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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1906
Page
2
In Great Barrington July 22 state officers plan to outline a clue on the weapon used to kill 12 year old John Streub. The investigation centers on a revolver butt with Dr Beebe noting experiments support this theory. Police have shadowed a suspect carrying a 32 caliber revolver.
Mariners in thick fog the past week behind Cape Cod Vineyard Sound and toward Delaware reported ships late. The Merchants and Miners' steamer Gloucester led arrivals with near schedule time while the Indian H M Whitney Santiago and City of Augusta all arrived six to 12 hours late from Philadelphia New York Savannah and other ports.
In New Bedford on July 22 the strike fate rests with Henry H. Crapo of the Union Street Railway Company. If he agrees to a conference with the carmen's union and recognizes the new union, a work stoppage may be averted. otherwise orders will follow after the meeting adjourns. Mayors Thompson and Coughlin push to secure talks to prevent disruption.
Wake with bright eyes and a clear brain by trying Apitezo for a month. Have a dish with milk or cream daily to combat fatigue and support rich red blood. Apitezo Biscuits and Apitese Grains offered by grocers.
Rev W C Bitting at Tremont Temple denounces modern idols of business and pleasure. He argues money and self interest drive daily work and nightly waste, urging living souls to crave ongoing growth beyond a static heaven.
The Young Ladies' Charitable Association hosts an annual garden party at the Free Home for Consumptives grounds from 10 p m to 10 p m. Lantern-lit lawns and orchards transform the estate into fairyland while the Lynn Cadet Band plays classical and popular airs and Colored troubadours from the Sunny South perform. An American flag display and kite flying by Professor Samuel F. Perkins add novelty.
Ed win S. Updyke Jr a Navy paymaster's clerk died recently his fiancée Florence M Crawford claimed his estate citing a love letter that read I am yours to do with as you like The register of wills denied the claim noting poetic license is not a will and the phrase shows emotional expression with retained supervision over disposition of his possessions
Washington reports the G A R encampment at Minneapolis may oppose Congress limits on beer and light wines at soldiers homes and may challenge the anti-canteen law as it affects the regular army. Corporal Tanner and other officers condemn the legislation as insulting to veterans and harmful to temperance goals.
F W Martin of Beloit Wisconsin paid J Querrolo breeder near Independence Missouri three thousand dollars for Lord Bacon a Berkshire boar said to be the highest price for an American bred hog. Lord Bacon is a grandson of Masterpiece sold to an Illinois buyer then to M T Gentry of Sedalia. Querrolo raised both hogs.
Newport Rhode Island reports Col Honey father-in-law of Hon Josiah Quincy of Boston and his bride formerly Miss Hunter England will visit his old home in August. During the stay they will visit the Quincys in Boston and Mrs Honey is noted for social standing in British and American society.
PORTSMOUTH, Va July 22 The battleship Texas will serve as a floating boarding house for enlisted men at the Charleston S C naval station. Its days as a warship are over, deemed useless for active cruising. From launch the Texas faced ill luck including a near sinking in New York harbor and fame for its Santiago victory. Its final duty was flag service under Admiral Dickins before docking at Boston for stripping of six inch guns.
July 22 reports two privates collapsing from heat. One battalion joined a small evening parade led by Major Murray as crowds swelled at the camp. Captain Sullivan read congratulatory letters on his promotion to major while nurses treated heat cases at the hospital.
Quartermaster sergeant John J. Haley of the U S Marine Corps was stricken with malaria at Bowdoin Square last evening after arriving from Panama on the U S S Columbia. Doctors granted shore leave and declared him in good death, with transport to a relief station by ambulance.
In Utica a dance enduced free for all in which knives figured, Wallace Chackree was stabbed in the lung and another man was cut. both injuries described as serious. Officer Rathbun summoned, Toefiel Agarsd arrested without bail for striking the fatal blow.
General repairs for Boston's school houses have used about $54,000 from the city treasury. Extensive improvements are under way at Hyde Grammar South Boston High Charlestown High and Winthrop Street primary. Work is progressing on West End Primary Savin Hill Grammar Forest Hills Grammar and West Roxbury Primary Longfellow district schools.
The Salvation Army People's Palace fund in Boston has cash receipts of 91,883.82 to date with pledges and legacies due about 24,000 more, leaving an estimated total near 115,000. The treasurer says over 10,000 more must be raised by Sept. 1 when the final builder payment is due and the palace is set for dedication on Aug. 1.
The season's gem is amethyst with Queen Alexandra setting the trend. Fine almond-sized stones cost about 12 dollars while lighter colors are 3 to 4 dollars. Ireland supplies the best quality as quartz is plentiful in Ulster.
London reports a Paris sourced beauty regimen advising cleansing with olive oil and cognac or cologne, applying milk to the face, then potato or cucumber rubs. Prolonged use recommended along with internal milk regimens, large morning and bedtime water, light meals, and avoidance of wine tea and cake.
Parisian society follows Countess de Noailles who declares shoulder exposure decorous only in private or formal settings. She says it is improper to display shoulders for passers by while noting low necklines remain acceptable at balls and the opera among well bred crowds.
The Knights of St Finn Barr formerly the Corkmen's Association held their monthly session yesterday with President John F. Ahern presiding. The committee on the forthcoming field day presented favorable reports and several new members were initiated.
Four Beverly fishermen of the Hus sar schooner were separated in fog while tending trawls twenty miles east by south of Pollock Rip. They reached the Pollock Rip lightship, then Beverly, after a day of rowing with little water. A passing barge in tow struck the lightship, bending plates and causing slight leakage.
Dr. F. B. Stratton, chair of the Swampscott Board of Health, sues for 20000 alleging slander against the town committee that backed the panel’s report. The four named defendants include Allen H. Cole and William H. Bates, both prominent town officials, with each defendant hit for 5000.
Mrs. Charles Schultz of Newark New Jersey credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing her neuralgia of the heart after seven years of pain. She details scarlet fever followed by heart weakness and a long struggle with doctors before quick relief on the second box. Pills sold by druggists or postpaid from Schenectady price 50 cents per box six for 2 50.
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