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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1896
Page
2
New York dispatch reports a Brooklyn bride of ten days and a 15 year old girl left by their husbands in a strange city with only seventy five cents. The piece notes threats allegedly made by the wives and follows a parallel case involving Ray Hamilton.
July 4 morning reports a dramatic death by self harm as Nellie Martin is found taking carbolic acid on a New York street. Authorities investigate the incident and circumstances remain unclear.
In St Louis on July 24 the final silver convention session drew the largest crowd yet. Mr Baker of California chaired the proceedings as both Democratic nominees received strong endorsements and party unity was announced with no divisions amid the enthusiastic gathering.
A Los Angeles girl identified as Mrs. Bell Joyce testified in Yorkville Court that she married George Joyce after meeting him ten days earlier. He borrowed $200 from her mother, they traveled to New York, stayed at a hotel then a furnished room, and vanished after Joyce gave her $0.75 and left.
Brooklyn July 24. Mrs Ida Lawrence faced two process servers over mortgageed furniture and alleged threats. She admitted a pistol remark but denied threats. post mortem shows George C. Lawrence killed by a bullet entering below the nostril into the brain. She used aliases Florence Horton and Ida Lawrence in furniture mortgages to Granville and Fidelity Seam Association of New York.
An affidavit filed by Merrin Cross asserts a baby substitution scheme involving Robert Ray Hamilton and the Roberts claim. It cites the child born February 10, 1888 in Brooklyn to Mrs Townsend who died eleven days after birth, with Dr. Briggs present at confinement.
A 22 year old Nellie Martin, a Tenderloin regular, bought carbolic acid and drank it outside a saloon at Thirty‑first Street and Eighth Avenue. A crowd stood by as a policeman summoned help. she died two hours later at the hospital. A note left behind blamed poverty and heartbreak, requesting forgiveness from "Jack" and noting despondency over making ends meet. Her father is Janitor Martin, 225 West End Avenue.
Charles T. Raines son of "Excise Bill" Raines wed Miss Nathalia Guidotte of Brooklyn soon after proposing. A telephone boy and escort Paul Stoechle helped locate a minister in Jersey City, and Rev R H Johnson officiated at Trinity Baptist. The couple then visited Albany before settling in Brooklyn.
San Francisco reports that Miss Maxine Elliott, famed as Augustin Daly’s beauty, denies rumors of coming to California to qualify for a divorce. She explains she spoke carelessly about possibly going to California for a divorce after a Western engagement, but insists she is not pursuing another marriage dissolution.
New York July 24 The Rialto discusses Dorothy Drews divorce with Leonel Lawrence suing for divorce alleging he married rival Lottie Levine formerly of Hammerstein's Olympia. Lawyers doubt bigamy, noting the second marriage occurred in Canada.
The conference committee reported the resolution adopted with conferrees from the Populist convention and sent to the press yesterday. It passed by a rising unanimous vote, accompanied by notable enthusiasm.
E C Little of Abilene Kansas placed Bryan's name before the convention as the next president. Speakers argued over gold standard and money power while Bryan inspired delegates with Lincoln era imagery. The assembly nominated Bryan by acclamation and Sewall by acclamation, with a West notification plan. The session adjourned at 6:30.
The Democratic State committee met in Montpelier with 11 of 14 members present. They planned an active campaign on state and national issues. W H Childs of Brattleboro resigned as presidential elector candidate and Rollin S Childs was appointed in his stead.
The speaker denounces the gold standard and urges free coinage of silver, arguing that only international bimetallism can restore stability. He cites Republican leaders, Lord Lidderdale, and European authorities, claims England must follow, and frames the issue as a national economic crisis requiring independent American action.
An 83 year old Waltham carpenter, A Wetherbee, credits Puritana with restoring his health after decades of pain from indigestion and stomach strain. He sought many doctors and medicines before trying Puritana, which he says has given lasting relief and he now recommends it to friends. He was born in Harvard, Mass., and spent over fifty years as a leading local craftsman.
The statement asserts that complete and lasting disease cure requires the purifying, correcting, and building-up process to start and end in the stomach. It emphasizes the stomach as the central organ for medical restoration. The claim frames digestion and gut health as essential to overall healing.
The American Wringer Company lists locations at 13 and 15 Broadway extension and 29 and 31 Corn Hill in Boston. It offers all kinds of wringers and Bissell carpet sweepers with repairs called for and delivered at no extra charge. Contact Tremont 764 by letter or telephone.
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