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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1909
Page
6
The Boston Post lists subscription prices: daily 3.00, six months 1.50, three months 0.75, one month 0.25. The Sunday Post 2.50 yearly, 1.25 six months, 0.65 three months. Canada copies 0.09 each. Addressed to Post Publishing Company with advance payment. editor B A Grozier.
Edmund D. Barbour funds 100000 of the 3000000 endowment for the Massachusetts College. The argument urges state consent to private fundraising and removal of burdensome tuition for sons and daughters of poor families. It notes high school facilities worth 30000000 and claims savings from repurposing idle hours to support a free civic education.
The article suggests Pittsburgh's wealthy families finance million-dollar homes to entice young married couples to stay. It notes Pittsburgh may house more millionaires than any city and questions exporting Bostonian loyalty strategies to preserve birthplaces.
Dr J G Mumford highlights cancer as highly curable when caught early. Fear and delay kill more than the disease, urging prompt family doctor exams for persistent sore tongue or lip, painless lumps, unusual bleeding, or lasting dyspepsia. Modern breast cancer cures reach about 80 percent. advanced stomach cancer around 35 percent.
President Taft selects Beverly Cove as his summer residence site, praising the harbor location with favorable winds and a pleasant sea. The decision reflects his noted good judgment in high matters, promising a discreet and rewarding seasonal personal court.
The excerpt notes a summer home near Boston offering attractive surroundings and proximity to Myopia Club golf links in Hamilton and Salem bay’s yacht resort status. Mrs. Taft reportedly had the deciding voice in the selection, showing notable balancing of advantages.
Massachusetts lawmakers decry the Senate committee draft as an anti New England measure retaining duties on hides coal lumber and iron ore while easing hosiery and gloves. Senator Aldrich touts overall lower rates but warns of a revenue deficit as cocoa tea and coffee join the free list amid protests on Beacon Hill.
In a Naples bound voyage aboard the Hamburg Stealthy Steve suspects the Harvard linked financier Pusillanimous Stanley of engineering a plot to seize papers on Crystal Mountain. He deduces a pair of conspirators act as dupes, then is ambushed aboard the ship and the sealed papers are stolen. The tale continues.
A meeting of anthracite coal operators in New York adjourned without decisive action and referred policy decisions to an eleven member committee, including five independents. Alternatives include wage cuts, a lockout, or concessions to miners demands, with potential nationwide conflict if mishandled. compromise is urged, aiming for a pacification akin to Roosevelt era efforts.
Washington April 12 Joaquin Sorolla Spain's greatest painter since Velasquez has the task of painting the first portrait of President Taft since his election. The life size painting will be a gift to Taft's Cincinnati brother Cc P Taft. Sorolla will stay as guest of Spain's minister Mr Pina in Washington. Among those to pose are Mrs Larz Anderson and Miss Mathilde Townsend.
Mrs Melissa C Elwood of Patchogue New York seeks a divorce from her 70 year old husband John I Elwood accusing him of gay theatrics and trifling with her affections and desertion at the altar His case was filed in the Supreme Court Brooklyn and Justice Carr allowed service of papers at Fitch s Home for Soldiers Noroton Connecticut where Elwood is confined.
The Observant Citizen notes in port visits by the Romanie purser Geoffrey P. Rogers and surgeon Dr. J. C. Hines renewing Boston ties. A mysterious female caller unsettles West Somerville residents while crowd behavior at Milk Street station highlights urban quirks.
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