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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1905
Page
5
Dr J A Greene of People’s Temple presents a free instructional lecture for men at People’s Temple corner Columbus Ave and Berkeley St. He touts Nervura as a premier nerve blood remedy and offers free trial battles. attendance excludes children. Admission is free.
In Pawtucket R I a package sent anonymously contained a stick of dynamite found by the Salvation Army. After police consultation the explosive was thrown into the Blackstone River as a precaution. The package had been moved around since receipt and did not explode.
Silas D Surprise, superintendent of the composing room at the American Publishing Company and active in the International Typographical Union, died in Middlebury today from pneumonia at age 42.
Melrose faces a council review as Alderman McCullough proposes cutting nearly two thirds of the police force. Some expect disclosures may reveal issues, while supporters argue Melrose is “Spotless Town” with low arrests. Alderman Keene pushes to settle the matter.
March 8 report notes Rev. Father Rudolph F. Meyer, an American, prominently mentioned as successor of Father Martin, the Jesuit general, who is dying from liver cancer. The item places Meyer as a leading figure in Rome.
A two act comedy by the South End Helping Hand Total Abstinence Society is set for tomorrow at the old Franklin School house 1151 Washington street. The cast includes Sidney D. Wheeler as Mr Horton George G Kornick as Arthur Horton James E Walsh as Horace Lyford Blanche E Hudson as Sylvia Horton Alice Atherton MacNair as Bessie Bray Roy and Eldredge McNair aged 5 and 8 will sing between acts Miss Eleanor Smith presides at the piano.
William H. Clasby aged 88 of 272 North Harvard Street Brighton was arrested yesterday on a Brighton warrant for forging a $47 check in the name of Joseph Laker as he stood about to board a cattle steamer on Atlantic Avenue.
Harry Curtis of the T. D. Baker Company hosted a staff party at the Municipal Building on Columbia Road. After a swimming event, attendees went to his home for a banquet with smoking and singing, making for a very pleasant evening.
In London on March 8 Winston Churchill led a Commons debate opposing protective food taxes. The cross party division ended 302 to 260 as Lyttelton’s motion defeated Churchill’s resolution, with Chamberlain and Balfour arguing for free trade.
The Boston Merchants Association passed a resolution opposing capitalizing gas properties beyond fair valuation after deducting debts. The meeting also covered the smoke nuisance, drydock prospects, Congress street bridge delays, bankruptcy law, and building height bills.
Robert E. Galvin, who served nearly eight years in Charlestown for manslaughter, was pardoned by the Governor's council and released. He had shot Kydd, foreman at a Haverhill shoe factory, after a two year quarrel when Kydd attacked him in the office.
In Melrose on March 8 Tony Andrews found Herbert and Ernest Cuzner unconscious in the gate tender's shanty at Bogle's Crossing from inhaling illuminating gas. Herbert is seriously ill at Melrose Hospital while Ernest rests at home. Timothy Creedon, also affected, was found unconscious yesterday. gatemen William Turner and A. J. Bonett are ill. Gas company crews dig for a leak in the street main presumed to cause the incident.
A clever youth not over 15 years old dressed in a blue uniform and official cap is circulating bogus telegrams in Cambridge. He collects money from well dressed residents using yellow blanks with typewritten messages and is pursued by police after yesterday’s incident.
Mrs Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward testified before the probate and chancery committee at the State House urging a bill to curb vivisection. She cited horrific experiments in Europe and Massachusetts, read her plea through counsel, and urged legal protection for animals, invoking Dr Henry J Bigelow and Harvard Medicine.
A testimonial from AL EMmTT TFOSBER of New York City proclaims Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder a wonderful remedy for actors singers and public speakers. It claims quick action and unmatched effectiveness for hoarseness catarrh and throat irritation.
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