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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1911
Page
5
A personal account claims a simple method cured asthma after years of struggle and offers a free postal trial. The writer asks readers to fill out a coupon and mail it today to receive the treatment postpaid.
Miss Emma Rodman a 65 year old resident of 174 Beacon Street was struck by a Boston and Northern Street Railway Company automobile on Chardon street and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital under observation. A deep cut over the eye is her only visible injury. Rodman has long aided poor families and supported charitable organizations.
Washington official information shows Pullman has prepared complete interstate tariffs to align with Loftus case orders. Tariffs will be sent to the Interstate Commerce Commission and take effect February 1, broadening postwar reductions. Upper berths will see a material price drop and long distance lower berths will also be reduced.
In a Superior Court session Judge Lawton presiding, Marciano Gaspariello recovered a 7500 verdict against the L for personal injuries. He sought 20000, claiming a conductor pushed him from a streetcar and another car severed his leg while selling papers at Washington and Elm streets.
Barlow Brown, who was sewn up in a mule carcass while intoxicated, has gone insane from blood poisoning. Four men accused of the joke fled the country. Brown is not expected to recover. Mr. Jones crashed onto his wife causing a compound fracture of her hip.
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors struck a deal with a local undertaker to lay to rest destitute residents at a cost of one tenth of a cent per person. The package covers a redwood coffin with upholstery, lining, and full funeral service.
Charles Merwick 73 died yesterday and his brother Francis 70 began digging a grave in front of their Canal street Stapleton home. Neighbors called Coroner Jackson who arrived and took charge. Francis said he had no money for a burial. The brothers had lived as hermits for 25 years.
Mrs. W. H. K. Jones, 71, died at United Hospital from injuries suffered when her husband tripped on a rug at their Rye, New York home. She had been in the habit of greeting him at the door, and six weeks earlier he stumbled, causing her to fall with him.
In Geneva New York on January 23 all saloons and hotel bars closed for two hours during a lecture in the opera house by Rev J A McCuaig of New York on Purity. McCuaig, vice president of the National Christian League for the Promotion of Purity, has been touring Geneva and area. Liquor sellers pledged to close and attend the talk.
Mrs. John F. Kelleher, wife of the New Park Hotel proprietor, said an electric spark from a gasoline saturated cloth rubbed on her dress set the fabric on fire. She smothered the blaze with a rug, saving the hotel from a larger fire as firefighters arrived and corroborated similar past incidents.
New York story of George W. Tuttle who ran a Lakeside Long Island store 30 years ago and took $2.50 from a boy who vanished. A limousine delivery man returned to settle the debt, offering no interest and prompting curiosity about the motive.
In Worcester County a jail inquiry reveals broker Washburn disputing Bailey’s illness and accusing the chaplain of taking a smuggled letter. Board chair Goodale notes prior removal of Washburn for neglect while sheriff Dwinell cites limited authority. Master Richardson vows immediate investigation and potential clean sweep if warranted.
Claimants to an estate valued over 200000 dollars in money plus land and property contest the will of General James William Riley who died in Wellsville Ohio nearly five years ago. The contestants include Bradford and South Groveland women a man from Peabody and about six dozen others across the water.
The long running dispute over General Riley's fortune moves toward a new court fight next month. Claims were narrowed from over 200 to a core group led by local figures Mrs Powers Mrs Gately and John Doherty with attorney P M Smith of Wellsville to take depositions. Riley’s Civil War era fortune included property in Wellsville Lisbon and Virginia with ties to local residents.
The United Improvement Association urged Boston citizens to press State Legislature to shelve the compulsory telephone rate changes. Resolutions from the committee on legal and legislative affairs were adopted. A meeting in the Old South building Thursday will push the campaign.
Curtain rose to reveal Rostand’s Chantecler and the New York audience. Miss Adams gave a superb performance, with Miss May Blayney winning top honors as the hen pheasant. Arthur Byron Patou Ernest Sanford and Miss Dorothy Dorr also impressed. Von Seyfertitz starred as the great horned owl. Ten curtain calls after act one and twelve after act two.
Aloysius J. Ochs, 50, of 14 Park Square, was struck and killed on Boylston Street last night by a Coleman Brothers wagon as he attempted to cross. The driver was Mathew Hamilton of 458 Parker Street Roxbury. Ochs died before reaching City Hospital. Also last night the Abbotsford Club held a winter dance at Hotel Somerset with Miss Rose Fitzgerald and Hugh Nawn leading the cotillon before about 500 attendees.
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