prominent Dorchester liquor sellers are named defendants in a Superior Court case brought by Mrs. E B Duchesney for her minor son Joseph alleged to have been sold liquor. The reform-school ward is under state control after a two year stay. The suit seeks $2000 in damages.
Mrs Carrie Wood age 40 a colored woman employed by Hon A E Pillsbury of 175 Bay State road collapsed in Metcalf s drug store 535 Boylston last night about 10 o clock and died almost instantly Dr Dixon said death likely due to heart disease Body taken to City Hospital morgue and medical examiner notified Mrs Wood a widow had served the Pillsbury household for years.
Charlestown hosted the thirteenth prize drill and dance in the armory on Main Street. Forty six contestants competed in squads, with 21 selected and eight final finalists. prizes were silver mugs awarded by Major Stover. Winners included Corporal W C Mac Brayne, Corporal E H Mahoney, and Sergeant Gus Papkee. judges were Captain J H McMahon Lieutenant Bernard J McCarron and Lieutenant Albert C Gray. Dancing followed.
Five people were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the Missouri Pacific line near Jefferson City Missouri three miles from the city. All will recover. W T Laney of Grand Rapids Michigan was among the injured. Both engines were wrecked and the baggage car telescoped. Japanese plan two monuments on Peropelochny Hill Port Arthur to honor fallen Russian and Japanese soldiers with a nearby Russian chapel bearing an inscription for the heroes who died defending Port Arthur.
Foreign Minister Tittoni gave a lunch in honor of George von I. Meyer the former American ambassador to St. Petersburg. Meyer will return home tomorrow to assume duties as Postmaster General.
In St Petersburg on February 8, John W. Riddle the new American ambassador was received by the Emperor and Empress to present his letters and introduce his staff Second Secretary Robert W Bliss Third Secretary Basil Miles and Major W W Gibson the military attaché
Secretary Taft after a White House consult telegraphs Governor Magoon in Havana to suspend for the time being the decree that would raise the rural guard of Cuba from 6000 to 12,000 men.
Democratic Congressman-elect George K Fay was indicted by a grand jury for murder for shooting Dr. Harry Aldrich a leading Baton Rouge physician in February.
Fire gutted the Municipal Theatre in Macon France today. The building was not in use and there were no casualties. Damage estimated at 60000 dollars.
Rockland Me February 8 Revenue cutter Woodbury broke ice at Eggemoggin Beach to open a passage for steamboats in the area. The cutter then moved toward Friendship to free a tugboat newly built there and frozen in, intended for delivery to Marblehead Massachusetts.
Colonel W. Warder, 50, poet and novelist, died at his home in Kansas City of pneumonia. He authored scientific works and built the Auditorium Theatre, but lost possession of it and died in comparative poverty.
A Harbin dispatch from Manchuria provides the latest slides in the regional situation. Corroborating details remain scarce as the report notes developing events and potential implications for nearby areas.
William D. Turner of Brookline and H. La Rue Brown of Boston were named receivers by Judge Richardson in Superior Court to manage the assets of the Neponset boat-building firm O. Sheldon Company. The A. S. Morss Company, creditors for $8,260, filed the equity bill after discovering the Maine charter of 1885 had been annulled on December 1, 1903. Creditors claim assets exceed $26,000 and allege the company’s assets are in the hands of William E. Sheldon.
Washington February 8 A new high record in private pension bills was set as the House processed 725 bills in an hour and a half The naval appropriation bill for 95 426 000 was taken up General debate followed with speeches by Lamar Higgins Mondell on rate reform forest reserves and coal land withdrawals
Instructions for submitting contest answers outline mail in care of the Booklovers Contest Editor at P O Box 5276 Boston Mass or at the Boston Post office in Boston. Deliveries may be made at 259 261 Washington Street with the same editor name. Postage can be saved and express delivery is at the risk of contestants.
A baby suffers a terrible facial condition described as sores eating away the face and ears. Three doctors tried and costly treatments failed to halt the decline as the child grew worse despite medicine.
Mrs George J Steese of Akron Ohio relates that her baby’s sores vanished after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Doctors offered help but failed. within weeks the child’s skin cleared as if newborn. She notes paying 75 cents for a cure versus many dollars for doctors. August 30 1905.
An advertisement extols Cuticura products for relief from itching rashes and skin irritations in all ages. It promotes Cuticura Soap to cleanse, Cuticura Ointment to heal, and Cuticura Resolvent to purify blood, with prices and world-wide availability.
After a brief dismissal last night the Higgins case jury was told to return at 9 30 this morning to report its finding. Earlier they had sat for instructions on corroborative evidence from Judge Gaskill and Counsel Callender objected to the instruction, a point the court accepted.
The Richard K. Hunt Social Club held its annual masquerade ball at Revere Town Hall with about 500 attendees. Ernest H. Pierce served as floor director and John H. Erickson led the grand march with Mrs. Richard K. Hunt, as selectmen and town officials looked on.
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