Munyons Paw Paw Positive Cures Promised
A bold ad claims Munyons Paw Paw cures stomach and nervous diseases and offers hope for every dyspeptic, nervous, and debilitated person. The notice targets sick individuals seeking relief.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1903
Page
5
A bold ad claims Munyons Paw Paw cures stomach and nervous diseases and offers hope for every dyspeptic, nervous, and debilitated person. The notice targets sick individuals seeking relief.
Testimonial letter extols Paw Paw and Dr Munyon as cures for stomach troubles nervousness and sleeplessness. Claims kneads digestion to restore health and replace alcoholic stimulants, with bottles sold at $1.00 and Paw Paw pills at 25 cents. Signed endorsement from WM W Phillips of Boston.
In Saugus area near Water Street, the sloop Commodore Paul owned by J P Jackson of Swampscott capsized after a northeast wind gust near Lincoln House Point. Three occupants including a woman were in the water about half an hour before rescue by W T Barry and a Jahant fisherman. The crew struggled as a squall knocked the vessel down, the helm unable to save the boat.
Labor Day crowds in New York enjoyed ideal weather as the union parade moved along Fifth Avenue led by Sam J. Parks walking delegate of the House smiths and Bridgemen's Union. Parks, on a white horse, faced alternating cheers and hisses amid his extortion conviction and Sing Sing appeal status.
Admiral Cotton reports in Beirut that four men are under arrest after an attack on the vice consul. He notes cordial Turkish officials, presence of the Turkish admiral, and a U S squadron presence in the harbor. Turkish mobilization in Salonica Uskub Monastir and Adrianople Smyrna areas raises war scare.
Salonica dispatch reports Turkey issuing fresh orders as it readies for wartime mobilization. Authorities coordinate troop movements and supply matters amid rising regional tensions.
Chicago Bulgarians plan financial support for their homeland and to send fighters. Some have departed for Philadelphia where a regiment is forming. In contrast 4000 Greek members in Chicago denounce the Bulgarian movement as Russia prompted.
Berlin reports Russia and Austria proposed coercive diplomatic action at Sofia to sever Bulgaria from Macedonian insurgents. Germany assented but others objected, and the plan likely failed.
George F Marquis of Charlestown married Miss Rita De Lacerda of Cambridge at St Anthony's Church Portland Street Cambridge. The ceremony featured bridesmaids and ushers, a reception at the bride's home, and a wedding breakfast before departing for New York and Europe.
A blaze at 215 Huntington Avenue discovered at 3 40 yesterday afternoon started in the elevator well and sent residents into the street with valuables. Firemen fought the flames for an hour, confining them to the elevator shaft. damage is about 700 dollars. First floor Rienbold Foster second Arthur A Andrews third Jessie W Paddock top George Moore. All furnishings damaged.
John Leary a machinist employed by Crafts and Houghton walked into the Emergency Hospital around 6 30 yesterday morning hatless clothes mud smeared and with an ugly scalp wound saying he had been held up and robbed by three men on Beach street He repeated the story to a patrolman at 11 00 but showed no marks or description of the assailants and left after treatment and demanding his hat.
A two week series of daily services to evangelize the merry makers at Revere Beach will begin this afternoon in a hall on the boulevard near amusements. Dr. A C Dixon, who views Revere Beach as a potential field for gospel work, will speak on Wednesday and Thursday.
William Lacy of 1625 Tremont Street received a scalp cut and lip cut after a dispute with a stranger in Wells Memorial building Dexter hall yesterday afternoon. The assailant fled before police arrived and was not captured. Lacy was not seriously hurt.
An ad touts Iron Ox Tablets as a safe laxative that relieves constipation by natural action, tones digestion, and purges impurities. It warns against violent cathartics and liquid alcohol remedies, claims slow, steady system building, and offers fifty tablets for 25 cents from The Iron Ox Remedy Co. in Detroit.
Two schooners depart Boston for Africa with valuable cargoes in a brisk race to markets on the African coast. Laconia carries rum, tobacco, lumber, and sundries worth over 100000 dollars bound for Axim and other ports. Nantasket heads toward Sierra Leone with a diversified load valued around 40000 dollars.
