Senate debates State supervision of telephone business
Senator Manning's bill for state oversight of telephones faces an unfavorably reported proposal. Supporters urge treating telephone public service like street railways, arguing monopoly power should be checked and made accessible to all. The Buffalo exhibition is noted as a regional achievement while many remain unaware.
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Senate
Manning
Committee On Mercantile Affairs
Committee On Federal Relations
State House
Buffalo
David L. Stain
Medfield
Stain
Edwin V. Mitchell
North Street
James Avenue
Thomaston
Civil Service Anomaly Questions Merit of Certified Gardeners
The Boston Civil Service system is questioned as superintendent William Doogue can hire only one truly competent gardener from fifty-one certified by the Civil Service Commission. The Post argues the merit system is undermined if exams certify farm hands and wood choppers as experts and asks who certifies the commissioners.
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William Doogue
Boston
Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
State House
Post
Colonial Plums and the Philippine Civil Service
The piece critiques the Philippine civil service as a lavish, corrupt-like spoils system created by imperial policy. It lists salaries for commissioners and secretaries, notes many staff roles and large payrolls, and damningly warns imperialism will fuel lucrative offices for patriots.
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Philippine Islands
Washington
McKinley
Philippine Civil
Commission
Civil Service
Customs
Internal Revenue
Collector of Customs
Philippines
Pan American Exhibition Opens with Mixed Local Interest
The Buffalo opening of the Pan American Exhibition drew modest public ceremony and lukewarm East interest, yet observers call the display superior in conception and execution to Chicago's fair and akin to Paris' later exposition, highlighting Middle West resources while local enthusiasm remains muted.
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Buffalo
Chicago
Paris
Middle West
The Mill Tax and Massachusetts Education Funding
A historic critique calls the mill tax a scheme to pauperize the school fund proposing property tax across the state to aid few self funding communities. The piece argues voters have repudiated it and urges the Legislature to kill the measure before it reaches the governor.
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Committee On
Board of Education
Massachusetts
Citizenship row tests Porto Rico status before Supreme Court
The admission of a Porto Rican to practise before the U S Supreme Court highlights its ambiguous colonial status. Porto Ricans are labeled citizens of Porto Rico but cannot fully claim U S citizenship. The court’s action raises questions about whether Porto Rico is under or outside the Constitution and portends a ruling on the island’s future political status.
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Porto Rico
Supreme Court of the
United States
Spain
Supreme Court
May Day musings and Boston notes from The Observant Citizen
The Observant Citizen reflects on May Day enthusiasm, spring climate shifts, and urban life in Boston and nearby towns. It notes Nantucket life resuming, a musical invitation for Hallett Gilberte, Lodge’s Beacon Street residence conversion, and local cafe and street scenes.
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Hon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Beacon Street
Boston Streets and Parades and Local Notices
A fragment from a Boston page notes high street as a trade artery and cites a public parade’s warm civic welcome by leather workers with megaphones. It also reports Thomas F. Galvin’s convalescence in Brookline, and an Angel Guardian House entertainment honoring Brother Amadeus. A Municipal Court exchange reveals a witness claiming kinship to the complainant as cousins’ grandchildren.
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Boston
Amadeus
Across the Line The unseen voice and a telephonic romance
Susan F Burbank relates a tale of Acria guiding Charlie Hutchins to communicate with the unseen through a perfected telephone. He hears celestial music and a silver bell voice across the line, but tragedy follows when a fire claims him. The instrument vanishes as if raised to the heavens with him.
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Acria
Earth
Char- Me
Charlie Hutchins
Charlie
Arria
Daily TableHints Breakfast and Dinner Menu with Recipes
Breakfast items include Toasted Wheat Cream and Sugar Lamb Chops French Fried Potatoes Oranges Graham Gems Coffee Dinner features Cream of Celery Soup Roast Stuffed Veal Anchovy Potatoes Marrowfat Peas Squash Individual Puddings Chocolate Sauce Young America Cheese Butter Thins Black Coffee Supper offers Cold Sliced Ham Buttered Toast Olives Sardines Portland Fancy Ribbon Cake Cream Pie Tea or Chocolate. A pudding recipe uses butter sugar egg milk salt yeast powder raisins coconut and baked in custard cups. Portland Fancy oranges bananas jelly Plymouth Rock recipe served cold. Clara G King 44 Prospect Street Everett Mass.
