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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1900
Page
6
A terse exchange unfolds as Forrest pleads for a clearer line while another worker points to the reality of earning only five dollars weekly. The quip exposes wage tensions and workplace frustration in a stark dialogue.
The piece profiles Hirsh who arrived in Boston in January 1899 as a firm manager overseeing advertising. It highlights his originality and brisk style, noting a rapid rise from modest retail beginnings to leading merchandising efforts and taking charge of large interests by 1893.
In Central Massachusetts the market opened firm and slipped on bank liquidations after a failed brokerage house. Atchison preferred rose on dividend news, while Sugar fell after its dividend announcement. The Boston & Montana circular appoints Old Colony Trust as registrar for certificates of deposit. The American Pneumatic Service Company shows six month earnings of 48,798 with investments totaling 8.18 million.
Editor notes ice fountains are a successful innovation in Boston, praising their public benefits. He hopes more fountains appear this season despite opposition from saloons, drug stores, and ice companies. The features include shelter, benches, shade, and a pleasant retreat near the public garden.
A letter to the editor alleges a fleshy woman dressed in black claimed to be Mrs. Hall niece of Mrs. Deacon Hall of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church and collected rent money from several Crawford street ladies for a “poor widow.” The writer denies any such niece and identifies the person as an impostor at 74 Georgia Street Elm Hill Roxbury.
For sale or lease, two acres grade coal from a Kentucky mine. Information requests should be written to the contact in Missouri. Details include location and shipping terms.
Boston June 5 market report shows highest and lowest sales and closing bids. Ex dividend notes accompany totals including listed bounds and volume for listed stocks, unlisted stocks, and overall market activity.
Fragmentary OCR text lists diverse entities such as United Yukon Limited, Copper King of Arizona, Eclipse Oil and Seabed with scattered figures like 17 000 and 6B 1000. The passage lacks coherent narrative, dates, or verifiable events to define a specific news item.
Wheat opened steady at 66 1/2 cents for July with little support beyond corn. Northwest rain scarce and speculative trade slow. Receipts measured at 626 cars today versus 404 last week and 83 last year. seaboard clearances low, while Chicago notes improved cash demand for wheat.
The American author and war correspondent Stephen Crane died in Badenweiler Baden on June 5 at about 80 years old. He wrote Maggie a Girl of the Streets The Red Badge of Courage and The Open Boat among other works and served as a war correspondent in Greco Turkish and Spanish conflicts.
Boston street commissioners study removing Berkeley street bridge over old Providence division tracks to make a continuous solid roadway from Beacon to Tremont. Plan includes a 60 foot cross and crossing Albany railroad with a bridge near Dartmouth street, affecting land and buildings on Stanhope and Clarendon streets. Also reports delays in municipal printing wages due to interdepartmental charging and budget cuts. Whalen seeks $600 for moving the plant but funds are limited with $12,650 short in department funds. receipts and payments for the period show 36,723.98 received and 82,632.50 spent.
Frank J. Keenan tours prep for Edgartown summer and Sol Smith Russell woods to return next fall with a new Michael Morton script. Eugene Cowles mourns his father as he heads to Vineyard Haven with his wife. Gustav Strube to conduct tonight’s Pop concert. Vaughn Glasser to play Rudolph and the King in The Prisoner of Zenda next summer. Mark Kent to receive a testimonial at the Grand Theatre today with a strong bill. Roof gardens open in New York but patronage low due to cool weather.
The Belle of New York musical comedy continues to play to large enthusiastic crowds at the Columbia Theatre with no announced end date. Opening week tickets for Tremont Theatre summer season go on sale tomorrow featuring J H Gilmore Florence Rockwell and Anne Clarke in The Son of Carleycroft.
The Belle of New York will close at the Columbia Theatre on June 20 for about ten days to install a refrigerating apparatus. It will reopen around July 1 with Little Dust starring Helen Bertram. Mayor Hayes and Mrs. Hayes sat in a box as guests of W. F. Fitzgerald.
The thirty sixth annual meeting of the Massachusetts Dental Society was held last evening at the American House. Papers on dental topics were presented by Dr J W Shaw and Dr T Stockwell of Springfield.
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