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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1900
Page
7
Ayer produces a line of patent medicines including Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Ayer's Comatone and Ayer's Hair Vigor. These preparations are advertised for tonic health hair and remedy purposes with claims of beneficial effects.
In a suburban train a husband buys trousers for his wife as a birthday gift while another anecdote recalls Jim Scott and Hank Richardson contesting a coroner race. The tale recounts a staged illness in Scott’s home to sway votes, and Scott’s unexpected win changes the family’s fortunes, with the story noting lingering doubts about the deception.
A peculiarly moody tale recounts Christmas gifts and a planned birthday present to spite a wife, featuring a man who brags of a tailored pair of trousers a yet unused meerschaum and tobacco, while neighbors exchange quips about small towns and tailor counts.
A fragment from Tit-Bits shows a lady assistant asking a cabman for his name and the cabman replying with a number, fifteen hundred and ninety three, miss. The brief exchange captures a brief street scene and a formal address in a historic period tone.
Washington reports ongoing Filipino activity across Luzon and other islands alarm officials. General MacArthur cites casualties among Captain Shields's detachment including four killed and several wounded. Rebels strike near San Jose in Nueva Beija and ambush scouts near Takloban, Leyte, with mutilated American bodies.
The Boston Post will continue weekly prizes of 10, 35, and 3 dollars for photographs chosen for newspaper reproduction. Submissions must include title, photographer name and address, and may note circumstances. Entries should be newsworthy, with limited figures and strong light contrast. Photographs cannot be returned. contestants keep copies.
Charles J. Hunter Jr., son of the late Confederate veteran Captain Hunter, sits in a West 121st Street room in destitution after arriving from Boston with $20 and a suit. His mother and sister, heir to vanished Southern wealth, also face need. He has threatened self harm if employment is not found.
Lord Alverstane Sir Richard Webster born December 22 1842 second son of the late Thomas Webster Q C. Educated at King's College Charter House and Trinity Cambridge he became Queen's Counsel in 1878 and attorney general in 1881. He served in Parliament and married Miss Louisa Mary Calthrop in 1872. his wife died in 1877.
In Lynn on October 16 Marcus LeBarron and Daniel J. Donovan pleaded guilty to breaking and entering Burrill Grammar School and stealing 4.70 from principal Francis H. Newell. John Donovan and George Perkins also implicated, with LeBarron sent to Lyman School and Donovan to Gonecord Reformatory. John Donovan and Perkins to return in four weeks for disposition.
The Boston Music Hall expands its team with Charles P. Salisbury named business manager from the Bijou and Harry S. Healey in charge of bookings and censoring performances. The overhaul aims at perfecting all aspects of the venue as our city’s vaudeville scene thrives.
A pithy collage reports curiosities from around the world and New York City and highlights drought loss in western Queensland, a heart model by a continental physician, and a Tyrolean Bicycle Club office in Innsbruck. It notes the globe fish inflated like a balloon, karri trees in London paving, and mosquitoes reaching upper stories in the city.
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