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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1904
Page
2
New York police detained Addie McGuire an 80 year old woman who fled a quarrel with her husband after wandering to West Forty-seventh Street Station naked save for an underskirt and jacket. She asked for protection and was locked up.
Arthur Frederick Williams, 23, vanished after leaving Fisherville at 7 AM on his wedding day to Miss Rosalie Therese Simpson. She waited helplessly at 8:30, the ceremony time, then learned he had been spotted boarding a Blackstone Valley car with a valise. Williams may have escaped to California. Simpson, moved to Saundersville then Waterville, Me., with his trunk. Williams was a former army enlistee and a folder tender at Fisher Manufacturing.
Mrs John Kins of Chicago opened in Pierce Hall with praise for missionary work linking to St Martin s history and Canterbury. Speakers from Michigan Minnesota New York Rhode Island Nebraska and western dioceses described study classes biographies and education efforts, noting growth in church missions and readiness to expand work among diverse communities. Tea followed at 4:30 hosted by the Church of the Messiah Auburndale.
Florentine Praetsch wife of Bernard Praetsch died in this city on Oct 13 aged 68. Funeral services at the First German Baptist Church Centre street corner of Boylstone Street Jamaica Plain Monday at 2. Relatives and friends invited to attend.
In Geneva on October 13 two suicide attempts by 17 year old Jessie Abel and the disappearance of a noted railroad man fuel local gossip. Authorities note a possible link between the events with speculation on fear of relatives. Abel reportedly tried to hang herself and later sought carbolic acid, being stopped after a fierce struggle with rescuers.
New York October 13 in a General Sessions Court scene a devoted wife sits near her husband Philip Weinselmer known as Diamond Phil as witnesses describe his alleged extortion bid for 3000 to allow workers to be employed on a plumbing job. The couple, a pale veiled woman and the labor leader, face a tense courtroom audience of workers as the trial unfolds.
In Bainbridge Penn on October 13, several girls, seeking revenge on Professor Byrnes after he disciplined them for neglecting studies and flirting, poured croton oil on his lunch. Three Barber children who board with him also face likely death.
Mary Owen of Danbury claims she wed Ellery J. McPhelemy in Brewster New York on Easter Sunday in 1884. Witnesses deny recollection. church records lack any marriage entry, though sexton Patrick Lahey partially corroborates aspects of the tale.
A $10,000,000 hotel, 22 stories high, is planned for Chicago on Michigan Avenue two blocks south of the Auditorium. The project would create the largest hotel in the world, surpassing all existing structures in size and magnificence.
John W. Luce & Co. will issue Mires of St. John a translation of Johannisfeuer by Hermann Sudermann. Charles Swickard adapts it for English speaking stages after success translating for two years. Nance O Neill premiered the piece on stage last season and will feature it again this season with her company. The book includes a sepia frontispiece sketch of Miss O Neill by I B Hazelton.
The Rev P S Henson will conduct the Saturday afternoon Bible Class on Oct 15 and 22 at Park Street Church due to the absence of Rev W T McElveen. The class, under the Evangelistic Association of New England, meets weekly at 2 30 for the Sunday School lesson. all are welcome with Mr Lewis E Smith in charge of music.
Three Sisters of Charity four nurses and Dr M Whitney Swayne left New York with 40 children from the Foundling Asylum to place with Mexican families in Clifton and Morenci Arizona. They were mobbed and forced to flee, leaving 19 children with Clifton Americans. Mother Theresa Vincent plans to seek legal return of the 19 children. The incident is blamed on religious prejudice rather than race.
The three masted schooner John Proctor arrived at City Island yesterday, halted in a near nonstop voyage from Hillsboro to Newark with plaster cargo. Previously waterlogged in a September gale, it was towed here by Mary G. Bowers for repairs before continuing. Nearby, the barkentine White Wings bound for New York from Lunenburg was sighted at anchor in the bay under a north wind of 30 miles per hour from Highland light Cape Cod.
A note states Red Fox Ale costs no more by the glass than other ales and invites patrons to try it today. The message emphasizes uniform pricing across varieties and encourages immediate sampling.
A tongue in cheek critique of over eating and digestion argues disease stems from uneven waste and repair. It endorses Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe aid, claiming they build strength from food, avoid drug reliance, and help digestion for a healthier life.
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