Grip Epidemic Prep Ad Urges Duffy’s Malt Whiskey Use
In a 1900s style notice, doctors warn of a grip and pneumonia surge and promote Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey as a preventive. The ad claims the remedy cures symptoms, strengthens the system, and can prevent consumption, noting a New York physician’s praise and a convention endorsement.
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Duffy’s
New York City
Duffy
New York
Duffy's
Duffy Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester
N. Y
Tips by rich widow shake hotel staff in Lenox
Mrs. William H. Bishop widow of the New York, New Haven & Hartford founder distributed about 300 among Hotel Aspinwall employees as she left. Maids got 50 each, bell and elevator boys 25 each, newsboys 10, with solid gold scarfpins for office staff and others receiving substantial gifts.
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Lenox
William H. Bishop
New Haven
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Aspinwall
Sane woman freed from asylum after 25 years in Baltimore
Mrs. Mary E. Hughes, confined as insane at Mt. Esope for 25 years, was declared sane by Judge Baer. Miss M. Stalle Lawton, who escaped from the same institution and later deemed sane, promised to aid and fulfilled the pledge. Hughes plans to sue the asylum and government over mail withheld during captivity.
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Baltimore
Mary E. Hughes
Mt. Esope
Baer
M. Stalle Lawton
Woman May Keep Betrothal Gifts After Breakup in Trial
In Allentown Pennsylvania a County Court jury ruled that Miss Ursula Rodgers may retain all betrothal presents given by her former lover Horace Gehman despite his accusation of larceny. The decision centers on the engagement ending before marriage.
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Allentown
jPenn
Ursula Rodgers
Horace Gehman
Weds At Last Philadelphia Nov 8 5:15 Today
Miss Alice Ralph daughter of the late Julian Ralph and John Van Aernam Rhoades, a Brunswick Maine resident previously secretary at De La Verne Refrigerator, married in Philadelphia after repeated rebuffs and delays. Rhoades, a divorced New Yorker, faced New York marriage law restrictions but secured a license and the ceremony proceeded.
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Philadelphia
Alice Ralph
John van Aernam Rhoades
Ralph
Julian Ralph
Mr. Rhoades
de la Verne Refrigerator Company
Brunswick
East Thirty-ninth Street
New York
Rhoades
Daily and Sunday Post Proverb Gold Prizes Announcement
The Daily Post offers two thousand dollars in gold for proverb solutions. Four prizes of 1000, 250, 200, and 100 gold are awarded for correct or nearest correct series entries. The Boston Post pays all prizes totaling $2000 in gold for morning and Sunday editions.
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Sunday Post
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Boston Post
Proverb Contest Rules and Entry Instructions
Post coupons must be used for all answers. Only one answer per coupon and no pictures. Coupons numbered and mailed to Proverb Editor Boston Mass by close of contest. Sets must be in numerical order. duplicates allowed but kept together. Open to all except Boston Post employees. Proverb Book advised but not required. book on sale for 25 cents. Editor may change conditions as needed.
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Office of the Post
Doctors Ought to Wear Gowns
Philadelphia reports Dr Edward Martin urges physicians to adopt the sanitation practiced by city medical inspectors when visiting contagious disease cases. Inspectors don long gowns rubber caps and shoes, then antiseptically wash and spray bag and gear before resuming duties to protect the public.
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Philadelphia
Edward Martin
Public Health and Charities
Woman Awarded 3000 in Boston Court Case
A verdict for 3000 was awarded yesterday to Annie L. Davis in the fifth session of the Superior Court against the Boston Elevated Railway Company for injuries from an electric car fuse explosion on Nov 10, 1899. The prior trial ended in a hung jury after she sued for 10000. The Rutland Railway Company won a verdict in the sixth session for rent due on 22 Washington street Boston for nine months to March 1, 1902.
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Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Ferry
Rutland Railway Company
George Oo. Foga
Washington Street
Boston
Paget's Broken Hip Placed in Plaster by Hoffa
New York reports Dr Hoffa of Berlin performed a non surgical hip reposition on Mrs Arthur Paget. The fractured hip was forced into position with manual manipulation and adhesions broken down. She was placed in plaster from waist to feet and stood up, with expectations she will walk earlier than anticipated.
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New York
Beal Freed After 16 Years Of Life Sentence In Maine
Charles L. Beal was released from the State prison after 16 years of a second degree murder sentence. Governor and council granted a pardon Tuesday night. Beal plans to settle in Clinton and rebuild his life. He is 38.
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Thomaston
Charles L. Beal
Beal
Clinton
Boston Debuts Deer Island Women's Prison and New Steamer
The Board of Aldermen and City Council inspected Deer Island's new women’s prison completed after three years at 370,900 dollars. The facility, housing 367 inmates and 34 matrons, will be furnished by Thanksgiving per Penal Institutions Commissioner John B. Martin. A new steamer Monitor costing 75,000 dollars was also commissioned, with officials touring the site and praising the building as the finest equipped they have seen.
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Boston
Deer Island
United States
Board of Aldermen
Penal Institutions
John B. Martin
Monitor
South Ferry
Martin
Herbert Carruth
Pretty Girl Traps Maser Into Court
In Brooklyn a 19 year old girl and police protectors confront a persistent male harasser on bridge cars. Officers Kane and Carmody arrest him at City Hall Park after she identifies him as the stalker named as Al Alexander of 644 Lexington Avenue. The court fines him ten dollars and scolds him as a "Willie."
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Brooklyn
Helen K. O'Reilly
O’reilly
Kane and
Carmody
City Hall Park
Kane
City Hall
al Alexander
Lexington Avenue
Willie
Petitioners Seek Certificate Of Location For Boston Haverhill Trolley Line
Rail line builders Maplewood Danvers and Haverhill Boxford asked the railway board for approval to run a street railway partly on private land between Boston and Haverhill. The board refused to certify locations containing objectionable fare controls, repairs to streets, or a fixed car barn site but said amendments removing these features could win approval.
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Boston
Haverhill
Maplewood
Lost airship found again near Fern Ridge
The Baldwin airship was found by farmers 16 miles west of St. Louis in a Fern Ridge cornfield. It was uninjured and still floating, though a rope tangled in a broken tree limb dragged it down. Baldwin and Knab enshue and others rushed to recover the craft and will return it to the concourse.
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ST. Louis
Baldwin
Fern Ridge
Knabenshue
Boston man credits Koch Institute cure for consumption
Ernest F. Angell of 682 Massachusetts Ave Boston recounts severe lung disease from 1903 to 1904. He cites treatment with healing vapors at 175 Tremont St Boston as curative, discharged as cured April 18 1904, and urges others to seek free examination at the Koch Lung Care Institute next to Tremont Theatre.
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Tremont Street
Boston
Emily
Ernest F. Angell
Massachusetts Ave
P. S
Koch Lung Care Institute
Tremont Theatre
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