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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1906
Page
2
A strike paralyzes Black Sea trade and bombings in Sebastopol cause multiple deaths as St Petersburg confronts a constitutional crisis. The Douma demands cabinet resignation or amnesty, while officials fear revolution and the Emperor faces a choice between constitutional government or downfall.
The gown features silver embroidery and Brussels lace costing 860 a yard, orange blossoms along the four yard train, and a custom to present the dress to the Virgin de la Paloma. Madrid palace details highlight lavish suites, electric lighting, and grand salons as preparations for the royal wedding unfold. Frederik Wallingford Whitridge sails from Paris to Madrid for the ceremony.
Seven year old Tommy Powers died after being crushed by a moving pipe jigger at Albany and East Concord streets behind City Hospital. Witnesses say he tried to climb aboard. driver Michael Gilmore of Roxbury did not see the boy fall and police released him after questioning. Tommy attended Joshua Bates School and Immaculate Conception Church. his mother Susie Powers and father Richard Powers grieved at the loss.
New York May 27 Professor Alexander Haig a noted English authority on dieting warns that under eating endangers the heart and can cause heart failure. He says dieting should avoid hunger and advocates intelligent, regulated food choices rather than once daily meals or starvation to lose weight.
Providence May 27 Robert Willard Burbank longtime Rhode Island attorney general and noted lawyer died at Rhode Island Hospital last night from appendicitis.
Commissioners James B. Reynolds and Charles P. Neill report shocking sanitation failures in Chicago packing houses. Dark slaughter rooms poor ventilation, filthy practices, tuberculosis contamination, unclean laboratories, and tainted meat repeatedly handled. Inspectors overworked and underpaid, with probe suggesting packers control postmortem oversight. Despatches from Washington echo revolting conditions in the packing industry.
The Evangelistic Association of New England advocates deploying 20 evangelists and a gospel wagon for itinerant summer work. Rev. Melville A. Shaver and wife, active in Le Lake Village and Standish, Me, are leading services. Rev. Duncan A. MacPhie of Boston, secretary’s assistant, will work next month in Norway Village and nearby towns in New England.
A Somerville father wheeled his baby to the store in Davis Square and, absorbed in his newspaper, wandered home leaving the infant crying in the square. On returning for the child it was clear the man had a forcible reminder from his wife.
Jacob Stees of Amsterdam and Walter Stees of Syracuse celebrated their ninth birthday yesterday. The twins are in good health and are said to be the oldest twin brothers in the United States.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe marked her 87th birthday surrounded by family and intimate friends at 241 Beacon Street. She reported good health aside from a slight lameness and spoke of progress in areas she has long supported, with greetings from many quarters arriving by letter telegram and telephone.
A landslide of over 1000 yards of earth at the Cambridge Brookline bridge site slid into the river early yesterday. A retention wall is needed on the Cambridge side to halt further damage as work continues on the new bridge replacing a torn down structure. Captain Frank W. Dallinger and 600 Cambridge residents urge a full committee probe into the delays and issues with the bridge edges. E. D. Leavitt of the Cambridge Bridge Commission says the cavern results from city officials’ work, not negligence by the Commission.
William Farrell, a well known boatman, plunged into the river yesterday without hesitation and saved a boy from the water at the Boston end of the West Boston bridge.
In Fort William Ontario on May 27 the Ogilvie company's grain elevator slid from its foundation and moved into the river by daybreak. Officials say the pile foundation displacement caused the collapse and the building could not be saved.
Elmer Jones six year old of 15 Pine Street South End fell overboard during tag on the West Boston Bridge. Companions sounded alarms and Farrell was among the first to reach him. He was unconscious and rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital where doctors fear for his recovery.
In Odessa South Russia on May 7 strike action by longshoremen engineers stokers and seamen halts Black Sea traffic with no departures for two days. Two thousand troops guard the water front while factory workers threaten to join. counterfeit money alleged from a Jewish republic led by Gorky with Father Gapon as vice president circulates widely.
In St Petersburg on May 27 M Shataloff, the city prison warden, was shot four times by an 18 year old youth carrying out a social revolutionist sentence in revenge for alleged mistreatment of political prisoners. The killer also shot a beggar who intervened and was arrested afterward.
Sevastopol police report bombs hurled at a troops review after Te Deum for the emperor anniversary. Eleven dead including five children and over 100 wounded. General Neplueff and the police chief among the injured. four bombers arrested. Vice-Admiral Chouknin absent.
Barcelona on May 27 reports the secretary to Don Jaime of Bourbon son of Don Carlos was arrested today on a charge not fully disclosed in the available text.
English actor Ben Greet, who arrived in Boston, will cut short his American visit to return to England with the Woodland Players. By royal command they will present an open air play at Carisbrooke Castle Isle of Wight in honor of King Alfonso and Princess Ena of Battenberg wedding festivities.
Testimony from T E Robertson of Washington Pa claims Dr Williams Pink Pills corrected stomach pain dizziness and facial eruptions. He says after taking several boxes the pimples boils and bad blood disappeared and endorses the product. Sold by druggists or mailed 50 cents a box six for 250 by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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