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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1901
Page
2
article argues a mixed diet of grains fruits and meats is best. It endorses meat as highly nutritious and quickly digested and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as aiding digestion. It cautions against cheap laxatives and claims medical endorsement and global availability.
Contractor Louis M. Bianco of Circuit Heights returns to Boston from New York and disputes reports of unfair treatment of workers on the East Boston Gas Company project. He says the contract totals about 1800 dollars, with only about a quarter done and 300 dollars paid to laborers. The gas company owes him 250 dollars, and he remains in debt to workers by about the same amount, tied up by a suit, while he seeks to settle soon. He employed about thirty men, not 100.
A freight elevator at the Majestic apartment hotel on 1669 Beacon Street Brookline plummeted from the sixth floor to the basement injuring four painters and a janitor. Three men were taken to City Hospital with serious wounds. one later sent home. All are recovering.
Antonio Momimo, 25 Pitts Street, arrested stepping from a New York train at Back Bay station after allegedly shooting and killing Giu seppe Bicchieri on Pitts Street that Friday afternoon. The motive remains undisclosed amid rumors of a love triangle, with investigators tracing tips from friends and a letter from Providence to Antonia Mercurio.
Jim Jeffords and Peter Maher met in Maenarchuk Hall Lancaster Pennsylvania in a six round bout with no decision. Jeffords earned a second round knockdown and edged with a slight lead through the early rounds. The sixth ended in a clinch with Jeffords on top and both men displayed ill feeling at the finish.
The National Federation of Textile Operatives executive council met in Fall River to back the Fall River textile council wage stance. A federation assessment will fund the local union’s anti manufacturer campaign as mass meetings are called and plans formed to pursue a strike starting Monday.
A new Sky Farm benefaction will launch 100 tickets tied to balloons from the Boston Museum roof at 11 am. The finders will win 4 seats to next week's premiere, with box office pickup and a generous reward. expect crowds in Scollay Square as balloons rise on the morning spectacle.
Mr Charles Follen Adams entertained a large audience in Association Hall with readings from his Leedle Yawcob Strauss poems. Applause signaled high appreciation for the author and his verses. Miss Caroline De Fabritis sang solos to polite admiration and guests viewed the building’s elegant lower hall reception rooms.
While workmen excavated at the State House park a bank collapsed burying three Italian laborers. The injured were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. Ethel C. Mann aged six was severely burned when her dress caught fire at 1161 Dorchester Avenue.
Walter O. Luscombe of Falmouth wins renomination by Cape Republican convention over challenger William Nye of Bourne. Chester Snow of Harwich selected State committeeman. County to renominate Ulysses A. Hull for Sheriff and Smith K. Hopkins for clerk of courts. Newcomb of Orleans named county commissioner nominee with Perry of Chatham and Baker of Barnstable as special commissioners.
Medford police arrest a 43 year old woman suspected of posing at multiple houses to locate victims. She allegedly used different names at each stop and claimed to live in Sangus. A witness linked her to a Wellington burglary where a pocketbook and money were taken.
Worcester resident Mr Smith writes July 19 1900 praising Pills after use of three boxes. He notes nocturnal awakenings reduced from ten twelve times to two or three times nightly. Jesso of Boston endorses the product and features 100 pills per glass vial for 25 cents.
Boston carpenter Daniel J. Harrington reports long kidney trouble including nighttime secretions and backache improved after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He says headaches dizziness and blurred vision faded after about ten months of use. Sold by all dealers price fifty cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
The reopening of the Sarah Ware murder case is set for Hancock County with about 15 residents summoned to the grand jury in Ellsworth. The case revival follows appeals by William T. Treworgy to county officials and the Governor. Ware disappeared September 17, 1898 and her body was found two weeks later with a crushed skull indicating murder.
Dr. Robert Stein of the U S Geological Survey and Samuel Warmbath of Boston complete a two year Arctic expedition, collecting minerals and plants in northern Greenland from 1899 to 1901. They arrived at Wabana aboard the Windward and reached Sydney before heading home, noting a lack of valuable mineral findings by Peary and suggesting a dispute with Dr. Dedrich stemmed from other causes.
About 30 Italian societies in Boston gather at Marotta's Hall to organize a Oct. 10 memorial for McKinley. Some 600 to 700 Italians expected to participate, with a parade led by chief marshal Antonio Martarano and a Faneuil Hall service featuring speakers such as George A Scigliano and Dr Joseph Santosuosso. The memorial tablet will be sent to Canton, Ohio, after the event.
George Pelligrene aged ? of Worcester a brakeman for the Boston and Albany railroad was struck by an outward bound train near Cottage Street station last night. He suffered severe internal injuries and died shortly before midnight after being taken to City Hospital.
In New York on Oct 3 Richard Croker faced a public rebuke at Tammany Hall as Edward M. Shepard won the mayoral nomination despite protests. Delegates staged disruptions, some leaving the hall after Shepard was announced, while George B. McClellan presided and praised Mayor Van Wyck amid calls against reform and a defense of Democratic city governance.
A seven and a half hour session of the Sixth Councillor District Republican convention yielded no winner after five ballots. Walter B. Watson of Lowell and Herbert Howe of Marlboro led, with Edwin C. Mead of Everett also favored. A disputed vote caused a ballot to be declared null and void amid protests, delaying adjournment to next Tuesday at noon.
The Rev Charles W Duane rector of Christ s Church Salem street told a Post man he did not slur the martyred president and that he used McKinley as an example of American manhood on several occasions He denied drawing any comparison between McKinley and Matthew Stanley Quay and said he only used the president s name in defending another man.
A pair of runaway horses distributing apples disrupted traffic last evening on Beacon and School streets. The wagon overturned after a broken trace and struck two store windows. The driver recovered produce with help from bystanders as police assisted. the horses were unharmed.
The Actors' Church Alliance will hold a memorial service next Sunday for the Rev. Henry M. Torbert president of the Boston Chapter. The services will begin at 11 a.m.
Representative Gilpattic asserts Parker has enough pledged delegates to win the nomination and adds new support from undisclosed sources. He praises Parker’s legal ability and honesty, congratulates Harris on a courteous contest, and thanks friends and the press for fairness.
Princeton player F B Alexander won the singles championship at the Marion Cricket Club grounds. Yale pair Plummer and Russell took the doubles title defeating Harvard and Yale mixed teams. final score 1-5 4-6 6-2 6-4.
The Hon. Robert O. Harris will hold headquarters at the Adams House this morning to receive delegates from all parts of the state. The headquarters will open at 9 o'clock.
The Harris side A executive committee meeting heard Walter Clifford say delegates will vote for Harris with confidence. They forecast strong support from Barnstable to Suffolk and parts of western Massachusetts, despite Parker allies claiming momentum.
Republican representative at Lynn Charles H. Tucker and Francis L. Newhall of Lynn. Democratic representatives at Lawrence Jeremiah J. Desmond Simon B. Ryan and Frank J. Stanley, all of Lawrence. Republican representatives at Lawrence Joseph Buswell of Methuen and Carl Ebert of Lawrence.
Hannah Keeffe of Newton died October 2 and will have a funeral from 208 Chapel Street on October 4 with a requiem Mass at Our Lady Church at 9 a.m. John H. Stevens of Cambridge died October 2 aged 69 and will be buried from 141 Western Avenue on October 6 at 2 30 p.m. Relatives and friends invited.
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