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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1903
Page
2
Mrs. W. S. Niles of Weymouth Massachusetts says Quinona cured her nervous prostration after a year of decline. She reports improved appetite weight gain and restored strength with no further sick days and praises the tonic’s effects for herself and friends.
Max Gersumky of 168 Tremont St Boston and George A Young of 65 Howard St Charlestown praise Quinona as a superior tonic. They report relief from fatigue improved digestion and restored vitality after illness or overwork.
Worcester Oct 7 Labor leaders denounce the State police as autocratic and inept. John De Bell of Cigarmakers Union 97 calls for legislation against police power to enforce factory laws. Patrick J. Mahoney wins AFL convention delegate seat amid tight votes. officers elected include James R. Crozier president and Joseph G. Jackson first vice president. Lynn named the next convention site.
Boston reports chronicled beauty May Simmons known as the barefoot girl faces a string of escapades from Chelsea to Somerville and a coal barge incident. Her stepfather and mother clamor for answers while doctors weigh mental state and police pursue a elusive young man linked to the cases.
Samuel J. Parks, walking delegate of the House smiths and Bridgemen's Union, said the national executive committee of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers Association will meet next week to extend local building strikes nationwide where the iron league operates. Locally most jobs are tied up and action awaits the committee's approval.
Mrs Charles E Duggleby of 1 Han e street Allston rescued her child from flames yesterday morning after the youngster and companions played with matches on a bed. The mother raced up to extinguish the fire as the department arrived. No serious injuries are feared.
Mme Nordica was jolted from her berth to the car floor during a transfer between railroad yards in Chicago. She was badly shaken but not injured beyond the shock.
A benefit event at the Bijou Theatre in Dorchester proceeds this evening to aid the young firemen injured at the Freeport Street railroad crossing on July 4.
Peculiar black chalk marks appeared yesterday on door posts of Hep Sing Tong and Chinese Reform Association members and on Oxford Place and Oxford Street homes. Police and Hep Sing Tong investigators mobilized, ordering plainclothes officers into Chinatown and curbing pedestrian traffic as fear spread.
Mary Simmons and a younger woman calling herself Louise Brown lived in Portland during July to September. Louise used May’s name in a Post photo, and both avoided notice while seeking work and care. May was treated for hysteria in July, and Louise left Deane’s employment abruptly while planning to return.
A fragment notes May Simmons was in a Boston hospital during August and mentions her being in Boston the next night, tying the location to a local missing person context. Further details remain unclear in the surviving text.
Inspector James Latter reports that on Aug 17 1900 Prudence and Louise Simmons were arrested in Revere for larceny of clothing and a hat from a Revere woman. Items found on their persons were returned to Lancaster Industrial School from which they had escaped, with Cambridge listed as their residence.
Miss Kate Casey of Lynn Massachusetts recounts eight months in a sanitarium with a failing prognosis before trying the Koch L g Cure at 361 Boylston Street Boston. She attributes rapid improvement to breathing healing vapors and says she was completely cured in under three months and invites neighbors to verify.
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