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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1906
Page
6
Daily Post subscription rates listed for Boston readers. Vacation time policy offers mail delivery options within United States and Canada. Instructions include advance payment, address changes, and postal notice procedures. Editor and publisher A A Grosier requested readership updates.
A report notes public condemnation to prevent the dangerous practice of using blank cartridges in toy pistols. The piece argues public opinion should drive out the dangerous item and protect safety.
The House delays consideration of bribery charges citing ignorance of the evidence base and urges open hearings after criticizing secrecy. The piece urges ending star chamber tactics and warns against giving impression of scapegoating. It urges transparent rulings and broader access to testimony before final judgments. Also discusses meat inspection gains and local Chicago oversight aligning with federal aims.
The piece views the Bialystok massacre as a symbol of Russia’s turmoil. It notes the Duma’s failing effort to steady the empire and the Czar’s retreat to reactionary forces. It argues the Duma must confront the Jewish question to liberate the Russian people and gain world moral support.
The Philadelphia justice system punished Kean for kidnapping Freddie Muth, with a 20 year prison term after a swift trial and conviction. The case follows earlier high profile abductions by Pat Crowe, which inspired and deterred similar crimes.
Letter humor from Newton Newkir k’s All Sorts column features John D Rockefeller Jr writing from Compiegne France. He jokes about memorial plans including a self portrait statue and a mortgage on the Russian empire, while quipping about labor and luxury with references to Carnegie Nicholas II and Standard Oil. The piece blends satire with travel letters and a spoof of high finance. Also includes a note inviting readers to a motorcycle picnic and an editorial on tri-car riding.
Police Commissioner O'Meara states the Charlestown disturbance was not caused by small boys but by adults who rally in crowds at night. He labels the hoodlum element aged 15 to 60 as the main agitators and criticizes apologists who shield them. He describes the bonfire crowd as excitable and discontent with many young women among the revelers.
casualty reports from the Bunker Hill Day celebration show just over 100 people treated for burns and wounds with no deaths. most injuries come from blank cartridges toy pistols and cannon crackers especially to the hands raising tetanus risk. caretaker notes the need to avoid reckless celebratory firing in future years.
The funeral of Harry N. Pillsbury, chess master, was held at 1 pm at his brother Dr Edwin D Pillsbury's home 8 Curtis Street West Somerville. Rev Glenn Tilley Morse conducted an Episcopal service. A Boston Chess Club delegation attended and flowers included a design from the club. Burial followed in Laurel Hill Cemetery Reading.
Dr. T. Nakamura of the Imperial University of Tokio reports that defective mortar, described as sea sand corruption, was responsible for most earthquake damage in San Francisco. He led a Japanese government commission assessing tremor and fire effects.
The National League of Republican Clubs elected officers in Philadelphia on June 19. General B E A McAlpin was named president, H H Myers as vice president, Chauncey Dewey as secretary, and W G Porter as treasurer. The executive committee will select the next meeting place.
Observant Citizen notes two historical markers June 20. The first steam vessel to cross the ocean arrived in Liverpool. A year earlier a gasoline explosion in Boston’s new subway sparked one of the city’s most remarkable fires.
Percy Fitzpatrick a Georgetown student returns with medals and makes varsity crew. Mrs F W Boyd leads a Peabody Home circus with John Tileston and Marion B Boyd as Italian acts. A new dog collar fad appears at Country Club races. City officials and locals are cited with brief anecdotes on travel, fashion, weather complaints, and a chaotic Adams Square truck unload scene with many goods and a dog and pigs.
Mrs John L Gardner sails from New York to Bremen on the Kaiser Wilhelm II with notable passengers including Harvard 08 Philip Livermore and his bride Miss Fannie Iselin. Others aboard include Clarence W Barron and Miss Barron, Charlemagne Tower, Geoffrey Tower, Roderick Tower, and Frederick W Vanderbilt duo, along with Rev John Wallace Suter and sons John W Suter Jr and Philip H Suter.
One of Cambridge society’s fair young women Miss Annie Elizabeth Unbehend will marry Joseph Clarke this evening in a simple home ceremony at 165 Western Avenue Cambridge. Clarke is a prominent Cantabrigian. Miss Unbehend, educated in Cambridge and a graduate of the English High School, will reside at 18 Hilliard Street after returning from their honeymoon.
Edwin C Milliken of Portland Maine a Civil War veteran born February 28 1851 in Bridgton Maine enlisted at age 13 in the Thirty second Regiment Company H first engaged at Cold Harbor discharged July 15 1865 He chaired Bosworth Post Portland Maine and led Maine department in 1904 William H Gore born Boston April 22 185? now of Roxbury lived in Maine since age four enlisted July 22 1862 in Company E Seventeenth Maine Infantry fought at Fredericksburg Chancellorsville Gettysburg Wilderness Cold Harbor and many others wounded twice discharged June 1865 at Portland
A departed bride writes to her dog Fritzie and recalls her past with Robert and a forced marriage. She mourns lost romance and family pressure, reflects on the gift of a rope of pearls, and whispers final goodbyes as she prepares for the ceremony.
Brookline selectmen issue orders prohibiting firing or discharge of fireworks explosives or firearms and blowing of horns on the night of July 8 or before 4 AM on July 4 1906 as part of Independence Day observances.
New York reports an option obtained after years of talks to save the Piazza di Spagna house where John Keats lived and died. The Italian residence, owned by France, sits by the Spanish steps and will be preserved as a memorial to Keats and his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, buried nearby in Rome's Protestant cemetery.
Dear Miss Champagne advises a reader in a poised exchanges within a broken engagement. She argues the peace offering gift and the lack of direct letters signal mutual willingness to reunite, urging proactive, timely outreach rather than waiting for the other to act.
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