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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1906
Page
3
Advertises low profit pricing and a wide selection from celebrated woolen makers. Claims business has doubled in a year and urges customers to inspect goods for custom suits. Promises patterns available and stock size larger than rival tailor houses and wholesale woolen firms.
Governor Guild refused to refer John L. Soderquest’s pardon application to the governor's council. Soderquest, known as a slugger, was convicted in a Boston area assault case and sent to Charlestown over three years ago. Professor William A. Goodwin supported the petition but offered only character notes from when Soderquest worked as a boatman for Goodwin in Plymouth.
John J. Leahy the newly appointed sewer superintendent says the year’s sewer spending will not exceed prior levels. He notes $1 000 000 in loans for new sewers and replacement work, plus $609 000 for surface drains to fill grades and obtain releases, with total past appropriations over $18 000 000 in nine years.
Providence report states Annie Sherry aged 26 took laudanum to quiet nerves and died a few hours later. She leaves a widower and three small children.
Stratton D. Brooks, elected Boston public schools superintendent, denies reports he will decline the post. In a telegram from Mt. Pleasant Michigan he says he has not accepted and has not decided his actions, planning to be in Boston Saturday.
Justice Holmes told Attorney Vahey that he referred Charles L. Tucker’s writ of error to Justice Harlan for further consideration. Vahey hopes for a granted writ and a full Supreme Court hearing. refusal would move toward execution under Governor Guild.
Frank J. Dowd, surrendered by his probation officer for violating probation, was yesterday sentenced to the House of Correction for one year. Dowd had been found guilty of attempted larceny.
Ida Schleine a blonde German immigrant who arrived on the Titian from Brazil and was to go to Boston Monday morning has been found penniless and heartbroken over losing 185 dollars. She is cared for at the German Missionary Society in New York. Captain Isaac Rodenhiser of Boston defends her and says she was robbed at Ellis Island.
A 25 year old German orphan arriving in New York alleges a robbery aboard a Santos to New York voyage. She says she possessed $18 at departure, was robbed, and now seeks aid as officials, passengers, and her sponsors dispute the loss.
Patrolman Charles W. Reick of Somerville is suspended pending an investigation after an incident at Primo Diozzi’s store. Clerk Herbert A. Chapin will hear the case this morning to decide if a complaint should be issued. Attorney Daniel H. Bradley represented Reick. The case has drawn local interest amid criticism of Chief Parkhurst.
Gilbert T. Manson of South Boston is named examiner of clerks in the North district to ensure all mail handling staff know each station's limits. The move follows letters arriving at Cambridge and Somerville sub-stations that must be routed to other stations. Patrick Lane named chief clerk at the North station.
In Rochester New York details of Susan B Anthony’s funeral are finalized. The public viewing is from 11 to 1 at Central Presbyterian Church, then relatives gather from 1 to 2, after which services commence when the church reopens.
The eighth annual Hebrew Benevolent Association ball filled Paine Hall last night with about 1200 attendees. A concert ran 8 to 9 followed by a grand march led by President D Bloom and wife in a white silk gown. Supper, toasts to officers, and dancing until 2 am completed the event.
Swampscott March 14 The death of Chief Samuel T. Harris of this town followed a severe pneumonia attack after long hours solving the death of Mrs Jennie P Chase The 1865 Marblehead native had earlier served in the Marblehead and Boston police forces before becoming Swampscott chief
The article extols charcoal as a safe purifier for the stomach and bowels and as a breath freshener. It promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a superior Willow charcoal remedy, claiming benefits for complexion breath and liver, with a price of twenty five cents a box.
It is believed Captain Thomas Chadwick of Port Clyde and five crewmen on the three masted schooner Jesse W Starr perished in mid ocean after the steamer El Dia reported sighting the dismasted waterlogged wreck with a trailing stern boat. The absence of a second boat suggests the crew were swept away before rescue.
George Payne Burnap aged 38, son of the late Captain George J. Burnap U S N, dies after a revolver on a trunk in his brother Arthur's room is knocked loose by a newspaper causing a discharge. The bullet enters his left chest near the heart as he lies on a bed smoking a pipe.
A vintage promotion extols Cascarets as safe for children and mothers to prevent stomach and bowel troubles. It claims salts and castor oil are harmful, promotes the candy tablet as a mild purgative, and offers a bonus French gold plated bonbon box for ten cent stamps, with delivery from Sterling Remedy Company in Chicago or New York.
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