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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1905
Page
2
An author offers a free dollar’s worth of Dr Schop’s Rheumatic Remedy to prove it relieves rheumatism. He cites blood poisoning and kidney filtration as the disease’s cause, claims twenty years of testing, a costly German chemical, and guarantees relief by removing poison and halting its formation. Readers urged to write for a free sample and a book.
Report describes injuries as crowds moved through damaged cars to platforms and across tracks. Police, firemen, and workers struggled as the strike disrupted travel and hotels filled with stranded passengers. Authorities denied reports of smallpox aboard the strike breakers’ steamer and noted police deployment from Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Boston sent 210 strike breakers to New York to staff the elevated and subway systems. Fifty went in the morning with representatives of the New York L and subway. 160 more joined the 5 pm train. Many men have street car experience and viewed the strike as precipitate and ill advised.
New York report on a city wide strike disrupts transit and raises crude reactions. A poet from the Evening Mail mocks the protest while observers, commuters, and officials confront delays and crowded platforms as cars and trains run slowly.
A noisy Leonardo era railway labor tally shows 5200 workers tracked in categories such as motormen trackmen gatemen and platform workers. The document lists 62200 total personnel with 5825 direct job titles and pay scales across towers power houses and repair crews.
Downtown New York emptied early as Broadway traffic clogged streets with private carriages and cabs. Police managed crowded subway and bridges as trains ran irregularly, causing vast delays and late dinners for residents north of Twenty third Street.
A promotional piece touts the Osmo-Chemic Co. method for restoring sight and hearing, citing testimonials from clergy and customers. It claims expert doctors, long study, and extensive equipment cure deafness and eye problems, urging readers to seek treatment and promising life renewed.
Public notice invites patients to begin a course at Osmo-Chemic Physicians Room 10 No 18 Boylston St before March 16 for a month of treatment with medicine included at no charge. The campaign stresses urgency for those in trouble and seeking cure.
Mr P H Wall of 24 Morning St Portland Maine says he lost hearing in his left ear after a cold about three years ago. He attributes his recovery to Osmo Chemical Physicians treatment and reports he can hear as well as ever. He recalls a doctor whisper testing his hearing and he heard plainly. He urges other deaf people to have courage and try the treatment.
New York March 7 Mayor George B McClellan offers services to mediate between the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and its employees to resume railroad operation. He proposes either mediation or arbitration and invites disinterested citizens to join the task to avoid harm to business and public welfare.
A late evening surge hit the Third Avenue and Sixth Avenue elevated lines with slow trains and long station delays. Crowds forced entry past gates as surface lines and cabs surged to transport homeward amid a rare Broadway car uptown run from 5 to 8 pm during a heavy city storm.
Mother's testimonial from Cleveland Ohio extols Baby's Own Tablets as a remedy for colic restlessness and sleep issues in a six week old. The ad urges use for colic constipation diarrhea indigestion cold croup feverishness and restlessness and notes a 25 cent price with mail order from Dr Williams Medicine Company Schenectady NY.
Striking workers and guards forced mass ride disruptions as trains stalled and riders crowded stations from Battery to Harlem. Five trains stalled at One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street after crews quit amid picket lines while police, company staff, and guards guarded yards and mail from elevated stations threatening US Marshal action.
A downtown New York sign at 145th Street and Broadway warns passengers they ride at their own risk on Interborough Rapid Transit trains. The notice states the company will not be responsible for delays or accidents.
Advertisement for Laxative Bromo Quinine, marketed as a worldwide cold and grip remedy. It claims to remove the cause of colds and pneumonia and urges readers to call for the full name and look for the signature of E. W. Grove. Priced at 25 cents.
Mrs Emma 4A Wilson of 16 Lowell Street Lynn Massachusetts writes that Cosmo-Cherite physicians restored her hearing after deafness in one ear. Mrs Ida F Rowe of 109 Gilman Street Somerville Massachusetts says Osmo-Chemic doctors cured her total deafness in one ear with the other affected.
Mary J. Crocker of 4 Prescott Street Somerville Massachusetts says forty years of catarrh and systemic illness improved after treatment by Osmo- Chemie physicians. She notes ringing in the ears diminished and her nerves benefited while she was very sick and weak.
Milford New Hampshire farmer Geo R Hartshorn says he was nearly deaf and unable to work until using Osmo-Cemic treatment. He reports the therapy restored his hearing and enabled him to resume farm tasks.
Oscar McIntire of Kearsarge New Hampshire records his deafness before six Osmo-Chemic treatments. He reports regained hearing and states he stopped the therapy since last summer.
An advertisement touts the Radio-Active Solution the X Ray and the Improved Osmo-Chemic Screen as perfect tools to detect disease in any body part. It promises this examination service at no cost to the caller.
J. L. Plunkett M.D. serves as chief consulting physician for the Osmo-Chemic System of Incorporated Medicine. Permanent offices on third floor Boylston Building 185 Boylston Street Boston Mass. Office hours 9 to 12 and 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 daily. closed Sundays.
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