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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1905
Page
6
Chancellor MacCracken of New York University objects to using college students in the March 4 inaugural parade. He warns such a display would reduce patriotism to a footballlike show while suggesting scholarship can dignify the nation as much as war.
Poem laments loss of oysters with playful refrain describing the absence of oyster soup raw dust fried and scalloped varieties. The speaker yearns for shellfish while noting the awkward gap in culinary options and the humor of deprivation.
A quirky manual outlines cleaning and maintenance for a fictional masheen with instructions on washing, oiling, and delaying cleaning to save costs. It warns against overcleaning, jokes about parts, and offers dubious tips for handling squeaks, broken bits, and practice for fingers.
The article surveys Russia's political crisis as calls for a constitution grow among nobles and workers while Czarist power frays. It contrasts with a German miners’ victory and rising public pressure, noting similarities to 1902 in the United States and warning against restraint by rulers.
The piece criticizes extending the drawback policy to allow refunds on all raw materials used for export as finished products. It warns that while tariffs may be staved off, Americans could pay more for wool goods and other products at home than abroad. It argues the public will see through the injustice and doubts benefit from increased exports.
The piece argues Parliament faces a stiff duty on lumber while the US resists removing it. It notes ill defined boundary lines, New England seeking free Canadian lumber, Dominion importing US goods, and coal flow patterns between regions. It questions if boundary fixes would harm Nova Scotia coal and iron imports.
Joseph Walker rebukes Massachusetts for sending a reciprocity resolution to Congress. The piece notes Montana and West Virginia have similar actions and points to Helena reports of expanded Interstate Commerce Commission powers. It argues Massachusetts is overdue to send its resolution and cites its own federal relations committee.
A Vermont resident recounts owning a Danish silver coin dated 1445, preserved well enough to read its inscription. The writer, M. BE. Fuglestad of Vardsboro, compares it to Captain Foote’s five franc piece and notes willingness to part with this ancient relic.
In brief notes on respectful workplace speech the author urges politeness, repeated phrases, and quick thinking. He warns headlines can mislead readers and shares a humorous tale of a Finnish assassin and a high ball saving the Czar, ending with a grim postscript about the would-be attacker.
Israel Zangwill visits Bellevue amid wintry weather while Ysage concert at Symphony Hall features Willy Hess and the orchestra. Lieutenant Fred M. Mitchell is appointed Newton police chief, to general satisfaction. A Newton man is ridiculed after a street encounter when the joke backfires on a would-be Adonis who is revealed as a man. Melrose seat dispute persists over radiator proximity. F Hopkinson Smith questions about Thomas Lawson praise his tenacity and Frenzied Finance. Colonel Gaston shines as Real Estate Exchange banquet presider with sharp wit. Peter Costello appears in familiar form amid city chatter.
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