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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1900
Page
2
The Boston and Albany lease has reached Governor Crane who will study the bill carefully before signing. The House enacted the measure amid debate on wage cuts and appointments, with speakers noting statewide implications and financial terms.
The Cambridge teachers plan a New York trip with lodging issues blamed on Superintendent Frye. He contemplates housing in a large house or multiple chartered vessels. Students and Cuban teachers eagerly anticipate gymnastic shows and daily classes while cultural differences spark lively debate.
The article advises against globe or circular tanks and favors square aquariums with gravel and abundant aquatic plants. It warns to avoid running water and limit water changes, notes plants absorb carbonic acid and provide oxygen, and suggests adding tadpoles to consume waste while they mature into frogs.
An advertisement urges readers to seek Hood's Sarsaparilla for debility low mood sleeplessness and poor appetite. It claims the medicine relieves nervous prostration chronic dyspepsia and serious diseases from neglecting health and presents Hood's as America’s great medicine.
George H Haines and his five children face a missing wife and mother Mary Helen Haines who disappeared three weeks ago from their 60 Henley Street home Boston. The distraught husband searched relatives and police, hoping for her return as neighbors and reporters observe a home once filled with happiness now desolate.
An athlete hails Omega Oil as a powerful liniment for strength, endurance, and muscle firming. The ad promises soothing and strengthening effects from a green Alps herb and recommends daily use before and after exercise. The testimonial, attributed to JAS. J. JEFFRIES, claims widespread athlete trust and trainer approval.
In East Boston and Charlestown a baker Haines describes his wife Mary Harper vanished after a Sunday night, leaving behind two children aged 4 and 7 months. Affected neighbor accounts reveal a troubled home. police were not alerted immediately. Names include Mary Harper and Michael Foley with ties to Boston saloons and hospitalization for typhoid pneumonia.
Destitute family reports Michael Foley also known as James Coleman disappeared from 8 Decatur Street East Boston on Friday morning while his relatives describe him as starving and in distress.
Eben D. Jordan plans a premier riding school complex in Back Bay Fens at Lansdowne and Ipswich. The $500000 project includes a five story stable for 200 to 300 horses, a vast ring and school, and patron accommodations with pressed brick and fireproof construction.
City records show 95.1 degrees on July 7, with 94.7 as the day’s high and afternoon readings reaching near 97 on the streets. Humidity varied from 64 percent at 8 am to 49 percent at 2 pm, and the evening held steady above 60 percent. No heat prostrations were logged at the City Hospital, though several individuals were treated by Emergency Hospital and at other locations for heat effects.
The Nantucket steamboat offers a refreshing escape for Bostonians. Five minutes after departure from the wharf, Castle, Governor's, Deer, Long Islands pass in view, then Point Allerton and the Brewsters appear before the vessel heads toward Province Town Harbor. The 53 mile trip lasts just under four hours with an hour and a half for dinner and sightseeing at Cape Cod town.
Woman operator testifies that telegrams sent by powers appear altered. Court records show despatch tampering allegations with the operator stating she observed irregularities in messages and testified to the tampering.
In Georgetown Kentucky on July 16 the Caleb Powers trial resumed and a signed letter stating I have had a hard time getting Taylor and others to start but they are all right now and this thing will end was filed. Telegrams from Powers's Barboursville home were entered as evidence and identified by the Barboursville Telegraph Office manager. The telegrams to captains urging mountain men excursions to Frankfort were read, asking How many can you insure from your county. The defense objected to alleged tampering with messages from January and February, and Henry Kelly of Frankfort's Postal Telegraph office was called to identify telegrams.
Fragmentary OCR describes a vessel or cargo event near Saint Paul Island with divers damaged and a plan to Halifax. Details unclear due to garbled text and missing dates. Further readable context needed to confirm actors and outcome.
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