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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1901
Page
2
Mrs. Lillian E. Wylie of Beverly Massachusetts recounts a decade of weakness and illness culminating in a drastic recovery after one bottle of Dr. Greene's Nervura. The appeal urges nervous and weak women to seek Nervura at 34 Temple Place Boston and offers free advice.
The presidential party travels from Memphis toward the Gulf, visiting Vicksburg Jackson and New Orleans. Crowds greet the train with expansion arches, cotton mills are viewed, and a grand New Orleans banquet follows a ceremonial arrival by carriage and militia escort.
Report of President McKinley arriving in Vicksburg Mississippi on May 1 after a swift train ride from Memphis. He greets mayors veterans and locals praising the nation and addressing gathered schoolchildren amid a symbolic display and open barouche procession.
John P. Webber Jr. of Brookline Massachusetts, a Bowdoin College sophomore, drowned when a canoe capsized in the Androscoggin River near Meriam Park in Brunswick. His roommate, Joseph Bradstreet of Gardiner, Maine, clung to the craft and survived.
A Boston sub-committee from the metropolitan affairs panel discussed a proposed subsidy for new subways and East Boston tunnel. City Treasurer Turner floated bond terms of forty or fifty years, while Transit Commission members sought broader discretionary powers and unified control. Corporation Counsel Bailey was asked to draft a liability section following the Boylston street blast. the final report is due in ten days.
John P Webber of Brookline confirms the drowning death of his son John Prescott Webber Jr age 22. Born in Bangor Me he attended Fay School St Pauls Bowdoin College and Burnett Business College and was a track athlete and outdoor sports enthusiast. The family resides at 1530 Beacon Street with several siblings.
Justice Loring heard Dr. Joseph Santosuosso and counsel on Luigi Storti’s petition for release by writ of habeas corpus. Petition argues electrocution statute is cruel and lacks notice to the condemned. Full bench will act next Monday on the records.
The twelfth annual congress of the Sons of the American Revolution opened in Pittsburg with President J. C. Breckinridge presiding. Registrar-General A. Howard Clark reported 9906 active members across 39 societies, led by a Massachusetts chapter, as officers were elected: President-general Walter S. Logan of New York, secretary-general Captain Samuel Eberly of Chicago, historian-general George W. Bates of Michigan.
Returns to the office of the collector of internal revenue show eighty bucket shops in Massachusetts, though experts claim the figure is incomplete and that twice as many exist across the state.
A Wilkes Barre nurse testifies to Postum Gerenl Sood Coffee reducing headaches and indigestion within two weeks. She notes benefits among patients and mothers, including improved milk flow, and warns about proper preparation to ensure flavor.
The Ruggles Street Baptist Church greeted Rev. Dr. A. C. Dixon with cordial welcomes as he took charge. Church leaders and guests, including Jefferson L. Harbour and Hezekiah Butterworth, lauded his plain inaugural remarks and his call to active, awake faith.
Spring cleanse claims highlight Hood's Sarsaparilla as removing humors and unhealthy accumulations. Advertisement features testimonial from Frank Hamilton of St. Louis praising cures of impure blood and tiredness, urging yearly use.
Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt stayed overnight at Groton with his Groton School student son. He left Boston at 1 pm with Professor Endicott Peabody and will return to Boston at noon for an informal Legislature reception. He later dined with Speaker Myers and Collector Lyman, then heads to New York on the 8 o'clock train.
Thirty young men from New England and Western states prepare to depart for South Africa to join the Boer army. Edward Van Moss of 13 Pelham Street, a 22 year old Boer veteran, heads the Boston contingent after a family tragedy and previous service.
May 1. The Holdystone Print Works purchased 125 000 pieces at 29 16 c per yard sharply below recent sales. The sale, the largest in weeks, contrasts with an estimated 1 500 000 to 2 000 000 pieces on hand. Price cuts imply a weekly print cloth value drop around 22 500 dollars amid a depressed trade.
Natice reports Mrs Hannah Glidion aged 70 was severely burned when her clothing caught fire from a yard brush blaze this afternoon. Doctors say recovery chances are about even.
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