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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1896
Page
2
An advertisement touts Dr Gordon's English Malarial Tablets as a universal cure and preventive for malaria grippe and pneumonia. It claims immunity with regular use, claims blood cleansing benefits, and promotes availability through druggists with George C. Goodwin & Co. Boston.
A Grove Hall Dorchester electric car jumped the Washington street curve near Algonquin and Bowdoin. Thirty plus passengers were jolted. one woman injured, treated at home. Motorman and conductor kept riders in place as the car resumed on rails by nightfall, with wrecking cars sent to the scene.
At a Rockland Maine meeting Edwin Libby Post No. 16 unanimously passed resolutions denouncing President Eliot for remarks about the Civil War veterans. The post calls Eliot’s statements false and an insult to the soldiers who stood as a wall against rebellion, reaffirming charity work and patriotism teaching duties.
A Norfolk County inquiry centered on H N Bates the machinist who refused to answer questions. Counsel for Bates objected to showing a Wilcutt proposal about jail engine foundations at Dedham. The panel pressed Bates to testify. Bates agreed to reveal documents only with counsel present. The hearing resumed with Worthington on the stand and extended into Monday.
General Nickerson, representing Charles Pattee as executor, asks probate of John Stetson Jr. will in Suffolk County. He notes Catherine Stetson as widow and heiress and that June 4 begins the contest period. Nickerson defends the will as sound and in line with the decedent’s wishes.
Mrs Sawyer of Worcester, a noted occult medium, entertained Boston by entering a black cabinet at 179 Tremont street. She was tied with cloth around her neck and declared spirits of departed relatives who spoke and wrote messages on slates. Audience reported recognizing voices and features, with the medium later found secured to the wall. Another seance is planned for Sunday evening.
The annual prize declamation at English High School filled the hall with proud parents as students delivered pieces including My Gray Guinevere and The Shipwreck. Alexander Irwin Rourke and Samuel Newell Wood won first prizes. Lane and MacDougall won second. A Disobolus statue from the class of 1872 75 was placed in the upper corridor.
Senator M S Quay of Pennsylvania and J Hay Brown arrived in Canton Ohio. Governor McKinley greeted them at the station. Quay declined to discuss the purpose of the visit, saying it was a friendly call. Brown said he traveled only as Quay's companion and knew nothing of the mission.
Fires across the Houlton vicinity burned a East Hodgdon schoolhouse Mr Wright's barn and stock R Nixon's house and fences at Ludlow John Watson's sixty acres of land F W Pearce's forty acres of woodland A special train with forty firefighters fought a blaze near Island Falla and another with twenty men battled one in Smyrna By morning the fires were under control A Littleton schoolhouse also burned down
The ward race in Ward 23 pits the old guard led by Charley Belford and Pat Meehan against a reformist faction. They have reconciled after years of conflict to back Lawyer P. M. Keating for the ticket. If Belford Meehan wins, Robert Nason would become committee chairman.
Professor Strickland, celebrated colored aeronaut, will ascend from Congress street baseball grounds at 3 o'clock and jump from about 5000 feet. A parachute is arranged for a safe return. He plans to land smoothly after the ascent amid cheering spectators.
Somerville residents discuss a new ledge on the old Nathan Tufts estate between Foskett and Lowden streets on Willow avenue. Townsend, a Boston real estate man, has samples assayed at 1.10 ounces of gold and 320 ounces of silver per ton, valued at about $237 per ton, as work begins to determine ore quantity and mine development.
The American Wringer Company lists locations at 13 and 15 Broadway Extension and 29 and 31 Cornhill Boston selling all kinds of wringers and Bissell carpet sweepers. Repairs are called for and delivered without extra charge. Write or telephone Tremont 764.
In a heated Senate debate, Gray urged a revenue measure on a non partisan basis, while Hill vowed no tariff bill this session and warned against harming the government’s credit. Republicans denounced the plan as folly, repudiation, and financial danger as the bill stalled without action.
The Quincy Historical Society and the Abigail Adams Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution dispute plans to erect a cairn on Payne's Hill to mark Abigail Adams and young John Quincy Adams at the Battle of Bunker Hill. The Historical Society favored June 17 for next year’s ceremony. the chapter invited Boston area societies to participate this year, prompting surprise from curator W. G. A. Spear and questions about addressing Hon. Charles Francis Adams.
Autopsy conducted on Almon O Hanscom of 17 Mason street after his death at Mansion House this afternoon. Inmates say he visited at 3 pm to see Mrs Kate Newbury. she left two hours, found him dead in her room with clothes off. Police deem suspicious. Newbury held, autopsy cites apoplexy triggered by sudden excitement. Hanscom about 35, married.
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