Mrs Partington Era Linked to Boston Post Writer
April 28 1903 notes that Mrs Partington was the pen name of the late B P Shillaber, longtime Boston Post writer. His humorous and wise quips were popular a generation ago.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1903
Page
6
Suppressed Miles Report on Philippine War Atrocities
Secretary Root yields to public demand and releases part of General Miles’s grim account of abuses by American troops in the Philippines. Miles cites water torture in Lipa Cebu killings in Luzon Leyte and Samar, naming officers accused and noting inadequate punishments. The disclosure marks a sharp rebuke of Washington’s handling of the occupation amid prior denials and press criticism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Root
Miles
Philippines
Father Augustin
Washington
Senate Committee On
War Department
Dhd
Lipa
Vincenta Luna
Cebu
Luzon
Leyte
United States
Samar
Presidente
Calbdyog
Carrington
First Infantry
Davis
Gaujot
Hughes
Roosevelt
Constitutional Question On Boston Voter Enrolment Bill
The piece argues the Republican majority rushes a police enrolment bill through the Legislature and questions its constitutionality. It warns against sidelining municipal civil authority, a state police board over local matters, and delaying Boston voter enrolment separate from the rest of the state. It cautions about casting a citizen’s voting rights to a governor-appointed police board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Board of Police
Commonwealth
Morgan eyes snapshot merger and camera monopoly plan
A report says J Pierpont Morgan offered to pay well over a dollar for cameras bearing his likeness or to buy up cameras with no film bearing his image. The piece frames a possible merger of camera makers into a single monopoly, with Morgan financing through preferred stock gains and a premium on captured images.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Steel Trust
Steamship Combine
Northwestern
Morgan
Newfoundland Treaty Sidelined by Lodge Blockade
The Newfoundland reciprocity pact avoided at the last Congress may be revisited at the next session. Premier Bond expects Senate ratification, noting mutual benefits for the United States and Newfoundland. Massachusetts figures dominate the dispute, with a senator delaying and a congressman claiming to have sold his vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodge
Newfoundland
United States
Gloucester
Bond
Senate
New England
Massachusetts
I Went to the Police Station for a Dachshund License
A humorous tale of Newton Newkirk lawfully licensing his dachshund Peter Perpetual Wagg. The narrator recounts encounters with Officer Kelly and a patient sergeant, detailing the dog’s age, quirks, and the humorous licensing process. The piece ends with the license number 450 and a quip about not stealing Peter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelly
Mr. Kelly
Peter
Peter Perpetual Wage
P. S
Spring impressions and local society notes from Boston
Observations of early spring in the suburbs include budding leaves white apple blossoms and bursts of color as horses sell at auction for 57 and 92.50 dollars amid coal relief funds and social events. Dr Bowditch earns National Academy honor while Middlesex Club misses Colonel Mosby and Boston Navy Yard prepares for 12 ships. Brookline wedding Brookline groom Park. Jamaica Plain gifts for Mrs Riley. editor Tapper sails to England. Weber Fields hire. horse show fashion debates. fireman deaths prompt funeral plans. Vestibule Social Club plans inaugural ball.
