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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1901
Page
4
An advertisement touts Omega Oil as a superior liniment with a pleasant smell and pain stopping abilities. It emphasizes a pure vegetable base not turpentine or ammonia and notes four ingredients including a green herb that acts to ease pain. The copy implies broad use for common liniment purposes.
New York leaders describe Mrs. Seth Lew as a prominent autumn society figure noted for patriotism in its highest sense educational and philanthropic drive. Friends praise her support for Barnard College and her loyal steadfast nature, balancing public hosting with private literary pursuits and church attendance.
Brookline Gunsight Company has about 1500 applications for gas service connections. Permits normally issued by November 15 have been halted since November 1 by Superintendent Wheeler, leaving many orders unfilled and drawing criticism from customers who cannot obtain coal gas for homes and businesses.
Admiral Dewey and Rear Admirals Benham and Ramsay met at the McLean building in Washington behind closed doors for the Schley court of inquiry. The deliberations began at 10 am with strictly secret sittings planned daily from 10 to 12:30, adjournment at noon.
The Governor's Council extended Francesik Umilian's reprieve granted July 7 while the Storti case decision is awaited. The reprieve expires Saturday night unless formal notice delays again. No current legal proceedings exist for Umilian, but officials fear executing before Washington resolves the newer electrocution law challenge.
John Murray, recently released after a year for ice theft, appeared in court and was sentenced to another year for stealing 35 bushels of apples and 4680 eggs. He also faced charges for 21 pounds of butter, with the goods consigned to different parties under the care of the Boston and Maine. Murray had visited the various consignees.
Railroads prepare to expand facilities as Geary law appears unlikely to be reenacted this winter. Labor leaders warn of severe economic and social disruption if large numbers of Chinese arrive, potentially sparking wage suppression, uprisings, and intensified race tensions across regions including the South and industrial centers.
Ralph Izzard of the Boston Chinese inspection office reports a Treasury decision reversing a long standing interpretation of the Chinese exclusion act. The ruling accepts 1892 registration certificates issued before the 1893 amendment that required a photo. The change hinges on proving identity to the department, a task potentially challenging for certificate holders. The interpretation rests on a district court judge in Oregon.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor met the President in Washington to protest Santiago Iglesias arrest evasion. He explained Iglesias mission in Puerto Rico to organize workers and requested Governor Hunt be notified. Gompers pressed for re enactment of the Chinese exclusion act and discussed labor laws.
Harry King, a notorious pickpocket, was yesterday held for the grand jury on evidence from Inspector Wolfes. Known for larceny from the person, he has a long criminal record in Boston New York Rochester and other cities, with past sentences in South Boston Sing Sing Auburn and Salem. He cried at police headquarters saying hunger forced his theft and will face the grand jury on pocket picking charges.
In Binghamton on November 11, Waverly’s young women organized an anti matrimony club to deter Cupid’s appeals. The group, drawn from leading local families including merchants, physicians, bankers and the postmaster, sets penalties in its by laws for flirting and winking with men and even kisses. The constitution aims to promote a life of single bling.
From an earlier letter Miss Ellen M. Stone the abducted American missionary writes she endures the ordeal with fortitude and worries more for her companion Mme Tsilka than herself. She cannot complain of mistreatment though confinement and rough weather are trying. the tone remains hopeful as brigands fake distance and Bulgarian authorities press for transfer across the frontier.
Major William T. Pitcher reports Abra de Ilog garrison was attacked by insurgents commanded by Senocos. Americans breakfasting armed routed the attackers. five insurgents died. Captain Noyes wounded. a deserter captured wearing insurgent lieutenant’s uniform. Insurgents believed to have illicit munitions. Reported insurgent movement northward from Samar and famine causing bolomen to surrender.
The New York Board of Health will prosecute Dr George D Barney for inoculating Miss Emma H King with tuberculosis serum to test whether consumption can be transmitted from cows to humans. King, eager to aid science, endures injections as Barney aims to prove Koch wrong and cure the disease.
Francis Truth once billed as a divine healer filed a bankruptcy petition in Federal Court in Concord. He lists liabilities of 3004.70 and assets of 200, with Keene as his home and prior trouble in Denver and Jacksonville. Court records note prior filing by William A Bemis and suggest Truth may be Bemis.
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