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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1902
Page
7
A noon meeting of Boston’s mayoral committee urges prompt action to aid widows and orphans facing price spikes and fuel shortages. While not solve coal problems, a liberal fund is needed to provide substitutes and ease winter hardship for those with slender resources. Boston has a history of swift support for local appeals.
A Boston Post-advocated analysis defends Mr. Harvey 8. Chase and rebuts claims of a 10 percent teachers’ pay cut. The report shows such a cut would only reduce municipal spending by 1 percent, suggests savings in supplies and schoolhouses, and cites authorities praising current salaries. The piece argues Chase’s prolix reports cause misunderstanding and that teachers’ pay will not be cut. The city’s school system is praised as well organized with influence from the Janitors’ and Masters’ associations.
A reverent Boston school committee member speaks with awe when discussing public opinion on liberal treatment for instructors. The 2000 city teachers are described as effectively looking after their own interests.
The piece cites Secretary Shaw easing financial strains in New York while warning that only Congress can cure the root of the trouble by cutting taxes. It covers Thayer’s critique of publicity as a remedy for trusts, endorsing tariff reduction on trust goods to curb monopoly power, and notes concerns over a $2.5 million city loan bill tainted by a land purchase graft.
A cat watches its family pack up, climbs onto the moving van’s driver seat, and sits there solemnly until arrival at the new house where it curls up in a chair. The piece then notes a Washington street firm selling a novel advertising ring with coal set in aluminum. A Mattapan car conductor made a costly mistake yesterday.
A crowded intown street car in rain becomes the setting for a curious passenger tale. A man grips a strap as a curve loosens him, while a half drowned umbrella and a morning paper provoke a laugh. An anecdote about an American smuggler with a coal lump ends with the conductor shouting Park street All out. News briefs report the Emperor of Corea death clarified, a marriage rumor in Buenos Ayres, canal quiet, and an American millionaire selling property in Paris.
A curio of letters about giant pumpkins from Weymouth to Belfast and Danvers surfaces. Tales tell of pumpkins causing floods, moving apartments, and even sinking a river, with humorous asides about kettles, sultans, and city water levels in Boston.
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