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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1905
Page
2
Testimony shows John R. Platt furnished Hannah Elias with vast sums from 1896 to 1904, including $685,376 total across nine years. Witness accounts detail loans in thousands, gifts such as a dead wife’s watch and purse, and payments to Elias’s doorkeeper, with multiple properties listed as gifts.
In New York on January 19, Hannah Elias testified in court about entrusting Patrick W. Dugan with 152000 and access to bank books totaling possibly half a million. John R. Platt sues Elias for 685000 claiming she cozened him, while Dugan defends his honesty.
The bounty bill vetoed by Governor Bates last year was reintroduced in a new form by Representative Schofield of Ipswich after passing over the governor's veto.
An early 20th century pitch offers Dr Shoop's Restorative for heart nerves with a free full dollar bottle to strangers. The ad claims it targets the sympathetic nerve system affecting heart, stomach and kidney troubles and promises a mailing offer for multiple books with free orders to Racine Wisconsin.
Arthur H Atwood William H Bezanson Herbert King William F Crowther Charles H Warren and George W Thwing were each fined 100 for selling adulterated hamburger steak treated with sulphuric acid. They appealed from the fine with bail set at 500 for the February term. Dr Harrington fed cats meat with sodium sulphite, claimed to preserve meat. Autopsy indicated harm. State Board of Health started crusade against hamburger steak sellers.
Levy Dean a 24 year old farmer near Pender Nebraska sold his wife Lena Eastman to his brother William 21 for 150 dollars. Lena who had loved William earlier says she preferred him and was married to Levy last October. Both brothers are described as prosperous farmers with Lena as an orphan.
A fresh spring appeared yesterday beneath Washington street near Adams House as Jones and Meehan continue subway work. The clear palatable water bubbles up from 35 feet underground, forcing contractors to pump it out or find a solution to the new obstacle.
John H. Welchlin of Boston reports rapid stomach improvement after two bottles of Quinona. The advertisement claims Quinona cures indigestion biliousness sour stomach pains after eating and even nervousness and sleeplessness. It touts a complete formula on the label and offers free medical advice from the Quinona Co. in Boston.
John A. C. Hammond introduced a bill granting pensions to judges who reach 70 after 20 years of service or who are 60 with two years of service and incapacitated. With Governor and council approval, they may resign and receive three quarters of salary.
Miss May Belfort, an Englishwoman, publicly horsewhipped General Benjamin Viljoen, a Boer war hero, at the Coliseum on Wabash avenue. She declared she came from England to punish him for breaking his marriage promise, striking him with a rawhide whip as spectators watched.
Thomas Morrissey of South Boston made two desperate attempts to end his life by leaping before trains near the Stony Brook station on the Fitchburg line. Station agent Farrar barely saved him both times. He cited long unemployment and despondency. Morissey stayed briefly at the police station before returning home.
The Rev T E Johnson of 87 Grove Street circulates petitions urging clergy and congregations to pray for Mrs Mary Rogers, sentenced to be executed on Friday Feb 3 1905. He pleads for divine intervention and urges prayers during services Jan 22 1905 to uphold God’s law and spare the life and souls affected.
At Elmwood street gym nasium Roxbury Wednesday evening instructor Matthew M. Leary was presented with a hand painted sofa pillow by artist and decorator Matthew Hisgen. Leary is popular with pupils and the gym attendance is at a historic high.
Nantucket, Jan. 19. Wreckers righted the schooner George B. Ferguson today and plan to heel her over on the port side tomorrow for a bottom survey. If planking is badly damaged, temporary repairs may not float her.
Ellen Sendal Scott a nurse at Dobbs Ferry Hospital explains that before her death Mrs. Charles Scott asked her to marry widower Charles Hall Scott of Hastings on the Hudson. Ellen, now Mrs. Scott No 2, says Mrs Scott requested the match and died after a bottle of carbolic acid was mistaken for medicine.
Between 2 and 8 oclock yesterday morning Freeman and Taylor at 61 Temple street suffered a burglary. About 200 dollars worth of solid silverware handbags silver salt and pepper shakers and other table articles were stolen. A brick wrapped in cloth was used to smash a window to gain entry and investigators suspect two or three men took part.
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission held its annual meeting in Pittsburg and appointed George A. Campsey as special agent to personally examine claims and report monthly. The agent will start February 1 and will focus only on claims the commission preliminarily deems probably deserving.
Senator William J. Rounds of Cambridge introduces a bill to register undertakers. The petition notes most states license undertakers and the proposal imposes a $50 fine on unregistered practitioners for undertaking or embalming.
Two women who planned to sail on the Plant liner Halifax left the ship to shop and returned to see the vessel departing with 100 excursionists aboard. Captain Swim of the Doane tug Nellie quickly boarded the scene and was chartered to aid the distressed travelers as the Halifax paused off Castle Island.
In Waltham on January 19 Judge Luce ruled the Board of Health cannot punish a patient for leaving a contagious ward. George Bourque, treated for scarlet fever, escaped the hospital during a nurse absence after weeks of confinement. The court found no statute to prosecute him for breaking quarantine.
A fast basketball game is expected at the State Armory in Somerville when Lakeside Club of Arlington plays Company M Eighth Regiment. There will be dancing after the game.
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