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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1905
Page
5
The noon fire alarm at 89 91 Bedford Street prompted hundreds of Faulkner Page & Co. workers to flee the building. Fire laddies quickly controlled a blaze in an empty packing case on the fifth floor, ending the incident with cheers and relief.
Roxbury residents Miss Bridget Cunniff and Joseph Powers, both at 24 Prentiss street, were jailed on manslaughter charges following the death of Eugene McCormack of 2 Elmwood street. Police allege McCormack was killed after being refused entry and struck with a bottle at the Prentiss Street flat. McCormack died at City Hospital after the incident last week.
After a two year courtship James L. Baldwin 61 a Manchester prominent figure and superintendent of United States Steel and Bobbin Co married Miss Isabel McPherson a nurse at the Eliot Hospital in Manchester. The ceremony took place quietly at the bride 219 Harvard Street Brookline.
Miss Margret Merkley of Milwaukee recounts a physician urging ovarian surgery but she chose Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ulceration healed, symptoms subsided, and she regained strength. The article notes rising ovarian and womb troubles and urges trials of the remedy with advice free from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
Michael J. Dundon a 43 year old telegraph operator at Western Union 109 State Street Boston shot himself in the operating room after a period of drinking and unemployment. He died at City Hospital three hours later without regaining consciousness. Dundon leaves five daughters and two sons.
The funeral of Charles H. Pattee the theatrical lawyer was held at 25 Buchanan Street Winthrop yesterday at 2 pm. Attendees included Winthrop town officials Masons Boston lawyers actors and local citizens. Burial followed at Arlington Cemetery beside his mother.
Elmer Chickering Company at 21 West Street Boston announces its studio will be open from 9 a m to 4 p m today Memorial Day to take photographs for any interested person.
The Cambridge militia company election last evening was unanimous. Lieutenant W J Green was chosen captain with William J Keville as first lieutenant and Russell A Wood as second lieutenant. The company will be Company E of the Eighth Regiment. Non commissioned officers will be elected later.
O A Leaver proprietor of Leaver's Restaurant dies Sunday at his West Somerville home. He will be buried today at the West Somerville Universalist Church after a funeral service.
Three Italian brides arrived in Charlestown aboard the steamship Romanic. Their lovers met them with marriage certificates and the couples married within five hours of docking. The brides Palma Messiert, Venusta Suffriti, and Catarina Manzione wed Louis Suffreti, Sirio Corsini, and Emiddio Ventre respectively.
Police Officer James O'Sullivan was ordered to pay $200 damages to Edward F. Clune for false arrest and assault. Clune had been arrested for drunkenness. O'Sullivan used a club during the arrest. The case moved from Municipal Civil Court to Superior Criminal Court, where a jury disagreed.
A fire yesterday shifted from the Boston & Maine site to the New Haven yards in South Boston causing a big lumber shed to burn with $6000 loss. General Freight Agent C M Conklin called the blaze incendiary and police probe continues with workers questioned for clues. Two prior small fires at the NYNH&E yards are believed incendiary and railroad precautions were increased.
Rev James Murdock of Hamburg Pa commends Dr Agnew's Catarrhal Powder for curing his five year catarrh. He states he feels it his duty to share anything worthy of recommendation and notes his personal improvement after use.
Dialogue between Humanity and Miss Jinks suggests artists place the dog far forward in drawings to muffle or block human talk, a playful artsy observation about visual gag placement.
A clipped dialogue shows a clerk responding with plain language as a bookstore scene unfolds. The fragment hints at a straightforward, unembellished exchange without further context or action.
Miss Mabelle Ryce of Chicago recounts a cold leading to pelvic catarrh and says Peruna cured her symptoms within weeks. The piece promotes Peruna as a systemic remedy for pelvic organ inflammation and invites readers to write Dr. S B Hartman for confidential advice.
The chief justice announced that the exceptions in the Snell and Tucker cases would be heard together in June. The Tucker bill of exceptions is agreed upon, and the Snell bill is practically agreed. The attorney general met with Hugh A. Dubuque of Fall River to finalize details after a several hour conference.
In a Boston store a pneumatic system ends cashier roles leaving Jack Flynn to manage errands. He grows thin caring for siblings Cornelius Mary Mike after their father and mother died. A committee checks his meals and his sister returns to work as the boy gains weight again.
The Crocker estate remains before the Supreme Court as a 1893 will with codicils is challenged. Mrs. Crocker seeks to establish rights by the will granting her half of income and a trust, with the other half to the testator’s three sons. Morse Turner appear for the three sons George A Crocker Joseph B Crocker and Edgar R Cocker to contest.
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