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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1906
Page
6
Daily publication from Post Publishing Co with office in Boston lists subscription rates and policies. Includes prices for daily, six month, eight month, and Sunday editions. advises prepayment and discontinuation on lapse. editor and publisher BH A Grozier named.
Hearing before the banks and banking committee opposed the proposed reform with focus on the department’s annual expenses. Support favored abolishing the board for a single commissioner and subordinates to improve accountability and efficiency while extending regulatory authority over all deposit taking institutions.
Judge Emmons, police commissioner and license expert, told a Legislature committee that the present license law is widely used to extort blackmail. He testified abutting property owners can oppose liquor licenses, and licensees pay to withdraw objections, inflating property values and inviting buyable “Next door to a saloon” deals. He urged reform to restrict objections.
The Hepburn bill moves toward passage in the House while the Dolliver bill sits with the Senate ready for consideration. The administration aims to regulate railroad rates by government authority. Speaker Cannon should pass the House measure easily, but Senate opposition grows over lack of appeal from maximum determinations.
The piece argues for judicial review of administrative acts, urging rail rate regulation bills include right of appeal. It contends delay is acceptable to avoid injustice or rights’ usurpation and warns against granting infallible power to a commission. It notes possible GOP President and Senate disagreement reflects conservative sentiment.
In a spasm of investigation Congress may inspect the purchase of New Yorks Custom House by the National City Bank known as the Standard Oil bank. The government sold the building for 3.25 million but kept title and paid the bank 130000 yearly rent while the bank held the purchase money and enjoyed tax exemptions. Officials Vanderlip and Gage left treasury for high posts with raises, prompting questions who benefited from the deal and who paid for it.
The article critiques a proposed license law amendment that exempts hotels with bars placed more than 400 feet from a public school from liquor sales restrictions. It argues the 400-foot rule is illogical and favors licensing discretion to avoid offensively near schools.
Japanese night lit Julia Ward Howe Hall for the Terpsichorean Club seventh party of the season. Sixty couples danced to Poole's orchestra with lanterns and emblems, officers wearing white roses, and a reception crew organizing the floor. Next party slated for Washington's Birthday Eve.
A clipping notes Moran works eighteen hours daily and asks if he belongs to the District Attorneys' Union. It also mixes in jokes about public figures, a Leicester woman using a carving knife, Mrs Yerkes's fortune, Jack O'Brien, a Marlboro hen, a North Pole dash, and White House wedding presents of turnips and potatoes.
Conan Doyle faced defeat in Parliament and, if his famed deduction warned him, why did he run. The remark questions how a keen observer could miss an obvious fate and prompts reflection on his political gambit and the choices behind his retreat.
A fable about an Employer who keeps a Horse and overworks a Man while caring for the Horse. The Man endures long hours and meager wages, dreams of being a horse, and the tale concludes with a moral on buying a horse versus hiring a man. The piece closes with a century-old exchange about January weather and memories of 1906.
The locally popular groundhog may reveal whether spring or winter returns in six weeks as it emerges from its burrow. If a shadow appears on snow, harsh weather continues. no shadow hints at milder days ahead. A snow blanket could influence the creature today.
An authority warns football can cause heart trouble. Yet average maidens swoon over husky idols, suggesting the sport’s intense appeal fuels heightened emotions and excitement.
Secretary Taft has taken to horseback riding. If Taft weighs in at normal, we venture that he will ride a broke n-down horse. John D. is a busy man these days, pursued from early morn till late by summonses. All John can do to keep his new hair wig on straight.
Alice Roosevelt shows a generous trousseau with 11 wedding gowns aiding a couple starting life together. The noted gift helps balance the many early expenses faced by newlyweds as they begin their household.
Hartford authorities seek details as the Boston and Worcester Street Railway Company has not been sold by tonight. The potential sale affects the Boston to Worcester section and stirs interest in Hartford and Tolland counties.
An elderly well dressed woman aboard a Charlestown bound car clashed with a man carrying a caged parrot. The conductor intervened as tension rose between the pair. An inspector helped eject the woman at her stop in the Bunker Hill district. The parrot cried farewell as the man boasted the pleasure was his.
In a Louisville Courier Journal piece, the writer notes long standing mother songs and the public’s tears for mothers, arguing a true father song is overdue. The author jokes about existing father songs and calls for a fresh, honest anthem about the stubborn, workless stereotype.
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