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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1901
Page
2
Society pages advertise Omega Oil as a cure for back pains shoulder soreness and muscle aches. The liniment is rubbed in after a warm bath and touted as Nature's own remedy with a distinct green color and universal usefulness.
Nellie Searles once famed as the Hand somest woman in Worcester has a long police record and now lies near death after leaping from a third story window in a Worcester institution. Doctors call her case possibly insanity tied to inheritance as officials plan commitment once she recovers.
Munyon offers Cold Cure for head and chest maladies with instant relief of nose throat and lungs. It pledges pneumonia and diphtheria prevention and lists additional cures for rheumatism dyspepsia kidney and other diseases. Inhaler version priced at 1.00 includes medicines. Doctors available free for examinations day and evening.
The Dudley Street Opera House presented Queen Belle an original chromatic one act revival by the Dudley Club minstrel committee. The cast numbered close to forty with standout singing by Miss Beth Blanchard and superb costuming scenery and music. The show runs tonight and tomorrow night with strong audience approval.
Mr. A. B. Cortell is among latest grippe victims within South station officials. Miss Catherine Broadhurst of Glasgow travels from Boston on the Shore Line express to study clerical work in the United States railway offices. She notes far fewer women employed in US transportation offices than in England. An eastern Boston & Maine express carries a party of eight from St John NB.
Warning of health risk and advice to prevent illness. Promotes Mood's Sarsaparilla to purify blood sustain appetite and strength. Recommends Hood's Pills to open bowels if grip or severe cold suspected. Suggests following these tips may save illness and doctor bills.
News notes from Boston South Station include Beigler completing plans for the last section of the Broadway drawbridge and related tracks, with city action awaited to raise the bridge four feet. Reports mention visitors from Yorkshire Lancashire railway and chatter of a Park Square station redevelopment for an amusement venue, while a Taunton accident injures two men under a tender tank.
Yard employees speculate on layoffs but officials say no sweeping discharge before March at the earliest. Whether a March discharge occurs depends on Congress action on the general deficiency bill.
Wallingford Conn Feb 20 Raymond Gaylord 18 son of Mr and Mrs Davida Gaylord died today from rat poison. In a note found in a pocket of his coat he said he did not want any more trouble. The death is attributed to his personal crisis.
Crowell, the Somerville missing agent for the Crowell estate, is found in Lynn. He was unaware of the stir his absence caused, its cause traced to his private business.
In Salem on February 2, James W. Nichols a former letter carrier was sentenced in the criminal session of the Superior Court before Judge Hopkins to two years in the House of Correction for forging a deed. Nichols was identified as traveling on a Washington to Boston route via Southern Railway with a Salem address on 228 Washington Street.
A letter from Great Bend Kansas describes a woman recovering from serious stomach and nervous problems after quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee. She reports improved health, better sleep, and renewed vigor, noting Postum as a nourishing cereal drink containing phosphates and albumen. The husband also reports quitting coffee and improving. Details come from Postum Cereal Co. Ltd., Battle Creek Michigan.
Inspectors Patterson and Rooney arrested 17 year old Justin McCarthy at 158 River street Cambridgeport for complicity in December robberies at Concord summer camps owned by Samuel W Caples G Fred Robinson and Fred W Damon. McCarthy says he was forced at gunpoint to join the break in. A man named John Brown alias Smith is held in Cambridge and another suspect is sought. McCarthy to be heard in Concord court today.
At a February meeting of the four directors of the American Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals the award was given unanimously for a horse saving act.
The Massachusetts Society voted to award its silver humane medal to Arthur Nickerson of the Boston police for heroism in saving a valuable horse from drowning in Boston Harbor. The horse belonged to Edward Rice, a young millionaire, and ran overboard on January 13.
A Boston to New York departure this week carries solar eclipse observers from the Institute of Technology led by Professor Alfred B Burton and Harrison W Smith with Gerard M Matthes joining later. They will sail from Genoa aboard the Konigen Regentes toward Padang Sumatra to view the May 8 eclipse and study pendulum gravity comparisons.
Miss Bertha Davis, a Boston Dental School student, is named principal beneficiary in the will of Dr. Frank J. Fesler who left a fortune of about 30000 dollars. Mrs. Fesler, his widow, contests the will while William I. Davis, father of Miss Davis, serves as executor and both women hire lawyers to fight for the estate.
Mrs Kate Delehanty, wife of Edward Delehanty a longshoreman and mother of two, learns an uncle in Australia has left about 80000 dollars. Once living in poverty in three attic rooms the family faces a new life with about 3000 dollars yearly.
Mrs Delehanty in East Boston receives an overseas letter from Australia announcing Michael Quirk of Townsville left £15,903 to his niece Kate Delehanty. The couple plans to return to Tramore Ireland with their children, building a cottage by the sea and living simply. Mr Delehanty, a longshoreman, is widely known and has a brother Perry in Cottage Street.
The standard train of the world leaves New York daily except Sunday via P R R and Southern Railway with earliest afternoon arrival in St Augustine. Two other fast trains daily. Dining and sleeping car service. Boston office 228 Washington Street.
Louisa Morse was permitted to return to Nova Scotia with her father after a Cambridge theft accusation involving a family. Judge Fox of the Superior Court at East Cambridge granted the arrangement yesterday.
A suit is filed in the Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of a station area assessment levied by the city through the street commissioners on property owners in the vicinage of the station.
In St. Louis on February dates, ambitious Mary Institute seniors decide to wear college colors on their stockings. The plan calls for one red stocking and one white stocking, signaling a new fashion fad among the aristocratic student body.
In the Eastern District Court the polygamy case against Joshua P. Atwood was continued until Saturday morning with Atwood placed under bonds of $600.
Taunton report states Lawyer James F. Morris of Fall River was exonerated by Judge Fox after admitting he gave advice to a witness under a misapprehension. The accusation claimed he urged false testimony but the court cleared him.
About 200 special jurors will be drawn from Middlesex county towns on April 22 for the murder trial of Charles R. Eastman charged with first degree murder in the case of Richard H. Grogan Jr.
To Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, California, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, on Tuesdays February 10 to April 80 through cars on fast trains. For information and tickets call or write Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 368 Washington Street, Boston.
An advertisement extols Dr. Greene's Nervara blood and nerve remedy as a cure for impure blood, detailing alleged internal effects and symptoms. It cites testimonials from Lucien Rodd of Whitehall New York and William H. Tefft notarized, inviting readers to seek free professional advice at 34 Temple Place Boston Mass.
M Gaston Deschamps, noted French critic, delivered the first lecture in a series at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon the Harvard Cercle Francais. He spoke in French on Les Mautres du Theatres contemporain detailing Augier Dumag fils Meilhac et Halvey and Sardou.
Harvard faculty announced a new order requiring the first recitation of the day to begin at 7:00 and end at 8:40. The rule will take effect at the start of September.
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