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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1909
Page
2
Dr Hartman expands Peruna from medical to public consumer use with full label disclosures and testimonials. The firm pledges honesty, free literature, and worldwide outreach while defending its catarrh remedy against critics. Free Almanac for 1909 offered at pharmacies.
A coroner’s inquest in Des Moines reports Dean Frederick Howard of Drake University likely died from morphine poisoning with asphyxia after two morphine injections and atropine given by Dr. P C Byo the night of Thanksgiving. No verdict was reached.
The man named Belemeter Riana was hit on the Boston & Maine tracks just beyond Woburn. He suffered crushed hips and legs and was taken by train to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where he died en route to the operating room.
A missionary wife from Carthage Ohio recounts using Cuticura Soap Ointment to cure her daughter's heavy dandruff after desert living. She notes relief from milk crust on a baby and recommends publishing the letter as a testimonial dated January 20 1908.
Advertises Cuticura Ointment as a top remedy for skin and scalp issues including hair loss. Claims one application after a hot bath with Cuticura Soap, plus Cuticura Resolvent if needed, provides immediate itching relief and aids speedy cure when others fail. Sold worldwide by Potter Drug & Chemical Corp. Boston. Mailed free Cuticura Book on Skin Diseases.
A rumor in Teheran says about 6000 Afghans with six guns crossed into Persia at the Seistan frontier, the point where eastern Persia meets southwestern Afghanistan, causing alarm in the capital.
The Ward 3 Democratic committee endorsed David B. Shaw as Charlestown’s candidate for the party chairman post after electing him chairman. The move names Shaw as the Charlestown choice for the Democratic city committee presidency.
Clarence E Dern and Edward S Clark claiming Brooklyn as home were arrested by Somerville patrolmen James M Lynch and Daniel J Simons after surveillance showed no visible means of support since arriving about a month ago. They were taken on suspicion and questioned about recent burglaries in Somerville Cambridge and Boston.
Dern and Clark were arrested amid a spate of local break ins in Somerville and Cambridge. Police found two diamond rings and memoranda listing stolen items. The couple, aged 19 and 20, admitted pawning goods and selling tickets. The bride, Florence Lovejoy, was later traced to Arlington.
District Attorney Higgins of Middlesex County said the trial date for Chester S. Jordan on a wife murder charge was postponed by agreement between Jordan’s counsel and the district attorney’s office. The earlier set date was February 15. The pause follows negotiations held yesterday.
E. D. St. John and Miss Viva Adams, Holyoke actors in The Bells of Corneville, announced plans to wed before a Fall River performance. The pair, choir members, gained fame for their onstage love songs during the operetta first staged at a St. Jean Baptiste event.
Readable text notes a single Brom O Quinine product used worldwide to cure a cold with F. W. Grove’s signature referenced. The fragment suggests a public notice style promoting the remedy and its endorsement. The line ends with a date cue 28.
Dr Manson and Dr Clark testified Captain Hains was insane at the time of the shooting, describing manic depressive and compulsive insanity. They noted he recognized his enemy briefly but argued the act stemmed from mental illness, not anger, as court adjourned for the next day.
A noted band of professional thieves, driven out of Cambridge by the police, have expanded their activity across Back Bay and Roxbury with more than 40 Cambridge break ins in two weeks. In Back Bay two daytime entries at 1006 Boylston street netted $700 in jewelry and silverware. In Roxbury Parker Hill home entry reported with several hundred dollars in jewelry and furs taken.
A 50 mile submarine telephone cable two inches in diameter with two pairs of wires was completed in Seymour Connecticut and shipped. It was moved by trolley to the railroad track and loaded onto 17 flat cars for transport, with telephone ends fitted to speed handling from factory to cars.
In Brockton on January 8 Herbert E. Guy swore out a warrant against his daughter-in-law Mrs Walter H. Guy charging her with assault. His son Walter H. Guy filed for divorce citing desertion and seeks custody of their child Howard Guy who is alleged to have been kidnapped by the mother.
Sergeant J. F. Holting, a veteran San Francisco police officer, was shot and killed early today by a U S Army soldier whom he was attempting to arrest on the street.
Fragmentary notice mentions eye weakness and a tonic marketed as Marine Eye Tonic. No clear names, dates, or locations available to anchor facts.
The two masted schooner J. Arthur Lord from St John Canada bound for New London was towed to Vineyard Haven by the revenue cutter Gresham after a 12 hour pump effort. The ship laden with lumber, iced over, leaking badly and nearly sinking, arrived with its crew exhausted and identity unknown.
Winchester mourns the death of Isaac Y. Doane aged 59 a veteran stenographer for 20 years at the Middlesex Superior Court in East Cambridge He is survived by his widow and is described as probably the oldest fourth stenographer in the state.
Children from Center Street primary school evacuate in exactly two minutes after a fire alarm. The blaze was in partitions causing smoke in classrooms and minor damage, with five hundred pupils leaving in good order.
Cardenio F. King is expected to be released today after attorneys secure a $35,000 bond. A group of men appeared at the courthouse to qualify as bondsmen, with Judge Schofield set to begin examination in the morning. Attorney Jesse Gove said the bond is raised and will be accepted.
Paris reports that France and the United States have signed a new extradition treaty patterned after the 1902 agreement. The pact aligns procedures for transferring fugitives and enhancing cross border justice between the two nations.
A newspaper notice promises 50 000 free bottles of Elec tro la hair remover to women distressed by facial arm and bust hair. The ad claims the remedy ends mortification and invites eligible readers to claim the giveaway.
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