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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1908
Page
9
Mayor Hibbard suspends 20 public grounds staff saving about 18000 yearly while 30 crusher workers on Columbia Road are to be relocated. Overtime pay ends in the assessors department with some salaries up slightly and others down as part of a Board of Assessors backed adjustment.
City Council’s evacuation day committee plans to resign in protest over Mayor Hibbard ordering a 1250 dollar appropriation via assistant secretary William Boudrot. They may skip the parade and breakfast for guests, a meal last year cost the mayor 360 dollars.
The American Newspaper Association at 6 Beacon Street promotes the Werner Twentieth Century Encyclopedia in a six week trial. Readers can receive 31 volumes daily for 19 cents per day, with a 50 percent savings for purchasers. The Beacon Street office was crowded all day.
Mrs. James Wilkie of Cherokee Iowa recounts severe nervous illness including St. Vitus dance and long illness. After trying two doctors with little relief she used Dr Williams Pink Pills. She reports sleep improved weight gained from 85 to 117 pounds and complete cure. Pills sold by druggists or mailed 50 cents a box six for $2.50 from Schenectady New York.
Mary E. Parmelee and James F E Maltee, both held for 1200 bail after waiving examination in Municipal Criminal Court yesterday. They were arrested Wednesday for breaking into rooms at a Waltham street lodging house. Parmelee, married but not living with husband, had prior probation in January 1907 for a statutory offence.
The lyric fragment narrates a narrator confined in a dungeon recalling his college days at the University of Gottingen. He laments love for Matilda Pottingen, daughter of a law professor, and quotes the fate of being doomed to starve while never again seeing Gottingen. The verse attributes it to George Canning and notes a later addition by the younger Pitt.
The brother of Henry A. Hall, Boston’s wealthy Back Bay resident, suspects foul play in Hall’s death. Hall’s wife Christian Science follower found him badly burned, with a note describing an acid attack and a request to avoid doctors or police. Hall died November 11 after cremain on November 13, with initial causes listed as heart failure and kidney trouble.
Harvard student John Phillips Reynolds won the five dollar prize at the Orpheum Theatre after reaching up to take the bill from Captain Auger, a 7ft tall figure. The Cambridge resident, grandson of Wendell Phillips, stood 6ft 3in in stockings and outstretched the captain to claim the reward amid applause. Reynolds lives at 79 Marlboro Street and is a noted figure in local financial circles.
New Haven Conn March 12 Officials of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad suspend the piece work rule in the shops until March 28 after unions and General Manager Higgins held a conference. The unions took an uncompromising stance and the matter will be revisited on March 28 with a possible compromise.
Hundreds of children and parents were led to Dreamland by The Wonder-Wonder Man at Tremont Theatre. Due to seat shortages an extra performance is scheduled tomorrow at 10 oclock. The show adapts Eugene Field poems with a libretto by Margaret MacLaren Eager and Wendell Endicott and music by Samuel C. Colburn.
News wires from Hackensack report three Italian youths died and two more fell gravely ill after eating skunk cabbage root at Norwood. Other dispatches note painter Borisoff left St. Petersburg for the United States and Bavaria’s Regent Luitpold marked his 87th birthday amid noble gatherings.
Governor Guild entered the second week of illness with limited mobility. Dr Frederick Winslow of Clarendon Street and a trained nurse are managing a serious rheumatic attack to prevent escalation. Last night he was reported very comfortable after an afternoon marked by improvement.
The R A Beach Company store at 484 485 Washington Street will close on March 21 after rapid remodeling. Carpenters are preparing the premises as the stock sale of spring and winter garments is heavily advertised to attract shoppers before the closure.
The sale features about 95,000 dollars worth of women and children wearables including suits furs coats waists skirts rain coats and other items. Thousands of spring and Easter garments from R A Beach and J J O Callaghan arrive daily, offered in deep discount to clear by March.
A promotional notice extols Dr. Greene's Nervara as the century’s greatest medical discovery with numerous cure testimonials. It invites free consultation at his Boston office at 34 Wemple Place and urges readers to write or visit for health restoration.
A bitter power struggle erupts between Fitzgerald Lomasney MecNary alliance and James Donovan ex superintendent of streets. The fight shifts between the city committee and the Common Council with censure threats and retaliatory charges. Outcome will determine Donovan’s fate and the city machine's control.
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