Boston Post April 20 1908 daily rates notice
Boston Post offers subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions with rates for 1908. It lists costs for daily one month and six months, plus Sunday annual and short-term options. Payment in advance is required and notices of discontinuation follow expiration. The editor and publisher are F A Grozier.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
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THE
Sunday Post
Canada
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Post Publishing Company
F. A. Grozier
Patriots Day Remembrance of Revere Lantern Ride
On Patriots Day Massachusetts and Boston mark the anniversary of Paul Revere’s lantern signal and the Lexington and Concord fight. The day is observed as a public holiday with local pride and national congratulation, fueling public fervor and zeal.
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Paul Revere
North Church
Lexington and Concord
Massachusetts
Boston
Autos for Relief Aid urged in Chelsea committee call
The Massachusetts Chelsea relief committee appeals for automobiles to aid investigations of aid cases and to meet sudden relief emergencies. Owners who lend their cars sacrifice personal pleasure and should be compensated as an act of mercy.
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Massachusetts
Chelsea Relief Committee
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Club
Taft Faces Field for Republican Nomination at Denver
With the Denver Republican convention looming, Taft trails the field by about 20 delegates in early tallies. About 40 Taft seats are contested and over 50 field delegates remain uninstructed, keeping a first ballot majority in doubt. The national committee must rule on contested delegations to determine if Taft can organize the convention with a majority.
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Denver
Taft
Secretary of War
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Chelsea Fire Recovery Commission Debate
The text argues for a citizens commission to oversee rebuilding after a great fire while questioning if such a body should override local government. It suggests a high powered board could rehabilitate the burned district, with the state or citizens taking action to accelerate effective restoration.
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Chelsea
Observant notes on travels marriages and local events
The column mentions Colonel Reginald Norman sailing for America from Rome to Newport in April, a Boston Students Exhibition at the Boston Art Club starting April 24, and local social items. It also recalls a Brookline wedding, fishermen on Atlantic avenue, an elderly naval veteran, mosquito control efforts in Brookline, Henry Abrahams and the Chelsea fire, and arguments for Cambridge incinerator construction.
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Reginald Norman
Rome
America
Newport
Norman
Weta Thaemin
Harold Peabody
Marion Lawrence
Boston Art Club
Students’ Club
Henry Abrahams
Boston Central Labor Union
Chelsea
Abrahams
Mr. Abrahams
Central Labor Union
Cambridge
A Humorous Barometer Tale From Newton Newkirk
A reader mockingly critiques a postcard barometer showing a mule tail as weather indicator. He reports misreadings cause rain and colds, lampooning umbrella misplacements and ill luck, and proposes wry replacements to the apparent indicators.
Commission Powers and Timelines Across a Nation
The text contrasts the speed of local emergency actions with the broader challenge of transferring authorities. It notes that quick, mobile control can be enough to manage immediate needs, yet a formal commission to rebuild carries full governmental powers and responsibilities.
City graft cases to be tested in Boston courts
The article reports that United States District Attorney Asa P. French will pursue Sherman Act violations with the Finance Commission. Mayor Hibbard orders Corporation Counsel Babson to sue individuals and firms named for deliberate fraud against the city, signaling an anti graft awakening and a push to speedily resolve the cases.
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Boston
United States
Asa P. French
Finance Commission
Hibbard
City Hall
Babson
Currency Legislation Faced With Election Pressure
Congress faces no currency bill this session as the near general election shapes strategy. Republicans avoid defending unpopular Aldrich and Free land plans while seeking a post election compromise. The Fowler bill proposes a 43 member commission to draft a scheme and report after the election.
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Congress
Aldrich
Senate
House
Committee On Banking and Currency
Vreeland
Republican Party
Napoleon Newlywed asks why baby grows unevenly
A Boston reader questions the Napoleon Newlywed feature asking why the boy’s feet and mouth seem out of proportion and why he has only one tooth. The reply notes the character has spent much time sitting or crawling, delaying body growth and promising a second tooth may be sprouting.
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Emperor Napoleon
Napoleon
Boston Post
Boston
Napoleon Newlywed
Papa Newlywed
Homely but determined man seeks love across miles
A 28 year old man from New Orleans writes of a four year crush on a distant churchgoer he calls Venus. Mildred Champagne counsels patience and practical steps, urging him to meet a family member or coworker and to move toward courtship rather than delay.
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United States
Jackies
Brookline
Elizabeth H. Pace
Kilby Page
Gardner W. Hall
Page
George L. Osborn
Katherine M. Page
Hall
Harvard
J. A. Cc. Nyhen
Miss Champagne
Venus
New Orleans
Somerville
Gabriel
Poultryman Aims to Hatch Chickens to Order from Eggs
A poultryman envisions turning a setting of 13 eggs into 13 chicks of four Plymouth Rocks three Shanghais five Berkshires and one black and tan. This method could make his fortune in the poultry trade.
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Boston Post Bureau
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