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Graham Gems
Young America
Portland
Plymouth Rock
Gowns and gourds in witty city chatter
A collage of light quotes from early 20th century papers on fashion, manners, and social scenes. Exchanges touch on city beauty, attire's impact, art exhibition fuss, betting jokey contests, and domestic banter with humorous misreadings and awkward social plots.
Witty Quotables From Across American Papers
A collage of quips and phrases from editorials and humor pages. The items span topics from landscape gardening by pen to English humor, compliments on a summer shirtwaist look, and a playful Dowager Empress exchange with a German Emperor. It also notes American jokes crossing into European humor and a Detroit Journal whimsy about a Yankee Doodle doux.
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Billy Doux
United States
Detroit Journal
A LITERARY LASS AND HER TEA AT THE STAR
A verse from the Washington Star recalls a literary young woman with cut-glass inkstand and pearl pen who aims to write a Rubaiyat inspired poem but loses inspiration. She then writes to friends inviting them to a tea.
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Washington Star
Open Letter Denounces Chelsea Anti Jewish Remarks
David A Lourir of Chelsea Mass denounces Alderman Soley for labeling the Hebrew population as a burden in reference to the Borofsky bill. He argues Massachusetts policy favors fairness and toleration, praises Jewish residents for contributing to property, schools, and culture, and condemns Jew baiting as un American.
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Alderman Soley
William A. Soley
Chelsea Gazette
Board of Aldermen
Borofsky
Chelsea
Massachusetts
Academy of Music
America
David A. Lourir
Mass
Distribution of 60000 Cards by Boston Republican Committee
The Republican city committee printed 60 000 cards and yesterday fifty men began distributing them two to each ward to every householder in Boston.
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Republican City Committee
Boston
Massachusetts Card Attempt to Swell Poll Tax Lists Sparks Debate
The 1898 Election Act provision punishes giving an assessor a resident’s name for nonresidents in a building. Quincy Club speech questions the card as intimidation to deter women from listing boarders, while Republicans tout it as a tool to curb Democratic registration. Larry Smith’s idea draws attention as Ward 8 political circles react with renewed activity to gather names.
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John A. Kelcher
Quincy Club
Henry Jones
John Jones
Larry” Smith
Jesse M. Gove
Martin Lomasney
Ward
Ward 8
Larry
Maude Adams Statue Draws Boston Crowds
Enormous crowds flock to see the Maude Adams statue on free exhibition in Houghton and Dutton's studio. The piece, the largest bulk of gold ever shown, is praised for its high artistic value beyond its lavish material. The exhibit will close on May 11.
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Maude Adams
Boston
Houghton & Dutton
Europe
Odd Bits of News From Around the World and Nation
A collage of curious facts ranges from Alaska’s sparse population to Detroit’s pavement quantity. It notes opal values, Asturias centenarians, West Point polo plans, and ice imports to Britain. Also reports on a rhigo pod claim and a Indiana bill barring policemen from practicing law.
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North Carolina
Spain
Kingdom of Asturias
West Point
Norway
Great Britain
Indiana
Attorney General at the Borden trial named by writer
A reader asks the Post editor to identify who held the office of Attorney General during the Borden trial, naming Edward Goldberg as the correspondent.
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Edw
Goldberg
Verdict Overturns Probate Ruling on Danforth Will
In East Cambridge Superior Court the jury reversed the Probate Court and disallowed the will of Samuel S. Danforth of Framingham. The testator was found incompetent to make a will. The document left half the property to George A. Reed, while William R. Danforth argued undue influence by the deceased toward the testator.
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East Cambridge
Samuel S. Danforth
Framingham
George A. Reed
William R. Danforth
Ded
Frieda Siemens to Solo with Boston Symphony in Cambridge
Miss Frieda Siemens, a talented Boston pianist, will be the soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Sanders Theatre Cambridge on May 2 setting a high city recital tone and drawing attention from local arts patrons.
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Frieda Siemens
Boston
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Sanders Theatre
Cambridge
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