Post Publishing Company Daily and Sunday Post rates 1905
Publication notice lists pricing for daily and Sunday editions of the Post in Boston Massachusetts. Includes address lines for offices and editorial staff notes editor B A Grozier and policy on advance payment and subscription discontinuation.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
Newaboy
the Sunday Post
B. A. Grozier
Sunday Post
Dalzell backs tariff law in Massachusetts stand against revision
The Hon. John Dalzell defends the current tariff, arguing Massachusetts merchants suffer under burdens but favor preserving the law. He warns against a new and untried tariff revision and notes limited demand for change outside Democratic and Mugwump circles. He implies Massachusetts Republicans may resist Pennsylvania domination.
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John Dalzell
Lodge
Massachusetts
Dalzell
Congress
House
Campaign funds reform urged to curb corporate political contributions
A reform call seeks a federal law banning corporate donations to campaign funds. The piece cites prior covert routes involving Cortelyou, J. P. Morgan & Co., and Cornelius Bliss, urging complete publicity of receipts and expenditures as essential to any effective change, with Roosevelt expected to weigh in.
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New York Life
Perkins
Cortelyou
Roosevelt
Cornelius N. Bliss
J. P. Morgan & Co
George W. Perkins
Park Apportionments Increase Boston Tax Burden
Boston faces a higher share of park and boulevard costs after the Supreme Court report. Commissioners raise Boston’s apportionment from one half to .62237 based on property value, excluding population and park privileges. The five year status and ease of calculation are noted, while concerns grow over rising taxation.
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Supreme Court
Boston
Beef Trust Cases Prompt Confessions and Sentences
Officials cheer as four of twenty two indicted Chicago beef magnates confess and receive sentences. District Attorney Morrison calls the development a significant step in prosecuting the trust.
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Chicago Beef Trust
Morrison
Government’s beef trust case prompts call for harsher jail terms
The article critiques Attorney-General Knox’s 1902 rebates prosecutions ending in guilty pleas and fines deemed too lenient. It argues higher penalties are needed to deter price-raising conspiracies, noting how fines would be passed to the public via higher food costs and urging two-year imprisonments to prove real justice.
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Knox
Baer
Coal Trust
Beef Trust
Department of Justice
Old Boston Banker Francis Peabody Dies
The sudden death of Francis H. Peabody removes a leading Boston financier. He helped found the firm Thayer and Kidder in 1865 and led its old fashioned, conservative methods. Peabody was known for civic virtue and private charity.
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Francis H. Peabody
Boston
Mr. Peabody
Thayers
Henry P. Kidder
Peabody
Memorial Service for Hezekiah Butterworth at Ruggles Street Church
A memorial service for Hezekiah Butterworth will be held at 7 30 Monday evening in Ruggles Street Church. Speakers include Hon Thomas Bicknell of Barrington RI on early years, Rev H W Warren on his Warren birth town, J L Harbour recalling him, Dr Thomas Brown of Youths Companion with an original poem, and Butterworth songs will be sung.
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Hezekiah Butterworth
Ruggles Street
Thomas Bicknell
Barrington
R. I
H. W. Warren
Warren Baptist Church
Warren
J. L. Harbour
Thomas Brown
Mr. Butterworth
White Mountain Board of Trade Holds Annual Meeting
The White Mountain Board of Trade met in Littleton New Hampshire for its annual gathering. Former Governor Chester B. Jordan presided at the Fabyan House banquet. Speakers included A W Dean General Collins George W Storrs D O Remick and John Anderson. Good roads was the central theme of the addresses. General George B Cruft was elected president William McAuliffe treasurer and Walter S Noyes secretary.
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Littleton
N. H
White Mountain Board of Trade
Chester B. Jordan
Lancaster
Fabyan House
A. W. Dean
Nashua
Charles M. Collins
George W. Storrs
Concord
D. O. Remick
John Anderson
Mt. Washington
George B. Cruft
Bethlehem
William McAulift
Walter S&s. Noyes
Police Court Dockets Report Yesterdays Fines and Sentences
In Municipal Court yesterday Philip Nichola was fined 50 dollars for larceny. Wingerio Pencone Golando Verona and Sylvestre Picone were each fined 50 dollars for peddling without a license. Michael O Connor received three months in the House of Correction for violating probation. Sentences for Frank Rozzo David R Courtney and Henry Rogers were deferred. Thomas F Rae was placed under 1000 dollar bonds on a larceny charge.
