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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
2
Charles M. Schlatter once famed as a healer by divine power was discovered dead in a Hastings hotel room. Doctors attributed the death to old age. Local authorities reported no foul play suspected.
The Boston pamphleteer known as Healer Schlatter came to Boston in 1898. He sought a permit to be buried alive on Boston Common and to rise again to prove his divine power. He performed healing shows at theaters with cripples in front rows and claimed seven people were raised from the dead and vast travels, but disappeared after a failed burial ceremony.
In Winsted Connecticut on October 21 a rumor swirled that Charlie Taft son of the President helped stage a prank at a Watertown school. Taft students reportedly bought fly paper and laid it outside a master's door after lights out causing a disturbance in the students' quarters. The master slipped on the sticky substance and investigated the commotion.
A gas leak at Currier Grammar School on Forrester Street forced 150 students to be dismissed after morning classes. The building’s unsafe heating plant had corrupted air since yesterday, with teacher Miss Edgerly overcome and later resting at home in a stupor from gas inhalation.
The Portola festival parade in San Francisco drew about twenty thousand participants from nearly every fraternal, municipal and industrial body in the state. The international division featured two thousand marching Chinese with a giant fire breathing dragon.
Washington Oct 21 After three months with round the clock shifts the new addition to the White House executive offices west of the mansion is nearly complete in a week will be turned over to Secretary Fred Carpenter and the presidential staff who used the basement during alterations All work except painting is done
The Attorney General instructed the U S attorney in San Francisco to enter a nolle prosequi against Dr E B Perrin after reviewing papers on his conspiracy to defraud the United States with John A Benson in California land entries. Perrin’s conviction was reversed and a new trial ordered by the Court of Appeals in the Ninth Circuit.
In Chicago, Oct 21, the Guggenheim divorce case before Judge Honore saw frequent clashes between counsel for Solomon Guggenheim and Grace B. Guggenheim. A serious question arose about court power to reopen the case, raising fears of fraud if kept secret until the term’s end. Noon session postponed further hearing, effectively throwing the case out of court with any future action requiring a new suit by Mrs. Guggenheim.
A Gardner Mass family shares how Mrs. B G Goodwin recovered from anemia after a year of illness and overwork using Dr Williams Pink Pills. She reports regained strength, color, and no further sickness. Her daughter also improved after taking the pills, enabling her to return to school.
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