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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1904
Page
3
Brother of Francis Wilson proclaims Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey saved his life and keeps health high. A Detroit reader shares weights and recovery claims, praising the whiskey as medicine and government recognized purity.
Court heard Wallace H Ham did not lose 224000 plus embezzlement alleged but concealed funds for private use. Lawyer Berry urged bond rise to 100000 due to new peculations and St Luke's Home case. Judge Adams set 65000 bond plus 15000 new complaint. Ham refused to surrender private books. several officials summoned. dancing lessons offer blocks pages.
The white and gold ballroom at Hotel Somerset hosted a society fair to fund equipment and running costs for the Crippled Children's Industrial School. The sale continues to Friday at midnight with luncheon and tea served. many notable local ladies managed the event and will be present for remaining hours.
After two days of debate the House narrowly approved a proposal to tax Commonwealth lands in South Boston now used for private purposes by a vote of 84 to 82. Mayor Collins backed the bill, with Grady and Vinson dissenting. A further vote was expected. Lynn seeks Nahant Beach bathhouse under Metropolitan Park Commission plan.
A lecture is slated for tonight at 7 50 at Paine Memorial Hall on Appleton street. The talk explores Working men's Co operative Stores and Co operation.
At Nahant a Lynn bathhouse proposal is noted under the special commission on employers liability. Ex Representative Joseph G. Jackson backs employee compensation measures. Ransden of Brockton and Good of Boston support a bill requiring three brakemen per freight train and consider rail committee talks with Boston brake men. Senate session ends after a quorum scare with only 15 members present.
Ida Grutter and Fred Moorish faced Roxbury District Court judge Bolster over charges they robbed Rudolph Grutter of 400 to 500 dollars savings. Police say Moorish and Grutter’s daughter lived together as a couple at 1 Duncan Street and attacked him and left him locked in a room. Miss Grutter called the accusation false and said her father may be delirious or intoxicated. The case resumed the next day.
Evacuation Day will carry a double meaning for South Boston residents as it marks the 100th anniversary of the district’s annexation to Boston. The South Boston Citizens’ Association will stage extraordinary efforts to make March 17 an occasion long to be remembered.
The March 17 event will feature military demonstrations and a parade with Navy personnel from ships and yard, plus Coast Artillery, Ninth Infantry, M V M, Massachusetts Naval Brigade, and G A R posts. William G B Dillaway, former resident, is named as the orator with hopes the governor and other officials attend.
City Council Evacuation Day committee met and named sub committees with allocations to programme fireworks music decorations athletic games and parade. Aldermen Slattery Bresnahan Baldwin Haldwin Brombers Hennessey and others named, with councilmen Colman Reagan Brazzell Driscoll Newton Drummond Sullivan and Coughlin among appointees.
In Indianapolis on March 2, the last sub committee of miners and operators met to discuss the wage scale and adjourned to tomorrow without agreement. Operators seek about a ten cent per ton cut on screened coal with proportional cuts on other categories, but reports indicate concessions to a scale reflecting a five to six cent reduction.
The story chronicles Mrs. Alice N. Lincoln chair of the Pauper Institutions board through a year of conflict over an Long Island institution investigation. It tracks hearings, staff changes, salary raises, and appropriation requests from April 1903 to March 1904, with Dobbins and Galvin central to the dispute.
Patent medicine ad promising a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. States all sluggists refund if it fails and notes Grove’s signature on each box. Price listed as 25 cents.
Chicago judge Theodore Mayer of the Chicago Avenue Police Court speaks to worn out, overworked clerks and officials saying he once was in the same condition and knows the strain of tireless duties.
George Ellis testifies for plaintiffs on the Typothete side detailing the 1962 agreement, wage scales of 18 dollars weekly for an eight hour day, and the February 1966 strike. Edward Warner, Sparrow Print, and others recall lack of relief, emergency funds and union control, with questions about wages and piece work.
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