Longshoremen parade as three European liners Admiral Dewey Halifax and Pinemore reach harbor. Pinemore from Antwerp carries 3700 homing pigeons in 1385 crates for E Rice of Melrose and may depart with 700 cattle to Antwerp. Kingstonian leaves Boston for Antwerp with 394 cattle. Sarmatian from Glasgow brings 114 passengers. immigration holds three families for further investigation. Canadian from Liverpool arrives in nine days eight hours. Local schooners haul 50 000 to 40 000 pounds of fish aboard multiple vessels.
Shipping notices list arrivals and sailings of numerous steamers and schooners from Britain and Canada to U S ports, detailing ships such as Canadian Trant Sarmatian Pine more Admiral Dewey and many barges to and from Philadelphia New England ports. Weather notes show sunrise and sunset times and a waning wind pattern with a NW to E direction.
Miss Muriel Armitage of Detroit writes about five years of uterine irregularities and hysteria that left her a physical wreck. After trying many doctors she used Peruna for six months, completed fifteen bottles, and claims to be entirely cured, endorsing it for female ailments caused by catarrh.
An advertisement extols Peruna as a permanent remedy for pelvic catarrh and related nervousness. It portrays female weakness as caused by pelvic catarrh, claims quick relief and full cures for chronic cases, and invites readers to contact Dr. Hartman in Columbus for free medical advice.
In Nashua on September 7 Michael Woolen a Pole went into the Church of St Francis Xavier during services in a fit of temporary insanity He drove out priests and worshipers attempted to pull from walls and destroy costly paintings and toppled statues which were thrown into the street Police had to subdue him with seven officers and he was arrested for arraignment the next day
Two additional victims of the trolley car collision on the Pelham New Hampshire Traction line died this morning at Lowell General Hospital. The dead now number six with two more possible. Mrs Sylvia Gilbert and Mrs Mary Dillon died after serious injuries from the wreck. Signals were out due to a severe electrical storm that burned the wires, investigators said. Mrs George G Andrews and Mrs Charles Gilbert Jr remain in critical condition.
The Right Rev Thomas March Clark bishop of Rhode Island and senior presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States died at his Middletown home after a sudden illness. He was born in Newburyport Massachusetts on July 4 1812 and consecrated bishop in Providence December 6 1854. His son J Mitchel Clark was at a horse show when the death occurred.
The National Wholesale Druggists Association and the Proprietary Association of America gather at Hotel Somerset in Boston. About 250 registered onsite with potentially as many more in town. First joint meeting after years of similar interests. Yesterday included Harvard visits and afternoon tea. The first session opens at 9 30 a.m.
About 800 people gathered at St John’s Hall on Moon Street in the North End for an autumn party in aid of Stephen's Church. District leaders and former residents attended, led by Senator Henry H. Fitzgerald ex Senator Daniel D. Rourke, Representative Andrew A. Badaracco, and Representative Thomas J. Grady.
Edward Doherty told about 150 attendees at Haymarket square that wealth is held down by landholders not capital. He defended the Single Tax plan arguing rent payers in Boston grow poorer while rent takers gain, and that taxation targets industries while rewarding land speculation.
Otto Gutermuth, a Dresden trained musician who failed to establish a career in this country, shot himself in the head with a 22 caliber revolver. He walked to City Relief Hospital with a dazed claim of self harm and recovered, as doctors noted the wound as not dangerous and blamed despondency over career failure.
William G Richardson of Pawtucket Rhode Island reported at Court Square police station that his watch and chain were stolen aboard a Lynn to Boston train by three young men. The same trio is suspected in the pocketbook theft from Mrs Hapgood of Everett on a crowded Charlestown Elevated train near City Square.
Hugh J. Kennedy 30 of 11 Winter street Hyde Park came to Boston to see the parade yesterday. At 2 30 he joined a free fight at Kneeland and Washington streets and broke his right hand on an unknown man head. He also suffered contusions to his right leg and was taken to the relief station by ambulance from Station 4.
Six year old Tommy Gray, an orphan from Ful ton street Newton, wandered for two hours after escaping the Working Boys' Home. He was found asleep and shivering in a doorway, cried to go home, and was returned to the home after a meal.
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