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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
4
An old advertisement describes eczema as an itchy skin condition worsened by air contact and food digestion. It credits Ripans Tabules with correcting the blood lacking a needed constituent and prescribes four doses daily, with larger measures for severe cases, detailing pricing and purchase options.
In a School Board discussion, Mrs. Julia Duff questions a proposal to curb gum chewing by teachers. She says no teachers chew and claims never to have seen such a case, while others echo the sentiment that gum chewing is unlikely among educators.
Boston Young Men's Christian Union hosted a four act comedy A Western Romance by the Empire Comedy Company last night. Music accompanied by the Union Orchestra under H. F. Odell. Productions directed by W. A. Adams.
An official of the Metropolitan Coal Company stated there is no likelihood of an advance in coal at present after the last rise in August to seven dollars a ton for stove coal. Furnace coal remains about six dollars and fifty cents per ton. A Batchelder Bros. Coal Company member echoed the view that supply is ample and no immediate price increase is expected.
The Superior Court of Suffolk County appoints N Sumher Myrick of Boston as receiver for the Natick and Needham Street Railway Company. The appointment follows the refusal of the prior receiver for the South Middlesex Street Railway to operate the leased line.
The Pollock Rip Lightship blown about three miles south during the weekend gale was re placed on her station today by the light house tender Azalea. The Azalea also righted the gas buoy at Pollock Rip Blue.
A vintage advertisement touts Smith's Pineapple and Butternut Pills as a universal liver cure. It claims to restore inactive livers, regulate bowels, and cleanse the blood, promising quick relief from biliousness jaundice headaches constipation and general ill health. Sold for 25 cents with a signature by W F Smith.
An inbound Brook line streetcar hit a horse and rider on Ipswich Street just after 8 yesterday morning. John Turley was pitched from the saddle, suffering contusions to his right shoulder and leg, and was taken to City Hospital. The horse was only slightly injured.
In Chelsea Court Judge Bosson ruled against police in three liquor cases. One involved Philip Cassidy Kate Cassidy and Mrs Kate Cooney charged with maintaining a liquor nuisance. Police raids extended to multiple tenements linked to the Cassidys but the government failed to prove its theory.
The ten arrivals included two offshore ships Flora and Nickerson and Preceptor, with the rest from shore fisheries. The fleet, iced over, landed 148700 pounds of mixed fish: haddock 69900, cod 63700, hake 3100, pollock 9500, cask 2500. Prices ranged haddock 4 12, large cod 5, market cod 3 3 4, bake 3 3 4, pollock 3 1 2, cask 2 cents. Delegation of special agents present.
Miss Adele G Thayer hosts a refined Private dance at the Hotel Somerset tomorrow evening honoring Miss Alice Gardiner and Miss Claire Prince. The event features Paris import favors ordered in Newport, with Alice Roosevelt among the expected guests arriving tomorrow morning.
The Treasury Department toured the harbor aboard the revenue steamer Winnissimmet visiting South Boston East Boston and Charlestown piers. Wrecking lighter Trilby alongside Belgia unloaded at Mysterharf bringing two locomotives over 30 tons each for Canadian Pacific. Elizabeth Palmer the five masted schooner arrived from Baltimore with coal, after nine day voyage hampered by a storm. Admiral Dewey carried 14 000 stems of bananas from Port Limon to Long Wharf ahead of a collision report with Kiowa. Saxonia reached Queenstown from Boston then to Liverpool. Sachem sailed to harbor. A slight fire damaged Cunard wharf in East Boston by about 40 in value.
The almanac lists sun and moon times, high tides, and a long roster of arrivals and clearances. Steamers El Paso Patten Frostburg Svendsen and many others arrive with cargoes from cotton to barge transfers while several vessels depart to ports including Baltimore Portland Lynn and Norfolk. Continuous movement marks a busy maritime day with tugs and barges assisting multiple ships.
The Camp Mosquito Club's dance is being looked forward to by the young people of the Dorchester district and is expected to be largely attended.
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