Boston Post April 22 1909 issue notice and pricing
The Boston Post dated April 22 1909 lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including prices for 1 year 3.00 daily and 2.50 for the Sunday edition, with Canadian per copy 9c. It notes second class matter status, advance payment requirement, and contact details for the Post Publishing Company with editor and publisher A. Grozier.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
THE
Sunday Post
Canada
Post Publishing Company
All About The Food Brigands And Tariff Wars
The piece denounces Aldrich and the Payne committee for raising tariffs on imported wheat to 30 cents a bushel and doubling rye duties. It labels Patten and allied speculators as robbers seeking profit from bread while claiming revenue, and calls the public’s need for bread a stone.
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Chicago
Aldrich
Payne
Senate
Patten
Senate Finance Committee
Strange medical marvels push knowledge beyond belief
A Cincinnati hospital reports a man died with no brain found in the skull yet held average intelligence. Surgeons in Rome N Y perform noninvasive appendix removal with the Reichseam. Radium cures malignant tumors, claimed at Flower Hospital New York as doctors weave cures and even raise the dead.
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City
Cincinnati
Reichseam
Rome
N. Y
Helmuth
Flower Hospital
New York
The House Fly and Its Health Threats
Historic warning on house flies describes their role in spreading typhoid dysentery and other diseases. It urges window screens traps and proper disposal of food scraps to curb infestation and prevent contamination.
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Entomological Bureau
Washington
Governor Draper Proposes Holding Company to Control Boston & Maine
The governor urges a Massachusetts controlled holding company to own Boston & Maine stock with a majority of directors being Massachusetts citizens. The plan, designed to keep rail control inside Massachusetts, would require legislative and Railroad Commissioners oversight for any sale. It aims to prevent New Haven influence and protect New England interests from outside financiers.
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Boston & Maine
Massachusetts
New England
New Haven
New Haven Road
Billard
Connecticut
New York
Draper
Boston & Maine Railroad
City
Boston
Commonwealth
Unprecedented demand on funds tied to Lexington home report
A legislative committee on public charities ties the Lexington property option payment to a required state return before reporting on a proposed voluntary mental hospital site. The author argues matters of public import should be judged on merit, not money paid to influence a committee report.
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Legislative Committee On Public Charities
Lawrence
Lexington
All Sorts by Newton Newkirk
A brief newspaper note presents the serialized column All Sorts by Newton Newkirk and announces the omission of the synopsis of previous chapters. It cites an indignant reader who objects to daily synopses, calling the practice insulting to the serial itself.
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Newton Newkirk
Stealthy Steve Faces Turbulent Ocean Voyage
In Chapter 18 Stealthy Steve endures a perilous voyage aboard the Admiral as Stubb the Sting and Slipshod Sue complicate his escape. A violent storm drives the ship toward rocks while Roosevelt warns of danger, prompting Steve to reluctantly join the deck crew in a bid to save the vessel.
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Steve
Stubb
Sting
Sue
Department of His Interior
Indian Ocean
Africa
Colonel Roosevelt
Will It Be a Man or a Fly
The notice argues for daily liming and kerosening to destroy hospitality for breeding, to keep flies away from babies, and to prevent disease spread. It contrasts flies with pests like rats and mosquitoes, invoking Darwin to frame life as a struggle and posing the question of who will prevail.
South End Boys Stage “A Glimpse of the West”
The Chickasawbut Club presented the play at St. Stephen's House in South End last evening. Cast included Benjamin Levine William Fleming David M Blank Henry Goldman Jacob Greenberg Harry Adelson Julius Schriftgiesser David E K Rosen Samuel Gilman Philip Scehriftgiesser John L Cronan Philip Feldman Max Siegle Abraham Goldberg I Goldman and Max H Newman.
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Boys of the Chickasawbut Club
St. Stephen’s House
Decatur Street
South End
Benjamin Levine
William Fleming
David M. Blank
Henry Goldman
Jacob Greenberg
Harry Adelson
Julius Schriftgiesser
David EK. Rosen
Samuel Gilman
Philip Scehriftgiesser
John L. Cronan
Philip Feldman
Max Siegle
Abraham Goldberg
I. Goldman
Max H. Newman
Governor Draper Trip Ended With Civic Gala Banquet
Governor Draper and party traveled home from Rockland on a special New Haven line train loaned by VP T J Byrnes to attend Rockland Commercial Club’s silver anniversary. On return at North Abington, about 500 workers joined a parlor car ride to Boston after a banquet.
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Draper
Rockland
T. J. Byrnes
New Haven Road
Byrnes
Boston
Sunday Post features children theater and doll collection
The Sunday Post announces a color page for children with Kip Van Winkle scenes and Dolls of the Nations, plus a puzzle. Edward Dickerman of Somerville mourns his daughter Kathleen, and local notes mention Bishop-elect Joseph Anderson’s ring, plus a Boston Press Club portrait of William B. Smart.
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Sunday Post
New England
Kip van Winkle
Edward Dickerman
Somerville
Catherine
William B. Smart
Boston Press Club
Smart
Somerville Pastor Weds at Cambridge Private Ceremony
The Rev. J Vanor Garton and Miss Mary A Williams married at the bride’s home 128 Lakeview avenue Cambridge. Rev. Charles P D Williams officiated, with Philip Rowe as ring bearer. The couple will reside at 113 College Avenue West Somerville.
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J. Vanor Garton
West Somerville Baptist Church
Mary A. Williams
Lakeview Avenue
Cambridge
Charles PD. Williams
Philip Rowe
College Avenue
West Somerville
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George F. Hoar
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Union Square
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People's Temple
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Tiffany
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