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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1903
Page
6
The city enters a new municipal year with mild interest as the new City Council convenes. The same party controls both branches, officers, clerks, and attaches. the city clerk serves two more years. Mayor Collins is set to deliver an address likely to attract readers beyond official circles.
The article lauds Marconi's wireless telegraph as delivering instantaneous communication with secrecy and vast reach. It notes promises of low costs akin to New York Philadelphia rates and rapid progress from step to step. A continuous news service on ocean steamers supplying hourly bulletins is among the story’s incidents.
John A. Hobson writes to papers denying misrepresentation of his remarks before the Philadelphia Ethical Culture Society. He claims reports distorted his claim that Carnegie Rockefeller and Rhodes profited through corrupt bargains, influencing law and elections, exploiting taxes, and controlling markets via trusts and tariff protections.
The article reports Dr. Hobson denying in a lecture that he called Carnegie corrupt or accused him of law-breaking. A reporter's misquotation is blamed for misrepresenting his address. The piece compares Hobson’s remarks to criticisms of Standard Oil and questions who he intended by the unnamed references to Rockefeller.
Massachusetts readers see a call to action against trusts with Hoar’s anti trust bill pending. The writer urges immediate tariff reductions on coal beef hides iron borax wool to ease public burden and curb extortion while awaiting Sept 15 1904 for trust accounting.
The Delaware Legislature convenes to elect a U S Senator in a long running battle led by J Edward Addicks. Critics call Delaware a rotten borough and urge Republicans and Democrats to block his bid despite Roosevelt’s spoils influence.
The Observant Citizen notes Thomas Riley and his wife plan a NYC stay to year end, Riley splitting practice between cities. Grace Upham reports from Grenada Spain praising Alhambra, while Mrs. Kate Chase Page will lecture at the Women’s Charity Club. An Arthur Pickering Browning reading is set for Tuesday at Adele Thayer’s home. A Parsifal private performance at Symphony Hall, by invitation only, is disclosed with Bayreuth style exclusivity and possible dining nearby. Mrs. Donald McLean hosts a New York Chapter D A R reception for Boston friends.
A long list of engagements is reported, naming Dr. Franklin Jillson of West Roxbury and Miss Alice Siebert of Brooklyn among others. The notices include Miss Daisy King of Washington, Miss E May Hildreth of Dorchester, and Miss Juanita Hewitt of Hudson with various grooms from Boston, Shrewsbury and New York, plus other couples like Miss Olive Cook and Mr Frederic Whiting and Miss Ethel Cheney with Samuel Thorne Jr.
M P Curran secretary to the Mayor receives a testimonial from Alabama State Press Association. A clerk contemplates entering law practice after resigning February 1. Boston transit worker Thomas McLean praised for heroically rescuing a man on tracks near Northampton Station. Mr and Mrs Larz Anderson rent Mrs Barney’s house in Washington for the season. Gladys Appleton returns home from Beacon Street due to her father William Appleton’s serious illness. Boston Society of Natural History to hear James Cushman discuss plant stages with lantern illustrations.
Items offered include Imported full fashioned mace cot ton and Hermsdorf dye at 29c. A Family Physician book on the human body by multiple authors and a New Concise Atlas of the World with colored maps and full-page country maps are advertised. Also a 125-bound atlas and boys gray shirts priced at 19 cents.
Mixed sale list itemizes imported mirrors valued from 8.50 to 13.50 with marked down prices, Bohemian bureau sets at 18.00, celluloid handle carvers and knives, Rogers flatware, white handle forks, and carved sets, plus bleached sheeting and linens offered at reduced rates.
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