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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1906
Page
5
R David A Gebhardt of 573 6th Ave Brooklyn testifies that business worry caused severe insomnia. He says Peruna helped from the first dose and six bottles fully restored his sleep and health, noting it works by improving digestion rather than acting as a sedative.
The Rev Dr E Morgan Dix rector of Trinity Church New York is seriously ill at the Hotel Somerset Boston. Physicians say no fears for recovery though age makes the condition delicate. Attending doctors expect care and nursing to bring improvement within a week. Dr Dix had come to Boston to attend the Battelle Soutter wedding where he officiated.
In Toledo on July 2 Judge Kinkade sentenced Clarence Brown and T H Tracy, defense attorneys for the ice men, to 10 days each in jail for contempt of court after filing a motion accusing the judge of misconduct.
Captain and Mrs. George Adams of 28 Haverhill Street Brockton mark their 70th wedding anniversary tomorrow. Captain Adams born Milton December 3 1816 a forty niner and seafaring man later worked for ex Governor W L Douglas. Mrs Adams born Hingham October 13 1820.
Mrs. Margaret Richards, nee Margaret Feeley of Water town Street, says she escaped parental control by climbing from a Newton window to meet Benjamin Richards. They married in Boston last Friday with a license showing her age as 18, then returned to the Richards family home.
News from New York reports the Fabre line steamer America, sailing from Marseilles and Naples with 110 passengers and cargo for New York, is 11 days overdue. Relatives and friends besieged the company's city office seeking information, but agents had none.
Representative John F. Sullivan of Ward 2 accompanied Captain James J. Kelly aboard the cape cat Elk, formerly Rex, for a Sunday cruise from Jeffries Yacht Club. The party, including amateur yachtsmen and Fred Desmond as crew, sailed down channel to Nantasket Point where luncheon was served.
Secretary Taft attended Provincetown Pilgrim Memorial Commission in Boston to organize the plan for a $90,000 memorial at Provincetown. The project, approved by Congress for $40,000 with matching funds goal, aims for a tall, simple landmark visible to seafarers and will be designed by an architect yet to be named.
Indignation rises as G A R posts fail to raise national colors during Secretary Taft's visit. Ill janitor Henry A White was to raise the flag. adjutant Henry F Hobart says he did not know Taft was arriving and saw no need to raise it. Some residents vow to place a flag themselves. Taft notes the incident without comment.
Washington July 2 The final itinerary of Secretary Root's South America journey was announced by the State Department. He sails from New York aboard the Charleston July 4, stops at San Juan Rio Montevideo Buenos Ayres Valparaiso Callao Panama and returns to New York October 1.
Attorney General Moody departs Washington for a vacation likely to last several weeks. He plans to spend most of the time near his Massachusetts home. No word on the Standard Oil prosecutions as the department weighs next steps.
Nicholas J. Furie 42 a longtime Democratic figure died of Brights disease at 10 p m Sunday at his home 50 Monument square Charlestown He was born in New York and lived in Charlestown since youth He served as assistant assessor claimed for the Boston water department chaired Ward 5 Democratic city committee and sat on the Democratic State central committee He was a member of Boston Lodge B P O E He is survived by his widow a son Francis J Furie 18 and a sister Mrs Margaret Crafts of Roxbury.
Panic grips small milk dealers over a July 1 start requiring licensed sellers to transfer milk to vessels bearing the seller’s name. Inspector Jordan aims to bring about uniform compliance among about 4000 Boston vendors, with four months given to acquire proper containers and a $10 fine for non dairy use of receptacles.
New York July 2 The resignation of George W Perkins as trustee of New York Life Insurance Company was accepted at a special board meeting. Perkins resigned last December but action was delayed until today. Also resigning were J A Blair H Walters and Norman B Ream. Replacements named: H H Lurton Nashville Tenn A A Raven New York City George F Benard New York City and James H Eckels Chicago.
Governor Guild and Attorney General Malone pursue state law action to curb foreign control of Massachusetts trolley lines. Delay from railroad commissioners due to absence delays formal board action. Malone studies statutes and may seek Supreme Court writ of information against the New York New Haven Hartford for evading Massachusetts law.
In Hancock county probate court the Manhattan Oil Company Buckeye Pipe Line Company and Standard Oil related entities face a conspiracy in restraint of trade charge. The case was brought by the prosecuting attorney with state attorney general aid and did not go before a grand jury.
Cleveland July 2 United States District Judge Taylor ordered a grand jury to probe alleged rebating and discrimination by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and other railroads in favor of Standard Oil Company.
Mayor Fitzgerald approved a new Dorchester paving division based at Codman lodge Ward 24. Existing Dorchester yard on Abencock Street will shift. Maurice Condon and John F Garrity figures tied to local politics, with Garrity placed at Hancock Street yard and Condon retained elsewhere. Each foreman earns 1800 dollars yearly.
Paris papers mock John D. Rockefeller's bald head and urge petroleum remedies. Rockefeller dismisses the idea and jokes about a million-dollar prize for hair growth while scientists pursue cures. He says God made him the richest man and opposes artificial hair growth.
The Duke of Manchester hosted a luncheon at Blenheim House for Mr and Mrs Nicholas Longworth. They traveled by the duke's motor car to Oxford then to London with Ambassador and Mrs Reid to a dinner and dance at Lady Dartmouth's.
Virginia Calnan of Dorchester mother of three children was found guilty by Judge Brown in municipal court of taking a pocketbook containing $75 from actress Isabelle Stapleton last Monday. Sentence was deferred.
Detroit Midh July 2 Philander J Walton a Pontiac capitalist left 27 wills each making a different disposition of his estate and a contest will be waged over the property in the Circuit Court A granddaughter Mrs Mabel Thorpe Smith opposes her mother in the dispute
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