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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1893
Page
6
Ida Glenwood known as the blind bard of Michigan credits Paine’s celery compound with restoring her health after nervous prostration and dyspepsia. She describes dramatic recovery after two bottles and urges others in similar conditions to try the remedy.
St Paul to mark completion of the Great Northern railroad to Puget Sound with June 7 and 8 festivities. James J Hill and associates built the line without government aid. The Hill celebration will feature floats and a grand reception for Mr Hill by St Paul citizens.
A Fall River man named Jansen, treated for an eye injury at Eye and Ear Infirmary, sparked rumors of links to the Manchester murder. The Post found the tale exaggerated. no police contact or connection to the case existed.
Captain Wilson Perry and crew fought a whale about 25 feet long that fouled their frail boat early this morning. The whale overturned the boat and the men barely escaped drowning before the creature was killed and towed ashore.
The Boston Post details the Sick Baby Fund progress and urges subscriptions as warm weather slows contributions. It notes the day to day work of the Post's doctor among Boston's sick babies and highlights recent donations and the need to swell the fund promptly.
In a Porter Street basement two sick children signal hardship for a family. The father is rheumatic and out of work while the mother launders to supplement meager odd earnings. The piece highlights maternal struggle and the Post's doctor bringing aid as a double blessing.
The Post reports that yesterday the doctor and a reporter entered an upper tenement on North Street. They found two rooms described as exceptionally plain and sparsely furnished with little decoration or comfort.
A tidy room shows a mother in calico with a sick infant in bed. The cradle stands in a side room while the girl stirs in agony under netting. The mother, lacking a physician, gratefully accepts help from the Post doctor and his medicine, thanking him in broken English.
The Board of Aldermen discussed referr ing the Mystic water rate change to public hearing and reported on widening Huntington and Tremont streets with 10 foot sidewalks. A printing petition by the Central Labor Union was referred. Barnum & Bailey parade permissions were granted for June 12. An ordinance on bicycle use in streets was referred. The Essex and Lincoln streets widening order for 260 500 dollars was passed.
At Buzzard's Bay on June 6 D. C. Besse and L. K. Ames were severely burned when a carboy of vitriol exploded during packing for shipment. Ames escaped with minor burns thanks to rubber boots, while Besse suffered extensive burns to his legs and feet.
Montpelier VT June 6 Enos F Stevens of East Montpelier a famed horseman in the state killed himself by hanging in his barn. Despondency and illness are seen as probable causes.
In Rome Signor Cuciniello and others face indictment for alleged embezzlement of 2,450,000 lire from the Bank of Naples. Cuciniello, former bank manager, confessed to seizing the entire sum in January while masked as a priest and, in his statement, cleared the cashier of any guilt.
Fifty six pupils of the Perkins Institute and Massachusetts School for the Blind staged a moving graduation in a Boston Theatre setting. Helen Keller read Longfellow, while deaf and blind students performed vocally, instrumentally, and in a dramatic tableau, drawing tears and praise from the audience.
State Examiner Preston took charge of Canal Street Bank as it liquidates after a run sparked by Shoe and Leather Bank’s refusal to clear. Rasines said the bank, crowded with depositors, expects to pay every dollar.
Philadelphia June 6 Prince owner of a steam marble works and Rutland Vermont quarries has failed with liabilities of 100000 and nominal assets of 250000. Tight money markets cited as cause.
Eighteen hundred physicians and leaders from the American Medical Association will gather in Milwaukee for four days starting June 6. Dr. Hunter McGuire of Richmond presides as topics of international interest are planned. New York doctors seek to admit homeopaths eclectics and other practitioners. Attending notables include Henry O. Marcy John B. Hamilton Nicholas Senn Henry O. Walker and W. B. Atkinson.
Boston gas commissioners announce new rates for city and suburbs effective July 1. Roxbury at $1.20 per thousand, Dorchester and South Boston at $1.30 to $1.90, with Boston Gas Light remaining at $1 per thousand under the revised plan.
An accident fatally burned a 214 year old child at 43 Milford street while the parents, circus performers the St Belmo, were away. The child died about an hour after flames were extinguished. The death was ruled accidental and the body will be sent to Harrisburg for burial.
The statement of public legacies of Mrs. Martha Ann Edwards who died in 1882 is issued. The Museum of Fine Arts receives a total of 57000 and the Institute of Technology including a prior gift 127000.
Paine's Furniture Company showcases hall stands settles and seats gathered from across the country in their warerooms Boston readers are urged to view this notable furniture event of the year and not miss it.
The Providence line between Boston and New York will reopen Monday June 12 with the steamboats Massachusetts and Connecticut in service. The steamboat express train departs Park Square Station at 6 30. The Boston ticket office for this line has moved to No 8 Old State House.
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