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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1904
Page
8
A fragment notes that factories growing tobacco cut middle costs and pass benefits to buyers. It claims better uniform quality and savings on high grade domestic cigars, suggesting direct value to the consumer with fewer in-between expenses.
Judge Emmons stated he would verify a common law rule that discharging a gun near a sick person to annoy them is indictable. The rule cited from Bishop and Pickering’s Law Reports holds that knowingly causing harm to a sick person by gunfire makes one indictable. Police would be asked to arrest offenders on the Fourth.
Brookline prepares a Fourth of July program with sunrise tolling bells band concerts at three locations from 8:30 to 10 p.m. children’s entertainments, baseball games between Brookline Friendly Society and Cypress Athletic Club, and fireworks from 8 to 10 at Cypress street playgrounds.
Mrs Grover Cleveland and her children reached their new summer home in North Sandwich New Hampshire tonight joining the Finley family from Princeton. She said Mr Cleveland's arrival date remained uncertain.
Lists how communities near Boston will observe Independence Day with noise limits and start times. Cities like Chelsea Malden Revere Melrose Stoneham Brookline Everett Cambridge Newton Winthrop Waltham Wakefield set 4 am or midnight boundaries and ban gunfire or cowbells.
In Roxbury Court Judge Emmons testified as a witness for the defense of attorney John F. Boles, charged with not displaying the correct automobile number. The chairman’s testimony backed the case but the judge, a prosecution witness, indicated the last digit could be a five or a nine. Boles was fined $10 and appealed.
Annie Rainbottom aged 46 was found dead in bed by her husband at 35 Rochester Street South End last night. The husband says she had been drinking and retired early. He is being held pending investigation.
A Jamaica Plain reader asks Boston Post readers if Police Commissioner Emmons was ever a boy and where he was raised in America. The letter expresses curiosity about his early life and citizenship in a tone reflecting local civic interest.
Wilmington reports plan by local boys to visit Judge Emmons summer home before the Fourth, to blow firecrackers torpedoes and noise makers. Youths held meetings in North Wilmington field while authorities vow to uphold law and monitor the situation. Judge Emmons says he will sleep at Boston police headquarters and expects only ordinary activity.
Judge Emmons stated he is not a candidate for the Republican nomination in Massachusetts ninth district and has no interest in running. Party leaders seek strong nominees for districts including Atwood in the 19th and Thompson in the 11th, with Emmons as a suggested contender that he dismissed. Possible East Boston selections mentioned include Charles T. Witt or John Marno.
Western delegates arrive in St Louis with Senator Dubois of Idaho predicting Parker will be the nominee. He hints at an anti polygamy plank to win Utah Idaho and Wyoming. Former Senator Turner backs a Turner bid for VP while Frank Cannon vows not to bolt the convention despite prior experience.
A letter to the editor urges leniency for celebrants, arguing police must work all night to keep the area quiet and suggesting letting young people enjoy themselves at least one night before the Fourth. The writer questions the need to confine youths and complains about the constant noise.
Dublin June 30 Earl Dudley lord lieutenant of Ireland had a narrow escape from a serious accident while touring in a motor car in Donegal. The car stalled on a steep hill near Inver, rolled back, overturned after striking a bank. All occupants escaped without serious injury.
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