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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1906
Page
4
An advertisement extols Seal Brand Coffee for superior cultivation, roasting, and aroma, claiming better flavor and health benefits than poorer coffees. It notes air tight canisters, a 35 cent pound price, and Chase Sanborn guarantees since 1864, with other brands available at 25 30 and 35 cents per pound.
Brockton, Feb 27. Mrs Jeanette Whitelaw 18 year old daughter and Sidney J Smith are said to be traveling swiftly west to Los Angeles. John Whitelaw Coburg Ont bemoans loss of his only daughter. Police hold data suggesting a planned Los Angeles trip weeks ahead. Smith allegedly urged departure while Mrs Whitelaw appears attached to him. The daughter left a note to bid farewell claiming a biddeford nursing job as a possible blind.
The United Irish League of Boston and vicinity marks Robert Emmet’s birth with a joint meeting at the American House. An elaborate musical programme will unfold and Dr PBJ Timmins, president of the central branch, will discuss Emmet’s life lessons and the Irish struggle today. Open to sympathizers. inviting members to bring guests. Proceedings begin at 8 o’clock.
Edna May, a porcelain doll belonging to Reita Sulley of Malden, remains a quiet presence in the wake of Reita’s two week disappearance. Reita’s devotion to the doll and the child’s mother’s anguished hope frame a tale of loss and longing as locals await news and the doll’s steady, faithful gaze.
Brigadier General Edward Wellman Serrell, 80, renowned military engineer of the Hoosac tunnel and Swamp Angel battery fame, lies very sick in a Staten Island infirmary as a free patient since October. He lost his engineering money, has no government retired pay, and subsists on a meager service pension after leaving service as a volunteer when the war ended.
Ensign Whitford Drake left for service with the Atlantic squadron under Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans in the Caribbean Sea. He graduates from Annapolis with high honors and never ranked lower than second. He is son of Principal Bradford W. Drake of North Greenow School and was appointed by the late Senator Hoar.
Abner Rice, Yale 1844 graduate and Berkshire school fixture, will turn 86 at his Lee home on Feb 28. A longtime Lee High School teacher for 30 years and former Natick High School and Warren Academy instructor, he once served in the Legislature in 1893. His son Edward, a long-time teacher, has died. His wife, now deceased, the couple marked their golden wedding in 1895.
Providence Feb 27 Colonel Samuel P Colt president of the rubber trust and head of the Industrial Trust Company donated 10000 toward the Brown University John Hay memorial library fund started by Andrew Carnegie with 150000 and a pledge to match alumni pledges. A Bristol resident Colt aims for a Senate seat. Police yesterday arrested David Sidney alias William Sidley of 4 Gindall Place on a warrant for knife assault on Constable John A Duggan.
Captain David T. Remington, the State House sergeant-at-arms, a veteran, oversees completion of bronze niches in the legislative building.
A $50,000 blaze at Star Shirt Company on Golden Hill street in Bridgeport caused a panic among 400 women workers. All escaped safely though there were narrow escapes and a boiler explosion sent bricks raining in the surrounding area. Willerman Freyler from hose wagon No 3 was slightly hurt. insurance coverage was light.
A dealer calls catarrh cures a large, profitable market and urges customers to trust their honesty over manufacturers. They offer one guaranteed remedy with full refund if unsatisfied, insisting on transparent service and local accessibility.
Professor Norton Colonel Higginson and Edward Robinson propose removing General Bartlett and General Stevenson bronzes from Memorial Hall to replace them with marble memorials for John Adams John Quincy Adams and John Hancock Captain Remingtonp among thousands who read about the art debate in the East and visited the Hall of the Flags to judge bronze versus Venetian marble The hall attracts hundreds at the State House where the bronze statues and the equestrian tablet of General Hooker draw attention to the ongoing controversy
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