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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1905
Page
8
A young girl from Bessie Edwards home on Somer Street acted as private detective, accusing a man of theft after locating her missing pocketbook. She identified the suspect in a cigar store and testified in Police Court, earning the outcome of arrest and court appearance.
A group of employees led by the main office clerks in Watertown spent last evening pleasantly at the new Park Square Roller Skating Auditorium.
A patient endures drastic skin disease with nightly scale shedding and cracked skin. Doctors fail, prayers for death, but sister urges cure. Eureka brings instant relief. In six weeks the condition improves completely.
An elderly man describes twenty years of suffering from a severe skin disease, later cured after using Cuticura Resolvent Soap and Ointment. He recounts extensive prior failures and a dramatic recovery beginning after his sister tried Cuticura, with a six week return home and lifelong remission.
Miss Delia C. Phelps, heiress of the late Charles A. Phelps, fights her brother for control of a $1,000,000 Boston estate. The brother claims mental incompetence. alienists testify to Miss Phelps's sound mind, with support from professors and doctors who observed her. The dispute follows the brother’s removal of her from management while living in Paris.
Plans for President Mellen consider four hour expresses between New York and Boston via the Air Line division of the New Haven system. The 140 mile route would shorten the line by about 22 miles, requiring 3,000,000 to double track the division, build a new Connecticut River bridge, reduce grades, and relocate stations.
State Street crowds arrive at the debate over temperature as two scientists publish opposing takes on the Boston Post question. The exchange centers on zero and absolute zero, with one reader citing 289 degrees below zero Fahrenheit and another suggesting 229.6 degrees below zero.
In Moscow on November 23 the zemstvo congress endorsed the imperial manifesto, pledging support to the government. It accepted the executive committee's resolution favoring direct election of representatives, secret ballot, and a constitutional Douma, with martial law in Poland to be abolished before convocation.
The Boston Fund reports total subscriptions now $18 415 with over $1000 added since the prior report. Donations include numerous individuals and lodges, churches, and companies such as Julius Cohen, M. MafCIS, Century Cloak & Suit Co, and Louis D. Brandeis, among many others contributing to Hebrew relief and Russian aid through Kidder Peabody & Co.
Warsaw reports Russian teachers in surrounding towns being expelled by police with revolvers. Agrarian unrest grows across Poland as revolutionary bands march, burning spirit shops, schools and government buildings. At Radom peasants cut state forests.
Kielce reports additional Russian regiments reinforcing Polish garrisons. One regiment arrived today and two more passed through Kielce heading toward Dombrova in a rapid deployment.
A Boston resident cites a detailed Odessa letter describing four days of violence led by police in disguise. The carnage targeted Jewish families as mobs looted and killed, with many wounded and survivors facing starvation and exposure without aid.
Subpenas were issued for John D. Rockefeller Henry H. Rogers Henry M. Flagler and other financiers to testify in Missouri suits to oust Standard Oil Republic Oil and Waters-Pierce from doing business. Witnesses must appear Dec. 4 before Frederick H. Sanborn appointed by Governor Folk. The suits, filed March 29 1905, allege a pool to regulate retail oil prices in Missouri.
The Colonial Customs Department reports 00 American fishing vessels with 45000 barrels of herring cleared from the Bay of Islands through November 23 last year. This year only one American vessel with 1800 barrels has sailed to date.
New York details how Mrs. Daniel Munn wealth from a Brooklyn home vanished after heavy betting on horse races. She recounts tipping from a neighbor and relying on inside information, selling their house and moving to a Harrison New Jersey flat with her husband and two children while facing laudanum despair.
Mrs. Florence Duffney of Northampton Mass died at the hospital in Hartford Conn from burns suffered when kerosene used to start a fire ignited her clothing. The incident occurred last evening as she attempted to light a fire.
In New York, W. F. Harrington was killed and Abraham Juckerman was gravely injured after a fight at the Little Naples Dance Hall run by Paul Kelly. Police link the violence to election fraud disputes over money, suggesting a quarrel over election funds sparked the fatal confrontation.
A column describes female workers at subway and elevated transfer booths showing off to curious riders. At Adams Square a blue gown drew attention while a Johnson-era rule kept staff from talking. At South Station observers noted similar behavior as exposed by enforcement against chatting.
A Bradford Pennsylvania woman reports her uterine tumor disappeared after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The advertisement claims the remedy conquers tumors and stops menses, urging other women to write Mrs. Pinkham for free advice.
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