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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1915
Page
8
An advertisement touts self intoxication as internal waste buildup and lauds a warm water internal bath with the J B L Cascade. It claims 95 percent of illness stems from waste and cites Riker Jaynes Drug Stores offering a free health booklet by an eminent specialist.
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes that calcium salts in Eckman's Alterative may boost vitality in some patients with tuberculosis. The ad asserts calcium enhances assimilation and health without opiates, urging trial and purchase through druggists or directly from Eckman Laboratory in Philadelphia.
An anti-suffrage rally in Leicester was disrupted as about 150 men and boys drummed on tin pans to drown the anti-suffrage speaker. Ellsworth Dougall, the bugler, played a melody on his bugle to calm the crowd and allow ex-Senator Charles L Underhill to address those gathered near the car.
Ex Senator Underhill led anti-suffrage speakers at a Town Hall rally in this city with Miss Marjorie Dorman and Colonel Irish. They denounced Debs and Socialists for backing woman suffrage. Antis visited Marlboro Weston Northboro Shrewsbury and other towns to address factory workers and large gatherings.
Jewish residents in Chelsea organize a fire insurance company to tackle discrimination in rates. The new firm was licensed yesterday to operate. Officers include Freeman J. Santos as president and George E. B. Gordon as vice president. Directors are John F. Fitzpatrick, John F. Hoffman, Angelo Dessimone of Boston, and Israel Sisonsky of East Boston. Officials say about $1.5 million in business has been promised.
Mrs. Isa Bella Fenwick Dahlin a Denver resident and high profile figure in a Colorado kidnapping case seeks steps to leave prison like status to visit Boston after a nine year exile and a prior battle with Governor McDonald over extradition.
The 1906 kidnapping case involving Mrs. Dahlin now Mrs. Fenwick remains active as an indictment for kidnapping awaits potential quashing. Authorities pursued extradition from Massachusetts to bring her back, but Massachusetts declined. The two girls are now adults, and Sully and other involved parties have died.
Alexander Eastwood manager of the Atlantic and Pacific tea store in West Roxbury was held at gunpoint by a man and a woman who forced him into a closet and stole 146 dollars. The couple fled and police had no leads by last night.
William Shaw the Prohibition candidate for governor responded to Saturday's attack by Secretary of State A P Langtry at the Republican Editorial Association dinner. Langtry, calling himself a temperance crank, criticized Shaw while noting party bills on liquor were driven by outside groups and public sentiment, not GOP leaders.
Police officers comb Roxbury and Greater Boston in a wide dragnet for a holdup man and his female associate who managed to elude capture despite extensive searches. The report notes the pair were last seen together before authorities tightened the manhunt.
Six Harvard undergraduates at Apthorp House on the Gold Coast reported their rooms were ransacked while they attended a football game. Losses totaled about $100 in clothing jewelry books and stationery.
A six year old boy named John Kennedy of Pequot street Roxbury was struck while crossing opposite 698 Huntington Avenue yesterday at noon. He suffered a fractured skull and a broken right leg. The accident involved an automobile owned by Otis H. Perry of Room 1130 Tremont Building and the child is at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
The piece reports Pat Langtry’s attack on the Shaw movement and Republican editors during a Saturday gathering. Langtry denounces temperance efforts as skunk temperance and accuses Massachusetts saloons of profiting with state and party funds. He harshly criticizes the Republican editors for their coverage.
James Coleman Walton died at his North Avenue home after a several month illness. He was 96 and had lived his life in Wakefield, where he was one of the oldest residents.
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