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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
6
Daily issue details subscription rates and publishing contact at the Post Publishing Company Boston Massachusetts. Includes price lists for weekly six month and monthly terms and a notice on advance payment and discontinuation policy. Editor is E B A Grozier.
A Boston report extols Marconi wireless tech after a Guantanamo to Boston test without wires. Navy Christmas messages sped 1700 miles, proving practical, governmental, and commercial uses and predicting global, instant communication beyond time and distance.
Treasurer Crocker reports over the counter sale of Boston city bonds valued at 2 410 000 with 3 1 2 percent interest over 20 and 30 years. Brokers showed little interest in the issue while private investors favored safety and a higher distribution to the public. The paper predicts wider adoption of this method despite potential private sales gains.
President Roosevelt's push for Porto Rican citizenship stirs talk among locals, including Dr Barbosa who envisions citizenship as a path to self government and eventual statehood. Union party leaders urge caution, insisting the Executive Council must set the pace.
The text argues Porto Rico should have an elective Senate and a annually convening lower house to restore self-government and citizenship rights, criticizing the current executive appointment control and limited local sovereignty. It frames enfranchisement as a remedy for the great wrong of denying Porto Ricans basic rights.
With real winter starting, coal prices are deemed too high as the Baer led trust tightens its grip. The report notes past strikes and ongoing talks, fearing continued charges on users unless government control is sought by Massachusetts Legislature to curb the coal monopoly.
The article lauds J P Holland, famed for submarine navigation, as predicting next year air travel via bamboo wing costumes attached to the body. It praises his confident claim that wings will enable flight and likens his insight to historic inventors Daedalus, Maxim, Bell, and Langley.
The Woman's Charity Club hosts a 3 to 5 pm Vinedome recital featuring Ida Jenness Moulton impersonator and dialect reciter Frank La Raine Chamberlain flutist and other musicians followed by a social tea. Esther Boland Cushing Ellison and Wilbur Thacher pour with H Fay Look on piano.
Assistant Pastor Co. IL. Page of Dudley Street Baptist Church Boston writes to commend the Post for Christmas day coverage. He praises illustrations matter thoughtful reverent Sunday service reports intelligent editorials and full current news. He wishes Godspeed and Christmas blessings.
The Manchester Union notes a general agreement with the Boston Post that abusing candidates does not pay politically after the Boston mayoralty election. The commentary suggests voters reject personal attacks and favor substantive platforms in local politics.
A London News reader laments modern household staff names from Maud to Gwen and Gladys. She urges reviving old names Ann Matilda Mary Jane and Sally for children to honor bygone manners and class distinctions.
A quiet Christmas scene unfolds as a woman by the fire reflects on changes the past has wrought. A swarm of messengers brings gifts addressed to Miss Towne and one card stands out among the offerings.
From a New York Sun fragment, Charles R Barnes describes a shopper rushing to start the season. The anxious reader finds the first address but smiles to see the name Mrs John H Brown appearing amid gifts from everywhere.
A collection of wry aphorisms and social jabs on ambition luck work and society. It riffs on Roosevelt social clubs New York elite and branding ideas delivering pointed quips about manners money and power.
Residents finish Xmas shopping and skating is good at Riverside and sidewalks. Snow crop is fair, not as high as last year. A caller dropped blotters at the office. Renew subscriptions now. Influenza is spreading with many on the sick list. Rumor says Washington street subway progress is going well. Old cider from last October is becoming sought after. We had some at a neighbor's. News is scarce this week.
Poem reflects on grafters who seek wealth and the footprints they leave that justice hunts. Many have wept for careless steps that reveal wrongdoing.
A rich Omaha bachelor survives on seven cents daily, unable to afford many reveries or comforts. The terse note sketches a frugal, austere lifestyle of a man with ample wealth yet limited daily budget.
A reader from West Derry New Hampshire urges the nation to study socialism and Christian teaching. He praises In The Steps by the Rev Sheldon and laments charity gaps, criticizing gambling, graft, and unresponsive unions while praising worker solidarity and the brotherhood of man.
Observant Citizen William Blaisdell hosts a Christmas tree in his Boston Theatre dressing room with many company members. Mrs. Fiske offers a Hedda Gabler matinee at Tremont Theatre. The Boston Stage Society distributes a fac simile page souvenir for Oliver Twist at Castle Square Theatre. Congressman Ernest W. Roberts attends the Powhatan I O R M degree ceremony in Chelsea with about 200 Red Men visitors. A hornless goat controversy and a Dorchester field find involving a ring marked 19095 W is noted. Towle & Fitzgerald employees await a 1906 $25,000 distribution. Fred P. Greenwood is honored at the Boston Seaman's Friend Society with a gold rope latch chain. Immigration pier Santa role with gifts. James A. McKibben dinner at Hotel Lenox presided by Acting Mayor Whelton. Lt. O'Neil returns to duty. Brookline marriages succeed by Edward D. Tucker. eloping couples frequent Kent Street clergyman. A Washington Street jewelry shop witnesses a ring cost inquiry after a solitaire gift. Rev. Dr. George T. Perin receives a heartfelt Christmas greeting from Franklin Square House girls. A $50 Salvation Army box donation is found in Malden. Governor-elect Guild gifts Christmas inauguration tickets. Salvation Army officers help supervise the Christmas event with generous, courteous service.
A child named Anna Thornton from 1 Worth Place writes gratefully to Santa Claus. She thanks Santa for gifts including a doll baby and mentions Santa gave her 5 cents as well as her grandma praising the moment. The letter ends with warm wishes for Santa and the writer.
Sir Edwin Cornwall, chairman of the London County Council, issued to the press a proposal for an interchange of pupils between the schools of capitals having over 500000 population.
Mildred Champagne counsels on a Glenberg iron strike tale where John Bellingham, scarred and betrayed, earns a career-saving scoop that leads to a marriage on a ship. Joan Bellair sacrifices her career to save him as they start anew in life aboard an ocean liner.
Society pages report Miss Helen Paine wed the Rev. Shacher Raymond Kimball at St Stephen's Church with maid of honor Georgiana Paine. The couple will live on Beacon Street. Also honored is Dorothy Sprague, marrying Laurence Aubrey Sprague with a private family ceremony and 8 p.m. reception on Perkins Street Jamaica Plain. Nearby, Mrs Meyer and daughters arrive at the Bellevue to join Boston’s fashionable set. Mourning extends to the Train family of Brookline and the late Samuel Putnam Train. Boston society groups plan Berkshires retreats and urban sojourns, while Adamses head to Washington for winter.
The piece notes Princess Maud’s potential queenly title under English custom and Norway’s crown heir Alexander, plus Bloomington oil operator Mrs. Mae Ora Hood Russell as a leading Kentucky producer. It also cites U S teacher demographics with state contrasts and gender gaps.
The notice invites readers to explore classified advertisements in Everybody's beginning January. It promotes a new idea to connect the right people and emphasizes Everybody's for everybody with pricing at 15 cents per issue and 1.50 a year.
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