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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1903
Page
4
The Boston Post reports on political developments in New England with an emphasis on Democratic perspectives. It highlights local party events, candidate coverage, and editorial opinions shaping regional politics this week.
The Boston Post announces subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, with six month and three month terms. It requests subscribers inform address changes and notes second class matter status, advance payment, and discontinuation on expiration. Editor Ez. A. Grozler signs as publisher.
The Post urges patience amid coal price reductions in Boston, noting dealers buy coal from Philadelphia at half the consumer price and predicting further drops as artificial pricing collapses. It warns against taxation to fund public fuel yards and argues for private property protections while comparing past public ventures disposing private interests to possible municipal fuel yards.
The thaw leaves downtown sidewalks covered in a muddy paste of melted snow and muck, slipping and dirtying passers. Criticism targets police for not enforcing snow removal and the street department for inadequate clearing, warning that harsher conditions will return and harm trade and comfort.
The United States Senate risks paralysis as Senator Quay presses the omnibus statehood bill delaying essential work. Republicans own the agenda, Democrats back the House admission bill for New Mexico and Arizona, while Quay’s influence paints a partisan stalemate affecting the session’s rational legislation.
The meeting at Faneuil Hall voiced American sentiment over Colonel Arthur Lynch’s conviction and death sentence for high treason. Ex-Governor Brackett urged honoring him for aiding Irish republics, while critics decry the shift to life penal servitude as a dangerous principle.
The Supreme Court answers a Legislature inquiry by declaring municipal coal yards unconstitutional. It states such fuel yards and similar industrial operations cannot be undertaken without raising public funds, and to raise...
The Rev A T Kempton led a Miles Standish picture story at Ruggles Street Baptist Church. St Burton Linwood Thomas spoke to the Society of Mayflower Descendants at New Century on The Pilgrim Shore. A Somerset tea hosted by Mrs G George Prentice Field drew many guests. Grace Bonner Williams joins Arlington Street Church quartet, starts April. Brookline Historical Society elects new trustees including R G F Candage and Edward W Baker. Rabbi Abram Hirshberg of Chicago will preach Judaism Immortal at Temple Chabel Shalom tonight.
Yale in New Haven announces a Pewee Club selecting members under 5 feet 3 inches. The group, aiming to promote reflection on the advantages of small size, highlights notable short figures like Napoleon and Grant and celebrates their historical deeds.
At a special meeting in the Unitarian building on Wednesday the Boston Temperance Federation voted to disband. No reason was given beyond their belief the organization’s work was finished. The federation previously supported the district option bill and the referendum effort.
About two hundred applicants were examined for the new Charlestown militia, Company A, Eighth Regiment. Forty five were accepted and Lieut Stearns of Cambridge Company C has been placed in charge until officers are elected.
The will of Sarah Henry of Jamaica Plain filed in probate yesterday leaves 32000 to the First Congregational Church of Jamaica Plain and 32000 to the Jamaica Plain Friendly Society J P Folger named as executor.
A fragmentary note recalls Phydias Hose and a curious claim about hydias near Aphrodite in Boston. The quirky line hints at a late 19th century style gag or verse noting a performer or character named Phydias and a sensational misnaming.
The illustration shows a young couple with the man asking the woman to marry him. Her answer is hinted by her smile and body language, suggesting she agrees to the proposal. The scene captures a joyful moment of engagement.
Bertram Rollingstone, an American tourist, arrives in St Petersburg and seeks lodging and information. A tense exchange with a uniformed Russian escalates as mock danger and frantic miscommunication build to a fatal moment hinted by a meta footnote. The piece parodies cliffhanger melodrama and authorial aside.
A humorous column notes a supposed green unicorn on the Old State House, dismissing the idea while joking about St Patrick's Day. It also parodies headlines and cites fog incidents in Boston with anecdotal blurbs about residents, a writer’s quip, and a fake fog exhibit.
