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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1904
Page
6
The House approved Mayor Collins's bill to tax state owned property leased to private parties for commercial use in Boston. The measure aims to tax such lands in private hands while maintaining parks and public lands exempt. It now goes to the Senate for consideration on the same principle.
Voice from the tomb presents Senator Hanna's argument against Brigadier General Leonard Wood's confirmation as major general. The piece details witnesses' testimony on Wood's fitness, connects multiple scandals, and notes Hanna's call to recall Wood for oath testimony. Hanna has died, leaving the debate unresolved amid Roosevelt ties and push for Wood's ascent.
President Roosevelt plans an executive order urging government employees to refrain from discussing the war in the east to avoid provoking foreign anger. The piece notes the U S neutrality stance, China Russia tension, and possible Hay note implications for Chinese neutrality amid Manchuria violence and Russian actions.
The Bristow report shows 151 House members involved in leasing to the government and funding district expenditures. They defend their actions as honorable, denouncing disclosure as malicious slander, and lament publicity they call unwarranted scrutiny.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson spoke to the Melrose Women’s Christian Temperance Union in High School Hall on distinguished people he has known. He recalled meetings with Holmes Storey Lowell Emerson Longfellow Whittier Webster Tennyson, with Mrs Stackpole presiding and Mrs Livermore delivering intro remarks.
Dean James Barr Ames of Harvard Law School will lecture in California during May before Stanford University and depart Cambridge on May 1. Professor J. H. Beale Jr will return to the University of Chicago on April 1 to resume his work there for the rest of the year.
Ottawa March 10 The House of Commons unanimously chose N A Belcourt MP of Ottawa as speaker. Parliament will be formally opened by Lord Minto the next day.
Circulation managers in Milford and Newburyport report sold out editions with March 6 orders at 915 copies and a March 13 addition of 100. The serialized tale centers on detective Steve Stealthy and a dangerous out-of-control auto chase, concluding with a swoon rescue and a light verse feature on gender perceptions.
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