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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1906
Page
6
The Daily Post announces mail subscription options and rates for the summer period. It lists rates for daily and Sunday editions and explains address changes and payment methods. The notice provides contact details and notes the publisher B A Grozier.
The author urges President Roosevelt to immediately release the Neill Reynolds meat packing investigation report to Congress and the public. The piece argues secrecy harms governance, notes two privileged House resolutions, and stresses the report informs national legislation and local reforms in Illinois Missouri and Nebraska.
The article argues that mercy or commutation is highly improbable as the Governor is unlikely to use mercy powers without council advice. It notes the legal technicalities and past actions suggesting the petition for commutation will not trigger an immediate referral to the council or pardon.
Boston Mayor Fitz Gerald addresses protest letters to commercial groups denouncing rising fire insurance rates. He argues residents pay rates allowed by business conditions and urges merchants to unite against the hike. Premiums total over 3 million dollars yearly. insurers pay large dividends, compounding public concern. The Mayor seeks effective resistance strategies.
The article honors Michael Davitt, praising his lifelong dedication to Irish self government. It notes his youth in the James Stephens movement, a 15 year penal sentence with half served, leadership in Parliament from prison, and his role as father of the Land League. It highlights his fiery energy, integrity, and enduring influence on Ireland's social revolution.
Supporters of Tucker seek Governor clemency with the condemned man and his relatives urged to expect a possible sentence commutation.
The report lists social happenings from Boston and surroundings including touring car arrival for Guy Currier, Mrs Currier’s fame, outdoor theater success, Colonel Hopkins landscaping plans, Howell Hansel preparing the Yankiana sloop for Dorchester Bay, Ida Louise Gibbs’s Flag Day reading in Vermont, John Craig moving to Swampscott, Billings opening Mackie Manse, the Arabic liner docking with Stephen O'Meara aboard, Lieutenant Lewis praised by Governor Guild, a South Baptist choir trip to Sharon, George H Lincoln’s 10th birthday celebration, and Kennedy of Roxbury Latin discussed as a possible Dartmouth football end this fall.
A playful collage of quips and gossip notes from June begining with protests by work horses, sassy weather jokes, a weather clerk joke, a burst of snippets about Gorky Boston and Maharajah Baroda, plus a chaotic tank crashes into a store headline and light local chatter about airships and floods.
Advertisers offer Dickens Complete Works on approval with a 30 day return option. Readers are urged to replace unsatisfactory volumes with a guaranteed complete set and to consider this bargain as a fresh start.
Britain has sent a fresh ultimatum to the Sultan of Turkey. The piece notes the Sultan’s long history of ultimatums, joking that he may keep a file of them since he has faced such demands since youth. The piece humorously compares ultimatums to keepsakes for rainy days.
A claim circulated that musical composers outlive people in other jobs. Proponents cite immersion in music as beneficial, while others say nonmusicians struggle with adapting to melodies and rhythms.
A St. Louis bride files for divorce claiming her husband refused to kiss her, amid a collage of quotes and odd notes about criminology, superiority, and dialogue with superiors. The piece blends sensational lines with social musings and dated phonetic quips.
A brief note reports Milwaukee elects a new mayor, Becker, at age 26, highlighting the town that made him famous and the political rise.
At a meeting of the Ancient Order of Hibernians state officers led by President Matthew Cummings the group launched a fund to place a headstone and maintain the grave of Fanny Parnell in Mt Auburn cemetery. Boston supporters and officials contributed with plans to raise several hundred dollars for a fitting monument.
A weary rider Thraceby on the Yampas trail confronts ruin as the bank fails and Adeline's return seems distant. Irishman Jerry McAllister offers steady faith, a toast to memory, and then a dramatic interruption arrives in a red automobile with Adeline and Thraceby's renewed prospects.
Paris reports the cabinet has ordered a warship dispatched to Tangier to secure satisfaction for the recent killing of a Frenchman in the area.
The piece comments on a grave senior leaving for the city and a truancy moment. It contrasts a boy with his books and a city-bound senior with a fishing pole. The speaker muses about manhood, school, and the longing for simple boyhood joys. The Catholic Standard and Times is cited.
The Boston Board of Aldermen in committee of the whole will meet at 8 this evening in the aldermanic chamber to consider petitions from the Massachusetts Home Telephone Company and the Boston Independent Telephone Company, two independent firms seeking to operate in Boston.
At a recent meeting Alderman Linehan pushed to act on petitions before the full board while opponents led by Aldermen Curley and Baldwin urged referral to the electric wires committee. The petitions seek permission for companies to lay wires conduits and poles to transmit intelligence by telegraph and telephone amid claims of curbing a local monopoly by the New England Telephone Company.
Soft coal miners in Kansas Arkansas and the Indian Territory approve a proposal from the Southwestern Coal Operators Association. Reopening is expected by June 10 signaling a return to production.
A humorous captioned exchange shows a burglar stalling with a phrase about calling his lawyer. The man of the house challenges the intruder as the thief fumbles for a response.
Tragedian and comedian trade lines about a Turkish bath. The tragic actor jokes he was nearly boiled by steam and the comedian riffs on a boiled sham, ending in a humorous misdirection.
Despite Mayor Fitzgerald denying it, reports claim a general reshuffling of department heads is planned. The rumor cites a recent State Street meeting with ex Mayor Josiah Quincy and party leaders discussing appointments and transfers.
Reports from a mayoral conference suggest wholesale personnel changes across departments. Thomas A. Mullen may move from schoolhouse commissioner to law department, with Joseph A. Dennison favored for the vacant post. Charles Logue seeks to keep his schoolhouse post while eyeing building duties. Potential vacancies in penal institutions and Health Board loom as Mayor Fitzgerald weighs replacements for Martin and Durgin.
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