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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1904
Page
6
Two state conventions in one day in Boston unfold with little surprise. The Republican meeting may hinge on reciprocity resolution wording, pitting business group demands against Lodge and Draper. Democratic convention proceeds with an essentially settled ticket and a platform stretched by national election themes but focused on state reform.
Washington reports that Cortelyou assured Roosevelt no promises were made to corporations or individuals. The piece mocks the need for such denials, arguing trusts influence is implicit via threats and political strategy, with Roosevelt armed by appointing his private secretary to probe corporate wrongdoings.
The piece critiques Andrew Carnegie's proposal for an international peace syndicate formed by major powers to enforce restraint on war via The Hague tribunal. It questions feasibility, arguing big powers may still clash and that enforcing peace could mirror war itself, leaving the vision illogical and impractical.
In Ashburton place next Tuesday afternoon a conference of city and town officials will discuss policy on gypsy moth infestation. Massachusetts Forestry Association invites Mayors and Selectmen, plus the Metropolitan Park Commission and Water and Sewerage Commission to coordinate actions on infested lands in the Middlesex Fells. The moth problem is described as the most pressing local issue beside water and sewerage.
A call is issued to hold a conference to address persistent transportation problems blamed on municipal parsimony and failing local energy, seeking relief from the pestilent insects that have defeated efforts at every point.
The piece denounces rising coal prices amid cooler weather as arbitrary and blamed on the anthracite coal trust. It argues the public bears the cost and recalls Massachusetts urging federal control of the coal business two years prior, criticizing the Pennsylvanialike pricing structure and local coal dealers aligned with the trust.
Former President Grover Cleveland returned to his Princeton home tonight after visiting Joseph Jefferson at Gray Gables Buzzards Bay. Mrs Cleveland had headed to Princeton weeks ago from Sandwich New Hampshire. Cleveland planned to travel via Fall River and New York.
Waltham Oct 6 The Rev L S Shermer formerly of the Church of the Advent will become rector of the Church of the Ascension until a successor to Rev Charles Kendall Drake is chosen Drake is in New Hampshire with nervous prostration and has resigned his post.
In a letter to the editor Eugene B. Willard argues the International Peace Congress advances peace across nations and appeals to laboring classes, noting workers hold wealth and face war’s costs. He warns war fever grows in Europe but hopes reason and religion will restore calm and boost the peace movement.
Sir James F Jackson of the State railroad commission says no fender yet can lift a 50 pound dynamite box from a Melrose disaster. A reply offers to prove otherwise by filling a 50 pound box with any substance and wagering 100 to 10 that Rooney’s fender will lift it from the track without breaking the box.
A hunter and guide climbed No Man's Mountain to seek bears, finding signs of activity at the summit. An old she bear and two cubs approached, prompting the narrator to climb a tree and avoid harming them. He expresses respect for the animals and a plan to hunt only a worthy old male bear.
A miscellany of satirical notices mocks Peary’s polar bid and asks about coal, mentions J. P. Morgan seen on the streets, and jokes about John D. Rockefeller being uninvited to a convention. It lampoons Rockefeller as a “commercial octopus” with global interests.
In Probate Court a rich Boston lawyer Robert M Morse defeats a young rival in a key will contest. A witty remark from the losing attorney calls Morse the Nestor of the Suffolk bar. Other notes mention Episco pal convention fashions and local veterans events.
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