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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
4
An advertising letter extols Scottish Remedies sovereign line with claims of gentle relief from headaches rheumatic pain dyspepsia and coughs. It lists multiple specialties from liver and nerve to catarrh and asthma and praises the anti bilious specialty as effective and benign.
Raymond Palmer, 28 year old son of John Palmer of 18 Lawrence Street Waltham, wandered from home Wednesday night. He was found about 6 o clock yesterday in the woods Lack of Bear Hill over three miles away by Edward Bull a Waltham fireman captain of Hose 2. The child slept in the woods and was in a playful mood when found. Fire department answered an alarm from Box 39 raised by Mr Palmer who sought his lost child.
Mrs Bertha Newcomb publicly horsewhipped Hartshorn on Pleasant Street near the police station after claiming years of insults. Hartshorn allegedly choked her during the confrontation as bystanders urged retaliation. Her father Lawyer Norris justified her action as a stop to harassment.
Mrs. Newcomb tells a Post reporter she planned to strike Hartshorn after sustained insults lasting over a year and a half. She recalls visiting his stable to "do it" and notes she would have killed him if not for the law. She cites repeated offences and a desire for decisive action.
Captain Asa Tower of the Rebecca W Huddell was arrested for violating port laws by entering Salem and staying over forty eight hours without reporting. He appeared before United States Commissioner Fiske. hearing continued to 10 this morning. The vessel sailed from New Brunswick and docked around March 30. Fine for the offence is 1000 dollars. Tower plans to sail today for the Provinces. Government witnesses will be summoned.
The Portland brig Henry B Cleaves from Cardenas Cuba for Breakwater arrived at Lewes, Del, badly damaged after a collision Tuesday, fifteen miles off Chincoteague with the schooner Laura L Sprague from Scattergood N J for Norfolk. Cleaves lost head gear, starboard chain plates and rail carried away but not leaking. Sprague lost her flying jibboom and head gear but could continue.
Roland B Molineux remains in the Tombs after a judge overruled a preliminary objection to a new assault in the first degree charge. His lawyer Bartow S Weeks waives examination while prosecutors prepare for grand jury action. If bail is sought, a General Sessions judge must set the amount.
Essays submitted for prizes offered by the New England Free Trade League are now handed in from Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. A judging panel of Henry C. Adams, Henry R. Beager, J. L. Laughlin, Charles N. Hull, and J. F. M. Jaixen will select winners. The topic asks which workers would suffer if all foreign goods entered free of duty.
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