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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
13
A playful exchange features Santa Claus greeting a Boston Post interviewer. The conversation includes wishes for Merry Christmas and inquiries about the city’s people. Santa hints at a list of those who deserve a call from him.
An aged Santa listens to a Postman’s petitions for South Boston subways, new public buildings, harbor channels, and relief for labor. He notes politics and wealth ignore children’s needs, then vows to unite kids with willing hands to ease their poverty and hunger.
A 10,000 pound powder mill explosion at the American Powder Mills in Acton caused extensive glass breakage and property damage across a wide radius. No injuries reported. Investigators and police to probe possible sabotage. losses estimate around $18,000. The blast was felt from Boston suburbs to New Hampshire with widespread tremors and damaged storefronts and homes.
In Springfield on Dec 24 a switch error caused two sections of a New Haven railroad train to collide in the yards. Brakeman John Murphy of New Haven was killed instantly when caught on the rear platform as the backing locomotive struck a Pullman.
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland wife of Dr John P Sutherland dean of Boston University Medical School died from heart failure after burns from a gas heater ignited her clothing at 302 Beacon Street. She was a long time writer for Boston papers under the pen name Dorothy Lunat and author of The Substitute and The Road to Yesterday.
The State Board of Land Commissioners asks President Roosevelt not to close the Anaconda and other smelters over claims of gas and smoke harming vegetation. The board says neither state nor national forests have suffered damage.
Henry M. Whitney of Boston purchased about $70,000 for a controlling interest in the Rhode Island Coal Company which owns anthracite mines near Portsmouth Rhode Island. The mines have not been developed due to mineral admixtures but Whitney’s arrival may push modern profitable extraction. Former owner was George M. Rice of Worcester. heir is W. S. Holmes of Roxbury.
The Old South Theatre marks its anniversary as proprietors James Donaldson Simon Rudnick and Matt Burgess receive loving cups from theatre employees in a Christmastide surprise thanking the management for year’s kindness.
News features telegrams and statements from union leaders and officials across the country condemning Judge Wright's jail sentence as a suppression of free speech and press. It recalls reactions from J A Franklin, William G Gilthorpe, A Hinzman, F T Hawley, and M I Carter.
Ex judge Parler attacks a court decree alleged as void and unconstitutional. He contends Justice Wright’s speech and writing amount to contempt of court and asserts constitutional limits on censorship by all branches. The article notes historical court rulings on press censorship.
New York December 24. Former Judge Alton B. Parker for the American Federation of Labor officers says Justice Wright’s contempt sentence will be reviewed by a higher tribunal. He asserts free speech and press liberty protect speaking and writing on all subjects, and notes abuses may be punished, but laws restraining publication are improper.
The Gompers contempt case could spotlight anti injunction bills in the coming Legislature. Two proposals, one for hearings in preliminary injunctions and another restricting injunctions to protecting property rights, faced defeat last year. Governor elect Draper plans no early mention of labor issues in his message.
The Alabama officers of the United Mine Workers of America sent a telegram to President Roosevelt denouncing the conviction and sentence of Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison. They contend the decision violates the U S Constitution and infringes on free press and free speech.
Cipriano Castro says he may withdraw from Venezuela’s presidency and will not hinder the government’s handling of foreign controversies. He plans to speak further when in better health and remains in a private sanitarium for two more weeks.
Olga Stein, arrested in New York last March and extradited to Russia, was sentenced in St. Petersburg to 16 months in prison and loss of civil rights for forgery and embezzlement. Her victims reportedly lost more than $150,000.
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