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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1906
Page
6
Daily issue from Post Publishing Co dated February 18 1906. Publication details include office at 259 Washington Street Boston Mass. No specific news or events readable beyond the date and source identification.
Subscriptions to the Post must be paid in advance and will be discontinued without further notice on expiration. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly, notify us by postal at once. BH. A. GROZIER, Editor and Publisher.
A column argues the coal operators underestimate a spring miners strike risk. It notes wage gains three years ago, rising living costs, and tariff trust effects. It cites the United Mine Workers demands, including ending child labor, and asserts workers’ share of product value remains unequal despite high wages.
The article warns that a new German tariff discriminating against the United States could take effect, risking severe harm to American trade and industry. It notes Washington’s inaction amid multiple administration projects and legislative struggles, urging swift steps to avert a tariff war with a key trading partner.
A House resolution directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate alleged discrimination by coal carrying railroads in coal transport. The inquiry may expand to whether the railroads own stock in coal interests and involve broader restraint of the coal trust.
A call is made for federal intervention to investigate coal companies and railroads. The commission should probe whether officers own coal or commodities, if monopolies exist, output and price control, and potential shipper discrimination. The author argues anthracite roads flout Pennsylvania law and demands congressional action.
Massachusetts considers a permanent close season on alien trusts and a broad anti monopoly law. The bill, by Representative Dean, would criminalize arrangements that create monopolies in goods, with penalties up to 5000 fine and loss of business rights on repeat offenses. The attorney general would enforce the act to curb coal and oil trusts and local combinations.
Editorial urges support for a bill requiring paid matter in newspapers to be clearly designated as advertising. It weighs the difficulty of separating news from commercial info and argues publication of the advertising mark promotes reader clarity while omission could mislead. The piece notes a prior hearing and backs the bill as favorable to newspapers.
From Boston State Street a spoof song titled Father, dear father come home parodies John D. Rockefeller Jr. and contemporary headlines. It lampoons family strain, rising costs, and protests as it mocks public figures while detailing a sentimental plea for a missing father.
Charles Moore buys a three month old Boston terrier and plans kennels at his summer home on Long Island near George Bowles, as Boston community notes flag displays for Lincoln's birthday and spring social tidings unfold with travel plans and milk supply concerns.
Two Chicago evangelists lead a 2000 voice chorus planning a large scale outreach in Philadelphia causing speculation and curiosity about public response and potential disturbances.
The St Francis de Sales Alumni Association will seat 175 graduates at the annual banquet and dance tomorrow at Monument Hall Charlestown. Henry Orpen will be toastmaster. Out of town graduates may apply to Secretary Miss Agnes M Kieley for information.
A vivid appeal urges readers to buy coal now before a looming April first strike raises prices. The ad promotes stockpiling winter coal, touting cost savings, pride in foresight, and the comfort of a filled bin during lean times as coal drops from 18 to lower marked prices.
William E Moore from Milo Maine writes gratitude to the Boston Post for prompt home delivery while at Lochbar Stetson where daily papers were unavailable. He notes staying in Milo now receives the Post, and adds a local anecdote about a stranger caught stealing a dam who chose two weeks in Stetson over prison.
A Pittsburg man asserts a discovery that uses electricity to make hens lay eggs whether they wish to or not. He calls it compulsory egg-ucation.
A Boston Chinaman allegedly returned a mixed laundry lot after a wash, offering one sock, a detached collar, three cuffs, a handkerchief and a shirt from another customer. The complainants seek a translation from scholarly Chinese statesmen to resolve the discrepancy and avoid international tension.
To the Editor of the Post, J. E. G. Brighton argues that Boston could legally buy gas and electric plants and run utilities, warning lawmakers could use legal means to curb city revenue, noting past taxes from liquor licenses and the water department.
A letter to the Post asks readers to donate to send a destitute woman and her three children to the West to join her husband, an invalid now able to support them. Contributions may be sent to Colonel J. J. Keppel of the Volunteers of America, 7 Park Square, Boston, with further information available from him.
A poetic fragment from the Chicago Chronicle by Will Reed Dunroy paints a tranquil nursery scene. It describes sleeping baby beside a glowing fireplace, with lamplight, angels, and dreamlike meadows as daffodils dance to a song.
In a feverish Cuban escape scene Marguerite Maguire is urged by Dick Shepley to hurry to Havana and then to catch the Bremen sailing to New York. He insists on accompanying her, insisting she must not fear, as their hurried ride turns toward a dramatic departure.
A Detroit Journal caustically notes women lacking in beauty and hair as Pittsburg symphony attendees are described. It contrasts with a New York Press quip on marriage and independence, and includes various observational quips on cooking classes, furs, and the modern woman choosing life paths.
Rumors swirl around Miss Naneen Mitchell of Cincinnati and Manchester-by-the-Sea wedding to Quincy A. Shaw of Chestnut Hill with a fashionable North Shore ceremony planned. Boston society notes include bridesmaids at recent weddings, debuts in Washington, and Europe returnees joining family homes in Lenox and Boston.
Chicago February 12 Mrs Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler world famous pianist was missing for nearly eight hours today as friends relatives and police scavenged the South Side for her. She returned home exhausted and declined to say where she had been. Long troubled by failing eyesight and melancholia she had feared quitting her musical work and then briefly eluded attendants before returning home.
Dear Ss F, this is your decision alone. A groom typically selects his nearest and dearest friend to serve as best man, regardless of marital status.
A young man asks if college will change his love for a two year junior. The adviser says if doubt remains about a suitable lifelong companion you should not marry now. If doubts vanish with time and education, marriage may be appropriate.
Great Barrington February 12 Mrs Catherine Leonard quietly celebrated her 94th birthday at her Sheffield home. Friends called and left cards. She is the oldest living Sheffield Congregational Church member, joined in 1839. Her ancestry includes Colonel Azariah Root and relatives Graham Root and George F Root.
The Woman's Suffrage League re elected general officers including Honorary president Susan B Anthony Rochester N Y president Rev Anna Howard Shaw Philadelphia vice president Florence Kelley New York City corresponding secretary Kate M Gordon New Orleans recording secretary Alice Stone Blackwell Boston treasurer Harriet Taylor Upton Warren C auditors Laura Clay Lexington Ky and Dr Annie Jeffreys Myers Portland Ore Mrs Mary K O Sullivan read a paper on The Duty of Women of Opportunity Methods of Working for the Establishment of the Initiative and Referendum in the Several States was the subject of an address by George H Shibley.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union met yesterday at Park Street Church and chose Pilgrim Hall as their future meeting place. They noted liquor bills before the Legislature, including a bill on expressmen delivering liquor in no license towns and pharmacists receiving it, to be heard today. A patent medicines bill is set for Thursday morning February 27, and all members were urged to attend and press for passage.
The President sent to the Senate a list of postmaster nominations including W. Marson at Boothbay Harbor Maine G M Alien at Cherryfield EB I Littlefield at Vinal Haven Maine E D Goodell at Brookfield Massachusetts F H Fowler at Walpole Massachusetts, dated February 12.
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