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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1906
Page
2
Eva Sparrow handbag theft on Pinckney Street led to arraignment of Ike and Charles Stanton in the lower court. After a brief hearing each received one year in the Concord Reformatory. Ike vowed to sue police for false arrest after capture following a lengthy chase.
A patient endured over a year of severe skin deterioration described as scratchy sores tearing flesh until restraints allowed healing. Doctors noted the condition worsened previously then improved as care continued and symptoms subsided.
Mrs. Robert Sheldon describes her year and a half son suffering from relentless sores on face and body until using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She reports dramatic improvement within two months and credits the remedies with saving the child. The ad promotes Cuticura Soap 25c Ointment 50c and related pills and lists druggists.
Lieutenant-Governor Eben S. Draper rebutted charges of hostility to union labor at a Ward 12 Republican event in Hotel Langham. He praised Hopedale workers, attacked Moran and Brown, and defended Draper mills while noting union intimidation claims were unanswered by District Attorney Moran. Ex-Speaker Frothingham and other officials spoke on municipal ownership and local politics.
Mr Draper criticizes the Moran platform as inflamed by accusations against Curtis Guild Jr Lodge Crane and others and condemns the Hearst endorsement as contrary to Democratic principles He argues Massachusetts Democrats should reject such denouncements and party bosses He defends labor by citing his long service and good treatment of workers and rejects tying unions to politics.
Iron Moulders Union 106 and Caremakers Union 428 condemn the treatment of workers at Draper’s Hopedale foundries. They appoint a committee to visit unions statewide to urge members to elect E Gerry Brown over Draper, citing Draper as an “implacable foe to organized labor.”
Ex Alderman Joseph C Robinson and wife Mary Bradley marked their 60th wedding anniversary at their Washington street home Malden October 19. both long time Methodists with four daughters and five grandchildren attending. Robinson, 83, is yardmaster for the B and M railroad at Charlestown.
Thomas Harris aged 40 a laborer of 8 Winship street Brighton was found suffering at Kenilworth Golf Club Allston after taking paris green. He had been despondent over his wife’s death and his children's welfare and died at City Hospital last evening.
Howard St Stevens, a Middleboro native who graduated from the local high school in 1900 and earned a tech degree four years later, was found choked to death during dinner at his home. He later worked in the navy department in Washington as a clerk before resigning recently for health reasons.
George Moore 38 of West Phillipstown, arrested after his wife accused him of assault and threats to shoot her, hanged himself today in Lancaster jail. His body was found by cell officials. Moore’s family includes brother William Moore, a lumberman.
The Norwegian sloop Gjoa, linked to Amundsen and the northwest passage, is sighted off Point Reyes heading to San Francisco. Captain Amundsen and a delegation will be ferried aboard by the revenue cutter Golden Gate and the vessel formally brought into the bay.
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