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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1903
Page
2
Yale Men Chase Train After Whist Game Goof
Nine Yale seniors and juniors visiting to play whist with Columbia misjudged time and fled Victoria Hotel in pursuit of the 11 o'clock train. A hotel proprietor alarmed, a porter and a patrolman fired shots in the air before the group was halted and returned. The 11 o'clock express to Mt. Vernon departed without them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Yale
Columbia
New Haven
Broadway
Victoria Hotel
Pellmell
The
Victoria
Mt. Vernon
Thief Seizes Woman Near Church in Forest Hills
Katherine Haley of 14 Wenham Street, Forest Hills, was grabbed as she approached the Church of the Immaculate Conception last night. A young man about 20 wore dark clothes and seized her purse, fleeing after knocking her against a fence. A pocketbook with a small sum and beads was taken. Haley reported the loss to Division 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Immacurate Conception
Katherine Haley
Wenham Street
Forest Hills
Division 6
Attendants Discharged After Worcester Hospital Escape
Worcester February 15. In the wake of Herbert E Hill’s escape from the Worcester Insane Hospital, discipline tightened. About 40 attendants attended a dance. six were discharged shortly after, with no stated reason. Several say they faced abrupt dismissal despite prior satisfactory service and plan to contest the action before the State Lunacy board. Female attendants present at the dance were questioned by the war physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worcester
Worcester Insane Hospital
Herbert E. Hill
Roxbury
Charles Lohnes
H. M. Quinby
State Board of Lunacy
Massachusetts
Board of Trustees
Captains Irish and Boyer Seek Retirement
Reported retirement applications by Captains Irish and Boyer follow actions by Dawson Brown and ahead of a larger reshuffle by Commissioner Clark. Irish’s request arrived Friday, while Boyer’s was already with the commissioner. Irish’s wife’s death last fall weighed on the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson
Brown
Clark
Irish
Boyer
Captain Irish
Veteran Boston police captains consider retirement amid health fears
The article notes Captain Richard F. Irish at 67 and Captain Charles W. Boyer at 55 seeking retirement due to ill health after long service. Irish, born 1836 in Afton, N Y, served since 186? with multiple divisions. Boyer, born 1860 in Cambridge, served 28 years, recently appointed captain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division 16
Charles W. Boyer
Boyer
Boston Police Department
Cambridge
Bridgton Academy
Retired Captain Charles Walley Boyer Career Highlights
CAPT CHARLES WALLEY BOYER has reportedly applied for retirement. His service spanned the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts volunteers, regular army postwar roles, postmastership at San Antonio in 1868, Charlestown navy yard engineering, police work including assistant keeper at City Prison, pawnbrokers inspector, liquor officer in Division 3, sergeant in 1881, head of the street railway squad, inspector of carriages in 1899, and a recent elevation to captain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Massachusetts
San Antonio
Texas
Charlestown Navy Yard
Division 3
Yale and Harvard Earn Mutual Sympathy After A. A. Accident
Cambridge scene recalls a late night collision in Mechanics Hall as Harvard captain Milton Lightner clashed with Yale runner Franchot disrupting the two mile relay. Lightner’s fall and injury followed the race, drawing Yale’s forgiveness and easing tensions between the two crews. Captain Thomas of Yale and trainer Murphy expressed shared sorrow for Harvard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Milton T. Lightner
Harvard
Mechanics’ Hall
Yale
Franchot
Lightner
Thomas
Murphy
Vermont Association to Open Headquarters in Westminster
The Vermont Association will open its headquarters in Westminster tomorrow evening with social time, a collation featuring Vermont cider and butternuts, and a reception. Five rooms are being refurnished and members plan to donate portraits, books, bric-a-brac, and other items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont Association
Westminster
Vermont
Association
Your Face Is Your Fortune Skin Cure Ad Claims
An old style advertisement touts ZEMA-CURA as a cure for skin troubles including pimples acne and rashes. It features testimonials from Adel ia Woodruff praising its facial benefits and claims of curing eczema acne heat herpes lupus and other skin or scalp conditions. Also mentions U Ah Ma tablets as a blood purifier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mall Free
Arch St
Philadelphia
Adelia Woodruff
New Albany
Ind
le Ass
GMBA
ZEMA-CURA Skin Cure Promoted With U-AH-MA Tablets
An advertisement touts ZEMA-CURA for all skin diseases with U-AH-MA taken internally to purge poisons, speed healing, and claims it as the only blood purifier to use with skin conditions. It lists several druggists and prepares the product in tablets at a nominal price in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seerhton & Dutton
Hubree
Washington Ae
Three Books to Read Lincoln Celebration at North Bennet Street
The Civic Service House Educational Club filled the Industrial School hall with a Lincoln Day program featuring a concert led by Prof Olmer H Manning. Meyer Bloomfield introduced Dr Edward Everett Hale and Rev Edward Cummings as speakers and read Roosevelt’s letter to hearty applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennet Street
Lincoln
Civic Service House
Olmer H. Manning
Meyer Bloomfield
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Cummings
Bloomfield
Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Richmond
General Grant
The
United States
State of
Indiana
Civic Service Club
Massachusetts
Conductors Like Dr Hale Praised by Boston Clergy
Edward Everett Hale commends Boston street car conductors for gentleness and courtesy, contrasting them with New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago crews. He recalls a personal courteous ride and urges passengers to carry nickels to ease conductors’ duties, noting conductors’ pride in serving travelers. Local drivers respond warmly, praising Hale’s kindness and hoping more people emulate him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Everett Hale
Boston
New York
Dr. Hale
Forest Hills
Cambridge
Hale
Chicago policeman as dictionary writer shocks literary scene
February 15 Chicago presents M. J. Gallery a policeman turned author with The Law Alphabetically a pocket dictionary aimed at lawyers policemen civil service examinees and citizens. In a prefatory note Gallery cites frequent legal disputes among police justices harming officers and the public in common questions of law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
M. J. Gallery
Officer Gallery
The Histories of Chicago and Webster’s Lexicon
A fragment discusses a book titled A Short History of Chicago and comments on the city’s women as well as definitions in a dictionary. It notes terms like abandonment accedes and admiralty, placing Webster in the background amidst linguistic references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Gallery
Admiralty
Webster
Phi Beta Kappa Election At Harvard Honors Crimson Scholars
Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa elected notable Crimson scholars at its last meeting. Members include G Stevenson Jr and George A Englands and R Gardner, W Mark Granite Heinson, H W Holmes, Ballantine, Kenton, Budgeah among others. Officers for the next year named Recording secretary R Ernst first marshal J A Field second marshal D P Lockwood toastmaster A L Richards orator A A Ballantine poet C R Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard
Phi Beta Kappa
G. Stevenson, Jr
George A A. Englands
Gran Orfinkle
Iikey
Goa
R. Gardner
W. Mark Granite Heinson
H. W. Holmes
Old Colony and Northern Wage Increase Agreed
The Old Colony and Northern systems announce a substantial wage rise on March 1 on a sliding scale from 2 cents to 25 cents an hour based on service length. The move, urged by faith in workers and aiming to boost patronage, covers about 80 smaller companies consolidated under the two firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Elerated Road
Boston & Northern
Old Colony
B. C. Foster
Mass
Lynn
Boston
Wage concessions please Boston & Northern and Massachusetts Electric workers
Reports from Lawrence Taunton and Lynn on February 15 describe a general wage increase for Massachusetts Electric employees. Workers express mixed views with older staff more pleased than younger, while union recognition remains in doubt and potential strike action looms at upcoming union meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Massachusetts Electric Company
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