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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1908
Page
6
The Boston Post issues a publisher notice page listing subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, mailing options, and travel time details. It notes vacation service, address changes, and prepaid requirements, signed by editor and publisher E A Grozier.
The article denounces a murderous riot in Springfield and nearby areas as a peak of mass madness. It contrasts urban progress with fanaticism, argues state authority will quell the violence, and questions national racial intolerance.
The Boston police from Station 1 pursued killers through darkness and boats at the pier after a murderous assault on Commercial Street. They fought through a strenuous chase and captured all perpetrators, restoring a sense of peace amid unclear motives and rising crime concerns.
The piece describes a probable local earthquake observed Saturday evening from Scituate to Foxboro and Needham Brookline. It notes Boston’s foundations remain stable and frames the event as a curious natural variation rather than a threat.
The piece notes Taft to speak at Hot Springs Va and Bryan to open his campaign with an address at Des Moines Ia. It mentions Sherman as the Republican vice presidential nominee and a Prohibition campaign kick off in Massachusetts.
The article notes Professor A. S. Watkins will launch a campaign in Lynn before moving to Maine. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for President, will receive formal notification tomorrow in Chicago. The piece hints at forthcoming intensified political activity as summer progresses.
In a response read at a gathering in New York, William Jennings Bryan argues that Republican claims to prosperity are monopolized and failed, citing panics during GOP rule. He endorses a Denver platform promising broad, shared prosperity based on each citizen's contribution.
In Boston yesterday morning the Rev Dr R A Torrey delivered a vivid sermon on prayer before a tearful audience at the Dudley Street Baptist Church. Other church notes mention ministerial travels, open air meetings on the Boston Common, and upcoming sermons at Park Street and Old South Meeting House.
In San Francisco on August 16 a blaze in the Flytrap ignited five stores and damaged the Franklin Realty building. Ira Brown, a chauffeur passing by, heard popping bottles and found smoke and a rear fire as bottles near the flames burst from the heat.
Berlin Aug 16 John G Capers United States commissioner of internal revenue and Charles A Crampton chief chemist have arrived in Berlin to study Germanys inspection and control of denatured alcohol for possible use by the US government.
Thomas Bailey, 15, nearly drowned in Steadman brook when swept into the Housatonic River. He sank three times before Thomas Crawford, a local resident, pulled him to safety today in Lenox.
Bears roam the Stroudsburg huckleberry region as harvests begin. John Bell was shot at his farm at two. Huckleberry pickers report bears sighted nearly daily, sometimes whole families in the area.
In Webster City Iowa a 2 year old child of Mr and Mrs Barr found a churn with about a foot of water and fell in head first drowning in the water filled churn.
A humorous old column presents a spoof recipe instructing how to catch a clam then boil it in milk. It jokingly describes a beach lure using a lasso, shell removal, and serving chowder for 85 people with exaggerated steps and safety quirks.
A man reads on his veranda as a neighbor returns with a murderous object and kills a victim with a fatal strike. The crime is followed by a comical mosquito interruption and a stray sunset footnote signed by Claire M. Carberry of Brighton Massachusetts.
Professor Pickles argues that 439 people two politicians a dog and 51 women and ladies hanging to straps would lift a Boston Elevated car from the rails and send it gliding above the city until straps break or dogs bite. The fanciful hoax ends by asking what distinguishes a woman from a lady.
Pittsburg Aug 16. John Sphilling of Sharpsburg kept his mustache after his wife’s death ignoring marriage prospects. The applicants for Mrs John Sphilling decided that the mustache must go due to the attention he gave his facial adornment.
Miss Anna Hanson, an employee of the St. Joseph House in Grant's Pass Oregon, who had been missing for two days, walked into the hotel office in Redding California between 4 and 5 AM and fainted. On revival she could not recall any events during her absence.
Vermont offers grand scenery in the Green Mountains and Lake Champlain with Mt. Mansfield as a centerpiece. Tourists view Montreal beyond the lake and find attractions like Smugglers Notch and the Ice Cave. The region’s riches include marble from Barre and Montpelier quarries and copper and mica mines, boosting a population swelling in summer.
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