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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1903
Page
6
The Boston Sunday Post gains over 49 000 subscribers in a year while the Boston Daily Post sets circulation records in New England. Detailed August figures show daily totals from the 16th to the 19th and beyond, with readings around 183 000 to 242 470.
W A Grazier business manager of the Post Publishing Company sworn to confirm the circulation figures for the Daily Post and Sunday Post. The affidavit is dated August 31, 1903, and notarized by Justice George E Kimball.
The Macedonian committee declares readiness to die if powers fail to act. Turkish wounded flood front lines, and tales of massacres of women and children provoke appeals to Europe. Humanity protests ruthless warfare and criticizes both Macedonian and Turkish excesses.
A Boston labor demonstration yesterday impressed with two large processions marching a shared route. The display showcased tens of thousands of workers, their discipline, and pride in the industrial force of the community, highlighting unity between labor and governance under the flag.
A Rome report suggests Pope Pius XX may press Austria to halt Macedonian massacres. The piece notes the 1878 Berlin framework, four decades of unfulfilled reforms, and a current crisis as Macedonia seeks emancipation from Turkish rule.
The article recounts Thomas Edison’s ride in a new motor carriage from Orange to Phillipsburg at a mile per minute, praising hill climbing yet arguing such speed would provoke law-breaking on highways. It suggests Edison should develop a practical traction motor that cannot exceed lawful speeds to be a true public benefit.
The United States should avoid pressuring Colombia or Panama over the trans Isthmian canal. A reasonable adjustment period remains for Colombia to ratify a favorable proposal while preserving the integrity of Central American governments and the Monroe Doctrine. If needed, leverage may fall to the French company rather than U S authorities.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners should require double tracking for all long distance electric lines and order single-track routes to parallel with two tracks. After Pelham Haverhill Marlboro and Wrentham accidents, officials blame insufficient rules and negligent operation, calling for immediate law to prevent further collisions.
Mrs. W. J. Bryan denied the engagement story about Miss Ruth Bryan and Captain R. P. Hobson of Merrimac fame. She stated there isn't the least truth in the report.
A mixed page features verses about a fairy Thistledown and Uncle Bill reading the news, followed by short comic vignettes and a lengthy feature on the American mule, praising its role in history and at the St Louis exposition, with a closing note “LESSON NO. 2.”
Superintendent Doogue inspects all elms on the Common after a two ton branch fell on Bea con Street. Patrolman Harry Fogarty of Brookline plans a September wedding with Walter J. Travis the Nassau contender cited as groom. Boston social and transit sketches note singers studying in Italy, an itinerant hurdy gurdy performer on a trolley, and a Temple Place shopper seeking a district post substation. Revelry for Captain Sullivan at 20 Greenwich Street in Dorchester ends with music and games.
An amateur photographer traveling in Montana aimed his camera at a mounted cowboy. The cowboy, seeing a gun where none was, drew his six shooter and approached. The shot nearly fired as the camera clicked, and the photographer apologized for the close call.
Twenty four school teachers who had been traveling in Europe during the summer returned to their home port aboard the steamship Canadian of the Leyland line yesterday. The ship departed Liverpool August 28 and the voyage was uneventful. Passengers included Dr. William P. Derby Major William A. Gillespie of the Fusiliers William James Jr and the Rev Harris G Hale and family.
Dr. A C Dixon warned that heaven will not be an everlasting loaf during the season’s first Tremont Temple noon gathering. He preached Come unto me all ye that toil and announced meetings will continue each Monday until further notice.
The Dorchester garbage plant moves to Spectacle Island under Mayor Collins and Superintendent Donovan. Large digesters are loaded for transfer, the new plant walls are up, and the wharf system allows direct unloading to digesters. Water supply via wells raises scale concerns, and housing for 30 plus staff is arranged on site while most live in the city.
An employee relation tale unfolds as Muggins, a 12 year old helper, dies in a factory setting while delivering papers for a railroad during a busy August–September period. The narrator, a traveling passenger agent, recalls Muggins's life and his request to take a vacation before the fatal incident.
Members of the Forty seventh Regiment Veterans Association marked the fortieth anniversary of mustering out with a banquet at the American House yesterday. About 75 attended. A business meeting elected officers for the coming year led by President Albert Stickney and a slate including vice presidents Cushman Hatch Hall Wood Horton Redding Bate, secretary J H Harlow treasurer A M Robinson and chaplain the Rev H C Cunningham.
Hugh Dougherty a 19 year old from New York arrives in search of his parents and sisters Mamie and Katie last seen when he was five. He was placed at the Harri son Avenue Catholic Institute and now stays at the Working Boys Home on Bennet Street in the South End. His father was a tar roofer.
William Marconi arrived in St Louis with company officials and was hosted at the St Louis Club by Exposition Company leaders. He met with Francis to discuss a wireless telegraph stand on the fair grounds and predicted possible wireless ranges to the coast and to London with relays.
Senator Antonio Cardarelli, famed Italian physician and Naples professor, planned to publish a pamphlet arguing Pope Leo did not die of pleurisy. Though named for consultation, he was not called due to his senator oath to the King. The pamphlet's release is eagerly anticipated and likely to trigger debate.
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