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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1900
Page
2
Physicians report rising fatalities in Boston with last week marking the highest death rate since January 1890. The City Hospital treats many grip cases as experts debate causes from climate to bacterial factors, urging precautions to curb the deadly spread.
A local alarm urges the public to act against the grip attack this season. Physicians warn not to neglect warm clothing and to avoid shedding winter wear despite sunshine as the disease flourishes.
Advani a Brahmin is fined and jailed amid a sensational claim he is friends with Kipling Miles Cody and Grant The article lists many named figures asserting brushes with fame and royalty in a troubled era.
Rousing Advani, a self described prince with ties to Rudyard Kipling and Ulysses S. Grant, was fined and jailed after pleading mercy. He claimed a $7000 yearly income and a credit loss while insisting his father is a Bombay banker and asserting noble lineage.
The text presents claims about Ajentsing Advani a Bombay banker with a vast indigo business and a London trip each year. It mentions connections to Rudyard Kipling and Lady Curzon, a Paris expo typing project, and alleged offers to New Haven women before Advani’s arrest.
Funeral services for Private Frank J Early of Company K Twenty first Infantry were held yesterday from James E B Murdoch undertaking rooms Roxbury. The body arrived from the Philippines Thursday. He lived on Kent Street and leaves a wife and one child. Enlisted last year and was mortally wounded Oct 8 during the Calamba battle. Escorted by Seventh Artillery from Fort Winthrop. Requiem services were at St Francis de Sales Church with pallbearers drawn from social groups and the Ninth Regiment.
Travel offer for an escorted Washington trip leaving Reston on March 23 April 6 and 20 and May 4. All expenses covered at twenty five dollars for a week. Extension of time stop over privileges and side trips available. Apply to A. J. Simmons N E P A Royal Blue line 211 Washington street Boston.
A Boston attorney wooes Miss Eleanor Robinson for five years after meeting her in the city. He pleads twenty two times before she consents to marriage amid Cupid’s patient pursuit and a daily breakfast tray of wood violets.
Lawyer James Lowell Putnam of Beacon Street proposed to Miss Eleanor Jay Robinson of New York twenty-one times before marriage was announced for April. The ceremony will feature Miss Augusta Robinson as attenda nt and a satin gown with heirloom lace. The couple plans a European honeymoon after a persistent courtship.
A promotional piece argues the South offers mild winters and two crops per year. It urges readers to contact H. V. Richards in Washington or M. A. Hays in Boston for land and industrial opportunities along the Southern railway, appealing to farmers, tradesmen, and invalids seeking prosperity and home making.
A damaged newspaper notice gives partial details for a local public sale with readable fragments naming the sale action and local officials.
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