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Philip Nichola
Wingerio Pencone
Golando Verona
Sylvestre Picone
Michael O’connor
House of Correction
Frank Rozzo
David R. Courtney
Henry Rogers
Thomas F. Rae
Cockroach Compares Dinner Plans in Old Newt Tale
In a rustic exchange, a cockroach jokes with Newt about dinner and missing mail. The dialogue shifts to wondering if Noot has returned or will come home, ending with a hint of mischief as a janitor figure is ducked.
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Newt
Georgie
Nifty Nat Becomes Indian Chief After Vengeance Oath
In a western tale Nat, famed as Nifty Nat of the Plains, vows to kill all Indians after discovering his wife and child were killed and scalped. Captured by tribesmen, he becomes their chief, orders a self-imposed massacre, is refused, and taken prisoner. He escapes to camp for the night but is surrounded by Indians and finds his powder water soaked.
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Nat
Nifty Nat Fights Through Wet Powder and Indians
A tall tale describes Nifty Nat’s desperate stand as Indians surge from the woods. His powder wet, he fights single handed, mortally wounding foes with a knife as he climbs a tree and cuts his escape line. The scene ends with a note that the tale resumes next Monday when Newt returns.
Spincks Says A Crude Sketch About School Scene
The fragmentary note quotes a boy Georgia McDermott about a mock cartoon showing a teacher and a pupil. It contains crude humor and claims a boy named Petey Simmons shot a teacher, described in an offhand voice. The item reflects juvenile chatter in a periodical cartoon context.
Boys Spy on Masons Fined in Spencer
In Spencer North Carolina ten boys from prominent families climbed into a garret above a Masonic lodge room and eavesdropped. They were fined 25 dollars each and warned that any future disclosure would lead to jail.
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Spencer
N. C
Cambridge Lad Has Foot Cut Off
James Shanley of 17 State street Cambridge was run over by a train on the Grand Junction tracks. The accident occurred yesterday at 5 30 p m while he played on the railroad tracks. He was taken to the General Hospital.
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James Shanley
State Street
Cambridge
Grand Junction
General Hospital
Express wagon narrowly misses plate glass crash in temple area
At 5 o clock last evening a wagon belonging to the Adams Express Company narrowly escaped crashing into a plate glass window in Temple place near Boylston street. The horse kicked and plunged, narrowly missing a number of people on the crowded thoroughfare.
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Adams Express Company
Temple Place
Boylston Street
Sioux Chief Rain-in-the-Face Death Question Raises Inquiry
A reader asks to confirm if Sioux chief Rain-in-the-Face died on September 12 of the current year amid a response from Watertown dated September 21.
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Sir
Watertown
Postmaster General Cortelyou Visits Poland Spring for Rest
Poland Spring Mo Sept 22 George B Cortelyou Postmaster General arrives for a few days rest accompanied by M A Dignam of Lawrence Mass officials plan leisure time at the mountain resort with no official duties stated
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Poland Spring
George B. Cortelyou
M. A. Dignam
Lawrence
Mass
Returning Home From Outings In Baltimore
Returning from summer trips residents describe crowds and disruption in the city. Railway workers and service delays worsen conditions as families face crowded trains and empty houses while vendors and tradespeople cope with unions and absences.
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Baltimore American
Autumn social notes and city curiosities from Boston
Observant Citizen reports on Jane Peyton hosting peers at the Bellevue and other stage stars, crowds at the Grand Opera House, water use by Malden, local health and entertainment figures, a Roxbury officer buying his birthplace home, and a Newton umbrella mystery plus ward politics for Frederick W. Farwell with inverted billboard numerals creating curiosity.
Noble love and duty intertwine in a somber reverie
A literary excerpt centers on a man haunted by the memory of Miss Mina H Caswell of Portland Maine. She leaves him after declaring their love wrong, choosing duty instead. The scene shifts to a biographical sketch of Francis H Peabody of Boston, outlining his banking career and family.
