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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1905
Page
6
A terse exchange unfolds as Mrs Goodun scolds a boy for striking a downed companion and Miss Flite teases with a question about a portrait of a fiancee. The humor hinges on innuendo and mischief surrounding intimate attachments.
Boston readers are urged to watch next Thursday's legislative session on the gas situation in New York and its impact on Boston. The Municipal Ownership League offers to share findings on gas company practices, highlighting opposition to New York finance methods contaminating Boston and large capitalizations.
ALL SORTS by NEWTON NEWKIRK recounts a Savannah stop where the author notes George Washington visited in 1790 and, during a 1790s tour, other Revolutionary and Civil War memories surface. He speaks with a Forsyth Park Confederate veteran about shared history and reconciliation as magnolia shade and birds accompany the conversation.
The piece compares Governor Douglas’s tax dilemma to Cleveland era issues, noting expected heavy state tax increases due to Republican mismanagement. It suggests a public message to lawmakers could reveal the fiscal plight and bolster the Democratic administration.
The author urges strict accounting and a clear governor’s statement on why tax rates must rise. Drawing a parallel with railroads, the piece says delayed expense disclosures mislead stockholders and undermine public trust, calling for detailed disclosure of money spent to protect the Commonwealth’s welfare.
Reader recounts a near miss as a motor car ignores lowered railroad gates near Sullivan Square, crushing barriers and just missing the locomotive pilot. The incident prompts speculation on driver competence and public safety. Mention of Mrs Robertson and Gertrude Elliott welcoming another infant, plus a Puritan graveyard cave-in theory and Pauline Hall’s Boston visit.
Miss Isabel Florence rehearses at Huntington Chambers Hall ahead of tomorrow's performance while Vincent Club guests plan to attend. A Mary Johnston Sir Mortimer recital is set for Thursday at the School of English Speech and Expression with Mr Henderson to sing. A broad social sweep covers weddings, emigration by Burton Holmes manager Louis Brown, and a romantic rumor of Patrolman Sullivan marrying a Brookline contractor's daughter at Easter.
A clipped exchange features Gritty George recalling a near scaffold fall and mentioning a painter job. Mr. Black clarifies Skinner as a poetry writer, while Miss Jett asks about identities, creating a humorous social vignette.
An escaped burglar stalking the Elsons at Mt Ida hides in a garden snowman to elude pursuers. After tumbling from a snow embankment and fleeing toward Newtonville, he preserves his liberty with a 50 yard start on the B. and A. tracks.
Grand Army veterans protest in Waltsam over a broken flagpole on the Common that prevents raising the town flag. They say repairs have been delayed for a month and Washington's Birthday passed without a flag, prompting a planned protest Monday.
Beatrice S Sweet recalls leaving Deer Island and slipping back into crime to survive. She recounts boarding a Newton bound car, observing three occupants Dolly Elson and an amateur detective Jones, noting their escape from a trap as she nears potential reoffending.
Society notes list multiple weddings and engagements for April in Lowell Malden Cambridge and New York. Miss Jennie M. Hylan and William B. Herrick Jr unite in Lowell with reception at Nesmith Street home and plan to live in Malden. Other April weddings include Rebecca Clark and Henri N. Schaeffer in Manchester New Hampshire and Bertha Close and George Herbert Bunton in Cambridge.
The Rt. Rev. R. H. Weller D D bishop coadjutor of Fond du Lac opened a week of conferences on Christian Believing and Living in the Church of the Advent Brimmer street last night.
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