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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1905
Page
6
Senator Lodge derides a reciprocity plea as a five-cent resolution as the November election nears. The piece notes a split over tariffs, with Democrats urging free list for coal iron lumber hides and wood pulp, and cites Fall River voters worried by rising shoe prices and wage shares amid industrial tensions.
The region records a large end of week auto fatality tally including a Connecticut railroad crossing crash, a Newton car streetcar collision, and a vehicle overturning on a dangerous road. The piece urges speed controls and responsible motorist conduct as essential to reducing such perils.
The text urges learning care judgment and deliberation over risk taking to reasonably secure highway safety for those who ride in power vehicles. It emphasizes prudence and restraint as the path to protection on the roads.
A Maine game setback hits Harvard with multiple injuries including a broken thumb, split rib, lost tooth, battered head, and other ailments. Yale suffers similarly as the season opens. The column questions if reckless play undermines a rational sport while noting the toughness instinct may be gained without such high injury costs.
New York life insurance investigators report no current insolvency among companies under scrutiny and confirm a large surplus over net policy values. Chairman Armstrong stresses confidence while warning that continued waste and graft could exhaust reserves, noting past failures and reforms since 1880 led by Massachusetts to strengthen supervision.
The tale recounts Nifty Nat and Loocy facing an oncoming Indian warband planning to kill three others at sundown. They threaten to shoot the captives but Nifty Nat offers a twist, demanding a lesson in physical culture before they die. The Indians line up, Bows and arrows ready, yet Nifty Nat fires, killing seventeen thousand attackers in a dramatic turn, then declares his oath fulfilled and plans to wed Loocy, while others celebrate.
The piece notes unprecedented post-season clashes between New Yorks and Athletics and their Boston counterparts. It highlights widespread local excitement, equal team strength, and the season ending in glory as baseball cements its popular appeal.
Howard Gilman Laskey a noted newspaper artist and book illustrator died Sunday night at 69 Rossiter Street Dorchester after a year long illness. He was born August 17 1858 in East Boston and worked for the Boston Herald Boston Journal and the Boston Globe since 1901 with work for magazines in spare time.
A parent laments that eight year old son excels in crafts and astronomy yet struggles to read and write. The piece contrasts his playful, inventive tasks with the desire for steady literacy and arithmetic progress. It notes his botanical lessons mythology gravity science and a clever mind.
Vintage stock of French cotton and nainsook garments with embroidered ruffles and lace trim. Items priced from 2.60 to 7.50 originally, now offered at reduced sale prices. Includes chemises and fine nainsook pieces with delicate needlework.
Classified notice lists women's and children's knit underwear including vests pants tights and ensembles in white pink blue Swiss rib black silk and fleece lined options. Broken sizes and varied price points from 25c to 2.50 with samples and specials highlighted for winter wear and infant wrappers.
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