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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
4
Uticura Pills are chocolate coated 60 doses at 25c, a tasteless odourless economical substitute for Cuticura Resolvent and other purifiers. Each pill equals one teaspoonful of liquid Resolvent, packed in screw cap vials. Pills act as alterative antiseptic tonic and digestive, marketed as the purest skin and blood purifiers yet made.
Complete external and internal treatment for every humour includes Curicura Soap to cleanse crusts and scales, Curicura Ointment to soothe itching and inflammation, and Curicur a Resolvent Pills to cool the blood. A Sinaus Serum often cures torturing skin eruptions and hair loss from infancy to age when all else fails. British and French depots listed. Boston sole imports.
Mrs Lavinia Crosby celebrated her 100th birthday marking a full century on earth. Born Sept 25, 1802 in Brewster Cape Cod she lived in Arlington 66 years and remains the oldest Baptist church member here. She married David Crosby May 1 1841 and after his death in 1888 sole couple for 67 years.
New York Sept. 2 Russell Sage outlined the current financial stringency in Wall Street and its three causes. He said the situation is not very serious but acute and threatens those with large, weakly protected long accounts. He predicted a recovery in 10 days or two weeks if liquidation continues and urged brakes on indiscriminate speculation. The three causes cited are crop-money demands, speculative fever driving stocks past reasonable levels, and Europe’s reluctance to part with gold.
A beef laden train was routed from Albany to Beacon Park yards in five hours and 20 minutes as the second section of a passenger train. The train arrived ahead of the ship it was destined for, and ran at the steamer's side an hour before departure. Officials call it the fastest merchandise train into Boston.
The 11th district victory by Eugene N. Foss dominates political chatter as recounts loom. Adams backers anticipate ward reviews, while Foss supporters expect no vote loss. Draper remains confident yet noncommittal about final results. Recounts expected in Wards 10 18 21 for Foss and 11 19 for Adams.
The Post confirms results from other districts. Winners include Rufus B. Dodge in Worcester, A P Gardner in Essex, William C Lovering in the 14th Plymouth-Cape Cod, and William S. Greene in Fall River-New Bedford. Blackmar remains hopeful about Lovering’s 4th district race as Brockton caucus details trickle in.
Rufus B. Dodge won the third district Republican caucuses and will be nominated as opponent Manning declines a recount. Dodge’s brother Charles was chosen as a Democratic delegate to renominate Thayer, who will not attend to vote for his brother. Democrats who voted in both caucuses may be summoned to court. about 50 such registered Democrats voted on both days. The Republican city committee received certified Democratic caucus lists from City Clerk Towne.
One hundred citizens signed the Gaston Club roll at a meeting in Grand Army Hall Roxbury with expectations of a 1000 name gain in days. The club will use G A R Hall as permanent headquarters open daily and nightly during the campaign except Sundays. A perfected constitution elected directors William E H Shay John T Shea Michael A Cavanaugh Thomas M Greene and John F Madden.
Worcester pitcher Fred Falkenberg signed a contract to play for the Pittsburgh National League club next season in a notable move for the Worcester team.
The U S government's suit to block the Northern Securities Company from holding stock in the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railways continued before a Minnesota federal court examiner. Colonel W P Clough testified detailing substantial holdings, purchases and the role of J P Morgan & Co in acquisitions involving Harriman interests. The hearing adjourned to Oct 20 at St Paul.
Maiden Sept 25 report tells of Thomas A. Kimball of 82 Ripley street whose wife, four children aged 12 to 2, and boarder James Driscoll vanished. Furniture disappeared. two vans loaded with goods taken. Oldest son, a noted banjoist, had performed in Boston theaters. Kimball searches Melrose and Malden for family and furniture.
The funeral of John F. O'Sullivan labor editor of the Boston Globe was held in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Revere with large attendance from organized labor bodies. Prominent pall-bearers included Globe and labor leaders such as Frank H. McCarthy and James R. Croaler, while Socialist, business, and public officials were represented. Interment followed in West Roxbury.
Ex governor Horace Boies endorses Democratic nomination for Congress in the third district and makes regulating trusts his first issue. He warns that large combinations can fix wages and inflate prices, citing the American steel trust as an example of watered stock and overvaluation that could crash, harming labor and small investors.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate William A. Gaston tours wards 13 14 15 16 20 and 24 in Boston with William S McNary and Fred S Gore. He urges voter registration and turnout while praised by ward officials and supporters. Gaston pledges continued effort until election day and emphasizes statewide aims.
Oswego New York report reveals Walter M Jermyn secretly wed Lena Kehoe in 1899 to avoid disinheritance from coal magnate John Jermyn. The will left $19 009 000 to the heir, with Walter to receive one fifth. The couple hid the union for years while the fortune remained in trust.
New York physicians at Bellevue Hospital report one of the smallest live births, a girl named Mary Lombardi weighing 10 ounces and eight inches long. The parents Patrick and Frances Lombardi of 128 Hester Street say she is their first child. Doctors arranged an improvised incubator and plan continued careful feeding as long as needed, with guarded optimism for survival.
Lawyer George R. Swasey argues that the Suffolk grand jury indictment against Willard C. Van Derlip for embezzling over 100000 held in trust for Lucy B. Lowell lacks specificity on dates and security forms. Assistant DA Sughrue defends the indictment as sufficient. Judge Aiken took the motion under advisement and will rule later.
Manila Sept. 25 The directors of the federal party pass a resolution repudiating Felipe Buenecamino’s claim that he represented the party before the congressional committee in Washington last June and denying that the party paid his travel expenses He has resigned as a party director and plans to appeal to party members at large.
Phillip J. Doherty, counsel for John Rogers, convicted in the Ward 21 caucus frauds, asked Judge Stevens for discharge on grounds of critical illness. Rogers, serving a nine month term at the House of Correction, was brought on a writ of habeas corpus. the court suggested applying to the Governor and executive council for a pardon. Doctors say he will not live the term out if kept imprisoned.
N Harry Stratton filed suit in County Court to contest his father W S Stratton s will denying the deceased left a will He seeks appointment of an administrator or referees to manage the estate during litigation and preserve assets pending the case
A Eastern city man deranged by digestion finds relief with Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after trials with doctors and sanitariums. The ad asserts the tablets digest food, restore appetite, and replace nerve tonics and tonics with natural digestive action, noting widespread availability and claimed success.
Hamburg reports the fifth conference of the international maritime committee opened. A draft treaty for a uniform law on collisions and salvage shifts liability after fault, limits demurrage indemnity, and ends compulsory pilotage defenses. It sets a two year action period and mandates mutual aid after collisions.
Senator Morgan of Alabama urged Congress to pass a law taxing the stock or business of trusts to near prohibitive levels. He argued such a tax is constitutional like other direct taxes and would effectively curb trusts without requiring apportionment among states.
John Kensit head of Protestant crusade in the established church was seriously injured at a Birkenhead meeting when a chisel was thrown striking him. He is reported in a Liverpool hospital with eyesight endangered.
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