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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1903
Page
4
The Boston Post lists daily and Sunday subscription prices, urging advance payment and address changes. It notes distribution methods, office locations, and contact details, with editor and publisher E. A. Grozier listed.
The editorial questions if coal prices for Boston residents should depend on a company’s likes or complaints from lawmakers. It notes the Boston Coal Club cut anthracite prices by $2 after legislative inquiry and argues further reductions are needed to reach honest market levels as Boston sees ample coal supplies and strong demand.
The bitter withdrawal signals the collapse of J Edward Addicks long effort to buy a U S Senate seat. After 12 years of lavish spending he yields, insisting two Republicans be chosen but surrendering his campaign label as a quitter. The episode also marks a rebuke to Roosevelt over the President’s questionable appointment.
The article recalls Henry L. Dawes as a major figure in Massachusetts politics. It traces his public service from the Massachusetts General Court in 1848 through the State Senate and Western District district attorney post to eighteen years in the U S House and eighteen in the U S Senate. It notes he declined a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court appointment, preferring politics.
The article notes a former senator who retired in 1898 amid party pressure and later chaired the Indian Commission. It praises his long service to the republic and national welfare, calling him a faithful servant of both theCommonwealth and the nation.
New Jersey high court rulings dispose of two suits restraining the plan to issue 250 million dollars in bonds and retire 200 million in preferred stock, with 50 million for improvements. Observers warn the move inflates capitalization and enriches the Morgan syndicate through underwriter fees while raising domestic steel prices.
Editor All Sorts reports on an illustrated romance feature sparked by an eye tester test run. Awaited results are noted as having occurred, with casual reference to the author’s progress and readers’ interest.
Dawes born in Cummington Massachusetts in 1816 rose from Yale graduate to teacher editor and lawyer. He served in the Massachusetts Legislature state Senate constitutional convention district attorney and finally the U S Senate from 1857 to 1873 and 1875 to 1881 retiring after 36 years of public service. He married Miss Sanderson in 1844 and had three children.
Corporal Hicks reports General Vasquez assigns Lieutenant Bogardo to infiltrate Castro's Venezuelan camp. Disguised as an envoy, Bogardo notes plans during a night visit, is captured but survives a cannon blast when he catches the ball as it fires. He escapes and returns with vital intelligence despite Castro's fury.
The New Hampshire and Maine legislatures are urged to preserve natural resources. The Society for the Protection of Forests praised forest land in New Hampshire and Maine game preserves as vital assets and commercial necessities. A Augusta hearing on Maine game regulations highlighted the need for stronger rules.
A reader notes police entry into aristocratic Back Bay homes to show burglars could do the same. He advises calm, not violence, and shares a comic aside about a torn Boston newspaper page and a puzzling phrase. He ends with caution to choose what to read carefully.
London February 5 A scandal erupts as Colonel Kinloch of the Grenadier Guards is removed for failing to enforce discipline among junior officers. Earl Roberts pressed for resignation, the King refused interference, and three young officers faced disciplinary actions. Marquis Douro resigned. the others intend to fight on.
A brief chronicle of Charles Dickens born February 6 1812 detailing his poverty stricken childhood his start as an office boy earning 175 a week his spendthrift ways and his ascent as a celebrated novelist with works like Sketches by Boz Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist and David Copperfield culminating after a US trip in 1842 as a renowned author.
Local observers note construction rising around State and Congress, with the Monks building slated for demolition to make way for an 11 story structure. The piece discusses the area’s skyline changes and references local weather and transit quirks.
At the election of officers for Company A to replace Company D in the armory on Bunker Hill street Arlestown last night Thomas F Brennan was chosen captain Andrew T Wilson was first lieutenant and Edward J McBride second lieutenant All officers must appear before the examining board before commissions The captain served with the Forty sixth Regiment U S V in the Philippines Wilson was corporal of Company D Ninth Regiment at Santiago McBride was first sergeant of Company D Ninth Regiment at Santiago and was an assistant of the Twenty sixth Regiment U S V in the Philippines
Secretary Moody accepts Contructor Hobson's resignation after he declined to reconsider his offer. The navy records high appreciation for his service and worth.
Captain Richmond Hobson said a reliable source reports House naval affairs committee member Bankhead opposed his retirement bill for political reasons. Hobson cited tropical construction work impairing his eyesight and said retirement was approved by the construction bureau and the President but blocked in Washington.
In Washington society circles and Pittsburg observers follow the courtship of Miss Margaret Thaw by the Earl of Yarmouth. Her mother took her to Florida after learning of the attachment. The earl, a young bankrupt, previously sought fortune in stage life under Charles Frohman and Eric Hope. Miss Thaw is the daughter of the late William Thaw of Pittsburg, heir to a large Pittsburgh fortune.
Mrs Belmina Bennett Lee widow of Rev John Stebbins Lee D D Ll D died at her daughter Mrs Edmund A Whitman’s Cambridge home. Born 1821 in Westmoreland New Hampshire she was daughter of Moses and Nancy Wheeler Bennett. Her husband led Universalist education and was first president of St Lawrence University Canton New York. She leaves three sons Professor Jessie A Lee Bowdoin College Professor Frederick B Lee Columbia University and Rev J Clarence Lee Philadelphia and two daughters Mrs Edmund Whitman Cambridge and Miss Gertrude L Lee Canton New York.
In a dim park scene Frank Lunardi pursues Vashti Carr as she resists his advances. A late-night meeting at a decayed oak reveals their fraught romance marked by secrecy and social pressures. Luigi Lunardi’s toast closes the scene.
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