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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1906
Page
6
The Boston Post publication details daily issue price rates and subscription options. It notes vacation mailing to the United States and Canada, with instructions for address changes and advance payment requirements.
Governor Guild warns that the Boston Worcester trolley sale to steam rival New York Hartford threatens Massachusetts control of transportation. He urges swift legislative action to curb absorption by alien operators and defend Commonwealth policy.
Attorney General Moody calls for immediate action against Standard Oil as President Roosevelt cites the same agenda in a May 4 special message. The report alleges secret railroad rates and discrimination benefiting Standard Oil, with an estimated 750000 dollars saved in 1904 and ongoing public harm.
The measure in the House seeks to curb immigration by raising head money from two to five dollars and adding an educational reading test. Critics call the educational hurdle unfair and note a past veto by President Cleveland favored admitting workers who could not read or write.
A Massachusetts protest condemns a federal education bill as a threat to literacy and order. Speakers at a city meeting include ex Mayor Quincy, Boston school committee members, the mayor, Reverend Dole, and civic leaders naming concerns over admission tests and political ramifications.
The piece argues immunity cannot shield perjurers or witnesses before a legislative committee from criminal accountability. It notes grand juries act ex parte, cannot consider immunity, and true protection comes only if offenders are tried. The timing of immunity validity is tied to actual courtroom trials.
The international policy holders committee, formed to compel reform of New York Life and Mutual, includes Richard Olney, Cardinal Gibbons, Judge George Gray, Judge Alton B. Parker, Charles Emory Smith and others. It aims to ensure policy holders gain a voice through ballots, following the Armstrong committee and New York Legislature insurance reforms. The movement signals a push to place life insurance on a firm, equitable footing and curb abuses.
Canopic, a White Star liner, discharged 1600 steerage passengers including Italians Greeks and Poles. Families greeted them with warm Latin and Slavic embraces as crews and relatives mingled amid occasional tension and a minor scuffle at the gang plank.
Wellesley June 25. President Caroline Hazard held a reception for the graduates of Wellesley College and their friends in College Hall. The grounds were lit with colored lanterns and an open air orchestra performed. Informal class reunions were held in the morning and afternoon.
A fragmented chronicle features Stealthy Steve traveling from Suburbington-on-the-Hudson to New York City to aid V. Bonanio, who fears the Black Hand has dated his June ninth wedding. Bonario recounts a rise from fruit peddler to wealthy bachelor, then plans a quiet wedding with Miss Vivian DePeyster.
Kitty O'Brien, a washerwoman, and Terry Fifine fall in love amid Miss Ruth Halifax's silk stockings. Terry steals a stocking, confesses, and wins Kitty after Ruth forgives the lapse. the couple wed and keep the stockings as a keepsake of their courtship.
Society columns record Mrs. William A. Russell leasing a Manchester Cove cottage for the season and hosting nearby relatives. The piece also covers Miss Margaret Thurlo Gamage’s engagement to Harry Mortimer Specht, the Gamage family’s Cape Ann ties, and upcoming wedding plans at the Gamage home in Gloucester.
A reader asks how to handle romance when a Western fiancé sent costly gifts and proclaims love while she also enjoys another young man at home. The advice urges choosing the true beloved and telling the truth to avoid long future unhappiness.
Washington June 2 Miss Fanny Louise Fuller younger daughter of Chief Justice Fuller married Dr Robert F Mason in a ceremony at the Chief Justice’s home. The event linked the Fuller and Mason families in a formal private wedding in the capital.
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