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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1902
Page
3
A short health note extols Warner's as "just as good" and the genuine article that cures. It warns substitutes contain harmful drugs that injure the system and undermines trust in imitations. The message urges choosing the authentic product for safety and effectiveness.
London report notes Rev J H Smyth Pigott declares himself the Messiah and retires with his Agapemonite followers at Clapton. Police guard his Ark of the Covenant church as thousands gather when his name is mentioned and crowds threaten to assault him. He rose from sailor to Anglican curate, then Salvation Army before joining the Agapemonites.
Gardner Mass officials plan to present a golden oak colonial chair to President Roosevelt as a souvenir of his Sept 2 visit. The chair, created by the world’s largest chair town, bears a silver plate inscribed in appreciation of the president’s Gardner visit and the White House refitting.
Justice Harlan, 69, faculty member at Columbian University Law School, intervened to halt a freshman versus sophomore melee in Jurisprudence Hall. He ordered the combat ceased and personally pulled the ringleader from the piles, then directed the second year men to disperse.
The article notes Boston's Italian residents, many from rural Italy, turning to home wine making during grape season. Families crush the fruit in barrels or use presses, ferment for weeks, then bottle or keg the first wine. A second wine is made by diluting pulp with water and kept for immediate use while the first ages. Grapes used include Concord for family drink and Malaga Muscatel Delaware for richer varieties.
In a sensational divorce court session C. E. Elliott, an insurance man on Milk Street, saw his wife Hattie obtain a decree nisi after counsel withdrew from the case. The suit was grounded on infidelity and custody of a minor child. An uncontested decree nisi was also granted to Ernest Merrill in a separate matter after reconciliation attempts.
The Greater Boston young Methodists plan a Nov 1920 congress at People's Temple Boston with speakers Bishop Moore Hamilton Mallalieu Rev F D Gamewell Earl Taylor and C Cummings sheriff of Androscoggin County Maine plus a Chinese convert. League work methods will be presented and discussed for the first such gathering uniting New England Methodists affecting over 1500 organizations.
A girl using matches under beds started a blaze in the top flat of a three story house at 19 Park Street Dorchester. Two mattresses caught fire before firefighters arrived from Box 987. The girl was last seen at school. she confessed when questioned by police. Owner is A J E Brown and tenant is Hugh B McCall. Damage under $100.
Patrolmen Philip O Neil and Michael Hartnett of Division 10 saved Mrs Mary Marsh yesterday after hearing screams near her home at 590 Shawmut Avenue They forced entry breaking the door and found Mrs Marsh and James on the kitchen floor with hair burning The fire, started by a overturned kerosene lamp, was quickly extinguished and the woman narrowly escaped death by the officers swift actions.
New York reports no lift in steam ship trade despite the coal strike ending. The Journal of Commerce notes a surge in coal imports with nearly 100 steamers chartered, but only a fraction arrived. Transatlantic eastward routes grow demoralized while demand for cotton steamers rises.
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