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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1903
Page
6
The rain ends a brutal drought transforming city parks and green plots, greening dying grass and lifting the air quality. Suburban market gardens revive while farmers avert major losses. Forest fires subside across the east, sav ing crops and hay. A gracious relief from a perilous situation.
Review of William Jenn Bryan's ideas on oratory, stressing knowledge, sincerity, conviction, faith, and moral courage as the core of eloquence. Also discusses a looming state budget deficit and proposed city tax impacts, noting Boston bears a large share and questions about local input in statewide measures.
The bill as written would remove municipal workers who are Civil War veterans and reassign them with partial pay, while an amended version would pay half the former salary until reemployment. Critics call it class legislation and unfair to nonrecalled veterans, risking unequal treatment among veterans.
The proposal by Taft's government to create a government opium monopoly in the Philippines and auction it to the highest bidder is condemned as an affront to American ideals. Critics argue opium cannot be regulated, harms body and mind, and using monopoly proceeds for Filipino education is hypocritical and intolerable.
The quotation condemns government lotteries to fund Filipino schools and a levy on human trafficking in the Sulu slave market, framing them as unacceptable sources of funding or revenue. It juxtaposes such measures with moral and political objections to colonial governance and exploitation.
A New York Sun recounts the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston hosting a lavish Red Banquet for the visiting London company at Symphony Hall. The hall will glow red from tables to napkins, with 250 waiters and 64 round tables, each seating 11, as red decor and logistics dominate the event. The piece mixes banquet description with a humorous digression about a monsoon and a detective named Stealthy Steve.
A readerE Davies urges mercy over strict policing of intoxication in a June 12 1903 letter to the Post. He argues jailed drunks cannot return home or work and cites Deer Island’s 1250 inmates, condemning excessive drinking while urging abstention.
A reader argues Judge Emmons should address disorder near a Boston pond rather than focus on drunks. The letter notes profanity and hoodlum behavior after 8 PM, especially toward women, on the west side of the park, urging attention to local nuisance by officials. Boston, dated June 13, is cited.
The text portrays Newton Newkirk admitting to a past closeness with his spouse amid a scene of emotional confrontation. The husband contemplates writing a check while reciting a quarreling exchange about affection before and after marriage.
The author notes the recurring synopsis in serials tends toward sameness yet stresses variety. Readers are urged to seek change across chapters while maintaining core threads. The piece defends ongoing narrative freshness and contrasts it with mechanical repetition.
Stealthy Steve rides a camel from Ginflz to Half-fed Bedammit’s palace five hours away. He packs bottled refreshments for safety after a desert misadventure and continually re adjusts his position as the camel moves, even managing a cigarette between jolts. The camel bucks threaten the journey as Steve presses onward.
A quirky reader exchange riffs on Stealthy Steve and a 40 horsepower remedy for a snake bite. A Boston reader suggests Judge Emmons prescribes nothing. a sharp wit notes a vigilant cop smells. The Blind Man eyes a balloon ascent with Jim Jones, from anxieties to lift off, told in playful dialogue.
Tomorrow at 5 p m the Rev William Hammer Piper overseer of the Christian Catholic Church Dowie in New England will baptize from 12 to 20 persons in Charles River at the foot of Magazine street Cambridge Each person will be submerged three times once in the name of the Father again in the name of the Son and again in the name of the Holy Spirit.
At Radcliffe College’s Associates annual meeting on June 10, president Mrs Agassiz offered and resigned. The associates elected L. B. Wriggs as the new president. He serves as dean of the Harvard College Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
An Observant Citizen column surveys easing drought with moisture returning to vegetation. Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes sails for Europe for about three months. Various local notes recall dignitaries, recitals, and civic figures including Captain Edward Gaskin, Frank E. Morse pupils, and Ireland’s Joseph Devlin.
A poem by W. J. Lampton in the New York Sun contrasts college days with present pride in ongoing learning. It humorously notes how former students now parents praise knowledge while teasing the faculties as they recall tougher times. The piece ends with a warning to younger students about aging into Old Grads and Dads.
In a soldier’s reminiscence, Private Biscuit recalls bringing home an alcohol preserved native baby from Northern Luzon. The infant, halted by a mysterious receipt, vanished after leaving the Philippines with his discharge. Attempts to locate the child or its papers failed, leaving Biscuit to sing a wistful ballad about the elusive baby.
About 50 people with Mayflower lineage tour Salem visiting historic sites. They will wreath the Charter Street burial ground grave of Richard More and explore Essex Institute, Hawthorne sites, Witch House, the custom house, North Bridge, and the first armed rebellion location among other landmarks.
Announcement that Miss Alice Roosevelt will visit her grandmother Mrs. George Lee of Chestnut Hill and stay in and around Boston for about a week to ten days has drawn local interest. Arrival time is uncertain, but relatives expect she will not reach Boston before Saturday night.
The Massachusetts Old Home Week Association issued an appeal to communities that have not yet organized celebrations to act promptly and arrange events.
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