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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1905
Page
4
An article promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to support women through menopause and Nervous exhaustion. It cites Mrs Mary L Koehne of Chicago as a user who reports relief from dizzy spells back pain and headaches after six bottles. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to sick or ailing women.
The article condemns the heavy taxation on Russia's peasantry, citing a massive tax burden and numerous losses from debts, wars, famines, and inefficiencies. It lists extensive figures including national debt, interest, famine losses, war costs, and unpaid taxes, arguing the system impoverishes 100,000,000 citizens and drains the economy.
Governor-General Trepoff told AP he is confident the crisis is over and public order is assured in the city. He predicted no revolution and said bomb throwers are few, with no arrests since his arrival. He refused to name locations of Gorky or Father Gapon.
Strikes are spreading across numerous Russian cities with the situation growing serious. In Moscow authorities fear a violent outbreak amid mounting labor unrest and public protests.
The House suspended the ninth joint rule to admit petitions for hearings including the incorporation of the East Boston Freight Transportation Company. Debate covered rule rigidity and previous veto by Mayor Collins. O’Hare’s postponement motion failed 18 to 75 while the bill was admitted.
Plymouth engineers fight blizzard as Plymouth division train with two engines backs and fills to escape a snow wall at Rocky Nook bridge. Fireman Frederick Bartlett is badly burned escaping steam. Frank Sherman and A L Freeman help save the crew. The trio reaches Boston after 3 14 PM, with three cars stuck in massive drifts.
Moscow reports a spreading strike with minor clashes on northern and eastern outskirts. Troops resist crowds, no bloodshed, authorities and masters show calm as work in most mills stalls. Danilowsky factory still operating amid ongoing wage talks and limited police patrols.
Quieter in St Petersburg amid ongoing strikes in Reval Liban Kieff Odes sa as Moscow workers show increased activity. Authorities claim strike backbone broken expect broader resumption Monday and hope unrest will not suspend Russia’s industry. Interior Minister Sviatopolk Mirsky vows to press for release of writers jailed in the SS Peter and Paul fortress.
Five liners arrive in Boston harbor after boisterous passages. Devonian from New York, Consuelo from Hull, Pontop from Fowey, James S. Whitney from New York and Parthian from Philadelphia report icy decks and rough seas. Other ships including Admiral Dewey and Cymric faced blizzards and delays as vessels anchored near Vineyard Sound and Hoosac Pier 7.
Hon. E P Shaw former state treasurer told about 300 New England Street Railway Club members at the Brunswick Hotel banquet that street car fares should be raised. Maine railroad commissioner E F Chadbourne backed the view as a remedy after a Massachusetts report found railway finances unsound. The gathering included major figures from New England railways with officers elected for the coming year and a full roster of local officials among the attendees.
Three coastwise vessels driven ashore by yesterday blizzard lie high on Barnstable Bay shore this morning. The Harwood Palmer from Boston rests on Yarmouth Flats, the Alice May Davenport from Portland on North Dennis two miles east of the Palmer, and the Monitor at Sagamore ten miles west of the Palmer. Crews remain aboard Palmer and Davenport with no danger, while Monitor sailors endured a harrowing night but came ashore at low water with wind turning north and waves easing.
The Southern interstate cotton convention closed its three day session with a unanimous plan for a permanent organization led by Parvie Jordan of Georgia as president and E. S. Peters of Texas as vice president. The forenoon featured the defeat of the modified warehouse plan and a three member committee was named to discuss enlarging the American cotton trade with the president.
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