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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1903
Page
6
The Post lists daily and Sunday subscription rates including one year at 83.00, monthly 1.50, three months 0.75, and 40 cents for three months. Subscriptions require advance payment and address changes must include current and new addresses. Editor BE. A. Grozier signs off.
A Vermont county fair report argues cars are unsuitable for fair entertainment and dangerous. A Caledonia fair race killed rider Herbert Lamphere and injured Dr. John M. Allen as a car left track at 50 mph, sparking calls to redesign tracks and limit machine contests.
The British cabinet fractures as Joseph Chamberlain quits and Ritchie and Lord George Hamilton depart. King Edward accepts resignations, forcing Premier Balfour to rebuild a government with stronger ministers amid party divisions and looming elections. Chamberlain rides a wave of prestige but lacks a ready-made faction.
The Austrian emperor refuses Hungarian officers the right to issue commands in Magyar, insisting on German only. The move challenges Hungarian national sentiment and could spark a long‑brewing conflict as Austria Hungary teeters under Francis Joseph’s conservative, aging rule.
The Observant Citizen recalls a windy Wednesday with straw hats airborne and a gray humor in watching races. It notes yacht interests, a yacht Nancy Brown damaged at Sheepshead Bay, and Miss Marie Cahill’s continued wit despite a wrecked cottage at Long Branch. An New England Medal of Honor Association officers list follows. A Washington Street electric encounter with a clueless Globe Theatre location prompts a biblical remark about sight. A Columbia Road swimming tank inquiry is answered with a future opening. Tremont Street sees Japanese fans given away as a crowd reacts to a heat wave and a peculiar ad. A bogus check scam is described with a 30 year old man seeking payroll funding. The piece ends noting the hot spell exhausting many residents physically and mentally.
The passage argues that succession by Salic law would pass to an unworthy heir and calls for a break in Austria's continuity. It suggests Hungarians might push for national independence, rejecting any linkage to the German federation and endorsing Kosssuth’s nationalist dream.
The Prohibitionists of Massachusetts show steadfast faith amid decline, recalling their past influence over Republicans. A Worcester resolution argues that liquor sales tempt self-destruction and oppression, urging total abolition to please God and restore party virtue.
A poem recounts Jim Simpson a drunk brakeman fired for whiskey and misdeeds. He hides a soft heart for children yet is scorned as good for nothing. A tragic platform moment and a quiet romance with Mandy end with him leaving in sorrowful, unresolved distance.
Hugh St. Claire wanders into a church where he hears Faith Vernon sing and falls in love again. Opposed by family yet driven by longing he travels abroad, returns to Faith and asks forgiveness. She forgives and they pledge a future together in sunshine.
A fragmentary dialogue asks if peninsula is part of Pennsylvania. The passage shifts to lyrical reflections on love and the endless blue of skies and seas, as if reading a fixed, inner light in a beloved.
At a meeting of the executive council Lloyd E. White of Taunton was confirmed as associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. His name had been sent to the council a week earlier as part of the governor’s slate. The governor and officials then toured the State farm in Bridgewater before a trip to Hartland Missouri.
About 300 voters gathered in Cauley Hall Charles Town for a rally in support of Senator Charles 8 Sullivan. Joseph O. Turnbull presided with addresses by Jeremiah J. McCarthy William Marnell Thomas Fitzgerald and Sullivan.
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