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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1905
Page
9
Senate Republican leaders report difficulty in deciding action on the Santo Domingo treaty. With Democrats holding a decisive bloc and two thirds needed for ratification, withdrawal by the President is favored by leaders though the President and Senate disagree. A adjourn without date is considered to let the treaty lapse.
The President sent the nomination of Peter V. DeGraw to the Senate for fourth assistant postmaster general. DeGraw, a New Jersey native, has long lived in New York, Philadelphia and Washington and has broad experience in journalism, telegraphy and corporate management.
Washington March 15 The Isthmian canal commission endorsed the chief engineer’s plan to create 462 new jobs for canal work with salaries from 60 to 250 dollars monthly.
Isaac Larson of Cambridge reports repeated thefts at his Prospect Street residence including meat and coal and a cash robbery of 260 dollars from a money drawer. Residents say the three story building was secure that night and police are unsure of the culprit.
The Boston Common Society prepares its range for possible action as obstructions near the Charles street mall draw public ire. Transit officials defer to the Mayor, who is expected to decide by Friday or Saturday, with a week to a fortnight seen as a reasonable window for relocation of the mixer plant.
The Talbot Clothing Co at 395 Washington Street reopened after a six week renovation. Daylight fills the store with a refitted front of new windows and openings. Main features include 16 candlepower electric lights in tiers with silvered glass reflectors and bulbs along window corners. The entrance displays Talbot's in colored glass above a long row of white glass tops.
The new front features 22 foot wide plate glass windows and 16 foot high casings with prism glass prisms to bathe 10,000 square feet of floor space in daylight. Oak and ash finishes, shaded parquetry floors, and mahogany entrance enhance the display areas for hats and men’s furnishings. The Talbot company, a leading U.S. clothing maker, promotes single profit on purchases and highlights daylight lighting as a modern LBoston showcase.
The Boston newsboys protested the use of a section of Boston Common playground by a subway construction company. The Mayor has acted, and upon his return the union will receive the resolutions and accompanying communication. M. P. Curran sent the note on behalf of the mayor’s office.
Remains of Mrs Jane Lathrop Stanford died Feb 28 at Moana Hotel were moved from the local undertaking area to the Congregational Central Union Church in Honolulu. Police and territorial officials led the procession with Stanford officials graduates and family members in attendance.
Washington reports the Treasury Secretary received a Tebbetts telegram stating that aboard the Norwegian steamer Hiram from Puerto Cortez Honduras inspectors found lottery tickets a prize list drawings a balance sheet ads and correspondence of a lottery company. Collector Tebbetts was instructed to seize the articles and pursue forfeiture and destruction under the current tariff act.
In Cleveland on March 15 the United States prosecuted four Hungarians for counterfeiting 20 kronen notes and sending them to Hungary. Judge Taylor interrupted the defense as the lawyer attacked the Austrian government and called Emperor Franz Joseph a tyrant, turning the scene into an international incident with the Hungarian consul Louis Dereszenszky watching.
The Providence marriage joins Grace Appleby of Providence Rhode Island to Thomas E. Pepper a Lexing ton Kentucky based whiskey magnate. Pepper aged 59 and Appleby 29 wed in the Arcade Hotel parlors and plan to travel to Providence after the ceremony.
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