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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1904
Page
2
Asheville report says John O Grimes, assistant manager at George W Vanderbilt’s Biltmore estate, died by swallowing hydrocyanic acid. A note in his office blamed the love affair for the act. He had spoken of a troubled romance and told a friend the girl had “led him a devilish life.”
In Worcester on November 22, Chandler Clark of Westmoreland New Hampshire and Elizabeth B. Jennison married in the First Universalist Church. Clark, 66, remarked that marriage is a lottery, noting his three prior marriages and claiming to have learned to pick suitable partners through real experience.
Miss Marie Gardiner of Boston rowed to Fort McKinley to help Sergeant Mert Whitty escape the hospital. They left at 10 PM and wed at midnight, then faced a dangerous return voyage by boat. Whitty was arrested as he climbed back through the window and is held in the guardhouse as investigators decide his fate.
The Chelsea Young Men’s Hebrew Association hosts a dance at Commonwealth Hall in East Boston to raise funds for the library. A grand march will form the letters Y M H A, led by Chief Marshal Louis Finkelstein and an honor roll of aides and directors. Guests include Senator Beck Alderman Bromberg and others, with Jacob H. Schiff as the first library fund contributor.
The Daily Post will print One Illustrated Proverb each morning and two Illustrated Proverbs each Sunday. The Boston Post offers Two Thousand Dollars in Gold for Correct or Nearest Correct Solutions of the Proverb Pictures series with a breakdown of 25 prizes of 1000 gold, 250 prizes of 250 gold, 100 prizes of 50 gold, 25 prizes of 25 gold, and 10 prizes of 100 gold totaling 2000 gold.
Special notice states the final Proverb Problem will appear as No 82 in the Sunday Post on December 18. Contestants may submit their lists by 6 p.m. on December 31. No late entries accepted. Mail submissions must fully prepay postage.
Instructions outline entry rules for a proverb contest published by the Boston Post. Details cover coupon use, mailing deadlines December 18 and 31, eligibility, duplicate entries, and acceptance of the Boston Post Proverb Book as the authoritative source.
Contestants are told typewritten, ink, pencil, or stamp answers are all equally legible and acceptable. Neatness and numerical ordering matter. duplicates refer to multiple answers on identical coupons. Send one neatly arranged set in a single envelope, with No. 36 changeable to No. 37 due to a Post error.
The Osmo-Chemic Co announces six days left to claim free X Ray exams and trial treatment before December 1 1904. They tout Radiant light medical discoveries as superior remedies and warn that extended delays will end benefits, urging prompt applications.
The Osmo-Chemic physicians invite patients already treated by others for obesity rupture piles warts moles or goitre to seek care before December 1 and receive a free examination and trial treatment with a guarantee of no payment unless cured.
Mrs Ellen Nolan of South Boston Massachusetts credits Osmo-Chenmic doctors with curing neuralgia and shrinking a cystic tumor without surgery after five years of pain. She reports careful examination, dramatic improvement, and a strong endorsement of the treatment.
Mrs Hanna Sandin of Dorchester Mass reports nervousness and catarrh improved after a course of Osmo-Cemic treatment. She says nerves stronger and treatment pleasant and safe, endorsing the doctors and their claimed cure.
Ellen F. Wetherell, Socialist member and school committee nominee, tried to vote at Cobett School caucus but found her name absent from the list. Assisted by friend Mrs. Dorcey, she planned to pursue the issue, invoking Attorney General Parker’s view that caucus voting extends by implication.
An advertisement asserts no substitute exists for cod liver oil and promotes Scott's Emulsion as the most digestible form. It claims extracts and wines cannot replace the oil, likening such extraction to separating bread from wheat. The promo offers a free ale and identifies Scott & Bowne of Pearl Street, New York.
At Nashua New Hampshire on November 22 workers drained the canal four miles to Mine Falls to remove a coffer dam. Thousands of pickerel horned pouts and eels were stranded and then distributed to mill operatives and the city poor. About six tons were gathered before gates reopened. The largest eel reached five feet and weighed over seven pounds.
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