Boston Post urges coal relief committee to avert fuel famine
The Boston Post reports on Home Market Club tensions with Eugene N Foss and urges formation of a public spirited committee led by the Mayor to secure coal from Wales Cape Breton or domestic fields. The aim is to ensure household fuel supply amidPrices and shortages for Boston families facing panic rates.
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Home Market Club
Eugene N. Foss
The
Boston Journal
Wales
Cape Breton
Panic prices hit coal and wood as panic spreads coastward
Dealers seize the semi panic over coal to hike prices to unheard of figures. Nine dollars a ton for soft coal is unjustified as 60 000 tons are en route to Boston aboard 31 schooners and several barges to ease the supply. Wood prices rise too while water gas firms deny higher charges. The paper condemns profiteering in the panic.
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Boston
the Post
Alger Vindication At Michigan GOP Convention
The Republican convention at Grand Rapids endorsed General Russell A. Alger to succeed the late Senator McMillan. The vote was 488 for Alger to 427 against him after a long contest. Critics say the move cheapens the Senate and recalls wartime scandals, predicting Alger’s arrival would tarnish the chamber’s reputation.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Russell A. Alger
McMillan
United States Senate
Alger
United States
Michi
Gan
Michigan
War Department
Fuel situation calls for immediate relief and reform
The article argues for two fuel phase actions: immediate relief for the present emergency and long term reform of the coal industry. It discusses arbitration, a receivership plan proposed by Heman W. Chaplin, and possibly quicker state action in Pennsylvania to resume production while warning against delays and continued disruption to coal supply.
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The
Republic
Record
Heman W. Chaplin
Chaplin
Pennsylvania
Humorous and perilous city life snippets and adventures
A collage of light hearted Boston vignettes and crime spoof stories from The Observant Citizen feature. It includes a mother and her son at a sold out show with a tight boot mishap, a whimsical comet forecast for October, bootblack mischief and street justice, a newspaper artist exhibit premiere, Noiseless Nick the detective outwitting Surgical Sam, a table of household expenses, and witty quips about domestic life and oxen plural puzzles.
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Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Five-Cent Fiction Opens With A Miser’s Afterlife Tale
MK Sorts TURNED DOWN. A miser hoarded all his life and, upon tying, packed his earthly hoard for the afterlife. He boasts of bringing gold to St. Peter, who denies payment at the gates. The tale begins with a dark stormy night setting as Five-Cent Fiction Chapter I unfolds.
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Shawmut Avenue
Dover Street
Albany Street
Action urged to ease coal famine across states
From the Republic comes a call for prompt relief as coal shortages bite all classes. Experts warn the strike could last four weeks, with 20 million Pennsylvanians seeking relief. Massachusetts faces panic unless rails supply low coal rates to institutions and factories.
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Carrol D. Wright
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Philadelphia &Reading Railroad
Philadelphia
Boston
SAIL ON CAMBROMAN Steamer Cambroman sails for Gibraltar
The Dominion line steamer Cambroman departs Charlestown at 6 this evening bound for Gibraltar Naples and Genoa with 15 second 800 steerage and saloon passengers listed including Rev Frank Mer etuna ire A G Dalton Misa Dalton Dr H C Brown Mrs Brown and many others. The ship will call at St Michaels on its voyage across the Atlantic per the passenger list.
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Cambroman
Dominion Line
Charlestown
Gibraltar
Naples
Genoa
Frank
A. G. Dalton
Misa Dalton
H. C. Brown
Brown
H. F. Dwight
A. B. Herrick
Maud Kimball
Minuile
Martin
Fdith Martin
Ellen Macauley
M. Y. Macauley
Joseph F. McGli
Coler May Lead New York Democrats
In New York on September 26, Democratic leaders at the Hoffman House map state and candidate strategy as ex Comptroller Bird Coler and Judge Alton B Parker figure in the pursuit of the gubernatorial nomination. James K. McGuire, Elliott Danforth, and Patrick H. McCarren discuss Parker’s stance, Devery’s convention prospects, and Tammany Hall’s shift toward conciliation and reform.
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New York
Hoffman House
Bird
Alton B Parker
James K. McGuire
Syracuse
Parker
Grout
Low
David B. Hill
Elliott Danforth
Democratic State Executive Committee
Patrick H. McCarren
Andrew ‘H’. Green
Hill
McCarren
Hugh. McLaughlin
Judge Parker
Coler
Jacob A. Cantor
Devery
Murphy
Tammany
Saratoga
Richard Croker
Supreme Court
New York County
Gray
Court of Appeals
Steckler
Hall
Keener
Edward E. McCall
Charles W. Dayton
Charles H. Knox
President Signs Census Order for Philippines
President Roosevelt signed an order to take a Philippine census under the Philippine act, contingent on the insurrection being suppressed and peace certified. The order, dated Sept 2, allows use of the present Census Bureau to compile and publish statistical information on population and related facts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Philippines
Congress
Philippine Commission
Census Bureau
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Boston Post
New England
Mr. Foss
Mr. Sullivan
Bootblack
Nick
Surgical Sam
Sam
Morocco
Coal Trust
Newton Newkirk
St. Peter
the Republic
Una McMahan
I. Moenaswea
William F. F. Nite
F. A. Whitney
Mina M. Brown
Mary M. Goddard
Jose Pires L. Terra
Dementio Zampini
St. Michaels
Coler May
Democrats
Blyman
Joseph I. Green
Croker
Delehanty
Goldfogle
Grace Isabel Lane
Shurtleff Street
Chelsea, Mass
Lamb
Kate
Penobscot
Ethel
Deavy Lamb
Chatterton
Tiver
Camden Hills
Sunday Post
Washington and Brattle Streets
A. Shuman & CO
Shuman Corner
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Federation
New Orleans
Urs
Washington St. Adams Sq
Browning
King-s
Zoo
Washington St
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