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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1908
Page
6
The Boston Post issues daily and Sunday editions with subscription rates for 1908, mailing and payment terms, and the editor publisher contact. It notes vacation delivery options and address changes, urging advance payment and postal notice for interruptions.
A record attendance is expected at the Cy Young testimonial today at Huntington avenue grounds. If many fans appear, downtown businesses may lose customers as shoppers and financiers pay homage to the famed pitcher. The Boston club leads the eastern section of the American League and may rise further during the event.
The English decree of absolute divorce for Alice Thaw parallels Harry Kendall Thaw's Pittsburg bankruptcy. The piece notes pity for the individuals while condemning aristocratic excess and wealth without brains or principle, suggesting parallel moral judgments on both cases.
A Bloomfield resident’s yard is trampled when a balloon descends in Sunday afternoon crowds. The aeronaut hours later claims damage and charges of grand larceny against the householder who stored the balloon in his cellar. Courts may yet settle accountability and property claims arising from this unusual case.
The Bryan speech endorses the Democratic nomination for President and rebukes Republican control. It argues that Republicans failed to enforce laws, curb trusts, and expand rail and antitrust powers. Bryan clarifies the Democratic aim as reform rather than revolution and appeals to voters on lasting political change.
Column by Newton Newkirk notes a wary aphorism on discretion. It emphasizes that acts revealing secrets invite scrutiny and consequences, urging readers to consider privacy and prudence in daily choices.
Pierre La Plouffe recounts a colonial tale from Sorel about his friend Baptiste Belair who tries to hatch a square egg by placing a white box under a hen. The plan backfires as a larger absurd egg appears, the hen dies inside, and the companion declares the trick proven.
Experts warn new law will be needed to address free use of the air and the right of descent on land wherever an aeronaut may land, while lay observers note the novelty of such conditions.
The piece argues tax rates rise statewide due to state level spending, not declines in property values. Boston receives a windfall of 182000 from an old debt, reducing the rate about 15 cents per $1000, but overall levy remains high and broadly felt in cities and towns ahead of November elections.
A playful poem from the Atlanta Constitution expresses summer pleasures of farming life. It contrasts the joy of easier days with the heat that makes plowing hard and debt pressure remain. The speaker craves peaches melons and sweet julep while noting the mortgage must be paid.
A reader asks how to protect a mailbox post hole in winter with the post stored in a barn. The answer suggests anchoring the hole with a chain to a tree or placing a heavy rock on top. A humor piece then explains Swiss cheese holes arise during cheese making via a seed-like hole component rather than post holes.
Among the Churches of Greater Boston the Rev Thomas R Slicer will preach next Sunday at Old South Meeting House and was a speaker at People’s meetings in Ford Hall last spring. Bishop Mallalieu urges pastors to list promising youths for Methodist schools and personally urge them to apply. Rev Wilbur Nason of Wesley Church Salem serves Grace Church Baltimore for two Sundays. Rev C L Page of Dudley Street Baptist spends vacation in Nova Scotia after returning from Goffstown New Hampshire. The First Methodist Church Sunday School outing on Temple Street is today at Lexington Park.
The fifth week of the Post’s Little Journeys to Interesting Places series visits Newfoundland for vacation season. Readers will see views of Newfoundland beauty spots in this Wing section as the rugged island gains exceptional popularity as a summer resort.
Harbor Grace, second largest town in Newfoundland, is praised for its beauty and quaint atmosphere. The cathedral, rebuilt after 1889 fire, dominates the town in cross-shaped design with a domed front and richly frescoed carvings.
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