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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1905
Page
5
E Gauss markets Gauss Combined Treatment for catarrh and offers a free trial package to readers. He asserts the remedy cures the disease and roots out poisons, promising future purchases to fund further advertisement. He cites past success and invites name and address to Marshall Mich.
Attorney General Moody in the Supreme Court labeled Swift & Co. and other packers as monopolists in meat products and conspired to fix prices and restrain trade. He described periodic secret meetings to set uniform prices and noted unlawful rebates and preferred interstate rates as a path to monopoly. The hearing will resume tomorrow.
Harvard's new 200000 club house The Union is a dismal failure as 1630 students have not paid the 100 membership fee. An effort to save the club is proposed with a reduced fee of 5 and optional instalments. Suggestions include moving the trophy room to the Union and hosting part of class day exercises there.
From Grantwood New Jersey a group of Mrs. Leigh's academy students formed a human chain to save two boys who broke through thin ice. Miss Evelyn Gordon directed the rescue, skating to an air hole and pulling one boy to safety before others completed the chain to reach both youths.
The Somerville Republican ward and city committee met last week and organized appointing Charles V. Blanchard president Sewall M. Rich vice president William W. Kennard treasurer and George R. Libby secretary. With the exception of Kennard all held the same offices last year. Mayor Chandler spoke after the meeting.
A Knoxville Tenn agency manager touts Pyramid Pile Cure in a letter claiming complete relief from piles after using three fifty cent suppositories. The advertisement asserts rapid, painless results and offers a free booklet from Pyramid Drug Co Marshall Michigan.
Louise Michel, prominent communist and agitator for 35 years, died today in Marseilles at 75. She rose to fame during the Franco Prussian War, served in Paris ambulance duty, joined the Commune, faced treason charges and transportation, and later lived in England promoting communist and anarchist ideas.
A man chased through Green Street by a crowd led by Sergeant Goodwin and Patrolman McGrath nabbed a 23 year old suspect, Harry Johnson of 9 Linwood Place, in a larceny of two grips holding clothing for a man and woman. Moulton of Parkman Building had reported the missing grips after leaving his office at 9 Cambridge Street. About 200 bystanders joined the pursuit as the thief cried Stop thief.
After the Melrose catastrophe caused by a dynamite blast on the Boston & Northern street railway tracks Representative Cole of Andover files two bills. One requires licenses for sales and use of explosives specifying kind amount place purpose and time. The second would strip cities and towns of powers to regulate explosives storage handling and transport.
A basement stock of liquors and groceries burned as a fire raged through the Witherell store and Central Shirt Company next door. Firemen exhausted ladders and smoke chokes. casualties include injuries to Captain Edward Shallow and multiple workers on floors above. Frank Dolphy saved Jennie Parmenia from the stairway crush as a stampede ensued. A. H. Kronenberg, Joseph Fredericks, Becker Bros. occupied upper spaces with dozens of workers, most of them women and girls. The Italian Church pastor Rev Enrico Rivoire protested damage but narrowly avoided harm. Insurance covers the destroyed goods.
A 18-ship U S Navy force led by the battleship Kearsarge and Rear Admiral Barker is inspected by Secretary Morton and Admiral Dewey at Hampton Roads before winter maneuvers. The flotilla includes battleships, coast and Caribbean squadrons, and torpedo destroyers, totaling 98 679 tons with 410 officers and 6166 men.
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine touts its worldwide cold and grip remedy claim. Invites readers to call for the full name and look for the signature of E. W. Grove. Price shown as 25 cents.
At yesterday’s first regular session Alderman James Curley, just released, joined proceedings and greeted new Republican Louis M. Clark. The board passed the municipal gas and electric light order 10 to 3, with Curley voting yes. Clark, Frothingham and Bolton opposed. An order to audit sewerage accounts was introduced by Clark. Committees named include Public improvements, gas legislation, and Soldiers' relief chaired by Aldermen Nolan Linehan and Hennessey with Curley and Baldwin among others.
Seumas MacManus brings his witty Irish storytelling to the Sunday Magazine in Irish Mountain Dew. The feature, based on his popular portrayal of the old sod character and Irish wit, appears in next Sunday’s Post.
Representative Samuel Ross of New Bedford plans a Boston aid drive for Fall River women and children facing destitution from the long strike. He will stage at Park Street Station with Salvation Army workers collecting funds to support relief efforts and seeks a permit from Mayor Collins to publicize the condition and raise funds to prevent starvation.
Massachusetts legislators debated authorizing the state board to travel to Fall River amid a wage dispute. Representatives Schofield and Parks urged a hearing with all parties, while Senators and others questioned authority, precedent, and the extraordinary local conditions affecting 25,000 starving residents.
Representative Ross questions legislative authority to order a resolve. Schofield cites Governor Bates April 22, 1903 journal entry referencing the Lowell strike. Ross moves to delay until Thursday at 12 o clock to allow a properly covering order to be introduced.
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