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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1903
Page
6
Boston Post rates show daily one year for $1.50 six months 75 cents three months 40 cents. The Sunday Post rates mirror. Subscribers must provide current and new addresses. Payment in advance. notices of discontinuation on expiration. Editor EB A Grozier and Publisher.
A legislative committee reports that coal clubs in cities like New Bedford Fall River and Boston fix high prices and enforce quotas with forfeit penalties. The system resembles monopolies with oaths and penalties aimed at restraining trade and extorting from the public. The attorney general and grand jury are urged to take action.
Governor Bates has used the executive prerogative twice within 60 days of inauguration. His veto against the Winchester schoolhouse project stresses each generation bears its own burdens and warns against burdening future taxpayers. Public opinion support is noted, and analysts foresee further action from Beacon Hill.
Secretary of Agriculture frees all wool except New England clip from quarantine, easing a market strain. Boston trades note that only a small portion of regional wool is from New England, with most coming from the West and other infection-free areas. The revocation avoids a harmful, absolute embargo and restores normal commerce.
The Boston Young Men's Christian Association asks the public for an endowment of more than 3.5 million dollars to fund its educational and helpful enterprises. The appeal outlines clear uses and cites decades of successful outcomes with limited resources, framing the request as a capital expansion for a proven organization. The article highlights the Evening Institute as a core educational effort.
Dorchester residents suffer pneumonia cases with M F Sullivan and wife in precarious condition. Patrolman Graham remains on sick list after a shooting by burglar Sneed. George Newton leaves Parker House for Fifth Avenue Hotel. Charles V Regan of Roxbury advances to Porto Rico posts. his wife to visit Boston this summer.
The passage praises a liberal endowment backing a broad effort across colleges and technical schools. It notes education for non college bound students, plus intellectual entertainment, physical culture, and employment, calling the endowment one of the best investments.
An analysis of Boston reform efforts criticizes the 20 member good government committee as undercut by only six Boston voters. Nine members live outside Boston with several from Brookline and Swampscott. The piece argues reform must come from Boston residents and voters, not outsiders.
A fragment from All Sorts features a chaotic vaudeville sketch with Mary and a missing items gag and a comic dialogue about misplaced collars shoes pipes and papers. It includes a mix of jokes from Modern Vaudevillainy and a humorous exchange about a shirt laundering request and a fire alarm ending with a prompt for reader replies.
A 1903 letter from Andover Massachusetts shows a poet asking for aid to complete a four line stanza. The response humorously supplies two lines and ends with a quip about spring trade.
Emily Beekman Dunning of Brookline, aged 21, tops Vassar College senior class of 157 with the highest scholarship rank. Born in Boston, she attended Girls' Latin School and Brookline High School, graduating in 1899, then entered Vassar in 1899 and will graduate this June.
Melville E. Ingalls former Boston Common Council president and railway executive now in Cincinnati is a Democratic mayoral candidate. He trained with the Vanderbilts and became president of the Big Four rail system. Longspeculated as a potential presidential contender he may use the mayoral bid as a springboard to Ohio governorship and perhaps a 1904 presidential run. Local Democrats and citizens back his bid while Republicans say they will not fuse against him. Oldtimers recall his tenure at City Hall and praise his ability and character. He once lived on Broadway South Boston across from Perkins Institution.
The article explains why February gains a leap day every four years and credits Numa Pompilius with calendar tweaks. It notes that Feb 29 complicates dating and even birthdates, with some people born on Feb 29 having a birthday only every four years and some women lacking a birth date entirely.
The Malden committee on claims voted to pay Georgia F. Suminsky of Dorchester $750 after she fell on an icy sidewalk over a year ago and broke her arm.
Miss Carolyn P. Swett and Miss Caro line E. Swift, popular Medford High School teachers, resigned yesterday after prior in abeyance. Swett to teach in New York. Swift to retire. Senator William A. Nye learned of Colonel Alfred Lyman Rives death in Roanoke, VA, father of Amelie Rives. Rives, former chief engineer of the Canal Company, served as a Confederate officer. Senator Henry B. Fitzgerald returns from a wedding tour and awaits housewarming with Margaret F. Herlhy in Charlestown. Miss Eliza Holbrook of Hancock Street marked her 9th birthday with a private celebration.
A letter from Boston urging automatic signaling at all grade crossings to prevent collisions between steam trains and trolley cars. The writer argues for 800 foot warning signals and gates controlled by an automatic system to stop trains when the crossing is in use. He cites his railroading experience and urges action for public safety.
Blanche L. Clay recounts a tale of Jack, a Harvard freshman, who plans a dating bubble by promising 25 girls prizes. A trip to Frank Stanford’s summer home leads to a cook mix up and a comic confrontation. The narrator ends up engaged to Violet Wolcott, Stanford’s sister.
The Boston Post notes 22 names from Feb 26 movement to purify Boston politics. It lists W H Lincoln Charles C Hoyt Jerome Jones as Brookline residents and mentions others in Cambridge West Newton Belmont Woburn Cohasset Lincoln Longwood and Fenway addresses. The piece criticizes Brookline residents profiting from Boston while paying taxes elsewhere.
A Boston reader asks if laws compel surface car managers to heat cars adequately. She notes riders on the Forest Hills line shivering until disembarking and quotes a conductor claiming they “used all the heat they were allowed to.” She appeals to print the issue for public relief.
Hon G B Richmond former mayor and register of deeds dies at age 81 in New Bedford on February 27. Local official served for years at city and county level and was a prominent civic figure.
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