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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1903
Page
6
Fragmentary notice warns subscribers about payment methods and delivery service changes. It mentions the Post and its editor and publisher, with references to money orders and addresses, urging readers to respond to avoid interruption of the paper.
The Boston Sunday Post reports circulation figures for July with daily totals. Sunday circulation reached 156,900 while overall daily averages are listed as 623 percent by day.
A fragmented column compares canoe safety rules at Metropolitan Park to concerns about canoeists, moonlit paddling, and propriety. It then shifts to the Colombian canal treaty setback, describing the Senate rejection as a hold-up and outlining the Spooner Act framework guiding U S actions on a Nicaragua route canal.
Justice Brewer of the Kitea States Supreme Court discusses crime and lynching in a thoughtful magazine piece. He argues the key remedy is greater confidence in certain punishment to curb mob violence and lynching.
Judge Brewer argues swift punishment cannot replace lawful process and warns that mob lynching erodes civic trust. He notes U S legal history allowed little appeal in criminal cases and suggests direct court action for such atrocious crimes, urging vigorous, unsparing penalties under the law.
The day after tomorrow the first America's Cup race may sail if wind off Sandy Hook allows. Lipton insists his boat is the fastest, while Iselin touts the Reliance. Records show Shamrock III beating Shamrock I and the Reliance defeating Columbia and the Constitution, offering a basis for comparison with the 1899 30 mile Shamrock benchmark.
A poem recounts a ghostly ship seen at dawn with a stout captain and a small craft. The legend tells of a spectral crew inhabiting the sea while fishers search the horizon for the phantom vessel near Boston Bay. Albert Edward Royal, Boston Mass, Aug. 4, 1003.
In Santa Barbara on August 17 an inquest into the death of Miss Catherine Grathwel on the Santa Ynez mountain trail found heart failure due to exhaustion as the cause. The death occurred yesterday while she was en route to the summit.
Dorchester's Mathew Peterson and Somerville's Miss Flora Smith, betrothed lovers, were arrested at Riverside for kissing in a canoe on the Charles River. The piece criticizes the police action, arguing lovers deserve privacy and praise rather than arrest, and questions the notion that kissing in public watercraft warrants legal trouble. It notes public sympathy for the couple and mocks the officer’s intervention, while touchingly defending romantic liberty.
A temperance orator in southwestern Kentucky wins pledges from every man in a town, then humorously notes drinking is justified only if bitten by a rattlesnake, prompting a hunt for snakes. Also humor items about Bill's new nag, How It Happened by Corbett, and readers letters debating women wearing high heels.
Summer residents James S Lee and family of Brimmer Street pass their summers at a Magnolia sea view home. A modern low-studded dark brown house is ringed by red and yellow nasturtiums and geraniums. Wide entrance porch eight fluted columns, conservatory veranda and a front terrace with twin fir trees. Driveway bordered by stone wall and shrubbery. The Lees, like other Magnolia guests, spend time riding boating and bathing at the fashionable resort.
The port detains shipments of Belgian canned peas Danish smoked sausages and Irish stout under a federal law against adulterated foods drugs and liquors. Customs draws samples and sends them to Washington for analysis. consignments withheld until results. The law took effect July 1 but enforcement reached this city last week.
Newport report says May Van Alen daughter of James J. Van Alen is engaged to Ralph Raniet of Boston. Raniet frequents Wakehurst the Van Alen summer home and is often a guest at their elaborate entertaining.
Captain John F. O Connell of Engine 16 Dorchester died Sunday. Funeral from his home 1196 Morton Street Dorchester tomorrow with a high Mass at St Gregorys Church Dorchester Ave and Richmond Streets at 10 o clock. Interment Holyhood Cemetery Brookline. Engine Company 16 members excused to attend. pallbearers will Engine 16 men.
The columnist recalls a lively theatergoer who gushes over a play at Music Hall yet lacks a companion. A risqué moment prompts a joking remark “Shoe done it!” as the scene ends, leaving the writer to seek quieter seats.
A Boston Post contest invites letters on omitting the word obey from marriage vows. A mother recalls a soldier son and the home front as adults debate whether obedience remains essential. Letters praise and defend or oppose preserving the term.
Readers debate the word obey in marriage vows with letters arguing for and against its inclusion. Contributors from Dorchester and Roslindale defend or oppose obey, citing evolving gender roles, religious references, and concerns about autonomy, duty, and tradition.
Edward Lavin ten year old son of Edward H Lavin fell from a boat on the Pawtucket River this afternoon and was drowned in Pawtucket Rhode Island August 17.
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