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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1901
Page
5
A medical journal cites Castoria as harmless and effective for stomach pains nerves and digestion. It claims Castoria is a safe substitute for castor oil and does not contain opium morphine or narcotics, contrasting it with other soothing syrups and cords.
Secretary Follett W. Bull of the Civil Service Reform Association will charge two female nurses at the Asylum for the Insane at Dunning Illinois with causing the deaths of patients Kate Nedde and Kate Kurkowski by withholding food and failing to administer medicines. The accusations say patients were starved for weeks with only bread and tea and that the nurses sought to weaken them to move them to a sick ward.
William Goggins, owner of a Roxbury pool room at 201 Washington Street, claims the sale by Daniel F. Sullivan for 879.05 was a false pretence after another owner appeared. Sullivan was arrested yesterday for obtaining money under false pretences. The case is set for court today.
Among the contracts received the past week by McKenney & Waterbury of 181 Franklin street Boston were for Harvard College buildings Union Trust Company building Providences R J new convent building Fitchburg Colonial Court building Newton Warren Hotel Newton and several apartments and private houses in the Back Bay.
Tall River, Nov 3 A Civil War Union soldier statue in South Park was presented today by Samuel Watson a well known Fall River resident and the Richard Borden Post 44 G A R.
Rumor says Henry W Savage will stage King Dodo in Boston with Maud Odell as the Princess. Ruth White from The Burgomaster at Tremont next week arrives for a possible yacht welcome. William Courtleigh joins Virginia Harned at the Colonial in Alice of Old Williamsburg the week of Nov i. Tolante at Bijou the week of Nov li. James Gilbert seen as Lord Chancellor at Nickelodeon Winchester five act war play at Grand Opera House next week. Winchester Va 1868 setting. romance between a Southern girl and a Northern officer forms core.
Daniel Frohman's company led by Hilda Speng opens a week at Hollis with Lady Huntworth's Experiment. Irving Brooks, not German but a Boston native, stars The Telephone Girl at Grand Opera House. The Last Appeal nets a first Boston run at Colonial, Lovers' Lane thrives at Park, and Sky Farm heads into fifth week at Museum.Il Trovatore opens Bijou season under Murray Gilbert. Down in Dixie week at Bowdoin Square. Uncle Tom's Cabin nearing end at Boston. Essay contest closes Nov 14. Frank Daniels triumph on Tremont ends soon. The Orphan Heiress stars Morrison's Grand. Inaudi dazzles Keith's. The Bachelor and the Belles tops Music Hall week. Howard shows Reeves's burlesquers with Alexandra Dagmar. Georgia freak family returns to Austin & Stone's. Marshalls hypnotists extend run.
A large Boston Theatre audience attended last night to support a Red Cross bureau fundraiser. The First Regiment Band led the program with notable contributors including Artie Hall Georgia Coon Shouter Bowen R Church Pauline Saxon Will Toland Everett Proctor and Robert A Deuel with solo trombone.
Miss Jennie Yearmans and Frank Bush delivered humorous talk and songs while the Lynn Cadet Band and Ladies' Lyric Sextet were encore favorites. Other performers included Harry W. Walton the Armstrong brothers James J. Baker Charles T. Grilley and Miss May Walsh before a good sized audience.
Nov 3 report details a Boer assault on Colonel Benson's column at Brakenlaagte in eastern Transvaal. General Botha, aided by a second command of about a thousand, attacked Benson's rear guard Oct 30, captured two guns, but failed to hold them. Benson was mortally wounded. Major Woolf-Sampson organized defense, Barter relieved on Nov 1. Boers suffered heavy losses before retreating.
Patrick Donahoe, a homeless man near 24 Norman Street, crawled into an unfinished rear building to sleep and fell into a cellar. He was found half frozen, weak from starvation, and badly injured. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. His daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Sullivan, reports he has been unable to work and has wandered among friends.
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