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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
10
The Boston Post announces vacation mail options and subscription rates for The Daily Post and The Sunday Post. Notices include advance payment rules and change of address procedures, with editors and office contact details.
The President of Chile arrives in Boston today en route to Washington. He is praised for his intellect and moral courage and for championing sound money and regional peace. The city is urged to extend warm official and private courtesies during his brief stay.
A local report laments renewed concert hoodlumism after stone and egg throwing at Parker Hill. Band members responded by packing up and leaving, a tactic praised as sensible. The piece calls for swift discipline to preserve open-air music and quash disorder in districts nationwide.
The report cites two tariff and insurgency guns fired by Iowa Republicans as signals from their convention. The first attacks the 1909 revision as failing party promises, while the second rebukes attempts to exclude Iowa Republicans from congressional honors. Press Taft has declared the...
The piece notes the Payne Aldrich special privilege measure as the best tariff bill, with Speaker Cannon pledging loyalty to Republicans. It questions whether dissenters still belong in the party and cites Indiana Kansas Iowa as perhaps leaning elsewhere.
The piece reports Senator Gore's testimony in Muskogee alleging that Vice-President Sherman may have been involved in a scheme to defraud Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians for a New York land syndicate. Gore relays Jake Hannon’s claims, while Sherman denies any connection. The editorial warns against entangling Congress with corrupt contracts and calls for a thorough probe, noting the seriousness of possible misconduct.
An editorial ponders the Boston Elevated disaster near Dudley Street, noting the lone informed witness is dead. It questions causes, asserts the block system and safety controller help, and urges motormen to avoid speed on sharp curves to prevent future accidents.
Provincetown hosts a high profile day with the President, Governor, and dignitaries attending a Pilgrim monument ceremony. The event emphasizes national ideals and calls for reflection on the country’s material pursuits.
The Boston Post presents official Passion Play photographs from Oberammergau with scenes and identifications of key figures such as Anton Lang and Ottilie Zwink. The schedule lists daily portraits from June 25 to August 5 1910 and previews Tomorrow’s image Jesus Washes the Feet of His Disciples.
The American Press Humorists' Association holds its annual convention this week in Montreal Canada with members conducting a column segment for the newspaper.
The page combines poems and witty notes including a lament on pessimists in a harvest field and a quip about a light light brunette joke. It features MLANDBURGH WILSON and BILL ROSE JR with humorous lines and a Theodore Robinson inspired verse about the sea. Works by William J. Lampton and William Reed Dunroy appear alongside Ted Robinson’s Cleveland Leader piece.
Walter Woodward the Hudson township assessor and school director in Penfield Pennsylvania found a single seed sown produced eleven wheat stalks each with a full head. The grain was saved for fall planting.
The Observant Citizen Herman P. Chelius visits Panama to view progress on the canal noting cooler climate than Boston. A note lists Huntington Smith et al. as dog catchers unpaid for May 1 to June 20 for lack of legal constable status.
The Edward Everett Hale memorial statue fund has reached about $3000. The executive committee plans to mail circulars to prospective contributors mid September to secure more donations, expecting a liberal response. Rev. Francis H. Rowley notes the total comes from voluntary contributions sparked by committee plans publicized in newspapers.
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