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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
5
Jennie MacLean testified in a contempt of court case against Allan MacLean over the 1905 removal of Walter, age 12, to Nova Scotia. Judge Fox sentenced MacLean to three months in jail, suspended if the boy is returned promptly.
A reader argues against unchecked monopoly in the merger debate. He supports the principle but warns a single dominant transport monopoly must be controlled, or the state cannot tolerate it, urging the community to maintain faith in what is good.
The Harvard freshman baseball team travels from Cambridge to New Haven for a key afternoon game against Yale freshmen. Lineups include Rodgers center field Taylor shortstop McLaughlin left field Minot Hann first base J Sweetser catcher A Sweetser second base Twitchell third base McKay pitcher.
The Harvard squad led by E Wigglesworth B M Higginson C L Hoathaway F A Brewer and J R Gilman left Cambridge yesterday for New Haven to contest the annual shoot with Yale this afternoon. Yale has been strongest all season and is favored to win over the Crimson marksmen.
J H Shirley was removed from his post as United States consul at Charlottetown P E I for political business. Franklin D Hall, currently consul at Coaticooke Quebec, will succeed him.
A mother reports her 15 year old daughter Adelaide cured of severe eczema after four months of worsened symptoms. The ads claim Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills healed the skin and blood, and promote Cuticura products with prices and a Boston publisher contact.
The speaker argues for accepting Brandeis’s unpaid public service as equally legitimate as monetary contributions, warning that attacks on his character threaten the city and state. He likens the situation to a western traveler’s disbelief at ancient truths and cites his own fight against a 99-year West End lease to the Boston Elevated.
Edward A. Filene praises Louis D. Brandeis for unselfish public work on subway and public franchise issues, noting freely given time and money, zero pay, and pivotal roles in the Boston gas sliding scale and savings bank insurance bills. He urges readers to defend Brandeis’s reputation and uphold civic virtue in democracy.
United States District Attorney French filed a federal bill to stop the New Haven from exercising control over Boston & Maine stock. Legislators questioned the bill’s fate as the merger issue could be delayed or suspended. A conference with French and a possible extension of the Cole act were discussed as alternatives.
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