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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1906
Page
2
Stores and warehouses could not save goods on lower floors as high seas collapsed the government slip and damaged coal sheds. Teffer Adams, a skilled swimmer and arsenal guardian, helped warn and rescue others. Tarona village near the arsenal was swept away, destroying mission buildings and homes.
Mrs Willadsen of Manning Iowa writes to Mrs Pinkham claiming the Vegetable Compound saved her life and expressing deep gratitude for the remedy.
A letter from a grateful patient credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring regular menstrual cycles and overall health after two years of unsuccessful treatments. The message urges other women with irregular or painful periods or related symptoms to seek the remedy, noting continued free advice from Mrs. Pinkham's estate in Lynn Massachusetts.
The reorganized Latter Day Saints mission under Captain Joseph Burton in California suffered in a coastal disaster. The church buildings were destroyed, a Cook Islands settlement was wiped out, and residents faced exposure and flooding. Governor Julien seeks French aid while the British consul requests assistance for 500 displaced Cook Islanders and the American colony beggars for support from the United States or American merchants.
The South Sea archipelago discovered in 1842 lies in the Pacific under French protection. It comprises Windward and Leeward groups with Tahiti, Moorea, Raiatea, Taha, Huahine, Bora Bora and Lord Howe’s Island among others. Tahiti covers 600 square miles with limited cultivation and a 1900 population of 10 750. Local governance includes a Governor at Papeete and a French tribunal system, with missions influencing education and crafts. Crops include cocoa nuts oranges sugar vanilla, while cattle are scarce and orange production rises.
Tahiti port handles about 240000 pounds yearly trade with exports led by copra and mother of pearl. The United States and France are major trading partners, Moorea connected by weekly service, Papeete population around 1596, and a 1904 storm caused depopulation and hardship. The islands are called The Garden of the Pacific with permanent summer and tall Polynesian inhabitants.
At a packed mass meeting in Cheverus Hall St James parishioners confirmed plans for the fifth biennial reunion. About 500 attended with Rev William Paul Mc Quaid chairing. the event will be at Paul Revere Hall in late April or early May. W A Crowley named general committee chairman with John M Fooley as secretary and Rev Morris J O Connor as treasurer.
Captain Thomas F. Clark chief operator of Western Union was unanimously elected president of the Telegraphers' Mutual Aid Association of Boston at the annual meeting yesterday. Officers chosen for the next term include vice president Charles Arthur McManus treasurer William H. Sullivan secretary William J. Mahoney relief chairman William J. Mangan and sergeant at arms Edward C. Donahue.
Waltham March 4 James M Dermody Camp Spanish War Veterans will hold their banquet March 31 the seventh anniversary of the mustering out
Miss Sadie J. Mason of 81 Waltham street claims to know of a hidden Gulf of St. Lawrence treasure worth over two million dollars buried by pirates. Three Boston capitalists back an expedition to recover the wealth, aiming to keep Canadian law from taking a share.
The Rt. Rev. William N. McVickar bishop of Rhode Island urged a large Trinity Church congregation to oppose laziness among church members and warned that a growing craze for wealth distracts Christians from spiritual duties.
Washington reports the Colorado Springs Association prepares to mark Pike's Peak discovery centenary with official government representation. A large army detachment will attend September 28-29, and Indian tribes once in the region including Utes Cheyennes Arapahoes and Comanches will be represented.
Mrs. Ozelda Plante of 256 Walden Street Cambridge reports a statue of St Anthony and other valuables stolen yesterday. She suspects an elderly woman with a 9 year old child who sought shelter from the storm.
The Bowdoin Street vesper series began with an afternoon gathering led by Rev. Theodore F. Wright of Cambridge New Thought Theological School. He spoke on light from John 1 9 and was assisted by Rev. James Reed and Rev. Henry Clinton Hay. A 20 voice chorus conducted by George W. Dudley performed, with future Sundays at 4 o'clock and 4 30 on April 11.
A toddler died after tumbling from a window above a yard fence separating homes. Neighbors rushed to help, and Rebecca Goldstein carried the boy to the Rossman home where Mrs. Rossman fainted on hearing the tragedy. Doctors deemed the wound fatal and the father arrived later in a distressed state.
At the Old Dorchester Club house the New Century Club presents two dramatic performances starring Alderman Edward J. Bromberg and other notable figures in Hebrew social circles. The event ends with a dancing party and promises to be a major Dorchester social function.
March 4 Rome reports the village of Tavernola perched on cliff rocks above Lake Iseo in Brescia province was nearly wiped out when cliffs gave way. A roaring sound warned the 1000 residents to flee and one fisherman was killed as about two feet of rock and homes were swallowed by the lake.
San Jose town and country journal reports controversial 1909 claim that chronic Bright's Disease and Diabetes are curable using Fulton’s Compound. Letters and testimonies from San Francisco business leaders, editors, and insurers are cited amid ethical objections and requests for publication of full literature. Jaynes & Co solicits case details to distribute literature.
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