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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1907
Page
2
Tan Maclaren, renowned Scottish author and preacher, has passed away. He was celebrated for touching humanity with simple, vivid prose and was regarded as one of today’s most inspiring writers.
The Senate 20 to 12 rejected reviving the Boynton bicycle railway charter between Boston and Fall River. Senator Grimes led opposition with an amendment to drop revival, leaving only an extension of the interurban bill. Boynton may need new land grants though he can still build under current limits.
Burlington Iowa May 6 Dr John Watson known as Ian Maclaren and author of Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush died at Mt Pleasant after a 12 day illness blood poisoning from tonsillitis He lectured for Iowa Wesleyan University and had a prolific output including The Bonnie Brier Bush and The Days of Auld Lang Syne His quick wit and Scottish dialect work defined his literary legacy.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder issues including lame back and Brights Disease. It offers a free sample bottle and a booklet by mail to readers who mention the paper, with bottles sold by druggists in Binghamton New York.
Grace Jacobs of Revere sues for 25000 in Superior Court alleging alienation of affection by Florence D Howland wife of a Revere business man. She cites repeated embraces caresses and gifts to her husband Volney J Jacobs from July 1 1904 to present as proof of the alleged affair.
Major-General William A. Bancroft, president of the Boston Elevated Railway, offers to organize and lead the sub committee for the July 31 grand civic and trades procession tied to the Boston Old Home Week reunion. Captain A. G. Reynolds will assist in organizing the committee and executing the parade details.
D. J. Donegal of 45 State Street New Bedford met a petite blonde in Boston on Harrison Avenue after dinner. She left with him, and later his $125 diamond stud vanished. police are investigating but fear the jewel is gone.
An old ad notes there is only one genuine Bromide Quinine laxative remedy labeled as LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It identifies the original Cold Tablet in a white package with black and red lettering and the signature FF. W. GROVE. Priced at 26 cents.
The piece recounts Ian Maclaren’s rise from ES Edinburgh circles to literary fame. It highlights his preaching, early sketches under the pen name Tan Maclaren, and his gift for portraying Scottish life. It notes his Essex birth in 1850, family character, farm memories, and deep bonds with parishioners at Drumtochty.
Advertises Dyspeplets sugar coated tablets in aluminum bonbonniere for 10 cents. Claims speedy cure for sour stomach gas and pain and keeps the stomach sweet and pure.
E Moody Boynton urged rapid nationwide travel by bicycle rail from Boston to New York in one hour and to Denver in ten hours claiming a future network would cut railroad deaths He praised reform minded press and attacked legislators and New Haven influence over Boston transit plans.
Worcester May 6 Joseph St John alias James J Barkus, a famous fraud damages plaintiff, hanged himself in Summer street jail while facing perjury charges in a suit with his fiancée Lulu Fairbanks against the Boston Worcester Street Railway Company. He had posed as a single man, wooed Miss Christine Enberg, and later Miss Tona Robinson before turning to Mrs Fairbanks.
Lydia O Connell a nine year old of Roxbury Massachusetts rallied after midnight surgery for appendicitis at City Hospital Doctors said she was near death at first yet survived the operation The surgeons now hold a good fighting chance for recovery and note she is among the youngest patients to undergo the procedure in the country
Henry R. H. E. McIver a famed adventurer described as a soldier of fortune was found dead in his New York home on West Twenty second Street. Last seen alive by Charles Mitchell he had complained of a bed cold but seemed not seriously ill. McIver claimed service in multiple historic conflicts including the Sepoy mutiny Garibaldi’s Italian campaigns Don Carlos Civil War Confederates Maximilian Egypt Serbia and Naples. Born aboard a Hampton Roads ship in 1841.
The second annual May party of the Colonial Club of Somerville drew over 300 attendees at Union Hall last night with lively floor direction by Martin J. Ryan and a large team of assistants including Frank J. Reynolds, Michael Carey, George Pratt, and many others keeping the event moving.
Maurice A. Langenthal of 213 Lexington Street East Boston was robbed on an L train at Rowe's Wharf station by three pickpockets two men crowded the door while a third pocketed between 70 and 80 dollars from his trousers. The thieves disembarked and Langenthal only noticed the loss later.
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