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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1902
Page
6
The Boston Post laments a fatal canoeing incident as the season begins and urges caution. It notes rising interest in canoeing, a high fatality rate last year, and calls for stricter participation rules and prudent conduct, especially for inexperienced paddlers.
An editorial argues the Chicago Beef Trust has raised meat prices 20 to 50 percent, harming workers and households. It urges collective action to boycott or eat less meat, calling for an Anti-Meat League to counter the trust and noting imports to Liverpool offer price parity with U.S. sales.
The schedule preserves the total levy while taking 235 855 off specific appropriations and placing it in the reserve fund. It relies on economies beyond salary cuts and favors mayoral control of the large reserve to fund fire and police needs, with a likely tax rate increase and possible deadlock avoidance.
Treasury figures show bicycle shipments to England France and Germany nearly doubled in the past eight months versus the same period last year. The remark comes as enthusiasts recall the vivid days of the bicycle boom and public interest remains high.
A lively column sketches a mild man mistaken for a jail guide, reports Miss Ellen Stone’s lecture tour plans and Chelsea reception, notes rail disruptions on the Dorchester line, praises John M. Fiske as port collector, previews Pi Eta’s Queen Philippine, and recounts charming street scenes from Boston with milk wagon wrecks, runaway bakers, a newsboy, and a civic father-and-son parade.
A playful spring poem contrasts with a long spoof on the Hatfield McCoy feud in Pike County Kentucky. The piece mocks coroner fees, funerals, and feuds, then shifts to mock headlines and light sport notes about Jefferies and Frasimmons with quirky dialogue and local color.
A Connecticut constitutional convention faces a revolt against the town based system that concentrates power in rural minorities. City Republicans in New Haven push for majority rule and threaten to defeat the new charter unless it enshrines representative parity. If the constitution fails, minority rule persists and a party split may hand the State to the Democrats.
The decline of bicycle use as outdoor recreation appears to have reached a low point last year with signs of a return to favor. Cars dominate those who can afford them, but horseback riding and bridle paths in the park system are growing in popularity, and many people are rediscovering wheels and pedals on country roads and boulevards.
In a holiday parade a boy remains perched on his father’s shoulders as the march resumes. A separate note discusses college initiation pranks with a milk-bottle scene, a near-miss canoe accident on the Charles River, and upcoming Maritime Provincial Club event at Commercial Hall. Massachusetts Bicycle Club hosts last whist party before Patriots Day parade plans. Henry H. Faxon comments on aging and eyesight.
J Stewart asks the editor about Dr Lorimer’s pay. He notes a $100 salary in Boston and states that in New York City his net salary is the same. The letter seeks confirmation of Rev Lorimer’s church stipends.
A narrator recalls a humorous summer misadventure at Weslyn Park with Nell, feigning illness to dodge fish dinners, confessing to a deceit about a planned prank, and earning Nell's forgiveness after a candid admission. The tale shifts from embarrassment to relief as moral bravado changes the outcome and a stray two dollar bill surfaces.
In Suffolk court the Bennett Donahue Lynn libel case draws a packed audience as Lafayette Pike Hartford broker testifies on advertising and newspaper methods behind the Investor papers. He details refusals to advertise and subsequent attacks, cross examinations reveal retractable records and a sprawling list of 3800 names, while witnesses discuss promotions and stock dealings.
In Hartford April 7 organized labor won a victory electing Ignatius A Sullivan mayor by 6639 to 6134 over Republican Major William B Dwight. Republicans also won a majority on the Common Council. Sullivan, a longtime labor leader, has been a clothing store clerk and presidents of local and state labor unions.
Judge Ferris granted an in cott case in Wilkesbarre Penn. stating that the boycott by the Building Trades Council against employees who refused wage increases is destructive to personal security social order and all law and government and is unlawful.
Jeremiah J. McCarthy, Port Surveyor and former House member, visits the House at 3 15 this afternoon at the invitation of Speaker Myers. He served seven years in the House and led on rules and railroads before resigning in 1899 to take his current post. He will also call on Senate President Soule after meeting House members.
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