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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1902
Page
6
The Boston Post lists daily and Sunday subscription rates with terms for advance payments. It provides office addresses in Boston and New York, billing details, and instructions for subscribers to update addresses and send funds, signed by Editor and Publisher E. Grozier.
The bill to admit Arizona New Mexico and Oklahoma as states is set for action in Washington this week. Partisan concerns over party alignment should not block admission. population figures and density support statehood. Arizona 59620 New Mexico 163598 Oklahoma 61834 with recent increases. density Oklahoma 10.3 per sq mi surpasses California and many states. Nevada 4,761 and Wyoming 60,706. statewide suitability appears clear.
A May Day assessment notes limited strikes despite rising living costs and no wage growth. It praises organized labor for restraint and steadiness amid increased prices, beef trusts, and protected monopolies, highlighting wages lagging behind essentials yet overall labor conservatism.
The piece condemns the Mindanao assault on Moro chieftains as a bad job despite valorous American action. It warns the subjugation of Mohammedans risks wider holy war, notes prior subsidies to Muslim rulers and slavery, and questions whether U S authority is secure in the center of Moro savagery.
The Transcript notes a graceful hint that Secretary Root may withdraw from the War Department due to health. It states his friends urge rest, his grit resists, and a future relapse could push him to step down despite presidential pressure and unfinished tasks. The despatch frames his possible exit amid criticism of the Philippines affair.
The Roosevelt administration contemplates removing Secretary of War Elihu Root as a burden to his presidency. The piece notes Blundering cabinet advisers echo the risk of sudden resignation during renomination efforts and predicts Root may retire amid the president's disappointment.
The distinguished prelate Michael Augustine Corrigan, head of the archdiocese, died after a long illness. Native American citizen educated in the United States, he led for 17 years and influenced reform movements, the church, and the community beyond his flock. His death is a public loss amid his full faculties.
An artist set up on the Common near the Attucks monument to sketch Tremont street drawing a large crowd as onlookers watched. William Wilkins, from a Hanover street museum, was bitten by a rattlesnake he feared was fangless and was treated at the hospital. Also noted are updates on M Laws, a Probate Court will contest for Ariel H Crocker, and mentions of John M Penniman, Mrs Josephine St Pierre Ruffin, and a tale of frugal rich friends over breakfast and chops.
A lighthearted column details a mix of municipal gossip and village humor. It notes a South Boston yachtsman’s misfired paint pot experiment, a joyous birth in East Boston, a creative beer keg flower pot in the South End, and Frank Gaylord’s bid for higher office with a comic weight joke. It also covers a clerk’s tacit approval for medicinal broom use, warden Bridges’ vacation return, and regional political moves including Colonels Reynolds and Hutchinson touring and reporting back from Ashington and the West.
Rome May 5 The King granted an audience today to George Von L Meyer United States ambassador here Meyer conveyed thanks of the United States for clemency in liberating the Chicago officers recently arrested and imprisoned at Venice
An original poem expresses a wish to escape to nature in May and find peace away from life’s grind. It accompanies a lengthy, humorous collage of jokes, cartoons, and quips about public figures, sports, travel, and social scenes, reflecting a vintage newspaper page tone. The piece mixes reveries of nature with a satirical miscellany featuring cartoons and humorous dialogues.
Remnants of white fish can become a luncheon dish with a milk sauce, flaked fish folded in, and buttered cracker crumbs baked in scallop shells or fireproof dishes. Individual portions preferred. avoid overcooking twice reheated food. Alice E. Whitaker signs the advice.
The Boston Grammar School Club met at Young's Hotel with teachers from city schools. After a brief business session and officer elections, Miss Edith B Whitcomb sang and Professor Barton spoke on the teachers school aims. He urged observation plus comparison to draw conclusions and outlined geology field trip methods.
William Thomson first Lord Kelvin of Glasgow was awarded an honorary doctor of laws by Yale University in Battell Chapel. The ceremony marked Yale’s first special assembly for an honorary degree in over a century. President Hadley conferred the degree as Chittenden presented him. Lord Kelvin thanked Yale and reflected on science education’s progress.
In a Salem villa Dolly and Jim enlist a con man Jose to fake a haunting. The deception aims to scare up fortune but ends with a staged phantasm and a staged theft, leaving Jim, Dolly, and a gray wigged Jenkins in a muddled, comic caper.
Sister Mary Regina known as Ma Stanton died after a short illness in East Boston. She joined Notre Dame in 1869 and spent 32 years teaching without absence. She led a large charitable group of women and was highly regarded for her sisterly conduct.
George F. Blake Company letters to the Post deny reports of a Machinists Union visit and a 55 hour week with 60 hours pay. The firm says no union contact occurred and that employees are granted 3% hours per week, reaffirming ongoing voluntary pay terms. George DeLaval, the manager, states no consideration of union delegates.
Citizens of Dorchester gathered in Bloomfield Hall to urge passage of the district option liquor bill. Rev Eugene C Webster chaired. Boston Temperance Federation leader Robert H Magwood reviewed liquor trade history in Dorchester since 1880. A resolution urging passage was unanimously adopted and to be sent to local senators and representatives.
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