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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1907
Page
5
A Boston Me chanics Building Food Fair carnival drew 1850 red haired applicants from Boston and New England. Shoppers watched as Nellie the white horse carried 10 year old Ethel Sweeny of Revere in a notable red hair spectacle amid crowd reactions and horse parade.
E W McPhail of Philadelphia describes lifelong facial eczema relief after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. He tried six doctors and arsenic with little success, then found lasting cure in five to six months of the Cuticura regimen, continuing use of the soap for healing.
The Cuticura trio claims to stop hair loss, cleanse scalps, soothe irritation, and nourish roots. It promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent with chocolate coated pills, sold by Potter Drug & Chem Corp Boston and offers a free Cuticura Book of Skin Diseases by mail.
A fast Meeting House Hill car struck a city horse wagon on Hancock street Dorchester. The horse died, driver Martin Meehan suffered brain contusion and a dislocated shoulder, and the wagon was destroyed. Meehan was taken home by police ambulance after treatment.
The Sunday Post Magazine will serialize Mark Twain's autobiography starting next Sunday, a literary treat praised as a decade’s best. The work will not appear in book form until after Twain’s death.
Mayor Fitzgerald has silenced opposition within the Democratic machine leading to fewer ward committee contests in Boston this year. Substitutions closed at 5 p m yesterday with ten wards still in dispute and Malachi Jennings bowing out of Ward 16 opposing “Brother George.”
Former Massachusetts Democrat Bartlett denounces the Ballot Law Commission ruling on his gubernatorial nomination. He alleges disorder at a Whitney aligned convention, claims prearranged bolting, and argues evidence admitted was improper and violated party rights.
District Attorney Moran defends himself against five charges from Joseph A. Dennison. He asserts each accusation is false and explains details about grand jury proceedings, accusations of urging indictments with insufficient evidence, and the handling of Doyle’s case amid Finance Commission actions.
Two aeronauts ventured near the Atlantic coast after a sunrise flight over Philadelphia at 10 000 feet. A local farmer's wife frightened by their appearance fled indoors before a confirming guide arrived. The city mayor hosted a luncheon as residents celebrated the spectacle.
Lincoln Beachey of Toledo won the one mile and a half wind ward and return dirigible race at the St. Louis aeronautic carnival earning 2000 dollars. His cigar shaped airship, the Beachey Airship, completed the course in 4 minutes 40 seconds, after a trip from Revere to Boston Common and back last summer.
The record lists teams and landing places with mileage figures including Hersey and Aberholt from U S at Asbury Park New Jersey Ohio routes and other pairs from multiple nations. The listed mileages show distances like 610 688 700 385 680 715 778 847 across sites such as Columbus Westminster Patuxent Little Creek and Asbury Park.
Dennison charges Moran with dual aiding in Suffolk county politics and with deceiving voters by secret tactics. He accuses Moran of dragging religion and race into the campaign, falsely posing as devout or anti faith, and of using backhanded supports for candidates while pretending neutrality.
A printed ad urges mixing three ingredients into a home remedy for bladder and rheumatic complaints. It lists Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla with tea spoonful doses after meals and at night. The note cites a local druggist endorsing quick relief within a week in many cases.
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