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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1903
Page
6
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The Boston Merchants Association urged trade groups to back lower mercantile insurance rates after the Boston Board of Fire Underwriters declined a 25 percent reduction. Directors cited exceptional losses, but merchants argue Boston bears no unique burden and deserves fair rates.
A Manila dispatch portrays renewed Filipino resistance as a continuation of opposition to foreign domination rather than a new revolt. It notes fighters call themselves insurrectos and warn the conflict remains the gravest since the original revolution, challenging Roosevelt era claims of peace.
The act creates a cabinet headed Department of Commerce and Labor uniting bureaus such as Labor Lighthouse Board Lighthouse Establishment Steamboat Inspection Service Bureau of Standards Coast and Geodetic Survey Immigration and Census. A new Bureau of Corporations will monitor trusts with duties to diligently investigate corporate organization conduct and management in interstate and foreign commerce.
The text critiques a proposed data gathering and reporting framework for trust regulation, noting it would only provide narrow publicity. It argues the President lacks explicit authority to regulate trusts and dismisses the new Department of Commerce and Labor as irrelevant to trust oversight. The piece mentions the Commissioner of Corporations as a mere fat office.
In Boston coal costs households $10 a ton while New York prices run about $6.50. The piece questions local price gaps, a Boston coal club, and alleged “under fire” delays in price cuts amid a legislative probe. It hints at mispricing penalties and upcoming settlements with local trusts.
The Maine Bar Association heard Mr Samuel J Elder discuss flaws in the current copyright system and remedies to protect authors. He cited cases where Dr Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table and Mrs Stowe The Minister's Wooing suffered due to formalities, urging legislation to secure authors rights and curb publisher control.
Yesterday in Boston notices reveal George Herric Billings heading to Ormond Florida with his wife and a trunk of golf sticks and ammunition. Fire chief warns Charlestown navy yard about dangers from unfinished approaches if a fire starts. City Council members condemn a theater joke about a burglar and consider curbs. Salvation Army leader William J. Cozens resigns to pursue evangelical work with Boston appearances. Mike Shaughnessy to lead entertainment at the night operators dinner. State House cabman Wylie seen with Willard the Superior Civil Court clerk in a landaulette replacing his usual two wheeler.
Miss Annie Scoville granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher speaks to the Girls' Friendly Society in Christ Church parish house Fitchburg this afternoon about Indians. She has lived among Western tribes for years and taught at Hampton Institute.
A tale of Harry Knickerbocker an ultra rich NY socialite engagement to Intense Gandergilt and the fated loss of a priceless two pound Persian Ruby ring tossed from a Brooklyn bridge rail into the East River. He advertises a million dollar reward and later finds only teeth in a Swiss Lake Geneva fish.
A park bench scene unfolds between a pedigreed girl named Elsie and a self styled reprobate. Two years pass after he woos her with gifts and excuses then returns to plead while she insists on patience and a promised reply from distant correspondences. He recalls writing to Rome Bordeaux and Bombay, yet receives no word.
The Vermont Association of Boston will on the 17th open its new headquarters at the Westminster in Copley square and hold an old fashioned house warming.
Edwin Litchfield born April 1, 1821 in Roxbury and Mary B E Litchfield born November 20, 1824 in Roxbury combine for 161 years. They married April 1, 1845 and have no children. He sailed to California in 1849 aboard the Sweden, returning after three years. He is a member of the Boston Firemen's Association and other groups.
The Boston Post invites readers across New England to submit photographs and a 200 word sketch of the region’s oldest married couple. Include birth and marriage dates, address, children, and life highlights. The winner receives a Morris Chair and Rocking Chair delivered express prepaid.
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