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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1897
Page
2
A public warning against treating catarrh bronchitis and asthma with liquids sprays and atomizers. The piece promotes the Australian Dry Air method using Hyomei with a guaranteed refund and advertises Hyomei inhaler outfits and balms sold by druggists or by mail.
Hyomei is given daily to all visitors at the office 131 Tremont Street between 9 A M and 5 P M Sundays excepted. The Hyomei Inhaler Outfit costs 1.00 with extra bottles available at 60c. Hyomei Balm is sold by druggists or at the office. Pamphlets, free advice, and story mailed free on request.
The article proclaims Mrs Maybrick will be released from confinement in earnest. It notes the legal development and emphasizes the decision with renewed public interest in her case.
Chicago reports Dr. Helen Densmore and Australian observer John Mellings expect Florence Maybrick to gain liberty within two months. Lord Russell and leading officials back her case amid renewed pressure after a long trial in which arsenic evidence led to a life sentence later commuted.
A promotional notice emphasizes blood disease risks showing as skin eruptions and urges immediate action. It touts Dr. Greene's Nervara as a universal remedy, claims it purifies the blood and restores health, and invites readers to consult him free by mail from Boston, Massachusetts.
Cambridge marks its extended water system with a Hobbs Brook basin, Payson Park high service reservoir, and a new pumping engine. The 5 million dollar project began in 1865 and now supports about 2.5 billion gallons capacity, with a 20 million gallon daily pumping rate. A 130-strong civic delegation toured Fresh Pond, Payson Park, Hobbs Brook, and Auburndale before a banquet at Woodland Park Hotel Auburndale. The event featured remarks by Mayor Sortwell and Water Board president James M. W. Hall, praising the system and future low water rates.
Henry Oakes a stoker on the Warren line steamer Sachem leaped into the sea three days from Liverpool and died. He had been in delirium tremens during the voyage and was a native of England.
The Bunker Hill Tammany Association in Charlestown organizes its second annual concert and ball for Roughan Hall on December 17. Martin P. Higgins chairs the committee with John F. Gibbons as secretary. A joint debate will address the single chamber bill with ex-Councilman James T. Roche in support and William Crowley opposing.
Henry C. Fay and Annie Sinclair were charged with larceny of millinery from George R. Fiske & Co. The case was assigned for trial on November 11.
In Stratford New Hampshire and River ton New Hampshire women report relief from dyspepsia and stomach trouble after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. They credit the medicine with restoring appetite and lasting benefit, recommending Hood's as the best blood purifier and stomach remedy.
General Manager Toucey of the New York Central asserts the wreck resulted from a break in the engine’s machinery that ploughed the ground and loosened the roadbed causing cars to pile up and slide into the river. He notes no dynamite explosion occurred to date and cites his investigation.
An express from Providence to Boston struck a combination passenger train at Canton Junction at 8 46 am. Four passengers were injured including Mrs Thomas Hi Galligan and her son of Charlestown and Peter F Grimms of Canton. Mrs Colby of Dorchester was severely shaken. Heavy fog reduced visibility and the locomotive of the Providence train was damaged, delaying traffic about an hour.
The British steamship Pocklington, en route from Savannah, reached Liverpool with a fire burning in her hold for seven days. The incident prompted investigations and firefighting efforts during the voyage and upon docking.
Mrs Adrian Iselin lies gravely ill at Davenport Neck New Rochelle with a fatal condition expected within 24 hours. Her age, family, and charitable works are noted as seven children and twenty grandchildren, including St. Gabriel's Church funded by her.
Edward Scholeder of Otter Creek Iowa was arrested in Chicago after threatening to assassinate the President if his demanded rights were not secured. He will be examined for sanity. he says a large tract of land in eastern Kansas was swindled from him.
Val Bailey the lottery agent was arraigned in Municipal Court yesterday and granted a continuance to November 4.
The Duchess of Teck, cousin of Queen Victoria and sister of the Duke of Cambridge, died at White Lodge in Richmond at 3 o clock this morning.
The closing meetings for Henry Varley are set for Thursday and Friday at noon in Bromfield Street Church and Tremont Street Methodist Church, with Thursday evening services at People's Temple on Columbus Avenue.
New York police link the murder of Policeman Frederick Smith by Fritz Meyer to the earlier killing of Bellringer Stelz at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Williamsburg. Both crimes occurred in churches, share identical methods, and prompt a major cross-jurisdiction investigation led by Captain Herlihey and Chief McClusky as they seek a confession and possible identification by a key eyewitness.
James A. Cutlar, a robust riding instructor known as the Speckled Beauty, loses his job after drinking Manhattan cocktails in public with his wife Minnie Provost, a wealthy widow. The couple, now living near Far Rockaway, wed in secret in New York, with certificates filed at the Health Department listing Cutlar as 30 and Minnie Provost as 35, born Boston.
The Cunard steamer Catalonia arrived in Queenstown after a delay from Boston to Liverpool. In a gale north of 41 46 N 50 07 W on Oct 20, Catalonia rescued 21 crew from the dismasted French fishing schooner Vague of St Malo, a hazardous but timely operation before lifeboats failed.
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