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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
3
Phebe Richardson, 42, accused by police of running a policy joint for the colored trade at 20 Wheeler Street South End. Judge Murray fined her $50 for the operation, described as a rare case of a woman independent of masculine help promoting a policy game.
A 70 year old man describes severe cracking and bleeding hands. After two doctors failed, Cuticura Soap and Ointment healed his hands within a week and he credits them for relief and prevention of further soreness. He recalls a neighbor’s child also cured and cites dates in 1909.
The ad touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent as the purest safest and most economical for babies skin scalp and hair and for rashes itchings inflammations and chafings for infants children and adults. It lists prices 25 50 and 60 cents and notes availability from Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston with a free Cuticura Book describing treatments.
Three hundred Elks from the United States arrived in Winnipeg Manitoba on July 28 and were entertained. Thomas Flanagan, delegation chair from New England, impressed locals while noting his resemblance to John L. Sullivan and proving his role as commissary head for the trip.
Abraham Stone also known as Samuel Stone, 23, of 3800 Chelsea Street East Boston, arrested yesterday by Inspectors Rooney and McCauley at his home on larceny charges. Arraigned in Woburn court and found guilty on two counts. sentence suspended, bail set. He was later arrested again on another larceny charge and is wanted by police in several towns for thefts from news dealers in Woburn Winchester Cambridge Somerville and Boston.
Bedford July 28 The Rev Richard A Griffin longtime Unitarian figure author and artist died at his home of apoplexy aged 66 years He was widely known for his religious writings and artistic work in the community.
Captain Stuart W. Wise of the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment completes a two day effort at the New England Military Rifle Association tournament, recording 62 consecutive bulls eyes to claim a world record. Wakefield Camp 39 leads the team totals with 455 points, while Chesley is top individual with 94. Other camps and shooters, including Boston and Natick units, earn prizes or await shoot-offs.
Traffic stalled last night on the Atlantic avenue Elevated from 6 25 to 7 05 as a brake shoe dropped between the outside rail and the third rail. Hundreds of passengers were stranded high in the cars during rush hour. Trains were diverted through the tunnel via Dover street to reach Sullivan square until the shoe was removed at 7 05.
In Fairhaven Vermont on July 28 Arthur Ward 35 of Castleton selected a car track as a sleeping spot. An electric car ran over him killing him instantly his right leg was severed and his head severely mangled. Ward was unmarried.
A relay team from Somerville Boston and Cambridge Sam Meyers Bart Sullivan and Frank Kanely won the 26 mile 385 yard race on the athletic grounds under electric lights defeating the Indian Flying Deer Tall Feather and Black Hawk in 2 hours 38 minutes 40 seconds.
A 12 knot southwest breeze kept city heat from turning deadly on July 28 as the mercury reached 91.3 degrees, one prostration reported. Twenty four year old Thomas Turbat of Jamaica Plain fainted on a construction site at Marlboro Street and was treated at City Hospital and released.
Boston logged the hottest July 28 on record for the Atlantic coast with statewide temperatures dwarfing peers from Dodge City to Montgomery. Forecasters warn of continued heat with no cooling rain in sight as humidity rose to dangerous levels and a light southwest breeze offered little relief.
At a Wells Memorial meeting the Boston Cigar Factory Strippers' Union announced the arbitrators awarded victory to the strippers on the wage scale and working conditions against H. Traiser & Co. The decision, praised by E. A. Filene, supports a living wage in Boston though a disagreement over a clause limiting wage reductions for existing higher pay.
A solemn high mass was sung for the late John Lane of Charlestown at St Mary’s on Warren Street yesterday morning with Rev Fr Charles Lane as celebrant. Priests from multiple parishes attended, and a choir from Immaculate Conception assisted. Services preceded at Lane’s home at 30 Harvard Street, Charlestown, and he was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Everett July 28 John Taylor Jr aged 12 or 13 was struck and killed by a local train on the Saugus branch of the Boston and Maine road. He was returning home from a swimming pool in the Malden River at 12 Heath Street.
Thirty members of the Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers Civil War veterans attended the forty second annual reunion at Grand View Hotel Nantasket Beach as reported in local society notes.
An advertisement argues that excess internal fat restricts lung capacity and oxygen flow, causing fatigue in heat. It promotes Marmola Tablets as a safe, dietless fat reducer claiming a 12 to 15 ounce daily loss with no skin sagging, offered via druggists or Marmola Company, Detroit.
Judge Richardson granted an injunction at the request of Annie E. Greenleaf restraining Horace W. Baxter from interfering with her possession of her home on Surrey Street Brighton. George E. Brock of the Boston school committee was named as a defendant in the bill seeking reconveyance of the Surrey Street house alleging they bought it at foreclosure sale.
An advertisement extols right living and timely use of remedies. It promotes California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as the genuine, effective laxatives. It urges purchase only from the California Fig Syrup Co. and through leading druggists.
An advertisement asserts Father John's Medicine provides food and nourishment that strengthens each organ, drives out impurities, and builds up the body with guaranteed results.
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