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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1904
Page
2
The Post earned trust by promptly delivering the Melrose wreck news with complete lists of the dead and injured. Its pressroom and mailing teams provided accurate, concise coverage within minutes of the catastrophe, setting a Boston standard for speed and detail.
Frank E. Burnham, discharged from Melrose Hospital after the wreck, wandered half a mile, incoherent and haunted, pleading to remove wreckage and bodies. He was cared for by relatives while doctors expect rest to heal his wounded face and head. John M. Miller of Lynn also left the institution today.
In Melrose on Sept 22 a severed human flesh fragment weighing about a pound hung suspended 35 feet above a telephone pole for hours. Pedestrians averted their eyes as Linemen William Levy and Samuel Cameron removed the grisly relic in response to public demand after last night's tragedy.
Melrose officials report Assistant Medical Examiner Paul Provandie viewed the bodies of the explosion victims and issued a formal finding that the death was accidental.
An expert explains that properly made dynamite is as safe as flour or coal oil under normal handling. Detonation requires rapid heat or simultaneous spark and concussion. concussion alone does not explode dynamite. Even heavy pressure, train wheels, or car impacts may not trigger an explosion unless conditions align.
The Wizard of Oz company saw Miss Allene Crater defeat Frederick Meek in a shotgun bet at Wellington Park. Both fired at 25 birds with a handicap favoring Crater using a smaller gun. Crater finished with 16 hits to Meek’s 10, while Stone and Montgomery also performed. Crater expressed willingness to meet challengers.
A dated endorsement from the Sisters of Holy Cross at Nashua New Hampshire promotes Father John's Medicine as a food medicine suitable for bronchial troubles and as a tonic for the weakly. The text claims cures for throat and lung issues, scrofula skin diseases rheumatism and blood impurity with fifty years of use.
Advices from Mahe Seychelles Islands state whaling bark Josephine under Captain Smith has taken 850 barrels of sperm oil since leaving Mauritius on June 1. Sailed from New Bedford Sept 19, 193, and in under a year secured 1200 barrels of sperm oil and £99 barrels of whale oil. The cargo ranks among the richest reported in years.
Newton September 22 at five this afternoon a boy threw a bag of stones and banana skins through a window of a Boston and Albany train passing under a bridge at Woodland nearly striking a woman seated nearby.
A man about 65, 6 feet 10 inches, with gray beard, died of natural causes in the stable of Edward W. Kennealey at 228 Mystic avenue Somerville after resting there. Papers bearing the names Charles Brosseau or Charles Lavelle were found with him. Police and Medical Examiner Durell investigated.
Mrs. Laura Middleton of 426 Saratoga Street East Boston threw a bottle of naphtha across a room striking the stove and starting a fire. The blaze burned her husband on the face neck and hands before Chemical 7 firemen put it out. Middleton was jailed on drunkenness charges.
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