A brief historical note recalls that on January 30 1649 King Charles I of England was beheaded in public. The executioner was masked and the party’s identity remained unknown to protect the blade bearer’s life. Charles reportedly opposed the scheme and may have accepted it only under pressure.
Malden park commissioners received bids to clean parks of gypsy and brown tail moths at a cost of 300 dollars for tree and shrub treatment. They consider releasing a bug that preys on the moths, hoping it could destroy the pests faster than manual effort if enough are obtained.
The Observant Citizen notes a scare that Congressman Henry F. Naphen survived a rumor of fatality in Graceland New Jersey, clarifying he injured a wrist in an ice fall at home. The column reflects on weather, umbrellas, a pigsty front yard, and a quip about prose being mightier than the sword. It also shares a Greytown Nicaragua note about Washington’s Birthday preparations and quotes ex governor Boutwell on speaking knowledge.
Carrie and Bessie plot a flirtation with Horace Jackson in a moonlit parlor. A paper bag of large bird's egg candies derails the evening as Carrie chokes and laughs, while Bessie assists and a crestfallen suitor departs.
Representatives push resolutions favoring Senator Lodge's employer liability bill amid partisan drama. Numerous lawmakers propose varied measures from annexation and school control to rail oversight, licensing autos, and prohibiting alum in baking powder. Debate centers on reform and legislature functions.
Brookline residents learn of a semi political local group named the Citizens' Club formed last December. The nonpartisan club has remodeled a tenement on Hart Street near Franklin and held its latest meeting there. Officers listed include Michael J. Crane president and Peter F. McGuire vice president.
Congressman Henry F. Naphen sustained a broken left wrist after slipping on an icy sidewalk in New York last Sunday. He received medical care at home and is under a physician’s treatment.
A reunion of former Edward Everett School students was held Wednesday evening in the school hall amid inclement weather. A large turnout showed strong interest and organizers hope to grow activities in coming years.
The Village Club held its second grand barn party at Kossuth Hall last night. Mr L Zauge and his goat took the gentlemen's prize while Miss K Corcoran won the ladies' prize. Attendees included Thomas Fr Neal, Joseph P Welsh, Louis Zauge, Robert Huddy, Morris J Polak, Morris Walsh, Robert Simpson, Daniel Canty, Miss K Corcoran, Miss Kittie Dola Lo, L Leonard, Miss G Neas and Miss K eas.
Samuel Fowler, late master of the Minnetonka, writes from Boston on January 29 denying newspaper reports of imminent disaster. He recounts interactions with Moriarty on December 12, asserting only hull integrity and crew steadiness kept the ship from abandoning ship. He says the ship never faced foundering and that crew officers could attest to this.
Paris dispatch reports Mrs Elliott F Shepard Jr, who sued for divorce in New York and has lived apart since September, has reconciled with her husband and now resides with him at the Hotel Meurice.
The Greenport widow Esther Potter Shepard and Elliott Fitch Shepard Jr. reportedly reconciled after a divorce suit, with Augusta M Wiggins confirming the arrangement. They were said to live together at a Paris hotel, and Consuelo Duchess of Marlborough aided the reconciliation during her U. S. visit amid social shock years earlier.
The sequel to a noted criminal case opened in the fifth session before Judge Bennett. Joseph Durgin and Charles Pike, charged with forging notes in the name of contractor William B. Cunningham, testified about the scheme to raise funds. Cunningham denied knowledge of the notes, while the defendants claimed consent and share of the proceeds. Witnesses described signing events and money division at several downtown locations including City Hall, Crawford House, and Eric's saloon. The matter advanced with Cunningham implicated as potentially involved, and the hearing adjourned to the next morning.
Henry White the United States charge d affaires attended a luncheon for King Edward and Queen Alexandra at High Wycombe Buckinghamshire hosted by Earl Carrington.
The Boston Post invites readers across New England to submit photos of the oldest married couples. Include a 200 word sketch with birth and marriage dates, address, number of children, and notable life details. Photographs should be clear and well lit for reproduction. Submissions must reach the Post by the final deadline.
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