Capitalization risk in Boston gas consolidation fight
The essay argues against inflated capitalization of consolidated Boston gas companies, warning it would lock in high prices, impede progress toward lower costs, and undermine civic dignity and state integrity. It stresses immediate gas rates, long term impacts, and honors Governor Wolcott and General Knowlton. Noblesse oblige.
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Boston
Collins
Wolcott
Knowlton
Commonwealth
Washington
Massachusetts
Trusts in Politics and Road Disaster Highlight Moral Crisis
The New York World accuses a nineteen-director trust of funding Roosevelt campaigns from corporate funds via advertising. The piece condemns the practice as commercially and morally repugnant, and asks if the Commerce Department will disclose late campaign facts. Separately, an elderly farmer is severely injured when a car collides with his wagon. the auto party leaves him, an example of dangerous speed and road rage noted by the Automobile Association for reforms.
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The
New York World
Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Corporations
Cortelyou
New York
Williamsbridge
White Plains
Automobile Association
Lawyer Cotten versus Treasury over Massachusetts warrant
The District of Columbia courts are asked to bar the Treasury from issuing a duplicate warrant to Massachusetts for about 1.6 million dollars. The case centers on Attorney Cotton’s handling, delays, and alleged tricks to retain his fee, with Attorney General Parker’s argument urging correction of Treasury errors and fulfillment of Massachusetts’ contract obligations under a state resolve and the prior administration’s approval.
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John B. Cotton
District of Columbia
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Treasury
Cotten
Parker
Moody
Treasury Department
Cotton
Shaw
Massachusetts
Wolcott
Executive Council
Law Department of the Commonwealth
Hosea B. Knowlton
Commonwealth
The Great Game Yale vs Harvard at New Haven
The forecast favors Yale but Harvard may surprise. The piece weighs team strength, past results, and the chance element in a pivotal rivalry clash at New Haven with both sides expected to fight hard and defenses tested. A dramatic battle royal is anticipated with outcomes uncertain.
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New Haven
Yale
Harvard
Cambridge
Princeton
Crimson
Observant Citizen Gavin aims for alderman in eighth district
Ward 16 representative Arthur L Gavin exits the State House as he pursues an alderman seat. In district eight he earned one of two Democratic tickets nominations among four candidates. New Yorkers praise the subway with minimal turnstile friction and few passenger obstacles. Boston couples welcome a daughter, the couple’s second girl, about 12 days old. Isadore Rush’s death is from heart failure after a heavy wave, not drowning. St Paul’s Tremont boys form the Lindsey Club with Max Henry Newman active. he will read a paper on boys clubs. General Miles is favored as adjutant general over Dalton. Harvard fans expect a dramatic outcome in the Crimson race. Irving Smith, Boston businessman, returns from Europe and plans to publish How Business Is Done Europe.
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Arthur L. Gavin
State House
Demotratic
St. Paul’s Church
Tremont Street
Lindsey Club
Max Henry Newman
Tillotson
Newman
Gibson County
Tenn
Ohio
Horace Greeley
Viccinity
Hah
Anish
Dan
Boston
Edward Sterling
Ned
Ned Sterling
Police
The
Law
Banner obituary notes collapse of Gibson County weekly
An obituary reflects on the Gibson County News aging and dying like a small Ohio weekly. The writer recalls launching a four page paper with seven columns, delivering news, singing praise, and later losing readers and revenue before a sheriff seals the building, ending the venture. The piece blends nostalgia with a funeral for a fragile local press.
Ned Sterling's Heroic Night and a Christening
A veteran officer recounts a moonlit rescue where Ned Sterling, despite brutal mob violence, protects a suspect and a partner. The tale leads to a wedding tribute and ends with a Christening invitation for a son named Daniel Fay Sterling, signed Ned.
Perfection Mrs Homesort on Jinny’s polished foreign speech
Mrs Homesort asks if Jinny has gained polish on her overseas trip and Mrs Stayback replies that her speech is so correct she can hardly understand a word she says.
