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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1902
Page
7
The Boston school supplies committee cannot secure local coal contracts as 18 000 tons used annually by schools dwindle to under 1000. June coal shipments fall to 181 586 tons while most went to steamships, idling barges and vessels and threatening manufacturing with coming winter shortages.
State Officer George Do Neal told a Post reporter that he is still pursuing every clue but has found nothing on Wilbur Clarke’s whereabouts. He is reviewing gypsy bands that were in the area when the boy disappeared. Harry W Clarke, the boy’s father, grows despondent as the search continues with little progress and few leads.
SANFORDS GINGER claims to be the purest warming stomach remedy with French Brandy imported ginger and select aromatics. It is advertised as superior and safe compared to cheaper substitutes, with OWL TRADE MARK on the wrapper and sold by druggists and grocers nationwide.
An oil stove explosion on the lower floor of a Somerville avenue building caused a fatal fire killing Fred Sternfeldt aged 9 months. Neighbors aided fleeing residents as flames trapped the child on the second floor near the stairs. Mrs Sternfeldt and two other toddlers escaped to the street assisted by a passerby.
Elizabeth Garnier Bouguereau plans to donate her painting Across the Brook to Exeter New Hampshire, her birthplace. The oil work, one of seven remaining, holds personal significance and will be presented to the town by Mrs Bouguereau.
Washington reports final negotiations for the Panama Canal treaty began at the State Department with Secretary Hay and Cromwell. Aimed to authorize construction and settle transfer questions, progress was made though no firm conclusion reached.
Mayor Collins plans a $100000 loan appropriation to abate the Back Bay Fens foulness by curbing sewage inflow through Stony Brook. He has considered but not enacted a larger scheme to extend Commissioners' Channel to the Charles River, awaiting finance committee action and further study.
Hon J D Botkin Congress man from Kansas writes of overcoming chronic stomach catarrh with Peruna and Mana lin. Captain O Bertoletto of the Italian barque Lincelles also testifies to Peruna curing stomach catarrh after years of ailment. The letters praise Peruna as a universal remedy for catarrh and invite others to seek advice from Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
A brief feature notes how a large portion of English speakers maintain health by keeping themselves in condition through consistent routines and simple self care practices.
The text profiles Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau a member of Exeter’s old families and Lasell graduate who studied in Paris with Bouguereau Merle and Lefebre. It notes her painting Judgment of Paris and an exhibition in Liverpool, her later fame for child portraits, Salon medals, and her Paris residence with ties to Exeter.
The Governor Andrew offers all day trips from Rowe's Wharf to Plymouth with a 10 a.m. departure and return according to schedule. Steamers to Pemberton and Nantasket Wharf run hourly throughout the day. The new state bathhouse at the beach offers surf facilities for visitors.
A six mile Saturday journey from six miles out of Haverhill Massachusetts ends in a habit forming purchase. The eccentric shopper buys one bottle weekly of Alpha Salad Cream, insisting on no other dressing. Alpha Salad Cream is advertised as oil free and easy on digestion, made by H J Blodgett Co Boston.
A garden party hosted by Mr and Mrs John Sloane honored General Horace Porter United States ambassador to France at their Lenox country home Wyndhurst. The event drew about 250 guests with music by the Tenth Regiment Band Albany and refreshments in a Persian tent. Porter planned to depart tonight for Bar Harbor to be hosted by Morris K Jesup of New York for two weeks.
At a recent executive council meeting Governor Crane announced several appointments. L Elmer Wood of Fall River becomes southern district district attorney succeeding Samuel LeBaron Holmes. Mark B E Smith of Charlestown named clerk of the Municipal Court Charlestown district. W F Hardy deceased replaced by EK V Wilson of Athol as special justice District Court of Northern Worcester. New State Board of Publication includes W D T Trefry Marblehead James W Kimball Lynn and John Woodbury. A commission to study public school funding names Horace G Wadlin Reading F G Pettigrove W D Hawley Malden George I Aldrich Newton and Granville T Fletcher.
Three Boer veterans released with prisoners in Bermuda arrived in Boston yesterday and sailed toward New York. They plan to study North American cattle raising before returning to Quebec and then sailing to England and home to South Africa. They spoke excellent English and urged Canadian volunteers with quiet pride. Records at the U S immigration office list Co. Luyt 35 years, A Moll 28 years, and A Mallat 42 years, all born in South Africa with no occupations.
Police report the capture of one of two youths suspected in an April West Somerville burglary. James B. Briggs aged 17 was arrested yesterday morning for breaking and entering the W. C. Short grocery on Highland avenues. He pleaded not guilty in court and is held on $1500 bond until July 15.
Greatly reduced passenger rates to Colorado and Pacific coast points during July and August via Colorado Short Line. Full information furnished by L. W. Ewald N. E. P. Agent Missouri Pacific railway 192 Washington Street Boston.
Mrs Batcheller and her husband Mr Francis Batcheller with Mrs Theodore C Bates sailed for Europe last Saturday and secured return passage on the American line for September. She may sing before Milan Italian masters and in Paris to Mme Marchesi, her former teacher. She has appeared publicly in charity concerts and plans to stay a few months at the North Brookfield country home before resuming residence at the Tuileries on Commonwealth Avenue Boston.
Provincetown July 9 The British schooner Bernard ran aground on Wood End beach at 3 am. The vessel lies high on the shore with a strained hull and heavy water in the hold. Crew unloads cargo of laths to lighten ship and salvage the craft.
In Wilmington Vermont on July 9 free gold was discovered in a cut at Sears burg six miles away, causing widespread excitement as residents believe a bonanza may be near. A rateholder from Arlington reported striking free gold in quartz with pyrites arsenic and iron after following guidance from an old miner, ten days prior.
Mildred Sullivan, a Whitman widow, aged 4% in a department store on Washington Street attempted to end her life yesterday afternoon. The incident caused a crowd to panic before blue-coated officers from Station 4 intervened and she was sent to the House of Detention for safekeeping. no friends or relatives had appeared by late last night.
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