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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1899
Page
5
Boston Democrats rally behind Paine and Mack with pledges of large majorities. Leaders like Congressman Henry F. Naphen and local officials urge active turnout, claiming a Boston victory will influence state and national races, with targets ranging from 6 000 to 8 000 votes.
Mr. Sewall C. Brackett, once a candidate for Alderman, predicts Ward 23 will deliver a largely increased Democratic vote on election day. He cites Paine’s speeches as creating a new era of party influence and expects converts from Republicans over imperialism and trusts, with leaders pushing to expand Democratic representation in the Legislature and boost city support for Paine.
Ex councilman M. W. Norris says Ward 18 will deliver a large majority for Paine and Mack next Tuesday. He notes strong local support and a sense that Paine is one of their own.
Dover street bath house will close next Monday due to boiler repairs at the repair shop supplying steam from the Boston fire department. It will reopen on Tuesday.
A 300 male students dressed in nightgowns blocked streets and gained entry to Ladies Hall in protest over the girls' ball. Items looted included laundry, cushions, and pictures from several buildings. Faculty threat of wholesale expulsions follows the incident and parent concern grows.
Miss Cutting daughter of W Bayard Cutting shot a deer yesterday on her father's Sayville Long Island estate adjoining the South Side Club. The accomplishment, said to be the first by a woman in the area, shows a deliberate aim and steady marksmanship.
Nellie Duane a 14 year old girl disappeared from the foster home of Mrs Amos Switzer, 62 Lincoln Court Nonantum, Oct 26 after leaving under the pretense of milk. Authorities seek her in Andover and Lawrence with possible past runaway history. clothing missing from her room matches a green plaid skirt blue jacket white straw hat and tan shoes.
In Bridgeport on November 3 a solicitor notified Mrs. H. F. Stulz that she is heiress to six million dollars from the late Elisha Crowell of Bristol England. Crowell made a plush fortune and left a thirty million dollar estate. Mrs. Hilson, Stulz’s mother and Crowell’s granddaughter, and her children were present as heirs learned of the fortune and planned to travel to England soon.
J W Maynard, a blind musician, refutes a previous report that he eloped with Mrs Ward of North Lyme Connecticut. He explains he boarded at the Ward home for five months, left October 23, and later met Mrs Ward while she traveled to visit friends in East Hartford.
The decomposed body of a man presumed to be a crew member from the fishing schooner Two Forty was recovered by City Point life savers between Commercial Point and the L Street bath house. He was taken to City Hospital morgue. The six foot tall, 200 pound man wore a black sweater with two yellow stripes, black rubber overalls marked No. 1 J. Smith Scituate, Mass, rubber boots, and striped trousers. Identification was not possible.
Myra J. Tubler of 1023 Troost Ave Kansas says coffee caused a coffee liver and health decline. After three years on Postum Food Coffee her condition improved with plump figure clear complexion and renewed vitality. She notes her husband switched to Postum after seeing the results and calls it a Godsend.
The New York New Haven and Hartford railroad announces timetable changes effective Monday Nov 6 for the Midland division. Boston to Dorchester trains depart at 6 44 and 6 01 pm with several intermediate stops. Dorchester to Boston trains leave at 7 29 and 7 59 am with corresponding stops. Adjustments include later departures for Norwood Central and adjusted stops for Franklin, Readville, and Norwood Central, plus discontinuation of the 8 87 am service between Norwood Central and Readville.
The Man in the Moon company will leave New York on a 6 a m special train reaching the Southern Terminal at noon. Boston’s inaugural show marks the biggest theatrical transfer to date with eight passenger coaches and Lee baggage cars for transport, total trip cost $2720, and advance seat sales already strong at Tremont Street and downtown offices.
Just out this month the magazine offers a double page Thanksgiving illustration Under Many Skies plus prize reproductions and a prize-winning advertising contest entry by Bostonian B A Giinida. Carolyn Wells runs Puzzled Sign of the Sphinx page with prizes, and a droll Bargain Hunter story explains curing indiscriminate bargain hunting.
In Collinsville the typhoid fever spread alarms as twenty eight cases are reported to the selectmen. An investigation found the water source at fault with three wells analyzed and condemned for impurity, signaling action to halt further illness.
Dr Frederick A Cook will relate his south polar explorations under Belgian authority in an illustrated lecture at Tremont Temple Monday evening. He served as surgeon and ethnologist aboard the Belgica which departed Antwerp in August 1897. The talk precedes remarks by Edward Marshall the war correspondent and promises vivid photographs and engaging insights.
The article advises washing woollen blankets rather than dry cleaning. It prescribes a half-tub of warm water with half a cup of Gold Dust Washing Powder, soaking the blanket for thirty minutes, rubbing spots, rinsing in warm water, and drying in a warm sunlit outdoor area to achieve a soft white result.
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