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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1906
Page
2
The advertisement markets the Hallet & Davis piano plan as fair pricing with costs based on instrument value. It touts savings of 50 dollars on a 225 piano and 75 dollars on a 300 piano, plus a small interest deferred-payment option. It promises photographs and descriptions by request and notes a long history since 1839.
The statement asserts a cure for hundreds of cases within ten to twenty days after physicians and surgeons had previously declared them hopeless. It presents a bold medical breakthrough claim without specific names, places, or verifiable data.
Franklin county grand jury indicts Almon White and Eva White for manslaughter over the deaths of Marshall Bliss Nelson Royston and Mrs Mary LeGrandeur suspected to be from wood alcohol tainted liquor. Their father W W White accused of selling liquor without a license as the suspected supplier.
John A. Gale of Brookline resigns as Beacon Trust Company president and sells his major stake to Mercantile Trust. Board appoints John P. Reynolds Jr as chairman. new directors include Reynolds, Price, and Herrick. Company states no consolidation with Mercantile and continues operations at its current Columbus Avenue branch.
John A. Gale says excessive press attacks and unpleasant public position forced his resignation from the Beacon Trust Company after 40 years of service. He plans a rest then starting a private banking brokerage. The storm’s wreckage harms ships along New England coast with multiple losses reported.
Funeral services for the late Rev P J Daly were held at St Francis de Sales Roxbury with a solemn requiem mass at 1030. Archbishops Williams and O Connell attended along with two archbishops and about 200 priests. Interment followed at Calvary Cemetery.
Advertises a miracle cold cure claiming one day relief using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Promises refund if it fails and notes E. W. Grove's signature on each box and a price of 25 cents.
Sightings of wreckage along New England seaboard raise questions of death, missing vessels, and possible starvation. A stormy voyage from St John to Boston ends with a leaking schooner and a frail 16 foot dory carrying six men. captains Doane and Alley weigh wreckage origin as a fishing schooner, not the Lane.
The Adeline crew bound from St John to New York abandoned their sinking vessel 70 miles east of Boston Light and were rescued by the Margaret Dillon. Captain Isaac Smith and mates from St John New Brunswick endured molasses and ice as they re thawed at T wharf. Leonard Ferguson, 19, St John New Brunswick, shown courage during the ordeal.
Debris including a white hatch and railing fragments were seen off the southwest of Boston Light by a tug crew, suggesting the reported schooner wreck remains linked to a fisherman’s disappearance at sea.
Watertown authorities pension Patrolmen George Parker and Linus A Shaw on half pay after 42 and 11 years of service respectively Parker served as constable and truancy officer during his tenure while Shaw completed long service in policing the town.
George Parker and T. A. Shaw among Watertown police officers who retire on pensions. photographs by Hastings and Brazer accompany the retirement notice.
Marblehead police seek possible more victims after the Lady Antrim wreck off Marblehead Neck. Three bodies recovered are the cook and the mate, both Boothbay residents, and Captain C F Campbell aged 50 leaves a widow and son.
The schooner Etta Mildred of Boston docked at Gloucester with flag at half mast for a missing crewman. Captain Edward Trevery reported two identified men Pauric Mahoney and John Olson, both Boston residents. a third man had joined the voyage days earlier from Boston.
The schooner A. P. Emerson bound for Bar Harbor from Port Reading sprung a leak at anchor on Monday. A diver patched the hull today and pumps now keep the vessel afloat and free.
Captain Roberts of the schooner Rosa Mueller reported at Vineyard Haven that the vessel ran ashore at Cape Pogue yesterday. The ship is partly full of water and the ice cargo will be a total loss.
A masted schooner carrying lumber from the Satilla River toward Philadelphia beached on the North Carolina coast about 25 miles north of Cape Hatteras on March 21. The three Raymond T. Maull of Georgia is reported in the vicinity.
A raging equinoctial gale along the Newfoundland coast caused coastal damage. Shipping reports indicate several ships wrecked and waterfront property ruined. The Scintilla and the Rover are missing, with fears they and their crews have foundered.
The four masted schooner Horace Macomber arrived in Portland with a torn mainsail split mizzen and one jib carried away. The vessel is reported to have sustained these sail damages during its voyage before docking in the Maine port.
The officer and patrolman is highly respected and pension is earned. Patrolman Shaw retired for injuries from duty after 16 years as a special officer and 17 years as a patrolman. He is a Civil War veteran and was wounded at Bull Run.
Salem report states the schooner Jonathan Sawyer from Newport News ran aground in the Eagle Island channel while entering the harbor today. The crew is reported safe with no injuries.
The Schooner Wellfleet arriving in Apalachicola with lumber was towed by Mercury. Alfred Harris aged 23 went overboard while furling the mizzen topsail and is missing.
The British three masted schooner Hibernian anchored off Block Island with all small sails torn in ribbons. She weighed anchor and moved west toward Newport under reduced sail.
The American bark Harvard under Captain Bergman, sailing from Angra Pequena and Barbados bound for Boston, ran ashore at Turks Island. It was refloated at high tide and appeared undamaged.
Seward W. Jones, who ran Lieutenant Governor Draper's campaign last fall, told the Harvard Political Club about his campaign experiences. He urged young graduates to enter politics, warned that graft is increasingly checked by public conscience, and noted the prevalence of graft.
Boston officials report extensive snow and slush removal with 2000 workers and 250 teams in action. Superintendent Cummings says the Elevated Road uses 66 teams, while the city keeps 2000 workers, and all streets are to be cleared by tomorrow night barring thaw or rain.
A Vermont mother credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with curing her son's five year battle with a severe eczema outbreak. She reports rapid improvement after starting treatment and a full recovery after three months. The ad promotes Sarsaparilla and Sarsatabs with dosage details and a Lowell Massachusetts manufacturer.
Four patients at Boston City Hospital and Relief station suffer fractures and injuries from slips on icy sidewalks. Thomas Walsh 52 fell at India and Custom House. Charles Crowe 40 fractured knee pan. Thomas Cunningham 37 Hanover Street fell on stairs. Peter Moran 65 sustained severe hip contusions in front of 18 Green Street.
A Buffalo physician endorses Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a safe for daily use remedy to absorb digestive gases improve complexion purify breath and throat and benefit liver. The lozenges cost twenty five cents per box and are sold at drug stores.
Hyomei offers a non swallowing treatment for catarrh using a pocket inhaler. The kit includes an inhaler medicine dropper and Hyomei bottle priced at $1, with refills at 50 cents. The company provides mail orders and free samples from the Hyomei Building in M Y.
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