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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1901
Page
6
The wind up of a remarkable Massachusetts campaign shows Republicans accenting Governor Crane and a party ticket while Democrats rally behind Mr. Quincy and reform issues. Voters are increasingly engaged, with a week left before the polls.
The article weighs General Miles’s annual report arguing the canteen’s abolition did not injure enlistments and mostly benefited soldiers’ welfare. It notes many Philippine troops affect desertion figures and questions the conclusion given the supporting facts.
Paris dispatch reports Dr Cesar Lombroso after a criminology congress in Amsterdam judged European rulers by plaster head analysis. He called the Czar a melancholy idiot the English king a degenerate the German emperor an irretrievable criminal and the sultan equally corrupt. Dr Nordau counters that many great minds are insane, leaving only the masses sane or mad.
The article notes a draft federal act to be submitted to Congress this winter. It would make threatening the President a felony with a fine and assault a capital crime if tied to Presidential duties. It also targets accessories before the fact among anarchist teachers and publishers. The piece cautions against overreach and emphasizes constitutional limits.
The passage argues state governments should strengthen crime statutes to curb incitement to murder through anarchist doctrine. It notes Congress controls immigrant exclusion and deportation of aliens with anarchist views, but essential measures against incitement lie with state laws without infringing free speech or press rights.
Citizens petition for injunction against city payment to New England Sanitary Product Co for moving garbage reduction plant from Cow Pasture to Spectacle Island. Proponents claim illegality. critics cite half a million yearly disposal costs and large company profits. They urge court to halt proceedings for adequate inquiry.
The Observant Citizen reports that Billy Patterson was struck in a Brookline incident and O'Neil was fined ten dollars after Patterson identified him in court. The piece also notes Patterson has faced scrutiny about his existence and initial claims, with side items on local figures and cultural happenings in Boston.
The navy recruiting station at 23 Hanover Street has enlisted over 50 men and boys in two weeks. Many applicants are machinists or tradesmen who obtain ark papers at Charlestown Navy Yard. Enlistment figures reflect overall applicant volume, with days bringing up to 60 youths, while some faces fail due to parental consent, citizenship, age, or failed physicals.
A fragmented page mixes a poem urging grit and perseverance with a chaotic interview vignette with John D. Rockefeller. The Rockefeller segment details a visit, a box of cigars, a library, and a candid exchange about formality and generosity amid fortune.
The Boston Post seeks amateur photographs of New England ladies reading the newspaper at breakfast. Prizes include 10 and an unspecified second prize. Submit captioned photos with name and address to Photo Editor Boston Mass by November 15, 1991.
A reader argues that Ireland may join the United States as a state, challenging the idea as impractical yet proposing assimilation and amalgamation as a solution to long standing international tensions. The writer questions American equality with British rulers and critiques proponents of racial hierarchy.
A reader asks the newspaper for guidance on obtaining a nursery book about farming and gardening for children. The note seeks details or sources to furnish all desired information.
The special committee of the School Board met on Mason Street to hear Ernst outline fraud claims connected to Miss Cunningham's appoint ment at Weston Street School. He cites verbal depositions from 11 board members and seeks to act as prosecutor. the hearing is set for Friday at 4 30 with board members and press invited.
An unnamed narrator discovers a flower covered cottage where a lonely old chemist and his housekeeper guard a tale of lost love. Twilight scenes unfold as a white bird descends to comfort the man who, praying for release, dies beside his wife’s memorial vault in a quiet resort.
At the Episcopalian Club banquet in Brunswick Harvard’s Professor Beale told 100 club members that the trades union is the pitiless master of the workingman. The event featured speeches by Rev John W Suter and Rathbone Gardner with Hamlin presiding.
The court of inquiry opened cross examining Admiral Schley in Washington with plans of battle and orders debated. Lemly pressed on whether Schley acted with dispatch and how he handled confidential instructions from Admiral Sampson and information on the Spanish fleet near Cienfuegos and Santiago.
In wartime testimony Admiral Schley discusses coaling ships at Cienfuegos and Santiago. He explains weather, tactical choices, and why auxiliaries were not towed or abandoned, defending his line of battle and blockading strategy amid questions about vessel disposition and coal timing.
Rear Admiral Schley concludes his direct examination recalling signals from the Massachusetts and conversations with Captain Evans. He disputes Taylor and Dawson on Brooklyn’s position, asserts Brooklyn did not sail south, and notes Brooklyn’s five inch guns accounted for a major share of hits. He states Brooklyn suffered 80 of 42 Spanish hits, about 70 percent.
Judge Advocate Lemly interrogates Admiral Schley on consultations with captains Higginson Jewell Bands Cook and Marix before the lies squadron sailed southward. Schley testifies they discussed battle order if the Spanish fleet appeared and torpedo warheads placement. He notes a later Santiago meeting to explain blockade formation and attack method.
A local store at 51 and 53 Summer Street near Gia ia can place to buy goods announced the end of operations under the Ladies Shopping banner. Details on closing dates and impact for customers were not provided.
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