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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1905
Page
2
The Arling ton Street Church leads a project at the Public Garden Boston to grant an ornamental gateway. Four white granite posts flank the William Ellery Channing memorial as old iron fencing is replaced. Workmen shift plants to winter quarters and resod the garden designs for visitors.
Chicago federal and police authorities uncover a network selling American women to China for maid or high servant roles. Names of two lead women are known, one in Chicago and one in Shanghai. Bait offered involved lucrative asks of 500 to 1000 dollars, with victims guarded in Chinese palaces after arrival.
Acting Chief Timothy F. Shay and Officers Burns and Potter halted a Fitchburg and Leominster dancer delegation attempting ragtime in Gardner Town Hall on October 18. Management appeals failed and out-of-town youths sparked near-riot behavior before yielding to police and resuming waltz and two-step.
Judge Platt directed a verdict for defendant in a suit by Brown Riley & Co of Boston against Kim Farrell of Ansonia seeking 300000 in damages from the sale of Parrott mine stock. The trial ended when the plaintiffs failed to prove they were authorized to act as Farrell's agents.
Brockton police search for Samuel Hill an almost eighty year old man who wandered from 22 Tremont Street Campello late last night causing friends to notify authorities.
The fragment mentions SVE'S signature on each box and implies a one day action or directive related to ordering. No clear events or persons beyond these hints are provided.
Nora Connors 17 has been missing from 2 Cherry Street South End since Aug 30. Police search failed. She was last seen leaving the Columbia Theatre with another girl and later with a man at South station. Nora claimed she was married and going to New York.
A tornado struck Sorento Illinois killing four people and injuring 36 with three likely to die. Forty houses were blown down or carried far from foundations as residents searched debris by lantern light and hospitals formed in remaining homes.
Washington reports Secretary Root will press Newfoundland through the British embassy after Representative Gardner cites telegrams from captains of American vessels at Bonnie Bay Newfoundland claiming they were forbidden to fish for herring without licenses. The Treasury holds that American registry grants the right to fish without separate licenses. Benjamin A. Smith urged Gloucester captains to keep fishing along the treaty coast of Newfoundland.
The public opening of the millinery class at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union drew a steady stream of visitors and buyers. Now in its second year the class has helped last year’s pupils secure positions, with two departments offering wage earning and machine made hats, including frames made with the new Nontte wire frame machine.
At an October meeting the American Humane Education Society and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals voted to give thousands of drivers of horses in Boston copies of Black Beauty and The Strike at Shane's. They will award humane silver medals in March and prize money to be drawn by medal recipients, plus seek support for enforcing a law against salt throwing on streets in winter. The report lists horses saved, work horses removed, and humane killings, with totals for the month and year.
Augusta Me October 18 The tramp theory was eliminated as Joseph Alford Johnson alias Jones was released from detention as a witness in the Mattie Hackett murder case. Miss Hackett died by strangulation at Kent's Hill Readfield two months ago and Johnny was jailed the next day.
The Union runs two classes for women, one in making machine made hat frames and a millinery program. Pupils receive one week of real factory work and practice in frame machines plus drawing, color work, and salesmanship. Mrs. Mary B. Fiske leads as superintendent, guiding design and bookkeeping basics.
The battleship Rhode Island now at Fore River will have its first dockyard test October 25 at 6 o clock over the Provincetown course. On October 26 the ship moves to Charlestown navy yard for a new drydock and will undergo an official trial trip October 31 over Rockland Maine or Provincetown routes. The ship, 435 feet long with a wide beam, is expected to reach about 19 knots after a satisfactory dock trial.
A lifelong coffee drinker reports nervous neuralgia and prostration relieved after abandoning coffee for Postum Food Coffee. She notes eight months free of headaches, renewed strength, and ability to work, with friends vouching for her recovery. Postum Co. claims ten days without coffee suffices to see benefits.
Harry Austin Adams, once a New England Episcopal minister then Catholic convert and writer, lives in Seattle as Vincent Harper. He seeks a divorce from his wife claiming incompatibility while the girl from his book My Client vs. the People and a child are involved. He met a 16 year old in the South and wrote poems about their love before disappearing with the money and the girl.
In Newport on October 18 Miss Ethel Sypher of Washington wed Rodney Sheldon Jarvis of New York. The bride, daughter of the late Jacob H. Sypher, pursued acting after her parents’ deaths, while the groom, a Yale graduate of 1903, is described as a young man of means. The couple’s romance culminated in a noon wedding today.
Purporting to cleanse the blood and boost vitality Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as the best medicine for bad blood. The ad cites testimonials from Mrs. Frank Grover of Gray Maine and Mrs. L A Rock of Stokes Virginia praising its ability to purify blood, cure sores, and tone the system.
The patent medicine ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as purifying and energizing the blood and rebuilding the body. It boasts 40,366 testimonials in two years and urges readers to insist on Hood's today.
The U S district court heard affidavits in support of a motion for a new trial for James McInerney. Judge Dodge said jurisdiction rests with the Court of Appeals and ruled that the case awaits its decision, with McInerney’s exceptions pending.
In Wilmerding Pennsylvania on a late Saturday night 40 local businessmen many church members attended a carnival show featuring five dancers from a company performing the can can and hoochie koochie Turkish drums and tambourines provided suggestive music. An officer at Carpenters Hall noted the crowd and one dancer climbed a telegraph pole to judge audience size. Investigators seek alibis as witnesses recall the performances.
Police in Brookline and Brighton chase a gang dubbed dog harvesters seen in the districts. Several valuable dogs are reported missing and monitored for suspects. In Brighton, George F. Arling reports a light tan Boston bull terrier missing, while R W Hobbs seeks a brindle and white terrier.
Winsted Conn Oct 18 A jury in the Superior Court at Litchfield convicted Charles F Christian of bigamy after a ten minute deliberation. Judge A T Roraback sentenced him to an indeterminate term of two to five years in State prison.
Lottie Brown daughter of George Gorham of Lynn says she is an heir to the 72 million London estate and expects 60000 as her share. She has lived in Portsmouth for four weeks while ill and has discussed the matter with her father who she says will respond soon.
Captain Robert McRell drillmaster of Clinton military girls outlined plans for the upcoming drill at the Daughters of Veterans fair on December 8. He consulted Lieutenant M. B. Hines of G Company Ninth Regiment M. V. M. and spoke with members of the Worcester company who are also eager to compete.
Oct. 18 Everett Massachusetts reports Alvin R Lang nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Anton Lang was shot in the eye with an air rifle near his home and now lies in the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Boston with loss of sight in one eye and possible loss in the other Doctors act to save the remaining eye George F Green sixteen of Everett was arraigned on the charge of shooting Lang and pleaded not guilty The case is set for Friday with Green allowed to go home with his parents
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