Boston Post April 4 1908 front page notice and rates
The Boston Post details subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, including annual, semiannual, quarterly and monthly rates. It lists Canada per copy pricing and states payment terms in advance with discontinuation on expiration. Editor and publisher BE A. Grozier signs off.
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Sunday Post
Canada
Boston
Mass
Post Publishing Company
BE. A. Grozier
City Officials Barred From City Contract Profits
A Boston Legislature bill from the metropolitan affairs committee makes it a penal offense for any city official or employee to personally profit from a contract with the city. Such contracts shall be void against the city. The bill carries a maximum $1000 fine and one year in prison to promote ethics and morality in public service.
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Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Boston
Arlington Mystery Piece in Squire Field Murders
The article reports on the Annie Mullins murder in Squire's Field Arlington describing the brutal killing with no clear motive or struggle. District Attorney John J Higgins has taken charge, and the investigation is now actively directed toward solving the case.
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Annie Mullins
Squire’s Field
Arlington
John J. Higgins
Mayor and Eddy Spur Street Department Appointment
The superintendent of streets, Mr. Harrison P. Eddy, declines the mayor’s offer to head the street department for personal and professional reasons. The mayor must again select a qualified candidate from within the city, as the council rebuked the mayor for bypassing ordinances, urging appointment without prior Republican committee qualification.
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Harrison P. Eddy
Hibbard
Eddy
Common Council
Republican City Committee
Boston Protest Over Metropolitan Boulevards Spending
A Boston legislative committee is criticized for allocating about $2,000,000 in park and boulevard projects to neighboring suburbs. The speaker argues Boston bears 65 percent of the cost and pleads to cut or privatize these expenditures, citing heavy state-imposed burdens.
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Legislative Committee On
Boston
Wasteful day labor bricklaying in city sewer work
A Finance Commission report criticizes the day labor system for bricklaying in the sewer department. Costs range from 9.48 to 18.34 per 1000 bricks versus 2.98 from an outside contractor, and hourly productivity is far lower than Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board norms. The commission blames poor management for underutilized masons and calls for a thorough departmental overhaul to run like private firms.
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Finance Commission
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
James Jeffrey Roche Dies at Berne Consulate
The United States consul to Berne James Jeffrey Roche has died after leaving a sick bed to serve in Genoa and then Berne. A noted Massachusetts poet editor and author, his death ends a bright, loyal career in public service and literature.
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James Jeffrey Roche
United States
Berne
Massachusetts
Metropolitan Park Commission
Genoa
Back Bay Smoke Nuisance Criticizes Rail Traffic
A Back Bay resident letters the Post urging action on city air pollution inflicting smoke and soot from Boston & Albany railroad shunting engines. He reports intense nuisance on Boylston Street and near Exeter to Huntington and Massachusetts avenues and calls for mandatory use of hard coal, urging railway commissioners to act.
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Boylston Street
Gloucester
Boston & Albany Railroad
Exeter
Boylston Streets
Huntington
Massachusetts
Back Bay
All Sorts by Newton Newkire
A fragment from Newton Newkire offers a wry quip about people and their flaws in a satirical mood. The piece hints at households under strain and asks whether a house might burn or fail to endure under pressure.
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Newton Newkire
Down or Up Which Way Do Fires Travel
Reader Mary from Boston explains that a house burns down if the fire starts at the top and burns up if the fire starts at the bottom. A correspondent from West Lynn asks about fire behavior and birds sit up rather than down in a playful reader exchange.
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Salem
Mary
Boston
Chelsea
Dear Newt Sits In For All Sorts Agriculture Column
Silas Punk asks about straw for straw berries and eggs from egg plants. The editor mocks the questions with satirical farming advice and jokes about gooseberries and grafting. The column ends inviting more reader questions to the All Sorts Agricultural department.
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Newt
Silas Punk
Boston
Mass
Wedding Invitation Blues
A speaker laments wedding invitations causing social obligation and financial strain. He resents attending weddings of a groom who is a friend and a bride who is a relative, wishing the couple would delay and avoid costly gifts. The poem blends humor with a creditor tone toward Cupid and Hymen.
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Malison
George
Love Makes the World Go Round and Other Notes
The Observant Citizen notes a new song Love Makes the World Go Round by Mildred Champagne sung by Charles Chapman on the Keith circuit. It also mentions elephants and a mastiff at the Hippodrome, grasshopper farming in Maine, Cape Cod mosquito control plans, Tremont street strawberry vendors, and local civic events in East Boston and Dedham with preparations for spring and Patriot's Day at Revere Beach.
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Charles
Sandy) Chapman
Keith
Mildred Champagne
Cape Cod
Wellfleet
Herring River
Tremont Street
Brockton Couple Observe Their Silver Wedding
Brockton April 3. Mr and Mrs M J Collins of 11 Hazel street celebrated the 25th anniversary of their wedding tonight. They were born in St John New Brunswick and came to Brockton when they were five years married. They have three children living, two of whom are married.
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Brockton
M. J. Collins
Hazel Street
Costarelli Files Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition
G Costarelli filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy yesterday morning listing liabilities at 9899.71 with no assets shown on his schedule.
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G. Costarelli
Evangelistic Campaign Opens at Tremont Temple
The two week series begins tomorrow night in Converse Hall with Dr. William B. Hatcher of Virginia leading each service. He has met many attendees in town and is aligned with Temple pastor Dr. Henson who organized the meetings.
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Maine
Lee
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Charles
Dedham
Tremont Temple
William EB. Hatcher
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Virginia
Dr. Hatcher
Henson
Converse Hall
Hatcher
Spring suits and topcoats showcase at $10 to $40
A window display invites customers to see a representative presenting new Spring suits and topcoats. The offer promises clothing tailored to tastes, suggesting Morse inspired options and personal selection.
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Morse
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