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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1906
Page
6
Daily and Sunday Post subscription rates are listed for Boston readers. Aimed at prepaid annuals and short terms, with notices on delivery, and warning to honor payments and discontinue service after expiration. Edited by Br A Grozier, with offices on Washington Street and Main.
The House tariff talk centers on reform with Massachusetts in the spotlight. Rep Sullivan notes under the Dingley tariff New England glass works, Cambridge furniture mills, South Boston iron works, Norway iron works and Gilmore rolling mills all failed, while Grosvenor counters that they failed for improper principles.
Judge Sherman refuses to set today’s sentence date for Charles Tucker after defense appeals for a new trial. The murder case hinges on circumstantial evidence and the Canadian stickpin ownership, key to Tucker’s guilt. Delays allow further examination of possible doubt and future developments remain possible.
By the returns of the three principal political committees it appears they expended about $90,000 in the late municipal campaign. This is a tidy sum to be put out in electing a Mayor of Boston. It does not include expenditures by individual candidates on the slate.
The article reviews amounts contributed to and spent by party committees in the city race. Democratic expenditure totaled about $30,000, about one third of the total. It notes growth in spending, asserts legality, and praises advertising as the campaign’s main expense, characterizing it as information and education. Boston politics are portrayed as comparatively free of corruption in popular elections.
Governor Curtis Guild Jr is urged to take proper action regarding the savings bank commissioners and the Provident Securities and Banking Company collapse. The piece criticizes District Attorney Moran for tact, insists on cooperation to recover depositor funds, and calls for strengthening laws and the commission, with a demand that present members resign or be removed.
The New York Court is poised to decide if H H Rogers must answer questions by Missouri’s attorney general about Standard Oil of New Jersey ownership of Waters-Pierce Oil and related firms. The public interest demands full disclosure, not jail as alternative. Judge Gildersleeve’s ruling will test people’s supremacy over monopoly power.
A collage of blunt anecdotes on marriage and money. A Philadelphia Telegraph quote urges accepting a partner’s faults while another tale recalls a woman’s inherited money funding a husband’s success yet drawing sly notices from neighbors. Also notes a 14 year old Indiana notary and a Thames rescue with a surprising remark.
The Radcliffe administration bans trousers for female students at amateur theatricals. The columnist mocks the ban urging women to accept traditional roles, claiming trousers are a male garment and that women should not imitate men. He cites concerns about independence and marriage norms, arguing for keeping trousers off women.
An astronomer claims our mild winter stems from sun spots, predicting a hot summer if the sun does not change its spots by July. He warns of a 115 in the basement next summer and calls for action to cure the solar eczema before summer sets in.
A Chicago News ad notes that home offers freedom from pretension and strict etiquette. It celebrates domestic ease where a man may be unshaven, unkempt, and express himself freely, with family accepting such behavior at home.
A Denver Post reader laments his ill treatment of a new infant named Sweetie Lamb born New Year’s Day. He recalls a pup kept briefly at home, which caused less bother than the baby, despite family praise for the child. The narrator prefers the dog to the infant but keeps his tone humorous and resigned.
The column recalls a Garrett Wine Company prize where winner Joseph Bird of Roxbury received 683 silver dollars stacked to his height, measured at State Street Trust. Other notes mention a terrier found, a Chelsea hotel milk versus rum mixup, Hibernians’ banner prize, a Chelsea post office tour, and a ticketing superstition tale at North Terminal station.
In a June school tale from Bangs Academy Alma Wentworth tops the week’s average, but Dick Hartman edges ahead for the prize. Alma overhears Dick’s plan to win, sacrifices her own stand, and later learns she gave up first place to secure a life lasting friendship.
The 80 cents French Table d Hote dinners at Café Lafayette run at 29 Hayward Place from noon to 3 and from 5 to 8 P M.
Katherine Avery, wife of Holyoke mayor Nathan P. Avery, is described as one of the city’s most beautiful women. A 30 year old former Miss Katherine Van Valkenburg of Chittenango New York, she married July 7 1897 and has a daughter Adelaide. She leads the Qui Vive Literary Club and participates in the Second Congregational Church and the YWCA as a loyal member. She voted for school committee in the last election.
The article details ongoing social events from a second German reading series at Mrs. William Vail Kellen's to a reading at Mrs. Richard J. Monks home, with Mme Sembrich's Symphony Hall recital and lavish congratulations for Victor C. Mather’s daughter at Avonwood Court. It also mentions the Tucker’s Berkshire home opening for callers, Myron W. Whitney Jr.’s New York musicale, Julia Appleton Meyer’s ball debut, and the Canopic passenger departure for Egypt.
Long trousers suits in sizes 15 to 19 years are reduced from eight dollars to seven. See discount pricing in the boys wear section with available sizes and styles.
A young man, 18, asks if a $7 weekly income can support marriage to his fiancée. The adviser warns to wait until earning more, noting rising costs and the risk of love cooling over a year. The suggestion is to marry later, save money, and consider January as a target.
From Ek request a young woman asks if she should reconcile with a 20 year old suitor who admits caring for another girl three years younger. The adviser says avoid returning while he shows lack of commitment and urges her to let him prove his value, so he never strays again.
A reader letter applauds Dr Dixon and the Holy Jumpers for urging moral improvement through simple language and earnest methods, despite being seen as primitive by some. The writer hopes their aims uplift souls and guide society toward goodness.
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