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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1905
Page
6
The Somerville School Board member argues that residents should follow Presidentially favored family planning, claiming rising pupil numbers and school costs justify guiding population growth. He cites utilitarianism but faces critique that schools should adapt to people, not vice versa.
The article notes rumors that the President wishes to support the Morales government in Santo Domingo if threatened by revolution but may be advised he cannot constitutionally act. It questions the administration plan to test how the idea of a President acting without the Senate would be received and asserts the Constitution defines the President Senate roles clearly.
The Interstate Commerce Commission should broadly investigate private car lines and car companies operating for major railroads. The public remains unaware of the railroad mysteries, with long standing suspicions that grafters manipulate the system. The piece urges a wide inquiry into the industry’s finances and practices.
A critic argues that a car company could buy stock in a railroad to influence its lines as feeders to private business. He contends payments for mileage on empty cars drain railroads’ funds and suspects trains were run without purpose other than diverting public treasuries. A nationwide study is urged to reveal facts and speed railroad rate reforms.
The Russian nobility endorses limited popular representation without Western constitutional government, signaling growing chaos as peasants revolt. Once a potential pillar for constitutional rule, the nobility has lost power to a corrupt bureaucracy and now fears his attack on landed interests.
Senate banks committee backs a bill requiring Massachusetts trust firms to hold a 15 percent reserve against deposits withdrawable on demand or with 10 days notice. Authors argue trusts have outgrown their original role and compete with national banks, so a fixed reserve should be law rather than voluntary.
Charles M. Schwab and his family reached Paris from Cherbourg for a holiday. In a brief interview he said the European trip would include a long motor tour of France. Schwab dismissed a writ served in Plymouth by London art dealer David Rothschild as trifling and insignificant.
Concord New Hampshire March 28 Governor John McLane issued his first proclamations naming Thursday April 20 as Fast Day and Monday May 1 as Arbor Day.
Milton Folsom Hewes, a longtime Boston printer and son of John M. and Susan A. Hewes, died yesterday afternoon at his sister Mrs. Ira A. Nay’s Dorchester home at 31 Lyndhurst Street. He was born November 18, 1827, educated in Roxbury public schools, and spent most of his career with his father in a printing business, later running a brief spell in New York. He had been ill for over a year, with recent peritonitis leading to his death.
James H. Vahey Sr., father of James H. Vahey and Thomas F. Vahey, died in Watertown at 2:30 am today from anaphlaxis after a recent illness. He had been active until Sunday and remained about the town yesterday.
A poem urging moral consistency between words and deeds. The author questions if leaders truly live by their preached plans and notes that actions speak louder than speeches. It argues that preaching without practice undermines efforts for future happiness and calls individuals to become living examples.
Newton Newkirk writes from the Royal Poinciana Hotel Palm Beach Florida in March 1995 describing an idealized winter climate near 75 degrees with 90 degree heat by the sea. He paints lush scenes of tropical plants, blooming flowers, fountains and blue ocean horizons noting a famed six cent streetcar line pulled by an old gray mule considered the best paying by length in the world.
A Palm Beach streetcar and wheelchair service, run by colored boys, offers transport at one dollar per hour with tips. Riders tour a jungle area near the hotels, passing an alligator farm where Alligator Joe hypnotizes and handles a sleeping gator in a tropical climate.
The town meeting balked at the police pension ordinance after a long wrangle over the town lockup. W C Conniff moved to strike the article and voters indefinitely postponed the measure.
A narrator recalls boarding an ocean liner and joining a high stakes card game in the smoking room. He notes patterns of professional play, observes fellow players, and confronts a young man who has gambled away his life savings after traveling from abroad to seek work and fortune.
Boston bakers endorse the Paprus Pie Plate for clean preparation and dry under crust. The plate absorbs grease and cannot be reused, making pies safer for sensitive stomachs. A Somerville baker calls it the best thing he has ever used.
The narrator details a aboard ship gambling scheme where two marked players and a waiter collude in a faro like game. After careful observation the crew exposes the link between the waiter and the two men, recovers losses, and the burglar admits his part in taking more than due, justified by his creed, with the captain and crew complicit in the outcome.
In Melrose on March 28 preparations for the New England conference session begin at First Methodist Church. Rev. Charles H. Stackpole leads a committee to arrange appointments review new applicants and confirm pastors. Many changes are expected making selections difficult.
Dowager Queen Margherita received American Ambassador Meyer in a farewell audience in Rome. He will meet King Victor Emmanuel on Thursday and attend a farewell dinner, then travel to Paris to join his successor Henry White before arriving in St. Petersburg on April 7.
The literary editor of a leading religious periodical declines a public review and privately praises The Man on the Box for its vitality and gripping storytelling, saying it has more ginger and juice than many recent novels. He values a genuinely vital book over mere greatness.
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