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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1904
Page
4
The Sunday Magazine in the Boston Sunday Post proved a tremendous hit across New England with dealers unable to meet demand. It is not sensational but entertaining and attractive, reflecting a major step upward in Sunday newspapers while signaling strong reader interest.
The Hotel and Railroad News Co increased circulation by over 3500 copies. Newsboys and dealers report widespread sellouts and big sales of Sunday Post Magazine with multiple cities noting record or above last Sunday's figures.
The schooner Sadie Corey commanded by Captain Holt left Bangor on September 9 for Norwich Connecticut with lumber. Abandoned September 15, 40 miles northeast of Cape Cod, crew of five was rescued by Clarence H. Venner and landed at West Dennis. Owner is J A Hathaway of Boston.
Bishop John J. Brady denounced a painted political sign on the asphalt in front of SS. Peter and Paul Church on Broadway. The message urged support for Collins for Senate and Newton for the House. The sign was washed away Sunday evening and no complaint will be filed.
Dedication of the Memorial Church in Fairhaven is postponed indefinitely due to illness of donor Henry H. Rogers III. Rogers suffers a mild dysentery attack after arriving in Fairhaven on Saturday. Dr. John C. Shaw treats him and says there is no cause for alarm.
Yale Captain Hogan leads 23-man gathering at the Yale field for the first full squad session of the season. Field coach Rafferty and Hogan oversee drills including ball handling and punt catching as veterans Rockwell Hogan Bowman and Roraback report early, with Bloomer Shevlin and others to join later in the week.
St Louis golfers win 11 races in the 386 hole qualifying round of the lympian golf championship. Ralph McKittrick and Stuart Stickney of the Country Club lead with 163 for gold medal honors. Chicago players led by Walter E. Egan of Exmoor advance to match play. 75 entered the double round with all but one, B Cory of Boston, finished.
Thirty six candidates reported on the Princeton campus in response to Captain Foulke's invitation. John Dewitt directed coaching, splitting players into four squads for a 30 minute session focusing on punting ball handling and passing. Only veterans Foulke Dillon and King were present with more expected tomorrow and freshmen due Thursday.
At the Sixth Regiment annual rifle shoot at Bay State range, Wakefield’s Company A clinched the regimental trophy for the 16th consecutive year with a team score of 417.
At a Master Steamfitters meeting, firms agreed to maintain an open shop hereafter. Named companies include Bradlee & Chatman, Braman Dow, Buerkel, Coffin, Duncan, Foster Heating, Laskey Whitten, Lynch Woodward, Walter B. Ross, and others. Five large firms report full crews, others partial. about 300 workers are currently employed across the signatory firms, 60 new hires since the strike.
Miss Marion Appleton Barker of Jamaica Plain married Reginald Heber Howe Jr at noon in Brookline. The groom’s father presided as rector. Harvard graduate Howe is an instructor in natural science at the Middlesex School in Concord, where the couple will reside.
Somerville High School football coach Whittaker released the season schedule with games at home against Boston Preparatory Cambridge High Watertown Everett Malden Lowell Textile Dorchester and more plus a road trip to Groton and Cambridge Latin. Ten players from last year return including captain Burns and Graves as 27 new candidates join for a competitive season.
After the first week's judging of Jersey cattle at the World's fair, Thomas W. Lawson earned premier championship for the greatest number of wins across eight classes. Vanderbilt of the Biltmore herd placed second. Lawson's Flying Fox's Foxall lost in the aged bulls class to Taylor's son of Merry Maiden, while Lawson reserved Flying Fox for the championship herd.
At Cabot Park Newton High opened the season with 48 candidates reporting to coach E. R. Scudder. The squad will likely be chosen late this week as preparations start.
Baseball scores from Baltimore Buffalo and Toronto locations show Baltimore defeating Roches ter 5 to 1 in game one and 3 to 2 in game two. Buffalo edged Providence 1 to 0. Jersey City beat Toronto 7 to 2 while Montreal defeated Newark 7 to 2.
Judge Barker in the Supreme Court decreed the sale by Mercantile Trust of New York to Kidder Peabody for 11 million dollars of stock in local gas companies is valid. The ruling does not resolve Delaware Bay State Gas Co’s claim for accounting against H H Rogers and others over 1893 pledging of 15,000 shares. The decree is entered without prejudice to Receiver Pepper’s suit.
The port reports 17 trips since Saturday noon bringing 545200 pounds of fresh fish including laddock cod hake pollock cusk and swordfish. Vessels include Julia Costa Annie Perry Glenelg Philip P Manta Mary E Cooney Beuma John F McMorrow Yakima Catharine Enos Natalie B Nelson Juniata Motor Helen B Thomas Eva Avina Mary E Stone and Laura Enos. Haddock price ranges and foreign trade figures are noted along with harbor observations and ship movements nearby.
Ship arrivals list Daltonhall from Hamburg and Fowey Eng with details of sunrise sunset moon rise and high water times. Almanac notes length of day 12 hours 17 minutes and moon and water timings for Sept 20.
Belgrade Sept 19 all powers dispatch ministers to coronation except Russia whose action has caused a sensation. King Peter will be crowned next Wednesday.
Charlottesville officials announce a true indictment against ex mayor J Samuel McCue for the murder of his wife Fannie M McCue on September 4. The grand jury at Charlottesville Corporation Court returned the indictment today.
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