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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1902
Page
6
The Boston Post lists subscription options for daily and Sunday editions with prices for various terms. It notes subscribers should report address changes, and all money sent is at sender’s risk. Payments by checks or money orders to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. telephones listed for editorial and business offices.
Boston residents donate to aid the poor but the Dingley tariff reduces relief funds. The 15 percent duty on coal raises costs by 67 cents per ton, preventing General Bancroft from distributing coal at cost and diverting $6700 from the relief fund. The piece argues the tariff harms the needy and contrasts it with Republican claims.
Boston papers misreported that Tremont Temple deacons and the executive committee refused to invite Dr. George C. Lorimer back as pastor. In fact neither group invited him. both voted in his favor informally, with seven and then twenty supporters respectively. The paper notes his departure is a loss to Tremont Temple and the community.
The Common Council confronts a log rolled loan measure totaling 2,494,300 dollars. Critics call it a patchwork of special interests with little city need beyond scattered building schemes and a large cemetery land purchase. Past Democrats and allies resisted a 4,000,000 loan, and proponents now claim broad support.
The Symphony Hall event featured Secretary Shaw praising the billion dollar steel trust for lifting wages and prosperity while lieutenant Governor Bates urged extending protection. He urged high tariffs and warned Massachusetts against undermining trust policy, suggesting other trusts belong in the same category.
A fragment recounts calls from Symphony Hall about taxing policies that threaten free hides, free coal, and free iron. The speaker rails against exemptions that offset the burden and argues for holding up taxes that ease or harm household budgets.
William Keenan, Charles Bassett, M. H. Crowley, John King, William Mullaney and Joseph Curry are listed in a local filing or roster, indicating their connection to a civic, legal, or organizational matter within the precinct or project.
The miners demand protection for law enforcement, while critics urge action against railroad owned coal mines. The National Guard has been deployed in Pennsylvania after miners’ complaints, contrasting with calls to prosecute Baer and other railroad executives. Roosevelt vowed equal application of law.
The Observant Citizen surveys city parks and beaches noting melancholy days, curious crowds, and idle figures. It also reports on coinhorns with five cent pieces, Albion Bemis entering state senate race, a buried coal find at No Man's Land, the Ivernia's voyage, Italian women collecting demolished wood, Miss R R Joslin arriving in New York, Richard Harding Davis visiting Boston, and a Dorchester music gathering with local performers fine tuning.
A kaleidoscopic page features The White Man's Burden verse and a faux hunting letter by Ramson Ramrod from Lake Maugagoggagugglegoogle Maine dated Oct 7 1902. It also includes a Chelsea Shotgun Club note and a social item about Gotawads housewarming, plus playful ads and reader answers.
In a genteel comedy a reluctant collector Kingman seeks to recover a bill from Miss Bernice Van Horn. He impersonates payment by Lebanon & Co. and is caught by the Miss as he hides the truth. A tennis match scene masks the debt as flirtation and comic misdeeds unfold.
Miss Almira A Robison daughter of Mr and Mrs Abraham P Robison of Washington Avenue South Boston married George Francis Madden a Post employee at St Augustine s Church Dorchester Street South Boston yesterday morning Rev John J Harkins officiated Best man was Mr Thomas L Madden bridesmaid Miss Adelaide F Robison ushers were William I Ford Robert R Madden Charles E Robison Alfred L LeClair Fred M O Connell and John H Cronin Church decorated with palms and roses reception for 800 at Bethseda Hall followed. They will reside at 88 Auckland Street Dorchester and be at home Wednesday evenings after Dec 1.
Amos Skillings of Apple Valley dropped in yesterday, prompting Hampton Vermont to note his visit in the local recorder. The item includes dramatic lines about slim chances of recovery and a playful anecdote about a Sunday school teacher and a boy's joke about David.
In Montpelier on October 8 Senator Walbridge introduced a measure to modify the prohibitory law removing harsh features and creating an elected State commissioner to oversee state agencies for liquor sales for medicinal chemical and mechanical purposes. A woman suffrage bill also entered both houses granting women equal voting and office holding rights.
In the tile church of St. John the Evangelist Horace Homer Soule Jr of Boston marries Misa Adeline Merritt Train daughter of the…
President Roosevelt received a massive ovation as he rode the line of the Grand Army parade along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House. Thousands cheered, waved flags, and awed crowds filled the route while the ailing leader beamed, saluted, and rode in a landau with Cortelyou and officers. The event marked his first public appearance since surgery, with veterans, departments, and citizens from across the country in attendance.
General W W Blackmar of Massachusetts and Governor A T Bliss of Michigan were thrown from their horses during the Grand Army of the Republic parade in Washington. Blackmar remained unconscious with family at Cochran Hotel. saddle girth fault blamed. Bliss sustained bruises but no serious injuries. treated at Grand Army Hospital.
The Captain P. R. Schuyler Post of Philadelphia presented Theodore Roosevelt Jr. with a lamb named Teddy. The act occurred in Washington on October 8.
Washington October 8 ex Union soldiers on the G A R reviewing stand cheered as ex Confederate lieutenant general Longstreet joined General Sickles at the front. It was reportedly the first time an ex Confederate officer appeared there. Mrs John A Logan drew attention from the veterans as they passed.
Late W G Train of Duxbury wed at 8 pm in Boston with Rev Thatcher Kimball officiating. Fashionable early autumn ceremony drew Boston society. reception followed. Bride wore white sherry satin with lace and carried hees of the valley. Page and flower girls included Graham T Winslow and Misses Margaret Winslow and Elizabeth Train. Best man was Charles Augustue Stone. ushers included Winthrop C Winslow Marcus Morton Lewis H Bailey Arthur R Train Franklin M Train Seth Sprague. A special train ferried guests to Duxbury and back to Boston.
Frank P. Bennetts delegation bolt 14th District convention in Lynn while regular body re-nominated Representatives Randlett and Babb. Bennetts fate hinges on Saugus voters Saturday while Ward 6 and Saugus reform battle over 1896 agreement. Democrats claim district tilts Democratic. nominees John Driscoll and William A. Kelly praised as strong vote-getters.
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