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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1908
Page
6
The Boston Post dated April 30 1908 reports Daily edition from Post Publishing Co with office at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts. No. 26 Vol. 191.
The notice lists daily and Sunday subscription rates for Fort Post and The Sunday Post with prices in dollars and cents. It states Canada copy price and notes Second Class Matter at the Boston post office. Subscriptions must be prepaid and discontinued at expiration. Editor is BE A. Grozier.
The Boston Street Department lists discharges reducing staff including brush makers broom makers and bicycle tallymen and repairers. The piece questions whether assigning these workers to street cleaning could curb damaging dust storms and improve public service despite salaries.
The piece condemns President Roosevelt for a offhand jab about a family of a millionaire generation, calling it a rhetorical error not tied to his message. It notes such breaks are common in his energetic style and are usually forgiven by the public as signs of his vigorous, lively approach.
A memorial Day moment prompts Congress to pass a bill to raise the battleship Maine from Havana Harbor. The plan includes transferring bodies found in the wreck to Arlington Cemetery and resolving questions about whether an external explosion or internal explosion sank the ship.
The Massachusetts No-License League attacks the Post for alleged untruthful claims about state revenue from Boston liquor licenses. It cites Boston receipts of 1,509,894.70 in 1910 and argues any state gain would be speculative, noting 25 percent of local license fees already went to the state.
The League’s statisticians claim Boston residents would pay an extra 211 833 30 annually, equating to 16 41 cents per $1000 in tax. The text dismisses the rise as bagatelle and calls the argument economic folly and folly.
At a legislative railroads hearing Boston Chamber of Commerce President Bernard J. Rothwell denounced the proposed merger as an impermissible monopoly risking public welfare. He argued no corporation can be trusted to regulate itself and warned that regulated monopolies cannot protect general interests or preserve genuine competition.
Ready money returns as investors subscribe heavily to new large bond issues. Pennsylvania Railroad offered 40 million dollars at 96 yielding 4 1 6 percent and was oversubscribed twenty times. Interborough Rapid Transit sold 25 million dollars in 6 percent three year notes, oversubscribed more than twice. Confidence returns with safe rates under four percent and cities like Boston easing municipal bond sales.
Henry 5 Gere veteran editor of the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Weekly Gazette celebrated his 80th birthday in Springfield with about a hundred Western Massachusetts editors at the Cooley House. Gere born April 30 1828 in Williamsburg has 62 years in newspaper work and is believed to be the oldest editor in the state. He started in a newspaper office at 17 and later edited the Courier and Hampshire Gazette.
A reader asks how many juries tried Charles Tucker. The editor notes Tucker was tried by one trial jury.
A humorous reader letters column fragment discusses the meaning of jackass with quips about mules donkeys and a Webster dictionary definition. It includes satirical notes on spelling and wit from readers Luke M Ghee Mercy Onmbey and Hartford about genealogy terms and odd phrases. The Geneva Railway Securities Company of Stamford filed a certificate of incorporation with capital of 567000.
The Observant Citizen reports an expected 150 to 200 attendees at the Southern Society of Boston annual dinner at the Lenox on Friday evening May 8. Richard H. Edmonds of Baltimore’s Manufacturers' Record will speak on The New South.
Judge Robert Underwood encounters a palm reader who foretells a future bride from his first love Alice Holden. He traces her to a Western seminary teacher life, discovers a pocketbook with his own photo and the note Alice Holden Mizpah, and finds her living in Thorndyke Radcliffe terrace.
A lyric romantic scene describing love for a beloved with vivid nature imagery. The speaker laments his speech while admiring the beloved’s blue eyes, brown hair, and sunlit dress, noting a cousin’s fluent talk and his own longing. The verse blends affection, humor, and rural charm.
A tense scene unfolds as a man returns to Alice and confronts her with emotion the woman rises and stands flushing and paling between words in a charged moment from the scene.
A man and woman share a heartfelt hour of conversation and vows to prove devotion in future years. He jokes fate gave him a palm ist and a pocketbook while she hides the truth that she was the palmist and dropped the purse to secure his happiness. She resolves to make him happy, believing the end justifies the means.
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