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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1904
Page
5
The Boston Sunday Post runs an ongoing Animal Mask contest with masks such as Donkey Monkey and Owl themed weeks in July. Prizes include ten dollars for the top letter and smaller awards for others, as readers urged advance ordering due to high demand.
An advertisement and letters extol Postum Food Coffee as a cure for coffee induced nervousness fatigue and insomnia. A Cornwall Ontario physician recounts his health recovery after switching to Postum and avoiding coffee. A reader from Salem Massachusetts recounts a playful schoolyard game narrative.
A lively Fourth of July parade featured fourteen boys in red white and blue, led by Paul Wonderly as Columbia and Charley Wonderly as Uncle Sam. Ernest Starrat, five, played a Pig-faced drummer as animals including Bears Pigs Wolves and Tigers joined in. Eddie Beeman supervised the march and Joseph Cassidy dressed as a bear acted as a police bear chasing the group for playful mischief. The children sang patriotic songs on Laurel Street and ended with root beer.
A heated dispute over sex separation at beaches in Boston features statements from Charles H. Hatch and other officials and clergy. Reformers urge European style division citing morality concerns, while defenders of mixed bathing praise safety and social norms, with figures like Amzi C. Dixon and Milton C. Paige weighing in.
Several letters describe Fourth of July animal mask parties across New England towns. Children recount games with goats bears tigers wolves and pigs, festive meals, and praise for the Sunday Post. One note reports a girl struck by a car and a planned damages suit.
A letter to the editor outlines resolutions from Copper Club No 1 Division of Frenzied Finance. The group vows to load conductors with coppers, delay service, and report any conductor accepting coins. They pledge to supply coppers for trolley fares and refuse to merge with rival groups, sending a copy to prominent streetcar newspapers.
New York dated dispatch reports Montana Senator William A. Clark married Miss Anna E. La Chappelle of Butte in Marseilles France on May 25 1901. The couple reportedly have a two year old daughter and Mrs Clark is the daughter of Dr La Chappelle formerly of Chicago.
July 11 report from Quincy states 4-year-old Josephine Mercurio, daughter of Norfo Mercurio, was struck by an automobile and remains at home at 91 Sumner Street with injuries.
Chief Watts of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation launches a citywide campaign to arrest straw bail men. Acting on evidence from the district attorney’s office and DA Stevens, officers are instructed to capture those known to default and issue circulars listing criminals aided by bail sureties.
After months of quarrel between Mayor Willard and the Aldermen, Chelsea approved a 6200 appropriation to finish the new High School. The building has cost about 250000, and the funds will be spent jointly by the Mayor and the school committee for finishing touches.
In Boston 14 new patrolmen and 28 new reserve officers were named by a Board of Police general order. Among the reserve-to-patrol promotions, William J. Joyce received special assignment for meritorious service after he saved a man from a clothes fire by rolling him in a door mat. The list includes 14 patrolmen and 28 reserve officers assigned by division, detailing names and divisions.
In Camden Maine on July 11 a boat capsized off Sherman's Point killing Robert Young 19 and Mamie Barker 23. Ernest Picket 25 and Fannie Willis 22 were saved after Picket swam to shore with Willis and held her as he reached a ledge, clinging with one hand to rescue her.
The original plantation jubilee dialect and songs with instrumental music will be presented tonight at the People's Temple. Dr. Crane is pastor and thirty voices from the Jenkins Orphanage and Reformatory in Charleston, South Carolina, will perform.
Miss Belle S Hall librarian at Brighton Public Library and her sisters Misses Josephine Hall and Ida E Hall depart from South Station for New York and Liverpool aboard the Carpathia to begin a summer camping trip among the lakes of Ireland and Scotland They plan to spend most of the season in Killarney with a final return by September 12 to 159 Foster Street Brighton.
A long-running linen game swindle, traced to two French men posing as agents for Nelson Forbes and Co of London, has victims in Beacon Street Commonwealth Avenue Newton Brookline Cambridge and other wealthy areas. Chief Watts warns residents as past schemes yielded large losses.
Warren Livermore of East Cambridge received a surprise party at his home on his 25 years of service as jail officer. Sheriff John R. Fairbairn presented a $100 purse from friends. Mr Livermore and his wife plan a two week Maine trip.
Florence Gutsky a 15 year old girl from South End has been arrested on a charge of being a stubborn child after efforts by police and her parents to commit her to a home for moral welfare. Detectives Curran and Brauer returned her to Davis street parents as the case heads to court.
State fire marshal officers suspect a gang of boys set several suspicious fires since July Fourth. Chief Neal said investigators are looking into the incidents in multiple towns and in Montrose near Lynnfield where a July 8 blaze occurred.
The body of Charles Olsen of Glasgow, one of the three sailors who drowned escaping the burning steamer Austrian, was recovered by harbor police yesterday as it drifted near the pile supports of the big grain elevator at the Charlestown docks.
A 55 year old man, James F. Ingalls of 96 Leverett Street, was overcome by heat on Court Street yesterday. He was taken to Relief Hospital where doctors said he would recover.
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