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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
3
Testimony alleges morphine doses, neglect, and covers of sores at Burbank Hospital. Witnesses recount a dying mother left alone in a closed room and a missing portion of funds, while officials call for a full public investigation and former city leaders urge action.
Fitchburg mayor says Attorney Walsh forced the Burbank Hospital inquiry to be held behind closed doors. He asserts the press was desired, stenographer requested, and vows to fully pursue the investigation despite Walsh’s withdrawal as a grandstand move.
The Landladies and Real Estate Owners' Protective Association of the South End dissolved in a meeting at 218 West Springfield Street. Under Mrs. Angelica Post's chair, the group became the Owners' and Tenants' Alliance.
Thomas W. Rivers of Jamaica Plain faced Roxbury District Court on evading a Boston Elevated car fare. He was found guilty and fined $5 for fare evasion and $5 for drunkenness by Judge Williams.
A medical notice claims scalp microbes from Hamburg and Paris cause baldness by starving hair roots. It touts Rexall 93 Hair Tonic with Resorcin Beta Napthol and Pilocarpin as a cure, offering a money back guarantee unless roots are dead or scalp pores closed. Two sizes, 50c and 1.00, sold by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
B. LA. Smith, 36, of 671 Shawmut avenue, a former GE Lynn employee, captured in Scollay square after allegedly forging and uttering checks since last October. Inspector Gaddis served an indictment warrant charging Smith with forgery in several counts at police headquarters.
The Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals heard arguments in the Norfolk and Western Railway Company appeal from a $20,000 Norfolk circuit court verdict for the deaths of Mrs. Mabel E. Munsell and Mrs. Florence I. Holmes of Boston who were visitors at the Jamestown exposition when killed in Norfolk on Sept 28, 1907.
Boston police commissioner says three months ago official notice was given to Salvation Army and Volunteers of America to stop soliciting on public streets. He cites violations, non resident arrests, and high costs of enforcing traffic laws and dog regulations. He notes 114 convictions of houses of ill repute in 1908.
General Gomez vows to uphold laws and the Constitution as Cuba begins a new administration. Governor Magoon departs aboard the Maine after salutes, handing over provisional duties to the incoming government supported by the United States. Treasury figures show available funds of 2 860 668 dollars for the new regime.
Boston ministers praise the revival as transformative with out-of-town churches growing crowded and new attendees embracing faith. Meetings at Tremont Temple draw large crowds while evangelists use art and stereopticon aids to reach non churchgoers.
The afternoon services in the Evangelistic campaign drew unusually large crowds in outlying groups started yesterday. In Central Congregational Church Dorchester Rev. Harry Taylor preached to about 600 people. At Second Congregational Dorchester Evangelist Mrron S Reeves spoke to a crowded edifice.
Charles M. Alexander and Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman concluded a two night revival in Lynn. The crowded St Pauls M E Church overflowed to East Lantern Church on Union Street, with many unable to enter. See Page 11 for more revival stories.
George W. Tucker of Graniteville Staten Island credits Cooper's New Discovery with curing chronic stomach dyspepsia. He reports improved appetite, disappearance of gas, better sleep, weight gain, and renewed energy after a month of use. The medicine is sold by leading druggists with a booklet available from The Cooper Medicine Co Dayton Ohio.
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