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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
6
The brief page lists the Post Publishing Co Boston daily dated March 24 1905 with volume and issue numbers and subscription notice. It notes subscriptions must be prepaid and may be discontinued on expiration. It provides office address 259 Washington St Boston and business office 428 Main St.
Arguments heard at the State House oppose a Boston Transportation Company plan to tunnel under streets and waters in Boston Somerville and Cambridge. The hearing pressed that no irrevocable franchise be granted and city control remain, with strong remonstrances from public-spirited petitioners.
Governor Douglas exhorts municipal ownership as a remedy for high gas prices. The Boston gas deal faces protests over unfair rates, with critics arguing companies fail to act in the public interest and that a larger capital base would worsen the terms. The public demands scrutiny and economical management.
In New York Secretary Shaw Senator Allison of Iowa and other Senate finance committee members met financiers and heads of commercial interests to discuss proposed tariff revisions. The group plans a summer rearrangement of tariff schedules and a ready to-file report for Congress in the fall, amid concerns about Wall Street influence on tariff policy.
New Englanders, famed for shrewdness and patience, increasingly push for better gas terms. Legislators introduce bills toward public ownership as a check on past monopoly. Boston may escape direct takeover, but provisions remain ready if needed.
In Hartford services honoring General Hawley, ex Governor Mc Lean urges turning from profit idols. He says nations rise by virtuous citizens, not wealth, and warns that a "rich man's club" Senate hints at lower national character and intelligence amid omens.
The Russian finance minister, disturbed by Times reports on Russia’s finances, invited the London Times to inspect the imperial gold reserve in St Petersburg. The Times declined, saying such checks lie outside a newspaper’s remit. The episode signals a shift in autocratic merit and hampers Russia’s financial standing.
A 1890 McKinley law basis is criticized as pernicious as 1897 Finance Committee drafted a bill for 872 Senate amendments to the Dingley bill. The author argues the people must be consulted and that reform should be undertaken by the branch elected by popular vote as the Constitution decrees.
The writer arrives in St Augustine on March 23 1905 noting quiet hotels cabs and the mocking bird outside his window. He recounts the city as the oldest in the United States and the traditional landing of Ponce de Leon on March 27 1512 in search of perpetual youth.
The article recalls De Leon seeking a youth spring on the St Sebastian River and describes a now-accessible mock spring and the original Ponce de Leon tale. It covers Menendez de Aviles founding St Augustine on Aug 28, 1565, and details the early wooden fort and later coquina stone fortifications with a surrounding earthen hill and moat defenses.
The text recounts interior court messrooms and a dungeon with a single exit, said to hold prisoners who died there. It notes Coacoochee and Osceola in Coacoochee's Cell during the Seminole era, references 1740 bombardment by Oglethorpe, and explains the coquina rock used in the fort’s outer walls.
Local items report a dachshund Seigfried incident and repairs on Federal street. Community letters praise Dr. Harkins and Councilman McMackin while sharing a tale of a boy Dickie visiting his recovering mother after surgery with gumdrops and a chocolate mouse temptation.
Reliable authority states Governor Cobb will name the Sturgis Commission to enforce the prohibitory liquor law before council adjournment around April 10. Applications for the positions are numerous.
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