Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Offers Free Sample
A Boston Daily Post advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a kidney and bladder remedy. It warns of Bright s disease and kidney trouble with back pain and other symptoms and offers a free sample bottle and informational book by mail. The notice urges readers to request via Kilmer Co Binghamton NY and to buy 50 cent and dollar bottle sizes at drugstores.
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Nature
Bright
Anlyone
Swamp Root
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Boston Daily Post
Swamp-Root
Dr. Kilmer
Binghamton, N. Y
United States
Dr. Daily
H. C. Thrasher
Ewing
Mass
Charles F. Tenney
State House
Boston
Prof. Mirault
Lowell
Joyful 17 year old graduate dies after diploma moment
Lawrence March 5 Excessive joy at receiving his diploma is blamed for the death of Thomas W. Nugent 17 who graduated from the evening high school Friday night and died early Sunday. Nugent worked as a clerk for Boston and Maine and was well liked, with a strong class rank despite a weak heart.
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Lawrence
Thomas W. Nugent
Boston & Maine
Sudden Death of Lawrence Student After Mass
Thomas, a Lawrence student, died at home after a severe headache on Sunday. He had just received his last Catholic rites moments before passing away. He will be buried Wednesday morning, his casket bearing the class colors and motto Virtus Via Vitae.
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Lawrence
St. Patrick’s Church
Thomas
O Neill Taken To Soldiers Home After Immigration Hold
James O Neil 75 Civil War veteran private in Sixty first Massachusetts Volunteers was moved from Long Wharf immigration station to the Soldiers Home Chelsea by Commissioner George B Billings. He had arrived from England on the Saxonia and had not naturalized, delaying his return from a visit to the old sod.
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James O'Neil
Sixty-first
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
State House
George B. Billings
Longwharf
Chelsea
O'Neil
England
Saxonia
Boston Man Dies in Chicago Depot
John Brady a 30 year old Boston resident died in a Chicago railway depot while awaiting an ambulance to hospital. He had spent the winter in California with his father who sat nearby believing him to be asleep as the pair were returning home.
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Chicago
John Brady
Boston
Brady
California
Quincy Public Building Bill Passes Senate For 85 000
Washington reports the Quincy Massachusetts public building bill cleared the Senate with funding reduced to 85 000 dollars. The measure now goes to the House and is expected to be incorporated in the omnibus public building bill.
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Quincy
Washington
Mass
Senate
House
A Guaranteed Cure for Piles Promises Refund
An advertisement claims PAZO ointment provides a guaranteed cure for itching bleeding or protruding piles within six to fourteen days and offers a money back guarantee through the druggist if it fails.
Cyclone devastates South Sea Island consulate in Tahiti
Washington received official confirmation from consul W F Doty that the cyclone destroyed the Tahiti consulate on February 8. Records were saved but damaged, library and forms lost, with an estimated $2,000,000 in losses for French Oceania. Reestablishment faces funding delays as Congress did not approve $30,000 in the urgent deficiency bill.
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Washington
South Sea Islands
State Department
Ww. F. Doty
Tahiti
Society Islands
San Francisco
Congress
Little Girl Burns While Playing With Matches
Eight year old Minnie Messenger sustained severe burns to her head neck and face while playing with matches at 15 Hale street. Neighbors and residents helped extinguish the flames and she was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital by friends for treatment.
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Hale Street
Minnie Messenger
Massachusetts General Hospital
Canton Geis State School Site Acquisition
Worcester March 5 The State commission to establish a state school and home for crippled and deformed children bought 67 acres in Canton for a building site. Architects begin work this week on plans. An appropriation of 300000 is available. The school will accommodate 3800 children.
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Worcester
The
State Commission
Canton
What Babson Says of Kiley
Thomas M. Babson Boston city corporation counsel filed a slander suit in Superior Court seeking $20,000 damages from Councilman Daniel J. Kiley for remarks in the Common Council on February 1. Babson claims 22 contracts under Acting Mayor Whelton’s administration were illegal, including one with Kiley that he declares unlawful.
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Thomas M. Babson
Neponset River Purification Discussion At Mattapan Banquet
At the Mattapan Improvement Association banquet at A. O. H. Hall the purification of the Neponset River will be discussed. Mayor Fitzgerald will attend as guest of honor.
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Mattapan Improvement Association
A. O. H. Hall
Neponset River
Fitzgerald
Cambridge Citizen Dies Suddenly Near Rail Station
Eldorado Osborn, 49 Orchard Street, Cambridge, of the Cambridge Street Department, collapsed and died yesterday near the car station of the Elevated Railway Company in North Cambridge.
