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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
5
The ad promotes Ely's Great Balm for nasal catarrh and throat trouble. It claims fast relief from sneezing coughing runny nose eyes and sore throat by applying balm directly to inflamed membranes. It positions the product as a safe 50 cent remedy that cures and strengthens nasal passages.
New York Sept 19 with a 2 000 000 contract for foundations and masonry on the Hell Gate viaduct of the New York Connecting Railroad most work is contracted and construction will move quickly. Completion is eyed in two years at an estimated cost. Rick Egan, longtime Providence police official and Civil War veteran, died at 66 leaving widow and five children. Autumn fashion trends noted with more home tailors seen.
Federal grand jury indicted Frank H. Stone chief clerk at the Arlington Heights post office for embezzlement and larceny tied to a September 2 robbery. Twenty-one people were indicted overall, including five Chinese tied to opium trafficking, with nine secretly indicted. The piece notes a shared passion for violets by Stone and fellow suspect Goldrop, and describes the mysterious circumstances surrounding Goldrop’s death and Woods’s violet cultivation.
Mrs J Ogden Armour, who had surgery yesterday to remove a fibroid tumor, was rapidly recovering tonight and expected to leave the hospital in a few weeks.
A grand jury failed to indict in the Willey case linking English immigrants to contract labor. Others named include Zwicker Fox and Slade of Yarmouth, Stewards on the Prince George, charged with assault on a customs inspector. Indictments span fraud, harboring deserters, illicit stills, and opium manufacturing in Boston and New Bedford.
The Brookline man Woods faced a bail set at 6000 dollars after waiving reading of the complaint in a fatal shooting case. He claimed he fired to scare an intruder during a dark night while awaiting a thief in the violet Reds area. Medical examiners reported 75 bird shot pellets reached the victim’s heart.
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