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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1910
Page
8
A Bryant verse offers consolation that suffering ends in divine blessing. It asserts that God counts every sorrow and tears and promises eventual joy, rest after night, and heavenly bliss for believers despite earthly pain.
Regular Bible Club meeting at Gilbert Hall features William Shaw of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. Tremont Temple welcomes Rev. Robert S. McArthur for summer duties. Dr. Arthur P. McGiffert spoke at Harvard Church Brookline. Palm Sunday at Church of the Advent with Lent rites.
In New York a Boston couple married in Springfield headlined by a faulty hot water bottle mishap. Edith Devarreaux Costello suffered burns to both feet while honeymooning after filling a bottle in their Albany hotel suite. Doctor says she will recover in days.
Panic struck a six car Second Avenue Elevated train when the fourth car jumped the track and rode the sleepers to the station platform. Seven passengers were cut but none were seriously injured nor admitted to hospital.
Frank Cambrosia will today search for the teamster who on Saturday ran down his 6-year-old son Pasquale on North Margin Street and nearly scalped him, breaking his left arm. The child lies seriously ill at home on Thatcher Street after initial care at Relief Hospital. Witnesses saw the team and have reported its number.
Henry Wilkins aged 62 of Rutland Vermont died yesterday. He reportedly was the youngest Civil War soldier to carry a musket, enlisting August 4 1862 at age 16 in Company K 123rd New York Volunteer Regiment and serving three years before mustering out June 23 1865.
Senator Daniel of Virginia, who had been between life and death after a paralytic stroke, showed improvement in Daytona Beach. He was partly conscious for about an hour this afternoon, with physicians encouraged by the change in his condition.
Report details a severe Bright's Disease case in Frank H. Chandler of Clay New York with 50 percent albumen and dropsy. After five doctors and a near collapse, recovery followed using Fulton’s Renal Compound starting December 25. Patient gained 23 pounds, dropsy resolved, and health improved. The notice promotes Fulton’s remedy and offers free literature via Jno J Fulton Co San Francisco and Boston drugstores.
Firefighters uncovered an old gravestone as they tore plaster from the ceiling above Conway & Co. saloon at 46 School Street. The white stone bears Mercy Packard’s inscription from 1847 and was used as a chimney base in a pre Civil War Free Soil meeting room. The property is owned by Watson G. Cutter & Sons who bought the block in January 1900.
Major Henry L. Higginson spoke on The Secret of Success in Life to 650 attendees at Warren Avenue Baptist Church. He urged work and character as foundations, praised real friendships, urged social settlement and sentiment in dealings, and stressed education, apprenticeship, and practical skills as essential to national progress.
A-canL strike by International Paper workers expands from New York and Vermont to Maine mills at Livermore Falls Chisholm and Riley. About 400 union employees walk out while 150 to 200 non union workers remain at work. The walkout was voted late last night and began at 7 am today.
Mrs. Elen H W Richards of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told a South Congregational Church citizenship class that the telephone and rapid transport raise living costs more than trusts. She argued we save time yet pay for it, with higher rents and grocery prices driven by neighbors' choices and Sunday meals inflating expenses.
The new Boston 1915 board will convene tonight at Chipman Hall Tremont Temple to elect officers appoint an executive committee adopt by laws receive reports and plan future work The directorate includes representatives from all organizations aiding Boston with three to six directors per group chosen by a group conference
The White Star steamer Canopic arrived last Thursday and was floated into the Charlestown navy yard drydock for underwater cleaning and painting. There is no dock at Genoa or Naples large enough, so navy officials arranged the work here. The Canopic will exit dock Wednesday and proceed to Hoosac docks to load cargo for the Mediterranean.
In Kentucky Governor Watson vetoed a bill that would have appropriated 5000 dollars for improvements to the birthplace of Jefferson Davis in Todd County. The action follows a prior failure to grant an exchange of the Lincoln Memorial Farm from taxation.
A Post photographer captured a Jamaica Plain schoolgirl on her way home at noon. The office offers a $5 Gold Piece to any photographed child who proves identity at 275 Washington Street with a parent or guardian. The paper prints twenty pictures daily and Sunday.
The photo shows Grace Sullivan, daughter of Mrs. Frank Sullivan of 35 Cranston Street Jamaica Plain. She is in second grade at the Woman School with teacher Miss Hampton and plans to deposit the money in the bank.
Harvard Medical School expert Dr. C. H. Dunn argues there is no ideal universal baby food and stresses feeding each infant by its own needs. He warns against premature weaning and grandparent dictates, endorses gradual introduction of solid foods, and urges avoiding sweets while letting the child guide meal acceptance.
A poetic sonnet urging love for love's sake rather than charms pity or personal benefits. It argues love should endure beyond appearances or comfort and remain eternal despite change. A concise meditation on the nature of true affection.
A teenage inquiring man asks about winning a girl’s love and whether absence helps. Advice suggests cooling attentions to provoke reflection, then letting her decide worth. A fiancée writes on engagement, doubt, and possible marital power dynamics.
A young girl writes to Dear Miss Champagne about two years of companionship with a charming young man. She admits feeling cross when he visits and worries he will pry into her troubles, noting he remains willing to endure her outbursts to uncover what weighs on her.
The Red Star line steamer Menominee from Antwerp is due this morning with fifty cabin passengers and will berth at Hoosac docks Charlestown. Also nearing port are the Tritonia from Bremen carrying sulphate of potash and the Indiani from Manila. The Megantic from Liverpool Queenstown scheduled to arrive next, will begin Montreal service after, with 1355 aboard.
Unusually strong Gulf stream currents accelerated the United Fruit Company's steamship Esparta on a trip from Port Limon to port. Officers report the flow was notably active and weather was summer like during the voyage. Captain Glenn noted no prior season such a strong current. The Esparza docked at Long Wharf just after 3 yesterday afternoon.
Bangor Maine March 20 planters in Aroostook county and Kenduskeag Valley expect a sharp drop in potato acreage next season due to an overstocked market. Tubers sell on county streets for 65 cents a barrel versus 1.95 last year at this time.
A historic remedy prescribes gin with buchu and murax mixture to treat kidney and bladder symptoms. The claim says the drink cures lame back joint pains and urinary issues by strengthening kidneys and urinary passages, warning of potential diabetes Bright's disease if untreated.
The writer asks if a young man courting her and her sister ethically shares attention between them. The adviser downplays past slight affection as unimportant and says no one is robbed of a chance by keeping an appointment. The tone argues against guilt over sisterly rivalries and urges personal judgment.
William Shrader shot and killed Bertha Singley 26 of Derry township as she rode with a companion near Miss Singley’s sister’s home. Shrader fired from an upstairs window, fled, then was captured by the victim’s brother and jailed. The motive cited is the woman’s refusal of his attentions.
The advertisement argues Gold Dust can replace multiple cleaners in homes to avoid borax ammonia kerosene or naphtha. It claims Gold Dust is safe economical and harmless to hands and fabrics and urges reading package directions.
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