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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1905
Page
6
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The piece urges participation in the joint primaries highlighting the impact on nominations and party outcomes. It notes polls open 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., emphasizes voters recording preferences, and targets support for Senator Harding on Cape Cod and Senator Cummings in Brookline amid opposition from interurban interests.
A Joliet resident described as lawyer and capitalist reportedly sent a written proposal to Smith College president offering to endow the institution with 1 million dollars and provide 80 acres for a campus. He also pledged to help exempt the college from Illinois taxes if it moved to Joliet so his daughters could attend without leaving home. The note questions the value of relocating a college to Joliet and notes the lack of academic atmosphere there.
An unusual importance attaches to today’s Republican primaries as voters express sentiment on key state office candidates. The outcome may influence convention direction though insiders doubt a decisive plain for Hall over Draper. Several strategic points of view shape the battle.
The piece contrasts the Republican committee of 100 push for free trade in iron coal lumber hides and reciprocity with Canada against Mr. Lodge’s stance favoring San Domingo and China influence in Massachusetts elections. It notes the expected clash as ballots are cast today and hints at possible postprimary resistance if the bosses lose the preliminary skirmish.
Delegates from the United States Canada Mexico and South America attend the American Public Health Association convention opening in the Young Men's Christian Association Hall. The five day program covers water supply sewerage congestion and urban health challenges with excursions to sites including the Stony Brook sewage stench in the Back Bay Fens.
Historic King's Chapel hosted the funeral for Francis Howard Peabody once head of Kidder, Peabody & Co. He died at his Beverly summer home Friday morning. Rev. Edward Everett Hale led the service with Rev. Howard L. Brown assisting. Burial followed at Forest Hills Cemetery.
New York report says Baron Komura the Japanese peace envoy has recovered enough to travel to Japan on Wednesday. He will be accompanied by Mr. Sato and go by rail to Vancouver to sail on the Empress of India on October 2.
Chinese diplomats and merchants plan a 32 member delegation to the United States to press concessions for Chinese merchants and students in the forthcoming treaty. The party is booked on the steamship Dakota, arriving December 1.
Rudolph Dolge United States consul at Caracas arrived in New York aboard the Philadelphia from Venezuelan ports. He said the situation is delicate and cannot discuss details, and will proceed to Washington to file his official report.
Nat vows vengeance after finding his wife and child killed and scalped. He is captured by Indians who make him chief. He orders the tribe to kill themselves. they charge him and take him prisoner. Nat escapes but is recaptured and starved atop a tree as tribesmen close in.
Nifty Nat fears a grim fate if he slides from the tree limb while the Injuns wait below. He contemplates a plan as nobody answers and worries about capture, cruelty, and punishment if he falls or stays.
In a bold ruse the character Nifty Nat pretends to surrender then signals a hidden escape by feigning injury. He tricks pursuing soldiers and Indians, convincing them there are many hostile forces advancing, while he slips away unseen from the tree. A cliffhanger note promises continuation.
A correspondence from Cambridge Mass praises Georgie’s humor in the Boston Post All Sorts column and Nifty Nat story. Willie Green recalls travel humor about a Madrid hotel and bullfight tickets, and urges reading Webster’s Dictionary as a noon-time diversion.
A letter from Jimmy T. Joker in Boston praises Georgie’s Nifty Nat and All Sorte work and promises a home brewed gift. The note includes a joke about hiding sunburned tan lines and a taunting line about Newt’s seegers, with hostile undertones toward Georgie and a threat to visit the office for riches.
A verse by James Rowe urges the lad to avoid grumbling and worry. It says singing a cheerful song eases the heavy burden and brightens a dreary path, keeping spirits steady as the journey continues.
In a New York Herald letter dated September 21, John Winfield Scott laments neglect of Old Ironsides. He asks who will fund to save the ship and defend the nation, condemning graft and ease over naval glory and security.
The Dedham court yesterday fined 25 speeding motorists including Ella Desroches for driving over speed limits. The notice also covers gambling, inebriety, disturbances, dog licensing, track dangers, and a larceny case. Local notes mention fish landings in Boston and a bridge closure after Monday.
Miss Rose Reggy responds with a witty quip about age and wisdom as Reggy jokes that gray matter is not yet present. The exchange showcases light banter between the two figures in a social scene.
A quoted exchange questions why women hold their skirts high and tight as a jab at propriety. The remark targets gendered fashion norms and social expectations.
A conversation unfolds about Katharine Crawford who died in Naples after a long illness. A letter from her, dated from college days, arrives bearing a woman's plea to forgive, revealing a hidden emotional thread and the long-ago Summer at Newport.
A worried wife asks how to handle jealousy and neglect in marriage after 100 years together. The advisor urges cheerfulness, self discipline, and patient understanding, suggesting the wife cultivate a contented frame of mind to invite his affection.
Mrs Roosevelt leaves Sagamore Hill for Cambridge Massachusetts to visit her son Theodore Jr at Harvard College. She sails from Oyster Bay aboard the naval yacht Sylph, lands at Bridgeport and plans to ride with her son to Boston then Cambridge. She will stay about two days.
Flags fly at half mast as ex Mayor William H. Hodgkins arrives from Kennebunkport Maine. Mayor Chandler schedules a special Aldermen meeting to announce the death adopt resolutions and form a funeral committee. Other bodies to follow suit.
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