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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1908
Page
5
Consumers are told that Fels-Naptha soap cleans clothes in cool or lukewarm water without boiling or hard rubbing. The ad claims the method saves time and makes clothes cleaner whiter and longer wearing, in any season.
Warren R. Keith of Independent Oil Company in Campello hires private detectives after repeated acts of sabotage and threats to blow up his three 20 000 gallon tanks. He reports poisoned horses, oil spills, break ins, and an ambush shooting, all linked to organized opposition. Keith vows to uncover the culprits and expand output despite rivals undercutting prices and railroad delays.
Information from Isthmian canal offices reports two dynamite explosions on October 15 at the canal site killed 12 workers and injured 18. All victims were Black except engineer W. J. Davis and crane man George Goodley.
An all night Chelsea Street Car Men's Union session reviewed a report by International Organizer D W Fitzgerald of Troy New York on the wage scale controversy with the Old Colony and Boston Northern street railways. A vote on renewing the wage scale or sending to arbitration was taken and results will be announced today.
Harry Co Orndorff of Providence was sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Barnard in Brighton Court for reckless driving. He posted $900 bail after appeal to the Superior Court. Orndorff, claiming poisoned food and intoxication, said he did not know what happened before his car crashed into a tree. he also faced a $100 fine for intoxication.
Mortality statistics flag pneumonia as a frequent fatal disease often resulting from neglected coughs or colds. A home remedy is advertised: Virgin Oil of Pine compound, glycerine, and whisky mixed in specified amounts to be taken every four hours, claimed to cure curable coughs and last a year for a average family, prepared by Leach Chemical Co. Cincinnati.
Ipswich won final settlement of John Burnham Brown estate valued over 6 million dollars after relatives withdrew contest. Harry B. Brown will receive 20000 dollars and Allen W. Brown 20000 dollars in trust, while the remainder funds go to an Ipswich industrial school. Trustees recently bought Broadway real estate in New York City for about 6 million dollars.
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced rulings allowing free passes for bona fide railroad employees traveling to re-enter service. Passes may not extend to families of employees who died naturally in service, unlike those of employees who died in the line of duty.
William T. Evans was arraigned in Chelsea Police Court yesterday morning on charges of burning a horse in the Feinberg stable fire last week. He pleaded not guilty and was held under $5000 for trial as authorities allege two horses were in the stable. one burned and the other was rescued. Firemen report oil dripping from the horses as they arrived at the scene.
No trace has been found of William J. Powers a missing money order clerk from the Back Bay postoffice who disappeared on October 3 with 1215 in postal funds according to Postoffice Inspector Perkins Powers is alive was reported.
A Cumberland township reunion of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis B. Johnsons clan drew 92 descendants from nine children 65 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren to the Johnson homestead Green county Pennsylvania. Remarkably there has not been a single death in the family.
Dr Henry Denton Nicoll of New Windsor and New York City died today in New Windsor after a long medical career. He was known for his work in New Windsor and served at several city hospitals. The funeral arrangements were not yet announced.
President Roosevelt observed his 50th birthday quietly in Washington. He attended to executive duties as usual, received a delegation from the Hungarian Republican Club of New York and numerous congratulatory messages, floral tributes, and family gifts, then rode horseback late in the afternoon.
A family dinner at the White House honored an anniversary with no guests present. King Edward of Great Britain sent cordial birthday congratulations. Governor Hughes, Archbishop Ireland, Whitelaw Reid, and a Newport navy committee message joined other dignitaries in offering well wishes.
In New York on October 27 Judge Holt denied a bid to secure freedom for Jan Janoff Pouren, the Russian refugee, without further hearings in the U S Court.
Junius T. Auerbach the Independence candidate for Congress spoke at Roughan's Hall in Charlestown Ninth District praising his past win in the Charlestown Gas Company case and urging local support against John A. Kelcher. He emphasized the ongoing benefits to Charlestown from that victory.
Sioux City Indiana report details John Shea who has been arrested 61 times since June 1 1902 for intoxication. The piece notes white lime as his alleged downfall and claims he drinks the substance by the pint.
An ad describing gastric juice balance and how dyspepsia arises from improper acid alkali mix. It promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as restoring natural gastric juice, improving digestion, and claims widespread physician backing and a mail sample offer from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
A stray shell from Fort Adams target practice struck the Beaver Tail lighthouse near Newport Rhode Island. The impact caused only minor damage as the spent shell failed to explode. A second missile went astray, landing on a rock near two fishing men.
Beaver Falls report says Ross Keefer took a young beagle to the woods for a tryout. The hound barked at an uprooted stump, Keefer overturned it and uncovered a pocketbook containing 670 dollars.
A Grapevine district prospector B F Pratt perished in the Argus Mountains west of Death Valley. His diary, found beside his body, details days without water while seeking Mojave and his failing condition with entries about thirst hunger and fading sight.
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