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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1907
Page
6
The fragment identifies the Post Publishing Co daily issue dated August 7 1907 including office address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
The text lists daily subscription rates with a one year option at $18.00, six months at $9.00, three months at $4.50, and one month at $0.75. The Sunday Post offers one year at $2.50, six months at $1.25, and three months at $0.65.
The Daily Post offers mail delivery to any U S address plus foreign possessions for 25 cents per month, with the Sunday Post at the same rate. Subscribers may change addresses as desired.
Due to higher Dominion tax rates subscription prices rise for Daily Post and Sunday Post. Rates listed include 1 month 50 cents, 6 months $3, full year $6, with per copy Sunday Post at six cents. All payments to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. do not send cash.
Post must be paid in advance and discontinued without further notice on expiration. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly, notify by postal at once. Br. A. Grozier, Editor and Publisher.
Colonel Weaver returns to Washington praising the Massachusetts militia for coast defence work. He calls their artillery skills an expert endorsement of citizen soldiers readiness and calls them ahead of other states in this field. The note emphasizes intelligent troops and effective instruction.
The Indiana decision may redraw the oil market and cut costs for Americans. Railroads tied to the Standard Oil rebate scheme face attack as independent producers unite to demand rate cuts. If rebates collapse, true competition could replace monopoly pricing, lowering kerosene costs by a cent or two per gallon and reducing living expenses nationwide.
Massachusetts will erect a replica of the Old State House on the Jamestown Expo court of honor tying New England to Virginia. Governor Guild and staff with naval brigade and legislative committee depart by sea to join Jamestown events and Massachusetts Day will have a distinguished place in the program.
Reports from Dr Simon Flexner head of the Rockefeller Institute in New York, now in Europe, claim a specific cure for meningitis. Tests in Castalia Ohio reportedly show efficacy, announced ahead of medical journals, suggesting a potential conquest of a feared disease.
The plan to make permanent the historic site records from Old Home Week deserves support. Boston's history is foundational to American liberty and government, with many temporary inscriptions already made permanent and more needed to endure amid city growth. The initiative by Miss Harriet Johnson seeks broad cooperation.
A letter criticizes Boston City Collector Scollard for threatening to publish the names of 1905 and 1906 poll tax delinquents. It argues the city has lawful, proper methods to collect taxes and warns there is no legal authority for such publication. The piece urges paying taxes and notes the delinquent list will not be published.
Governor Curtis Guild, on crutches after spraining an ankle, spoke at the Martin Luther grounds to 200 Merrimac Valley boards of trade. He blamed Massachusetts transportation woes on insufficient trunk line tracks and urged immediate investigation into rail expansion and investment.
A young 18 year old asks Mildred Champagne if she should elope with a 38 year old man with five children. The adviser warns against the match citing drinking, burden of stepchildren, and spinsterhood fears, suggesting the man marry a woman of about 45 for happiness and urging parental guidance.
Toulon August 6 An official inquiry into the August 2 explosion of a 100 millimetre gun on the French training ship Couronne reports a shell exploded in the gun before the breach was closed. It remains undecided whether the blast was accidental or due to negligence.
Stamford Connecticut August 6 Sam Fessenden a longtime influence in state politics for over three decades has announced retirement from active political life He gained national prominence in 1884 by running the Blaine campaign.
The engagement is announced of Augustus N. Rantoul of Andre Jacques & Rantoul architects and Charlotte Talbot, youngest daughter of the late Charles A P Talbot the former British consul general in Boston.
A columnist skewers Charles M Schwab for urging women into domestic roles, arguing his view limits women to kitchen and laundry duties. The critique counters that women can be brilliant ambitious partners, capable of leadership and independent achievement beyond traditional bounds.
A witty aphorism notes that a woman favors a man of principles if he is willing to spend it, pairing irony with social observation. The line contrasts integrity with financial willingness, reflecting a satirical take on courting and value.
Indignation grips Greenwich Connecticut as a large flock of imported ducks owned by J Kennedy Tod, the New York banker, roams Greenwich Cove and destroys the famed scallop beds that have long made the Sound area famous.
Observers cite lobster shortages blamed on conspiracies and recent arrests for selling short lobsters. The article also notes labor leader Frank Foster’s praise of John Burns and mentions summer activity at Cambridge headquarters, local officials on vacation, and various regional happenings around Boston and coastal communities.
People in Porto Rico remark on Mateo Menzano wealth and propriety with his neat shack in the squatter district near Puerta de Terra. He paints the shack, buys new furniture for Carita, and visits her mother’s grave near Rio Piedras with flowers, while he gives alms on Saturdays. A handsome American soldier from San Cristobal visits Carita at the shack.
Carter Young, a reckless soldier, is found dead with a dagger wound in Porto Rico after believing he would visit Carita Menzano and gain a furlough. A letter from New York reveals unkept promises as the transport sails home without him, leaving Carita grieving in a yellow shack beside the palms.
Women of Berkeley Temple organized a vestry program yesterday afternoon led by Misses Remick Wilson and Robb. The lineup included Mabel Hermance with a piano solo Lillie Mackay with a reading Annie Mackay with a piano solo Master Lewis Hermance with a recitation and a short talk by Mr. Rockwood.
The speaker recalls childhood scenes of home, roses, lilacs, and laburnum, with a longing for early mornings and sunlight. He laments growing older and feeling farther from heaven, contrasting past innocence with present distance. The poem dominant memory centers on family, home, and nature.
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