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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1900
Page
10
Mayor Zoller Weds Holyoke widow described as a pretty young woman. The article notes the couple’s rapid union following a three week period spent in the woods and mentions the bride’s late husband’s family.
In York July 2 Godfrey Zeller of Hast New Durham New Jersey aged beyond seventy takes a second wife and then a third, marrying 28 year old widow Barbara Stuerwald of Union City who had a four month old child. The marriage comes after he learned of a widow seeking a life partner and followed his habit of marrying quickly.
Mrs. J. C. Lovett of Northampton, 32, spent three weeks living on berries and roots in woods and fields before being found and returned to Springfield friends. She remembers nothing of the absence and had gone to recover strength. Police identified her from a description after a visitor at a farm near Mt Tom prompted investigation.
J E Vrooman of Selkirk Albany county New York visited Sharon seeking his missing daughter Pearl aged about 15 who vanished with Conrad Kline Hauntz a 40 year old married man. Police doubt the pair were in Sharon and no trace of either has been found despite searches as grief-stricken parents pray for Pearl's return.
Four young women halted Rockland Light and Power Company workers near Mrs. Lavinia Blauvelt’s estate in Blauvelt New York. Miss Letta Brooks led the protest by filling a dug hole and standing on it to prevent poles from being erected while the workers backed away.
Mrs. Anna M. Jones of Marcus Hook Pennsylvania recently swallowed a lizard while drinking water. The reptile crawled into her throat repeatedly but she could not eject it. She died last night after a choking sensation, with no evidence of strangulation. It is believed her fear contributed to the fatal heart reaction.
Inspector Abbot arrested yesterday afternoon James E. Magarin, 39, of Quincy, Mass., charged with stealing a horse carriage and harness valued at $175 from John Blevin of Puritan Avenue, Cambridge. The theft occurred last December.
Lieut F L Bradman U S M C of this city is among seventeen first lieutenants slated for captaincy by the commandant He is 22 years old and a Bordentown Military Institute graduate He served as second lieutenant at the start of the Spanish American War and later joined the permanent service He has been at Charlestown Navy Yard and is now aboard the Luan Philadelphia in Puget Sound He is son of F C Bradman head of the advertising department at A Shyman & Co and nephew of the late Earl English rear admiral U S N.
Lowell and Nashua men George W. Jockow and WwW. B. Wellman stump New Hampshire and Massachusetts for William J. Bryan. They travel by wagon holding free silver views, sell literature, and hope to sway undecided voters to Bryan amid discussions of money, banks, and a proposed national postal system.
Crowded Casino piazzas in Newport witness a thaw in the Oelrichs Fish feud as both women unite in public with cheers from young socialites. Harry Lehr stands nearby as the reconciler celebrated by onlookers.
Body of Edith Blanche Drury, Newton district nurse, found dead near Pot station from accidental chloroform overdose. Miss Drury, 23, trained at Lowell Hospital, had recent letters from her mother and planned burial in Westminster after services in Newton. Police deem death accidental with no evidence of distress or suicide.
Westminster records recall Edith B. Drury as the surviving Drury, whose grandfather hanged himself thirty-five years ago and whose father died on a bridge at Nichols Stones chair factory in 1896. Edith, once despondent, became a nurse and believed a violent fate awaited her, defying warnings about ether and chloroform.
Lyle Perkins a 23 year old freight brakeman on the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine railroad had both legs cut off below the knees at the Austin street crossing in Charlestown. He slipped while attempting to board a moving engine around 9 pm and was transported to North Station and then Massachusetts General Hospital. He had only recently joined the railroad and lives at 2 Everett Street.
Mrs Goulet and her husband recount a long line of births at 194 Broad Street French Hill. She has just delivered her eighteenth child a daughter while the couple reflect on devoted parenting and aid from their parish and community.
In a tidy Goulet home a writer finds the mother and father with an infant and several children. The scene includes sixteen Goulet offspring seven girls and nine boys. Mrs Goulet’s mother died at fifty five and Mr Goulet’s mother is alive at seventy five.
Mrs Ramsey of Duttonville New Jersey pins a large rattlesnake with a forked stick and loops a cord noose over its head. She drags the captive to Dunnville and keeps it, as no one wants a pet.
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