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Eldorado Osborn
Orchard Street
Cambridge
Cambridge Street Department
Elevated Railway Company
North
Deaf mute Hindoo girl near death in Pittsburg
Mooktie, the deaf mute Hindoo girl delayed at Boston harbor last winter and later admitted to the United States with aid from a Pittsburg deaf mute family, is critically ill with pneumonia and typhoid fever.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Mooktie
Boston
Strong as steel a youth touts Postum for nerves and stamina
A young athlete describes sleeplessness from coffee, switching to Postum Food Coffee after careful preparation. He says sleep improved, nerves grew strong, and muscles endured. his father’s asthma improved after giving up coffee. The testimonial cites Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. and the booklet The Road to Wellville.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Lads Held Up Electricks After Cambridge Ride
Three youths were arrested by Cambridge Patrolman Mullins after obstructing a Boston to Cambridge streetcar for about 29 minutes. The detainees Carl Frederickson 16 John R McDougal 17 and Roy Fife 17 allegedly shouted insulted passengers and jumped on cars until officers and bystanders secured the arrest near the transfer station.
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Bowdoin Square
Cambridge
Mullins
Carl Frederickson
John R. McDougal
Roy Fife
Boston
Pure Food Bill Advances From House Committee
After an eight hour conference the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce approved a pure food bill. It mirrors the Hepburn bill in many ways and will be favorably reported to the House with amendments from the Hepburn measure and committee members.
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Washington
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
House
Senate
Tuition funds unaccounted after Vermont superintendent resigns
Rutland Vermont March 5 After the resignation of Willard A Fraser eight years superintendent of the schools of this city the school committee announced that 4490 dollars which the city should have received for the tuition of outside pupils was unaccounted for.
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Rutland
Willard A. Fraser
James I. Lamb
Thieves Steal Express Wagon From South Boston Station
After a city roam two men stole an express wagon from in front of the South station near City Point Boston. John H Hicks of 16 Erie street reported the theft and police issued a description of the rig as they seek the suspects.
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South Station
City Point
Boston
John H. Hicks
Erie Street
Boston YWCA marks forty years as aid agency
The Boston Young Women's Christian Association observed forty years of operation yesterday. Recording secretary Annie W. Copeland reported that in the past year nearly 3000 women and girls were helped by the travellers aid department.
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Boston Young Women's Christian Association
Annie W. Copel
Travellers’ Aid Department
Boston couples wed in Gretna Green style ceremony
In Providence on March 5 Judge George Brown married Thomas Sace and Lillian Emma Ticecourt of Boston. Bay State couples who received marriage licenses include Edward Joseph Donly and Lavilla Morton Cameron of Boston and George Dixon and Eliza J. Atkinson of Quincy, Alexander Robinson Millen and Mary A. Kelly of Lynn.
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Providence
R. I
Thomas Sace
Lillian Emma Ticecourt
Boston
George Brown
Superior Court
Bay State
Edward Joseph Donly
Lavilla Morton Cameron
George Dixon
Eliza J. Atkinson
Quincy
Alexander Robinson Millen
Mary A. Kelly
Lynn
Senate kills Conley bill over Boston superintendent widow pay
The Senate rejected without debate the bill to compensate the widow of George H. Conley, late Boston schools superintendent, for the year's balance. Representative Keefe's measure to limit ex pectoration in public places passed to be engrossed. A separate bill to penalize minors misrepresenting age to buy liquor had one reading.
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George H. Conley
Boston
Senate
Keefe
TO CURE A C CO1.17 IN ONE DAY
LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine tablets offered to cure a cold in one day with a money back guarantee from Druggists. W GROVE'S signature appears on each box and the price is 28 cents.
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W. Grove
Death by arsenic coffee shocks Hyde Park family
John H. Blake, 5 Frazier Street, Hyde Park, is said to have died from arsenic poisoned coffee. Police report he killed himself after grief over a church marriage stigma. His wife refuses insurance and no suit is expected. a Catholic priest administered last rites before his death.
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Hyde Park
John H. Blake
Frazier Street
Butters
Cotecany
Blake
Father Chittick
Church of the Most Precious Blood
Bennett
Electrician Escapes Severe Shock at Narragansett Station
Providence reports Charles B. Thomas an electrician at the Narragansett electric lighting station was subjected to 2000 volts today and escaped with only slight burns.
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Providence
R. I
Charles B. Thomas
Narragansett
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Charles L. Foss
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