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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1904
Page
6
The notice lists subscription prices for DAILY and THE SUNDAY POST with various durations. It instructs subscribers to update addresses with present and future details and warns money should not be sent as cash. Checks and money orders are payable to the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Essex county fair audience learns from Senator Lodge that Massachusetts farm products were worth $146,000,000 in 1900. The census shows only $42,000,000, with the extra amount belonging to Michigan. the senator’s error is explained as a misaligned line in the table but his point about protected prices remains.
A September frost devastates cranberry areas around the Cape. Sandwich reports 5000 barrels frozen in one night and Plymouth County sees about 25,000 barrels ruined, threatening a cranberry shortage and impacting Thanksgiving supplies and Cape farm employment.
A satirical collection mocks daily forgetfulness of poems and jokes about the moon possibly being inhabited. It imagines John D Rockefeller profiting from moon oil and gas, hinting at a farcical monopolistic scheme and a golden opportunity for the magnate.
An explosion in Melrose raises fears for public safety from similar accidents likely to occur on city streets. The falling dynamite load could have caused wrecks if a collision with an electric car occurred on the route through three municipalities. Melrose officials deny damage claims against the city, express company, or driver, leaving victims with no recourse.
The Third District reports that the Hon. John R. Thayer will not seek another term in Congress. He says he is tired of public office and wishes to focus on his own affairs after six years of service.
The article lauds Mr. Thayer for overturning a gerrymandered third district to win three elections and urges a successor to maintain Democratic momentum. It argues retirement should not weaken Massachusetts representation and advocates choosing a sagacious new leader to keep the district solidly Democratic in the next Congress.
Public opinion backs Mayor Collins in vetoing a $600 yearly raise for the music director in Boston public schools. The editorial defends funds for general education and criticizes allocations to special emoluments, arguing prudent use of tax money for essential education.
Dean questions his wife’s presence in the office early. Kean reveals an advertisement for a stenographer and says she will select the suitable candidate.
An irate parent confronts a son who admits he acted to verify if the parent had spoken truth. The tense exchange centers on trust and a cautious approach to honesty within the family.
Kuropatkin was busy this summer and Bill Bryan of Lincoln reports droughty rust in his wheat with no free silver. A short fiction of a woman renting a flat leads to a joke about pets. A playful note mocks backward stair climbing and endorses frontward ascent or elevator use.
Justice Baker is praised for precise questioning while Melrose telephone exchange faced its busiest night. A near by resident recalls a cracked picture frame, and a conductor helps a stranded traveler with spare change. Everett council eyes a dynamite transport ordinance as geese head south toward Crest Last Thursday.
A column recounts small city vignettes from Brookline and Boston including fatalist musings on the Melrose explosion, a Worcester athlete feeding pigeons, Zionist parents and their son Theodor Herzl Gilbert, a Newton mayoral-era link to Admiral Togo, a Maine deer encounter, a brass Chinaman’s musical interlude in Brookline, thefts of clothing, a rogue rain coat incident, and a horse calmly eating sausages from an express wagon in Dudley Street.
Boston College seniors elected officers including Daniel J. O'Hearn as president and Richard F. Howard as vice president. The Fulton Debating Society named Edward J. Campbell president and Walter J. Lambert secretary. Committees were appointed with multiple students named for executive, literary, and standing roles. Michael J. Ahern remains moderator and the first debate is set for Oct. 7.
The Boston University seniors elected officers for the year. President Miss B O Fisk Roxbury. vice-president Mr W A Leafgren Medford. secretary Miss Myrtie Maguire Cambridge. treasurer Mr W F Peffers Danvers. Fisk is a popular leader in several university clubs and sororities.
Three freshmen escorted about the Tufts College campus by five sophomores at 8 this morning as penance for desecrating posters set by the sophomores. One freshman carried a pot of dark red paint while all wore white robes.
Mrs. Sara Hamilton hosted at the Lenox Hotel luncheon to reveal the engagement of her sister Eliza Jean Hamilton to Arthur Williston Lincoln of Dorchester. Fourteen intimate friends attended in light dresses as blush pinks and asparagus ferns adorned the rooms.
Hamilton, a hopeful elevator attendee, spots a pretty girl and later loses his stolen watch charm in a building mishap. The charm resurfaces with the girl who found it in New York and explains it tied to a watch chain. She mentions her brother Bertram G. Kingsley works stocks in the M- building.
New York, Sept. 23. Dr. George S. Conant aged 61 died here of diabetes and is said to have willed his brain to the medical faculty at Cornell University for further investigation into a theory that the disease could be traced to the brain.
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