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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1901
Page
3
A list from the Sunday Post details 40 contestants or entries for a $100 prize pool. Names and addresses across Boston area streets appear, including Staniford, Chelsea, Roxbury, Dorchester, and Malden. The notices mention various residents and firms in a local giveaway.
Letters from readers credit coupons to Louis Satten and others in a Boston Post contest. Citizens from Roxbury Swampscott New Dorchester Somerville Charlestown praise the paper and urge friends to vote, hoping to win prizes as the March 9 1901 entry closes.
The Boston Board of Aldermen approved a license for an athletic exhibition including wrestling at Mechanics Hall on April 29 after a divided debate. Alderman Tinkham charged potential promoters with past fake matches in New York. he offered no specific charges. The committee report was accepted 10 to 2 with Gerry and Tinkham dissenting.
The Old South Church has granted its pastor Rev. Dr. George A. Gordon a vacation. Details on duration and itinerary are not provided in the readable text.
The ad touts Munyon s Cold Cure claiming treatment within 24 hours for any cold and full expulsion in days. It urges using Munyon s Rheumatism Cure Digestive Cure Kidney Cure Constipation Cure and Inhaler for Catarrh Asthma Grip Bronchitis with medicines priced mostly 25 cents and the inhaler at 1.
Aimed at preventing illness, Munyon's physicians provide no charge advice from skilled specialists. The Munyon’s Electrical Department treats chronic pains and stiff joints with day and evening hours, excluding Sundays at Tremont Temple.
The Rev Dr George A Gordon has been granted a six months vacation by his parish due to illness described as a mild gastric grippe. The committee arranged pulpit supply and duties during his absence. He plans to spend the summer in Europe, mainly Switzerland, likely departing about early May with Mrs Gordon accompanying him.
Official word from Charlestown Navy Yard reports the Navy Department will send three training ships to aid Evacuation Day celebrations on March 18. Hartford, Topeka, and Lancaster will be repaired here. Hartford carries thirteen five inch rifles plus smaller guns. Hartford commanded by Hawley, Topeka by Delano, Lancaster by Mansfield. all are older ships being modernized.
A painting by Sully depicting Mammy Sally Brown a slave nurse born about 1770 and dying 1827. The work was restored in New York and is displayed at Doll & Richards on Park Street Boston with a condition that it be shown if acceptable to Boston citizens. The portrait honors Miss Van Lew and the Heth family tied to Curt's Neck Virginia near Ditch Gap Canal and Colonel William Heth's estate. Look out for the Quakers.
This month danger to health is great and Hood's Sarsaparilla is advised to keep blood pure sustain appetite and build strength. If attacked by the grip or cold open the bowels with Hood's Pills to prevent illness and save doctors bills.
Henry Hale Stevens, famed linen magnate of Webster and founder of Stevens Linen Works later Beamon Linen Works, died in Jacksonville Florida after weeks of weakness. Survived by widow, daughters Miss Mary Stevens and Mrs John E Stevens, son Stevens of Webster and Quinebaug, brother Moses T Stevens of North Andover. funeral in Jacksonville.
Chicago march 11 a curious note on the 1880 ten dollar bill called the jackass bill. an english worker in the bureau of engraving was fired for political views and produced a hidden jackass image when the bill is viewed upside down. the tale says the surge of the eagle to a jackass shape surprised officials and was kept quiet to protect the department’s reputation.
A Dawson despatch alleges 150 Canadian girls are bound by contracts to seventy men, with some parents blamed. Major Z T Wood orders all fallen women to move outside Dawson by May 1, with Klondike City or West Dawson as possible homes for holdouts. Some girls reportedly hold money and may seek court relief from their contracts.
In yesterday morning session Judge Brown presided as John J. Carey was found not guilty of taking $3 from the person of Alden S. Specht. It appeared Specht caused the wrong man to be arrested.
The annual Board of Assessors report lists Boston with 14 961 horses and 681 cows. Ward 7 has 1618 horses, Ward 2 leads in cows with 121. In Wards 6 7 and 12 no cows exist and 159 horses remain in Ward 12. Total city valuation reaches 902 499 700 with land value 63 309 200 and vacant land 609 tal feet.
Tomaso Damelio, charged with assault and battery on Mrs. Nellie O'Maley using a kettle of hot water, received a three month sentence to the House of Correction from the Municipal Court yesterday.
Joseph F. Carter of Boston Ward 2 is highlighted as a model product of the Hull Street settlement in the North End. Missouriette Cook notes the district’s 70 000 foreigners and Boston’s potential growth, citing a former 16 year old beneficiary who rose from mercy lessons to College of Liberal Arts entrant and senior class honor. He serves in Boston’s Common Council.
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