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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1900
Page
4
Dora Shear and her five children, all living in a single room off Wall Street, survive on about 213 cents a week. The mother, nearly blind, struggles as the infant battles pneumonia while charity supports the family. A doctor was finally arranged and hospital care sought for the sick child.
Hugh K Norman of Newport Rhode Island died in Providence hospital after laryngitis and sudden complications. He was 39, survived by his widow in Europe and his brother Reginald. A former Navy lieutenant and executive officer of the Glacier, he was a prominent Rhode Island clubman.
If you are going to New Haven Nov 24 to see the Harvard and Yale game, consider arranging a party and chartering a special parlor car. For details, contact A. S. Hanbon, general passenger agent, Boston & Albany railroad.
Alexander Rera, proprietor of Rera's Barber Shop, was found guilty by Judge Fallon in the South Boston Court yesterday for violating a newly adopted Board of Health regulation. He was fined $10, after admitting the shop was hard to keep clean though he claimed attempts were made to maintain proper condition.
Richard Purcell, 27, is charged with shooting his mother, Mrs. Catherine Purcell, in their Luteman Place cottage after a day of heavy drinking. She was wounded in the thigh and, aided by neighbor Mrs. Morrissey, sought help as Richard was taken to the station and his mother to the City Hospital for surgery with a cautious path to recovery ahead.
Boston police search for two Lowell mill girls, Lillian Fay age nearly 16 and Mary Ellen Donovan about 18, who left Boott mill with $10 and were traced to a Cambridge Street house before disappearing. Parents fear they are hiding in Boston. Donovan’s father may live in East Boston. Fay scolded for skipped high school.
The German ship H. Bischoff, Captain Schwarzing, from Caleta Buena July 2, was wrecked at Grosser Vogels near the Elbe entrance. A boat with eight crew and another with four set out to assist but both boats are missing and presumed lost.
E. Hall arraigned in Roxbury Court on a charge of threatening to kill his wife. He pleaded not guilty and the case was continued to November 3 with bail set at $800. He reportedly served eight years in Charlestown as an accessory in the Codman murder. Hall is said to be wanted in Maine for a murder case from Shirley involving a foreman named McKenney. He and his wife had posed as Mr and Mrs E F Balpey at 6 Northfield Street.
Preliminary circular from PD.N. Bell tourist agent lists personally conducted tours via Pennsylvania Railroad leaving Boston on January 14 and 28 February 11 and 25 March 11 and 25 and April 8 and 22. Address 2 Washington Street.
Clerks in Boston banks now watchful as guaranty companies take lead in bond screening. They vet applicants by age, background, and conduct, promising to cover losses up to bond value if fraud occurs. Detectives monitor past behavior. bankers rely on bonds to curb peculations, with Pinkerton and others noting the shift in policing internal risk.
General Benjamin Flagler died this morning at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York from a complication of diseases. He was born in Lockport in 183, served as captain of the Twenty-eighth New York Volunteers in the Civil War, then joined the customs service rising to collector in 1878 and holding the post until 1886.
A period advertisement touts Graves' Maryland Malt Whiskey as a medicinal tonic for sailors. It claims one fourth of navy deaths are due to tuberculosis and promotes measured doses to reduce mortality under ship medical staff supervision. It notes government revenue stamps on sealed bottles and markets full quarts for medicinal use.
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