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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1903
Page
5
Miss Celia Harrington of Detroit testifies Peruna cured her catarrh and nervous weakness after an illness. The ad warns against cheap imitations, urges insisting on Peruna, and invites readers to write Dr. Hartman for free advice.
Boston introduces precinct caucuses replacing ward caucuses for 1903 with city wide primaries. Nomination rules vary by district for councillors and state committees while Aldermen now elected citywide in eight-from-each-party primary system. Voters will cast eight Aldermen nominations at the primary and 13 at the city election.
Judge Emmons of the Police Board and Commissioner Curtis will decide today whether additional registration sites beyond police headquarters will be allowed. Senator Fitzgerald backed outlying stations while Dr Pierce favored current arrangements. A conference was held with Judge Emmons and Dr Pierce, who agreed with the present system, and the board plans to notify if another conference is needed. The Democratic chair insists the chair violates the law, while Emmons says he administers it impartially. The Election Board will likely publish its count next Tuesday or Wednesday, and misspelled names will be corrected with affected voters proving identity.
The Commonwealth steamship of the Dominion line departs this afternoon at 3 o clock with cargo and 419 passengers including Dr and Mrs Bartlett Judge and Mrs Doyle Miss Genevieve Doyle Mr and Mrs Osborne Howes Miss Gretchen Howes Mr Kenneth Howes Mr and Mrs Wallace Jones Dr F M Lowe the reverends EF Mears P S Moxom D D Mr and Mrs A F Pillsbury Dr Cc B Porter Miss Hortense IL Porter the Rev C F Weeden and Dr W F Winchester sailing to Queenstown and Liverpool with 119 saloon 100 second cabin and 200 steerage passengers.
Dr Simon Flexner of the University of Pennsylvania praised the Boston Floating Hospital as a great blessing to children with summer diseases and said many lives are saved by this charity. He noted its superior equipment and skilled staff while touring states where cholera morbus serum tests are conducted under his Rockefeller foundation work.
A police boat chased and captured a stolen sloop yacht from City Point after it was sighted with six young men aboard. Edward Kenney, Charles Stevens, Joseph Garrity, Charles McGowan, Joseph Owens, and Michael Dunn were arrested and charged with taking the yacht from its moorings last Wednesday. The vessel was towed to the city harbor.
Harbor police recovered the body of William Burke a 40 year old East Boston man from the water near the Winthrop shore. He was last seen boating near the Narrows when his boat overturned on July 20 and had been missing since.
A Boston liquor dealer Cassidy sues Sprague trustee of the Jonas Stickney estate in East Cambridge Registry of Deeds for 800000. Deputy Sheriff serves writ. Cassidy says contract to buy adjacent land failed after assignment. aims to protect creditors. The estates total about 2.5 million square feet along North Beacon street, State boulevard, including Cassidy property.
William H. Denker and Henry Lowrey appeared before Judge Burke in Municipal Court charged with larceny of diamonds valued at 2270 belonging to John B. Humphrey. After hearing the case, His Honor discharged the defendants.
William A. Wallace was knocked down and robbed of a gold watch chain and charm in front of 43 Court street. Robert Burnham, 48, tried to flee but was captured with the loot by Sergeant Dobbyns of Division 2, who chased him from City Hall square toward Devonshire street. The watch and chain were found on Burnham at the station. Wallace, of Holliston, declined a reward for the officer.
Salem district workers end a strike after two thirds of local carpenters sign the agreement raising pay to two dollars and sixty cents to three dollars per eight hour day. The action affects Salem Beverly and Manchester where over five hundred carpenters were involved.
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