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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
2
A historic ad touts Munyons Rheumatism Cure with testimonials including Congressman Ward claiming cure from rheumatism. The copy asserts rapid relief from pains and a permanent cure in days, and promotes additional Munyon remedies with prices noted.
Munyon's specialists provide free consultations claiming to avert threatened illness. The Electrical Department offers cures for stubborn pains stiff joints and impending paralysis. Available day and evening except Sunday.
A Lowell School Association committee plans to press for a 150000 dollar minimum appropriation to build a new Jamaica Plain school. The effort includes Bleiler Engstrom and Senator Maxwell, backing a one million dollar ask to the Board of Metropolitan Affairs amid sympathy from local businessmen and taxpayers.
Chairman Sprague states the Italians Club plans to purchase the property as the Metropolitan Water Board acts to curb Vegal liquor sales. The move signals concerted local action and potential change in retail access.
A state hearing before the Legislature's water supply committee examined charges of liquor law violations and padrone abuses at labor camps serving the Wachusett reservoir projects in Clinton and surrounding towns. Clinton business interests led local attendance as J. H. Benton Jr. represented two Water Commission members and Charles F. was named as the hearing opened.
The Countess Laura Fransetti, famed for her 1897 gallery portrait, married B C M Fitzgerald, a New York club man, in Brooklyn on November 22 after an engagement begun in Bath Beach. Her father Count Fransetti introduced gas to Italy and died in 1898. The couple’s ceremony was conducted by Rev. Cortland Myers.
Nervous and chronic diseases resist ordinary family physician care. Dr. Greene offers free advice and claims unmatched success with Dr. Greene's Nervara and other remedies. Sufferers are urged to visit his Boston office at 34 Temple Place or write detailing their case for guidance.
The article notes commissioner Wilmot R. Evans as president of the Winthrop National Bank in Boston and Dr Wolcott as chairman of the State Board of Health. It states the commissioners do not devote full time to board duties, though the chairman says daily meetings occur, lasting two or three hours.
Witness described 20 to 30 engineers on site, 100 to 200 day laborers employed by engineers, and 600 to 700 day laborers hired by contractors. He noted Italian workers via agents and showed camps in stereopticon lectures, while inspecting Clinton grounds by train and carriage.
San Francisco reports close of the Craven Fair heirs dispute with Mrs Craven winning a large settlement from the Fair estate valued up to sixty million dollars. The arrangement leaves custody of the fortunes to trustees and heirs, with Mrs Craven-Fair rumored to receive a substantial share.
The Senate passed the bill proposing a form of government for Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and related amendments. The House Democrats win their first session victory on election cases in Alabama as two Republicans back their move to proceed. A Windward register grant and Bacon Philippines policy discussion are noted alongside Puerto Rico tariff bill changes and conference prospects.
The 30000 dollars used by Mr Whiteside in exposing the Clark case before the Montana Legislature was returned to State Treasurer Collins in Washington and will be held for five years. If unclaimed, it will be converted to the state school fund. Congressman Campbell testified and faced cross examination.
Passenger coaches for the L road arrive in Boston from Wason Manufacturing Springfield. Built to the third rail system, they embody the Boston Elevated engineers’ ideas. Test date yet unset but likely late next week. Subway third rail work proceeds to be ready by Saturday night. Electrical equipment bidders include General Electric Westinghouse Sprague. Brake equipment bidders include New York Air Brake Christensen Westinghouse. Heating bidders are Gold Consolidated Simplex. Dummy cars for the test are being built at a temporary shop near North Union Station under Assistant Engineer W G Gove.
Lennert S. Cook charged with embezzlement from Monarch Horse Nail Company held in six thousand dollars bond in Municipal Criminal Court awaiting hearing March 9.
A fragment notes attempts to smuggle beer from outside and an inquiry about a specific commissary, though details are incomplete. The dialogue indicates uncertainty about a designated commissary and whether guards were asked to watch for it.
The United States auxiliary cruiser Prairie arrived in Rouen France on March 1 with exhibits for the Paris Exposition. A Chamber of Commerce delegation offered to Commander Mackenzie and he then met the Rouen prefect the commander of the army corps and other city notables.
Baltimore dispatch states the schooner Lydia M Deering bound for Boston floated for assistance on February 28 after being reported ashore near Point Lookout. The fate and condition of crew not specified.
J. R. Elliott of 4 Summer Street Laconia New Hampshire a longtime grocer recalls five years with no vacation and growing weakness. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pal es for a thorough cure noting renewed health after using the product. Printed promotion offers 50 cents per box six for 2 50 from Schenectady New York.
New York March 1 Friends of Jennie O Neil Potter a once famous drawing room reader now dying of stomach cancer in a private Bellevue St Luke s Hospital room have enlisted kindness from a few supporters to ease her last hours. She remains beautiful though wasted and prays for death daily. Her former generosity is noted as she gave money to an old woman on the street and her illness has sparked concern among a Washington statesman s wife and others who want to soothe her final days.
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