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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1907
Page
5
Daily newspaper listing from Boston Post Publishing Co presenting issue number 53 of 1907 with address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts and price one dollar.
Post advertising lists subscription rates including three months for 75 cents and one month for 25 cents. Annual rates show two dollars fifty cents with six months at twenty five cents and three months at sixty five cents. Also notes Parly Post and Sunday Post options and mailing rules. Editor E A Grozier signs.
The fortieth anniversary of Memorial Day was marked with notable outdoor ceremonies. Weather favored the events with sunshine and moderate temperatures enhancing public interest and participation.
Memorial Day ceremonies at 1st Hills Cemetery honored George F. McNeill described as “the father of eight-hour law.” The speaker praised his humanity and fifty years of public service toward the ideal of a just and better city.
The Hall of Fame adds eleven real Americans after six years, with seven from New England and six of those from Massachusetts. John Quincy Adams Agassiz Whittier Lowell Mary Lyon and Maria Mitchell are lauded, and the Massachusetts Governor leads the ceremonies.
The call for medical expert testimony to be selected by the court, free from private obligations, gains support. Mr. Louis C. Southard argues this reform would curb bias and rivalries in expert opinions, citing recent conflicts. He will present these views to the Massachusetts Medical Society at its upcoming annual dinner.
President Roosevelt in Indianapolis unveils a plan to regulate railroads doing interstate business. He advocates federal supervision over stocks and bonds to curb over capitalization and supports national incorporation for control. He argues for criminal accountability for railroad executives who plunder funds.
The speaker notes rising federal power over banks of issue and transport and asks if the country is ready for such control. He warns a crisis in New England threatens commercial and industrial interests without sufficient authority to regulate movement.
The House adopted Representative McEttrick's resolution urging the Highway Commissioners to report actions on petitions to lower telephone rates and improve service. Public hearings promised by law have not occurred, despite petitions dating from January 1907 with thousands of signatures, prompting renewed House pressure to disclose proceedings and data.
A vivid carnival promotion proclaims a single Lincoln Pageant appearance featuring tableaux and a mock political extravaganza. It includes Theodore Roosevelt, a weather club initiation, and a mayoral candidate chorus, billed with a monkey menagerie and politico satire. Billy Sphinx adds a provocative quip about youth and statesmanship.
Reader submissions add to the Nature Fakir Black List with cases of animal feats and human folly. A Medford man reports his cat catching seven snakes in one morning. A Hyde Park man admits a canary starved while his wife was away. The Hart brothers announce a vanishing act as the Straw Hat season nears.
A sensational pulp page tale shows Captain Shedd Gore’s pirates rescuing him from atop Bunker Hill Monument. The plan unfolds as a “human ladder” climbs by stacking pirates’ heads, ending with Gore’s fall and perilous grip.
The observant citizen reports repaving on Mason street making it impassable near the Boston Theatre. He notes long service at the Boston Theatre, recalls staff, and cites mayoral and club happenings, social events, and a birth announcing a 10 pound girl born to Dr. Walter J. Faunce’s family.
Benjamin Stone Jr led decoration work at Cedar Grove Cemetery Dorchester with Commander Robinson. Mayor John F Fitzgerald spoke, joined by Rev. Dr. E. E. Shippen and Rev. Dr. George Pratt. The Woman's Relief Corps supervised by Mrs. Carrie L. Hatch assisted. a posthumous address urged honoring Civil War sacrifices.
R A Bell Post 134 of colored veterans left 46 Joy Street at 8 15 am for Rainsford Island to decorate 120 graves. Sergeant Carney, Fort Wagner hero and one of the few living Medal of Honor recipients, stood out at the observance. The post then returned to Boston at 1 pm and marched to the Shaw tablet on the Common where Charles W M Williams delivered the oration.
A century old grave of a revolutionary soldier was uncovered at Fort Winthrop by Mckkenzie Garrison of the Army and Navy Union while scattering garlands for Civil War veterans. A crumbling tablet says he was laid to rest in 1778 but the name remains unknown. Daughters of the Revolution were notified. Commander EE J Reavey supervised a detachment that decorated 61 graves of iron and honored hall members, while J McCarthy recalled Governor's Island.
A letter to the editor calls for a high wide bridge from North Square to East Boston with a broad road, another to Chelsea Square, and a direct roadway to Lynn. It also urges a future high wide Saugus River bridge to create work for local men and boost Boston prosperity.
Lois, weary of society, travels to Mrs. Dugald's house to meet her cousin Lord Harold Kenniston. A tense reunion unfolds as he greets her and, after a brief exchange, draws the blushing heiress into his arms and begins explaining his sudden return from Switzerland.
A lyrical tribute to Henry David Thoreau echoing nature as the speaker lauds his life as eternal. The verses praise his wisdom and poetic spirit, promising that nature will remember him with violets on his resting coverlet.
A Swiss village delay, a hopeful search for Lois and her parents, and Mrs. Dugald inviting a visit to America alter the course of the tale. Lois and Lord Shenniston become the focal point of the gathering as she returns home bearing a solitaire diamond, and in the following June she becomes Lady Kenniston.
Belgrade reports mutinous Turkish troops fully armed have seized the postal telegraph station at Uskub to present grievances to Constantinople authorities in Belgrade.
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