Strenuous Life of an Inspector Celebrates Milestone
Captain Joseph Dugan, assistant chief inspector, marked his th anniversary with the police department. He planned to take a day off but worked from Sunday morning through night on the Keenan and Kelley murders, then handled a shooting case in Municipal Court the next morning, a display of relentless duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Dugan
Police Department
Keenan
Joseph Kelley
Station 4
Chickering
Police
Referendum for Boston: keep polling option nationwide
A Boston city dispute over a caucus and primary reform bill ends with Senate amending the measure to make referendum permissive in Boston. The author argues Boston citizens deserve the same rights as the rest of Massachusetts to decide how they exercise their political privileges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Luce
Dyar
House
Senate
Commonwealth
Robb Named Assistant Attorney General for Post Office
Washington April 27 Charles H Robb assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice has been appointed assistant attorney general for the Postoffice Department to fill the place vacated by James N Tyner Mr Robb assumed charge today
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles H. Robb
Department of Justice
Postoffice Department
James N. Tyner
Robb
Boston Legal Aid Society Opens Applications for Help
The Boston Legal Aid Society organizes to provide legal aid to those in poverty unable to afford it. Applications for assistance may be made at No. 05 State St, with Hitb, Bangs, Barlow & Homans serving as counsel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State St
Hitb
Bangs, Barlow & Homans
Legal Aid Society
Prominent Figures Accused of Fast Driving Across Lincoln
President DelLoriea of the Boston Fruit Exchange was held up in Lincoln on Sunday for fast automobiling and ready to bear the penalty if found in violation. Concord authorities made several hold-ups that day. J W Hutchinson, Lexington Board of Selectmen chair, and his son Chester were stopped after driving their machine 29.5 miles an hour, surprised by the speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DelLoriea
Boston Fruit Exchange
Lincoln
Concord
J. WW. Hutchinson
Board of Selectmen
Lexington
Chester Hutchinson
Voter Roll Duty Prompted by Boston Police Bill
Boston leaders push for a May first voter list by age residence and occupation for all males over twenty. The Democratic City Committee ships 200,000 instruction circulars to landlords and households detailing duties if police power to assess voters becomes law. Police captains heard a Curtis briefing on the pending assessment bill and rushed guidance to precinct commanders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic City Committee
Boston
William T. A. Fitzgerald
Beacon Hill
Fitzgerald
Pemberton Square
Four-leaf shamrock sparks a fated meeting in Mellor Park
In Mellor Park Dr. Maurice Staney kneels before a shamrock and encounters Honora Hallin in spring beauty. She urges him to believe, then vanishes among the foliage after a final warning to never despair. He clutches the leaf, hearing her words as the moment ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellor Park
Maurice Staney
Honora Hallin
Dr. Staney
Honora
Senators Punished for Contempt in Third Reading Dispute
Senators Michael J. Sullivan and Arthur Harrington were suspended from all rights for one week and removed from the bills in a third reading committee. They must apologize publicly and have the punishment recorded in the Senate journal. The action, taken by a special committee, drew protests from Democratic members while Republicans defended the leniency. The decree was read amid a packed gallery as the bill moved toward submission to the Governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Journal of the
Michael J. Sullivan
Arthur Harringtom
Paonasors Harrington
Sullivan
Harrington
McInnes
Harrington and
Cole Lins
House
Dyard
Hayes
Charlestown
Hawkes
Wiley
Coulthurst
Grady
Luce
Vinson
Callender
Myers
Dyar
French orders come here new york
The Rev. John A. Zahm, provincial of the Order of Holy Cross, returns from France with plans to move twenty priests and twenty nuns to the United States. He will place learned members in Neuilly and Paris schools to staff institutions mainly in the West and Southwest, possibly establish a New York college, and send others to Washington and Notre Dame. He may also establish work in the Philippine Islands, seeing them as a rich labor field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John A. Zahm
Order of Holy Cross
France
United States
Holy Cross
Zahm
Neuilly
Paris
Washington
Notre Dame
Philippine Islands
Philippines
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Pete
Perp
Priskly
Portland Street
Coal Relief Commission
al. P. Bowditch
Jamaica Plain
National Academy of Sciences
Middlesex Club
John 8. Mosby
Mosby
Grant
Middlesex
Charlestown Navy Yard
Manchuria
Boston Museum
Vincent Hospital
Brett
Holland
Brookline
Peabody Street
Mary Ellen Lynch
David Reid Park
Mission Church
Roxbury
Riley
Wlashington Street
Jennie Riley
Annie MacHagan
Thomas Tapper
Musical Record and Review
England
Henry Johnson Storer
Peter S. McNally
Weber & Fields
New Theatre
the Globe
Buit
Thomas F. Boyle
Commonwealth Avenue
Monday Club
Hotel Somerset
Joseph A. Kelley
Flynn
Kelley
Forest Hills
Curtis Hall
David IF. Crowley
Tyner
C. H. Robb
Boston Legal Aid Society
Sunday Post
Sarah B. Lawrence
Newbury Street
Jordan Marsh CO
la Premiere
Pi Eta Theatricals
Prince Punjab
Darkies
America
Morris,murch & Butler
Summer St. Chamber & Dining Room
Ostermoor”’ Mattress
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