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Mrs. Homesort
Mrs. Stayback
Debutante Season Amid Society Gatherings In Boston
The society page notes Harvard Yale fans travel to New Haven for a decisive afternoon game drawing Boston residents. Social events unfold with Mrs Bleakie hosting invitations for Marguerite Bleakie, weddings at The Elms Natick for Madeline Walcott and Robert Sanborn, and numerous receptions. Frequent visitors include General Whittier, Crolls abroad, and Vanderbilts at the Somerset.
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Harvard
New Haven
John S. Bleakie
Newbury Streete
Brookline
Marguerite A. Bleakie
Madeleine Florence Walcott
Robert Charles Sanborn
Elms
Natick
John W. Walcott
E. A. Hunting
Chestnut Street
West Newton
Joseph C. Morse
Quincy
Charles A. Whittier
New York
Europe
Majestic
General Whittier
Boston
Legion
Somerset Club
James R. Chadwick
Marlboro Street
Albert Ivins Croll
Commonwealth Avenue
Grace
Pauline Croll
the Vendome
Manchester by-the-Sea
Walter J. Mitchell
George Cabot
North Shore
W. K. Vanderbilt
Somerset
Reception to B U Freshmen by Mrs Huntington
Mrs W E Huntington wife of President Huntington with faculty wives hosted a freshman reception at Jacob Sleeper Hall for Boston University yesterday afternoon. A large freshman delegation attended and on the receiving line were Mrs W M Warren Mrs Borden P Bowne Mrs James Geddes Jr Mrs Thomas B Lindsay Mrs J Taylor Mrs F S Baldwin Mrs D L Sharpe Mrs A H Rice Mrs R A Bruce and Mrs J B Coit.
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W. E. Huntington
Huntington
Boston University
Jacob Sleeper Hall
W. M. Warren
Borden P. Bowne
James Geddes, Jr
Thomas B. Lindsay
J. Taylor
F. S. Baldwin
McKinley Monument Fund Reaches $600000 Goal
Chicago dated report says the fund for a national monument to the late President McKinley reaches 600000. National trustees will meet in New York next Tuesday to adopt a monument design.
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Chicago
McKinley
New York
National Trustees of the
Association
Douglas Acknowledges Bates Congratulatory Message
A letter received at the State House from W R Buchanan Secretary to W L Douglas thanks Governor Bates for past wishes and notes an oversight in sending thanks. The correspondence reflects Bates’s congratulatory message to Governor elect Douglas on November 8 1904 in New York.
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State House
Bates
New York
John G. Bates
Boston
Mass
Douglas
Commonwealth
W. R. Buchanan
W. L. Douglas
Poet Author Query From Editor to The Post
A reader from Boston on November 16 asks the editor to identify the author of the poem line backward, turn backward, O time in thy flight, make me a child again, just for tonight. The inquiry is signed W. N. T.
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Boston
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the Trusts IN Politics
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Edward Milton Boyle
Boyle
Isadore Rush
San Diego
Nelson A. Miles
Dalton
Dalon
Miles
Brutus
Rome
Julius Cesar
Irving Smith
Newton Newkirk
Bug Town
Guc Town
Nawkink
Plymouth Rock
California
Mt. Vernon
Whiskey Trust
Hanover ST
Lao LO
Westland
Clul Ane At
National Cash Buyers’ Association
Medford
Martin
Sunday Post
Officer Fay
Sadie Stull
Monument Street
Charlestown
Daniel Fay Sterling
B. U
M’kinley Monument Fund
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Harold
Wile
X-Zalia
X-Zalia Corporation
Batterymarch St
National
Cash Buyers’ Association
Water Street
Mildred Champagne
Champagne
P. S
Vy Newton New
Esrk
John W.luce & Company
Paine Furniture Co
Canal Street
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