Off year votes aim to back Mayor through alderman picks
In this off year city voters face several key contests including eighth and sixth aldermanic districts where candidates Slattery and Frothingham back the Mayor's businesslike reform. The article urges Democrats to unite behind allies of Mayor Collins, notes council choices, school committee races, and calls for full top-to-bottom ballots in today’s election.
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Polis
Couns
Slattery
Baldwin
Marine Park
Waraus
George Holden Tinkham
Tinkham
Collins
George McKee
Board of Street Commissioners
Duane
Chief Justice Vacancy on Massachusetts Supreme Bench
A vacancy opens in the seat of the chief justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Bench. Notifications and eligibility details follow as the judiciary awaits a successor to fill the prominent role.
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Supreme Bench of
Massa
Governor Crane Likely to Name Justice Knowlton Chief Justice
The resignation of Judge Holmes prompted Governor Crane to consider a replacement. Justice Knowlton, with 21 years on the bench and 15 on the Supreme Court, is favored for chief justice, seen as a fitting recognition of long service and a careful selection by the administration.
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Marcus Perrin Knowlton
Superior Court
Long
Supreme Bench
The Single Tax Movement Gains Ground in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Single Tax League promotes education on ground rent and tax reform. Economists at a dinner discuss the scientific basis of the proposed taxation scheme, with Professor Bullock of Williams College contributing a key paper. The group disputes Charles Francis Adams on public understanding, urging local trials of the method before statewide adoption.
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Massachusetts Single Tax League
Bullock
Williams College
Charles Francis Adams
Massachusetts
Single Tax League
Commonwealth
Thomas Nast Fathered American Caricature, Avitus
The article declares Thomas Nast the father of American caricature, noting his forceful, brutal, and partisan cartoons tied to Civil War era crises. It praises his influence on later cartoonists while observing his decline after the Tweed display and sectarian shifts, hoping another Nast may not arise.
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Thomas Nast
America
Nast
Harper’s Weekly
Roosevelt weighs statehood for Oklahoma and territories
Washington reports the President has pressed Senators at the White House over Oklahoma admission while New Mexico and Arizona await. Republicans fear admitting Oklahoma helps Roosevelt in 1904 and that New Mexico and Arizona would likely vote Democratic, influencing the national election. Roosevelt may seek to block the Democratic Territories and push the Republican Territory.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Statehood
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Eagle to defend cup yacht named Eagle
The Observant Citizen notes a bright mile ground and sleigh bells in the suburbs with a playful tone. The new cup defender yacht will be named Eagle and is expected to be a strong contender next August. Miss Helen M. Smith visits Boston en route to New York after attending a Pentagon Club dinner. Don Coakley narrowly escapes suffocation when a mason drops a discarded garment into a chimney causing gas issues.
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Helen M. Smith
Bar Harbor
Beth
Don Coakley
Boston
Ston
Smasher
Tim
East Boston
Ralph Davis
West Somerville
B. O'Connell
Steve Au Tour du
R. P. Waltham
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A. Mason
Mike Muller
Gridley’s
H. J
Wollaston
Old Colony Street Railway
Roslindale
Weem
Morgan
Charity
New Dorchester
Sunday Post
M. H. North Windham
Nationals
B. B
A. Rooter
Pacific
Boston Streetcar Disorder and City News Bits
A late Brookline car incident reveals rowdy youth behavior on the Tremont Street line. Reports note fewer aid requests this year despite widespread fuel shortages, with Boston seeming comparatively calm. Cambridge guitarist Dudley C. Clark underwent successful cataract surgery, while Georgia Cayvan’s fund drive for care continues amid her illness. Posts list post office eligibles as Park Street Church loss and Tileston Street lamp outages affect street lighting. Andrew Dogley of South Boston dies, mourned for wit and friendliness.
Contest closing tomorrow noon prompts odd reader hopes
A column of readers respond to a contest with whimsical wishes and quotes from Boston area locals. Entries express desires to win prizes, buy the Boston Post, fund projects, or roast up quirky schemes, including owning a brewery, purchasing railways, or granting family rest.
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Boston Post
Ambitious plans for policing and Ireland aid
The note lists aims to isolate Belgian hares and gamea pigs, build a Shamrock to Ireland to fetch turf for Newton, hire men to push off the otreile Winthrop, and publish Tracked to His Doom as a police guide. Salem editor signs off with indignant tone.
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Maas
Ireland
Newton
Winthrop
Jay
Salem
Stealthy Steve Faces Iceberg to Save Soapsudsia
Stealthy Steve sails the Soapsudsia toward New York to thwart a wedding and prevent a collision with an iceberg. He bribes coal heavers and engineers, wrestles a looming disaster, and survives a perilous voyage in a globe spanning caper centered on Genevieve and the Duke.
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Phineas
John’ Jimson
France
Paris
Havre
New York
Soapsudsia
Batterwell
Genevieve
Jack a Hero: Widow Meets Jack's Partner in Echoes of West
The widow Barton mends by the fire when a tramp arrives seeking aid and reveals he was Jack's partner. He tells of a Westward raid by Indians that killed Belle and Jack, leaving the widow hearing that Jack died a hero while saving others. The tale blends tragedy and frontier justice as the partner recounts their shared past.
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Barton
Jack
Belle
Wit and Epigrams of Speaker Reed in Congress
A compact portrait of Thomas B. Reed known for sharp epigrams and wit that earned him a feared reputation in Congress. It recounts notable quips in Senate lobbies, street cars, and during Roosevelt era politics, plus his calm leadership during the Reed rules crisis and social life in Washington.
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Congress
Mr. Reed
Senate
Cleveland
Sheldon
Topeka
Reed
Broadway
New York
Fourteenth Street
O’shaugnessy
Tom Reed
Democratic Party
Roosevelt
Speaker
Washington
Arlington Hotel
Republican Party
Mme. Eames
Maine
Washingtons Tests of Wireless Telegraphy
Washington navy yard and the Annapolis Naval Academy have been linked by wireless telegraphy over 30 miles. A two month trial by naval officers reports partial overcoming of interference from electrical machinery, with better sea trials anticipated due to reduced land-based interference.
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Washington
Washington Navy Yard
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Naval Officers
Navy Yard
Annual Ball of Bartenders' Association reaches 15th year
The Boston Bartenders' Mutual and Benevolent Association Local 77 held its 15th annual concert and ball last night at Mechanic's Hall Huntington avenue. Grand march led by Robert A Callahan and wife, Thomas J Boles and wife, Mr and Mrs Charles J Lavis.
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Boston Bartenders’ Mutual and Benevolent Association
Mechanic's Hall
Huntington Avenue
Robert A. Callahan
Thomas J. Boles
Charles J. Lavis
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