Two Men Charged With Theft of Shoes from Lynn Wharf
Inspectors Burr and Morrisey arrested John Orpin of 10 Rutherford road and Michael Joyce of 99 Dresser street South Boston on larceny charges for stealing cases of shoes valued at 78 dollars from the Lynn and Boston Steamship Company at Snow's wharf on September 17 and 19.
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Burr and Morrisey
John Orpin
Rutherford Road
Michael Joyce
Dresser Street
Boston
Lynn & Boston Steamship Company
Snow’s Wharf
Pyrotechnics Highlight Glynn Ward 17 Rally
Red fire bugles and fireworks are listed in the Glynn campaign programme for a Monday night rally by Theodore A Glynn Democratic candidate for Ward 17 Representative. A procession will form in front of Vine Street Church at eight o clock.
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Theodore A. Glynn
Ward 17
Vine Street
Bankers Death Sudden In Beverly Cove
Francis H. Peabody age 74, head of Kidder, Peabody & Co., died suddenly at his Beverly Cove summer home on Ober Street after a yacht club sail and dinner. He leaves a widow, a son Francis E. Peabody of Boston, and a daughter. He had retired from active business but remained a daily visitor.
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Dan Burke
Roxbury Crossing
Northampton Street
Francis H. Peabody
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
United States Steel Corporation
Adelaide Kingsley
Canton
Peabody
State Street
Frank E. Peabody
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Algonquin
Boston
Berkeley Street
Beverly Cove
Beverly
Ober Street
Jubilee Yacht Club
Francis E. Peabody
Pierce's Spy System Sparks Boston Police Outcry
Boston police officers angrily oppose Superintendent Pierce and the espionage system sketched to monitor them. Patrolmen and captains complain as a "Ring" of favored officers allegedly conducts surveillance and assigns watchers, awaiting the board to expose what some call overreach.
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Boston Police Department
Pierce
Post
Police Board
Harvard Gets Roosevelts
Harvard welcomes several Roosevelts and related peers this year. Teddy Roosevelt Jr graduates, George Roosevelt from St Mark's shows two-sport promise, and Franklin D Roosevelt earlier. Other entrants include Raymond Belmont, Henry McCall, Harold Pierce, and Fulton Cutting joining Harvard this fall.
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Harvard
Roosevelt College
Teddy
George Roosevelt
St. Mark’s
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Teddy, Jr
George
Raymond Belmont
August Belmont
Henry McCall
Senator McCall
Harold Pierce
Ambassador Pierce
Fulton Cutting
Bayard Cutting
Former Rhode Island Governor Henry Howard Dies at 78
Providence recall reports Henry Howard former Rhode Island governor and leading manufacturer died at his Harris home aged 78. A legislator in 1856 57 he was a presidential elector in 1872 and served as governor from 1873 to 1875. He married Catharine Greene Harris in 1851 and is survived by a daughter Mrs Bucklin and two sons Elisha H and Charles T Howard.
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Providence
R. I
Henry Howard
Rhode Island
Harris
LAMPS Smashed by Air Guns Spark Police Crusade
In Newton a week of smashed street lamps, likely caused by boys using air guns, prompts a police crackdown on carrying air guns. Authorities note the issue began after the school term began and vow intervention to prevent further damage.
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Newton
Dore
Boston Couple Fined for Canoeing on Charles River
A Boston couple was arraigned in West Newton court after violating Park Commission rules during a canoe trip on the Charles River. The girl pleaded not guilty but was found guilty and fined 15 dollars, while the man received a 20 dollar fine.
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West Newton
the Park Commission
Charles River
Boston
Smooth Sailing for Moroccan Conference Reached Accord
Paris reports that Dr. Rosen the new German minister to Morocco and the French government have reached a complete accord on the Moroccan conference program.
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Paris
Dr. Rosen
Morocco
Madden Gets Wise in Love in Wife's Divorce Suit
Cincinnati report says horse owner John Madden testified that buying flowers would have kept his wife from leaving. He expressed regret and spoke of a paternal, loving bond with his wife and two sons. He denied offering $15,000 to influence the divorce.
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Cincinnati
John Madden
Attorney Dickson
Madden
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