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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1904
Page
6
Commissioners urge an absolute accurate vote count at the polls to avoid frequent recounts. They suggest options like voting machines or expert accountants as election officers, noting that stricter signature requirements fail to solve the core issue of counting accuracy.
The chief counsel argues the Supreme Court decision on the Temple Iron Company has no bearing on the issue. Justice Day notes the railroad system evaded law by using a corporate fiction, with five coal carriers party to a scheme to fix transport rates via a dummy firm, withholding contracts and claiming varying commissions.
Testimony before Justice Barker spans 21 days, exposing alleged schemes in Boston gas reorganization. Report highlights how organizers transferred funds, funded by consumer bills, to secure profit from high gas prices. Public questioned whether citizens should bear these costs for such deals.
Election commissioners criticize the routine recounts of votes at caucuses and elections as wasteful and costly. They note the postcount often confirms the original totals, and recounts, powered by small petitions, add little accuracy while increasing city costs.
The Neely case reaches the Circuit Court in Washington seeking to recover $140,000 in stolen postal revenues from Cuba. Neely argues a Cuban amnesty freed him, a defense deemed impudent as he fights United States collection after a Havana conviction and a $60,000 bail and attachment.
A rhymed verse recounts a foxed romance where a frog pursues love across seas and trouble ensues. The speaker notes the suitor’s woes and declines future wooing, with playful refrains about cooing billing and a thwarted courtship.
Stealthy Steve converses with Jeremiah Pennwhizz of the Boston Sunday Post aboard Admiral Togo. The meeting foreshadows pursuit of Baron and Baroness Hizzizzan, who leave Tokyo at sunset for a Pacific cruise, as Steve vows to track them using the latest war news.
A series of short vignettes recalls social life and local chatter. Observers note Lt Cmdr John Edwards's calm leadership on a warship's engine rooms, and Captain John Harris's long sea career. Brookline hosts a large reception for telephone maids, while others report spring pond work in the Public Garden and remarks on nearby transit plans.
Local column cites familiar phrase No. 793 ahead of Christmas and notes on stamps, freight, polite seating, and postal humor. Mentions Somerville illness recovery, Dorchester beach scene, Rev M V B Knox writing Anglo-Saxon church history, engagement in Newton Centre, trout fishing claims, state hatchery output, and Lasell students’ Washington tour with Mt. Vernon visit.
The Boston committee on metropolitan affairs debated abolishing the East Boston tunnel toll. A new proposal would set aside one cent per passenger from Section 10 compensation, with tolls and rental pledged to bond interest. Corporation Counsel Bailey argued abolition unconstitutional. the committee took the matter under advisement.
Ralph Gent Mills of Harvard Law School, son of a Western ranch and mine owner, obtained a marriage license to wed Miss Fannie Abbott, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Francis Abbott who died by suicide on his wife’s grave. Mills, 24, and Abbott, 38, plan a quiet ceremony at 43 Larch Road Cambridge amid family arrangements.
A quirky archived remark about acting ambitions and a playful projection of future roles like Uncle Tom or St Clair. The speaker muses on dramatic potential with humor and theatrical fantasy.
The Senate heard a two hour speech by Mr. Morgan urging information from the Attorney General about concessions to the original Panama Canal Company and criticizing the new Panama Company. Adjournment followed after taking up the post office appropriation bill with amendments expanding letter size and rural free delivery staff.
George Carnegie proprietor of Dungeness Cumberland Island announces his candidacy on the Democratic ticket for the Georgia Senate claiming he pays three quarters of Camden county taxes and will woo voters via entertainments by steamer. He employs nearly 300 at Dungeness and all are registered.
Mrs Hattie E Shaw presides over the Brockton Woman's Club, a leading local organization with 509 members and 270 on a waiting list. A 73 member art and travel class toured Mrs Jack Gardner's Venetian palace, lunch at the Vendome, then studied at the Art Museum under Mrs Martha A Shannon.
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