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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1907
Page
6
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The article notes a broad stock market decline without systemic failures or bank loan calls. It argues conservatism and financial strength persist among large banks and suggests conditions may recover with renewed public confidence.
Observers note a mosquito shortage due to the dry season, a finding the Brookline Board of Health partly supports as it limits oil control. Yet non-professional reports say drought mosquitoes remain active and ferocious, with house flies also unusually widespread in early morning.
The Boston tax rate for the current year is set at 16 dollars per 1000 of valuation, a 10 cent increase from last year and the highest since 1884. Factors include assessed value, depreciation, and residence changes, but the core issue remains municipal expenditure and funding.
The piece argues fines target shareholders rather than the real criminals in antitrust breaches. It cites Chicago and Alton and Standard Oil cases, urging imprisonment of offenders over punishment of investors. It notes monopolists could recoup fines by charging consumers, even in close corporations.
The report by Herbert Knox Smith, commissioner of corporations, details discrimination in oil prices by Standard Oil harming U S trade and industry. It indicts the company, confirming long standing allegations of excessive domestic rates and high foreign sales prices.
Commissioner Smith argues Standard Oil reduced charges in this country to crush competition and maintain excessive local rates where it had a clear field. He denies that Standard seeks reasonable profits or consumer savings, labeling the firm a monopoly using unfair methods to oppress the public with extortionate prices. It is a categorical indictment.
Contending telegraph companies and workers must prioritize the public good over corporate gain. The telegraph underpins weather, commerce, finance, and social life, enabling distant medical calls and family needs. Interference threatens civilization, with the public ready to hold offenders accountable.
Washington reports that the Chicago and Alton and its chairman E H Harriman and officials escape punishment for granting rebates in a case that led to a $29 240 000 fine on the Standard Oil Company. Attorney General Bonaparte informed Judge Landis as grand jury was empaneled to hear the offense. Morrison had promised immunity, with Moody backing, to secure evidence against Standard Oil. Moody, later a Supreme Court justice, argued railroads were coerced by Standard to grant rebates.
A letter to the editor argues that public libraries wrongly bar Mark Twain and Horatio Alger works. The writer contrasts Twain's truth with Alger's fiction, praising both authors and urging shelves be restored and trustees removed from libraries. Aug. 12, 138 Maple Street, Lawrence.
Dear All Sorts a reader asks if morality and morality are synonyms and how they relate to conduct. The writer suggests one phrase governs a person’s chosen path while the other governs behavior already directed.
In a Fallon style exchange London Tid Bits frames Bingville Bugle as Western society gossip. James Hunter rebukes English stereotypes, denying gun myths and wild frontier notions, and defends Bingville readers against cross Atlantic caricature while noting playful satire.
Editor All Sorts notes a U S government treasury surplus of 211 million dollars and playful suggestions pour in from Boston about spending on battleships and coast defenses totaling 200 million. The exchange ends with a quip about using the remaining 11 million for bare necessities and questions its value.
In Cambridge Felix quips about the Newlywed baby sharing initials with editor Newton. He vents about readers pushing fraternal envy and jokes the child resembles an East Boston tunnel, while noting no common ground with the family beyond a hairline. Ed. All Sorts.
A Taunton Mass item collects household proverbs on marriage. It links late-night returns, unapproved purchases, or hunger to storms and good times to sunshine. The note ends with Hiram Wellfleet and a quip about graft and honesty from the Sphinx.
Ezra Meeker travels by prairie schooner drawn by oxen from Tacoma to Oyster Bay to meet Theodore Roosevelt. He began January 29, 1906, reached Indianapolis January 6, 1907, then marched via Cleveland Buffalo Syracuse and Albany along the old post road toward the Hudson River towns.
Horoscopes and light social items fill a color page titled Another Color Page of Newlyweds in Next Sunday's Post. The column mixes astrology by a reputed expert with anecdotes, casual town snippets, and local quips about Cranston era Boston life, teasing courting fortunes and daily entertainments.
The item reports on a Boston scene of ivy covered buildings shown in a daily Observant Citizen test and a motorman escaping a near train collision at the North Cambridge grade crossing when gates closed. It also notes Louis Francis Brown from Burton Holmes sending a Yellowstone Park postcard, Wright Lorimer preparing a new play The Quicksands for Boston, John Craig resting in the White Mountains after travel from Boston by car, and Howell Hansel sailing the yacht Jankiana around Cape Cod for a two week trip with autumn plans to open in Boston.
A man recalls falling in love with a stranger whose laugh obsessed him three years earlier. He courts Beth Parrington at dinner and on a redwood drive, torn between longing to hear her laugh and fear she is not the one who enchanted him.
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