Sugar trust accused before federal grand jury in New York
Attorney General Moody asks the federal grand jury in New York to investigate the sugar trust and H O Havemeyer alleging secret rebates from freight rates to favor the trust. Railroads named include New York Central Lackawanna Erie Pennsylvania Reading and New Haven. The charges claim the practice strangled beet sugar and stifled cane sugar competition, harming consumers and upholding a monopoly.
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Massachusetts Leaders Highlight Boston's Bright Economic Path
Governor Guild urged freeing hides to aid industry and called for a new Boston customs house while opposing child labor nationwide. Mayor Fitzgerald envisions Boston thriving in fine arts driven manufacturing, promising a bigger, better, busier city through arts, fabrics, jewelry and crafts.
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Voter Listing Critique Hits Boston Police System
A brief note criticizes Boston's police voter listing system as inefficient and flawed, highlighting ongoing issues in record keeping and public registration processes.
Opinion on Police Board Reform and Voter Listing
The piece argues against a single police head and a governor appointed commissioner. It warns the plan risks partisan influence, power concentration, and abuses in voter listing. It recommends maintaining registry and election boards instead and abolishing the listing system.
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Towering signboard sparks city pride concerns
A large red sign near Park Street, visible from the Common to the State House, is criticized as a disfigurement. The piece urges private owners to remove it or public authorities and opinion to veto the nuisance to protect a prominent city site.
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Wealth's fragile joy in Andrew Carnegie's letter
The passage notes Carnegie's view that wealth brings little happiness beyond a basic competence. It challenges the myth of the laughter of the rich, suggesting that even the very wealthy may not be merry and urging preservation of humor despite money's power.
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Grand jury indicts Mutual Reserve officials for larceny and forgery
The New York grand jury returns 15 indictments for grand larceny and forgery against top Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company officers. The case ties to private claim settlements and falsified books, underscoring DA Jerome’s diligence amid political finance questions. Judge O Sullivan calls policyholder money used for campaigns a form of larceny, stirring uproar in financial and political circles.
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Indignant Albany Tourist Attacks Post Card Habit
A dated Albany letter protests the post card craze that forces travellers to mail cards from every stop. The writer ridicules greetings on cards and coins a humorous attack, noting the burden of sending dozens of mundane messages to friends.
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Philadelphia Kiss Case Highlights Street Romance Satire
In Philadelphia a pretty woman was arrested after kissing and embracing strangers in the street. She argued that a poor girl has few options when no man knows how to kiss her. The judge refused spectators’ offers to demonstrate, sending her to detention. Some men resented the kisses, others consented, and the piece notes contrasts with Boston.
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The Woman With the Illustrated Face Discontinued
A public note explains that the artist refused to depict Hunger as an emotion, opting to show the back of the head instead. The column laments hunger as a strong emotion and ends the series The Woman With the Illustrated Face.
Post Letter Box on National Holiday Query
A reader from Concord Nova Scotia asks the editor if there is a national holiday on the date in question. The letter is dated March 8 and signed TS.
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Jeremiah Gridley Born Father of the Boston Bar
Today in history notes Jeremiah Gridley born on March 10 1702 as the father of the Boston bar. A year ago Harvard received a 1 200 000 bequest from W F Milton according to the record.
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W. F. Milton
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Dumb Collie and Oddities at Chelsea and Beyond
A Boston reader recalls a mute Scotch collie on Massachusetts Avenue in the South End. The column also notes a woman with a blue tiger cat from the Animal Rescue League, immigration detainee counts, General Miles at Loyal Legion dinner, Captain McLean’s hospital progress, Roslindale Women’s Club show Ebony Belles, and local anecdotes including a dramatic dog rescue where Jessie the dog reconciles a estranged couple.
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Ebony Belles
Weather Whispers Warn of Quick Seasonal Fluctuations
A Washington Star verse advises readers to prepare for sudden weather shifts from rain to snow or heat. It urges wearing overshoes in soft air and warm sunlit days to guard against sunstroke, wind, and rapid changes, highlighting the fickle forecast.
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