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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1900
Page
2
An advertisement lists Sovereign cures for asthma bronchitis and airways relief priced at 25 cents plus a Sovereign Whooping Cough Cure at 25 cents and a Worm Cure at 25 cents. It also promotes Sovereign Female Tonic and Kidney Care and notes a general debility cure and grippes remedies with brief symptoms.
New York observers note William Maxwell Evarts, famed lawyer and former Secretary of State, has turned octogenarian. The aging icon, long active in politics, celebrated his 89th birthday quietly as family visited his Fourteenth Street home.
Dr William J Gallivan of South Boston won the school committee presidency on the seventeenth ballot with 14 votes. The tight race against Mr Anderson drew a large crowd as ballots shifted among Gallivan, Anderson, Strange and others before final approval and appointments to board posts.
A public-spirited editorial voice lauds large-scale good deeds and condemns petty crime. The speaker praises Omega Chemical Co for Omega Oil, claiming extensive ad spending and personal conviction, while urging credit in the hereafter for benevolent work.
Senate sparred over a Pettigrew resolution accusing the United States of treachery toward its ally in the Philippines while Lodge defended the government. In the House, two investigations were ordered into Utah postmasters indicted as polygamists and into army conduct during the Wardner riots. The House adjourned to Wednesday.
Southern Competition Washington reports Senator Carter leading the census committee to enumerate defective classes and others. Senator Hoar plans an amendment for collecting water power statistics. Lodge accuses the President of withholding Philippine facts as a Provo Logan Utah postmaster probe is approved in the House.
The faculty of Boston University grants the Jacob Sleeper fellowship to William Ellery Channing Leonard class of 1898. The two year award supports study and research in a chosen field.
General Otis reports Batters pursuing the enemy along Laguna de Bay. Schwan captures three of Nobel’s six artillery pieces and seizes supplies. Wheaton’s column kills 140 near Imus. Our losses include Lieutenant Cheney and 24 enlisted men wounded. Cavite and Batangas to be cleared. robber bands in Arayat Mountain dispersed.
Manila reports six plague cases with four deaths as preparations begin for a disinfecting and quarantine hospital. Overcrowding worsens with influx of provincial natives and rising rice prices. Americans avoid direct contact. A clash occurs as Filipinos seize twelve men of the Third Cavalry near San Fernando de Lanbon.
Secretary Long sends cablegram to AG Watson conveying hearty thanks to Hare and Howze and congratulations to Gillmore and his men in Manila dated January 8, 1900.
Ni Sinane and Dana Greene of General Electric drowned while ice skating on the Mohawk River. Screams alerted Bellevue shore workers. Mrs Greene died shortly after being pulled from the water. Greene, GE sales head, recovered three hours later. He served as navig ating officer aboard the Yankee and was known in New York club circles. His father was a Civil War Monitor lieutenant.
Dana Greene drowned yesterday with his wife at Schenectady New York. He was a longtime executive at Thomson Houston Electric and its successor General Electric, in charge of a department at Atlantic Avenue offices and well known at Lynn factories.
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