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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1904
Page
2
A Buffalo physician praises Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges claiming they cleanse the stomach and bowels, purify breath and blood, improve complexion, and aid liver function. Sold at drug stores for about twenty five cents a box, touted as safe with ongoing use.
Washington oct 19 the ladies cabinet wives of cabinet members met at the white house and laid down a firm social rule for the season Mrs roosevelt will preside as social supreme rivaling the president in influence with weekly tuesday meetings and final say on social matters diplomats referred to mr adee for appeals non societys left to manage on their own
President Eliot of Harvard through his secretary Jerome D Green declines to give his reasons for voting for President Roosevelt this fall. Green says Eliot was urged to explain motives but now will say nothing beyond what is already known.
John H. Hergelroth of Mount Joy, after obtaining back pay from the Pension Department, advertises for a wife with high ideals and a penchant for poetry. His mixed prose and verse listing calls for a young, beautiful, gentle, and pure partner who can speak in poetry and share a devoted, lifelong bond.
In Salem, the School Board refused to lift a rule barring entry to high school for students under 12 despite appeals from Rev. A A Berle whose children Lina nine and Adolf 11 passed entrance exams. Dr Charles H Puffer urged repeal, arguing the age limit blocks capable youngsters. Berle notes Harvard professor Hanus endorses early high school work and says his children will finish at Beverly High School.
Joseph G. Fletcher, who recently wed Miss Gertrude Sweeney of Fairfield in New York, is arrested in Bridgeport on a complaint by Mrs. Alice E. Fletcher who claims him as her husband. She declines bigamy charges, instead pressing non-support and improper conduct. She, from a wealthy Southern family, reacts emotionally at the hearing time.
Yesterday in Suffolk county term three sessions presided by Justices Harris Hardy and Pierce granted 23 divorces and one annulment with two cases left open. Decrees covered desertion cruelty and ill treatment, alimony set at 20 dollars weekly in one case, and several cases cited former spouses and employers in descriptions of marital breakdown.
Alderman Patrick Henry Bowen married Miss Julia Josephine Burke of Allston at St Anthony's Church. Ceremony at 7 pm. Best man Jere Bowen and bridesmaid Miss Gertrude Burke. Reception at 29 Hopedale Street with about 200 guests and the full Board of Aldermen in attendance.
The Cunarder Ivernia docked at East Boston shortly after 6 PM with 2188 aboard. Rumors of 300 glass blowers to replace strikers proved false as first and some second class passengers disembarked, steerage to land next morning. Notables included Lt Col J H Cowan, Hon J F Cronan, C H Paine and family, M H Hardwick, O N Purdy and Mrs Purdy, Laura Fiske Marshall, Thomas G Wells and family, Dr J F Thompson, Rev P J McDonnell, Major J Mitchell. Passenger counts were 147 saloon, 212 second class, 1829 steerage.
Louis A. Sommers and Miss Susie Varney Gilpatrick were married last evening at Hillside farm Boothbay Me by Rev I B Mayo. The bride, popular in Boothbay, wore crepe de chine with lace and carried bride roses. The groom is known among Boston printers. They will stay briefly at the farm then depart for the St Louis fair.
Ansonia, Conn., Oct. 19. James Welsh, a 42 year old dwarf three feet three inches tall, died last night at his Bridge Street home. He lived like a child, his room a playroom filled with dolls and toys. He wept for his colored dolls when apart from his toys and grew lonely without them.
Boston women respond to a Methodist minister's pledge to ban dancing in church. They defend dancing as a healthy outlet, emphasize rhythm over partner, and mock the clergyman as out of touch. Views range from playful to defendably pragmatic about supervision and consent.
A notice promotes The Discoverer Sends postpaid free trial packages for hair growth. Readers are invited to write to receive the trial and explore possible benefits. The advertisement emphasizes accessible offers and trial availability through mail correspondence.
Three newborn triplets slept in a squalid New York bed while their mother mourned. The father Samuel Pasternach once worked as a tailor but has been unable to work after Bright's disease left him bedridden for 18 months, marking a dire family poverty.
L Horne of Boston attests Quinona cured his nervousness sleeplessness and stomach troubles and helped his general health. The ad urges others with indigestion nervousness sleeplessness or poor blood to try Quinona. price is 1 per large bottle and free medical advice is offered from The Quinona Co. in Boston.
Miss Sylvia Church, daughter of the late Horace E. B. Scudder, married Ingersoll Bowditch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bowditch of Jamaica Plain. The ceremony was at St. John's Memorial Chapel, Cambridge, with Dean Hodges officiating. Attendants included Katherine Thompson as maid of honor and bridesmaids Alice Day New York Amy Steiner Baltimore Ethel Hooper Chicago Edith Gilman New York. Best man Arthur Shurtleff Boston. ushers Edward Fenno Dr. David Cheever Dr. Horace Binney Robert Stone Frederick Burlingame Ernest Adams Boston New York Worcester.
At Fort Banks Winthrop yesterday morning the men injured in last Saturday’s explosion are recovering rapidly. Private Arthur Tomlinson, once near death with potential blindness, is improving notably and may regain sight in his other eye. No details on the investigating board’s findings were available at the fort, with a Washington War Department report anticipated.
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