Boston Post April 9 1908 issue subscription notice
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, with prices for different term lengths and Canadian copies. Details include payment directives, in advance requirement, and contact offices in Boston. Editor and publisher E. A. Grozier led the publication.
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Mass
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Sunday Post
Canada
Post Publishing Company
E. A. Grozier
House rejects Peters child labor amendment in DC bill
The House of Representatives votes against sustaining Congressman Andrew J. Peters' amendment restricting child labor in the District of Columbia appropriation bill. Peters is praised for social reform efforts urged by President Roosevelt, and Massachusetts leads in this movement.
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House of Representatives
Washington
Andrew J. Peters
District of Columbia
Peters
Massachusetts
Roosevelt
Brandeis Critiques Merger Report In Chamber Debate
In a Boston Chamber of Commerce debate yesterday Brandeis pointed to the merger report by its three signers who he says have no relation to commerce or industry. He noted the two members who do represent commerce and industry dissent emphatically.
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Brandeis
Commission On Commerce and Industry
Commerce
Industry
Commerce and Industry
John C. McNally
Everett
Charles Leonard Fletcher
Orpheum Theatre
Boston
England
Far East
America
Columbia Road Gymnasium
Dorchester
Wheelock Hall
Electrification Hope Tied to Merger, Byrnes Says
At the Fruit and Produce Exchange Vice President Byrnes urged that a railroad merger would allow suburban areas to be electrified and enable a tunnel linking Boston depots. He called electrification urgent for railroads entering the city, noting New York’s success as a model and asking if a merger is necessary for progress.
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Fruit and Produce Exchange
Byrnes
Boston
New York
Mr. Byrnes
Harvard faculty curbs may keep baseball rowing and football
The Harvard athletic committee plans to retain baseball rowing and football schedules amid faculty talks on fewer intercollegiate events. Winter sports may be cut if needed, with a decision due May 1, aiming to balance broad student athletic development against trimming programs.
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Harvard
Fair settlement approach to Jim Crow car question
The Interstate Commerce Commission and the President favor a rational settlement of the Jim Crow car issue. Equality should mean segregated cars for colored passengers must be as clean and comfortable as those for whites, with equal fare. The President directs enforcement against the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway Company to this end.
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Proper Payment Secures Equal Service Rights
A speaker asserts that when a Black man pays the same as a white man for service, he earns the right to equally good service, underscoring equal pay as a path to equality.
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Velt
Shadow of Death over White Mountain Forest Bill
The piece decries Speaker Cannon delaying the White Mountain and Appalachian forest bill. It cites six weeks in judiciary committee and urges passage due to rapid deforestation. Governors and representatives from New England and the South, plus industrial interests, support the bill.
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Judiciary Committee
White Mountain
Senate
House Committee On Agriculture
New England
Congress
Society For the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Parkways plan faces Boston payment burden and secrecy
A lobby at the State House links a big parkway bill to many small projects. Boston would subsidize about two thirds of costs, with estimates possibly rising from 2 million. Critics demand delay and transparency before passage.
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State House
Boston
Campaign fund publicity debate on McCall bill
The piece argues against blocking McCall's campaign finance bill that would require itemized receipts and expenditures in national and congressional campaigns. It notes similarities to Massachusetts law, warns of public suspicion if concealed funding persists, and claims greater peril for Republicans if the bill is defeated.
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Massachusetts
Congress
House
Beace
Inland waterway survey eyed from Boston to Key West
Washington notes report a House talk to survey a 16 foot inland waterway from Boston to Beaufort North Carolina. The plan may expand to cover the Atlantic coast to Key West with President Roosevelt urged to back broad waterways improvement amid electoral anxiety and Republican party splits.
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Key West
Fla
Roosevelt
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Beaufort
N. C
Atlantic
Office humor riddle about being in and out
A playful line states I am always in to my wife when she calls and out when she leaves, a light office jokes on attention and presence.
Notable Boston Theatres figures host and travel plans
The Observant Citizen meets Eugene Tompkins at the Boston Theatre after his illness. Tompkins plans a history of the Boston Theatre from 1854 to 1901, aided by Quincy Kilby, with about 500 engravings, due in autumn. Opera scenes feature Allen Neilsen and visits from Signor Fabri and Emma Howe.
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Boston Theatre
Tompkins
Quincy Kilby
Allen Neilsen
Italy
Senor Constantino
Signor Fabri
Emma Howe
Signor Bonci
Pierce Building
Copley Square
Boston
The Voyager Poem Ends With Baby at Dreamland Sea
A poem depicts a baby weeping at six on the Dreamland Sea shore. A comical old man throws sand into her eyes until she grows rosy and warm. The mother asks the father to extinguish the nursery light as the child seems to sleep for the night.
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Mary D. Prior
Good Housekeeping
Wanted Water Wagon But Got Jail Instead
Young Mark R. Clancy pleaded for a chance on probation before Judge Wait. The court heard he has been arrested 33 times in the past 30 years and gave him six months in jail for his latest offense.
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Mark
Keefe
Clancy
A vain man and a lynching party’s string band
A vain man is described as making a grand impression on himself. Music at a lynching party is supplied by a string band, highlighting a grim social ritual with unsettling cultural undertones.
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