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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1909
Page
8
Daily rates listed for one year six months and three months with separate Sunday prices. To Canada rates noted. Subscriptions must be paid in advance and discontinued at expiration. Editor E A Grozier signs as publisher from Boston.
The Parkman Fund income proposals presented to the Board of Aldermen reveal diverse projects from statues and music stands to venues for concerts. The standout aim is completing the original Olmsted plan at Franklin Park with a greeting place for public assemblies and concerts. The fund’s disposition remains a municipal puzzle.
The piece argues against customs tipping by port officials at New York, urging abolition as harmful and corrupt on both sides. It notes President Roosevelt critics and defends Loeb, insisting travel costs already sting under tariffs without unsafe search theatrics.
The suit by Miguel of Braganza's creditors accuses him of promising payment “when he should make a rich marriage” revealing a mercenary deal behind Miss Anita Stewart’s New York marriage. The piece argues the exposure shames the family and mocks financiers who valued titles over integrity.
The Phoenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn ousted its chief executive after a state department order following allegations of misappropriation totaling about a million dollars over twenty years. The piece blames one-man power and director indifference for the lax oversight and calls for legal financial responsibility to curb such rascality.
The Cotton Manufacturers' Association of Fall River waives the right to cut wages in line with material costs and selling prices. The accord with mill owners and operatives ties daily wages to shared economic conditions.
The plan ties wages to the spread between eight pounds of spot middling cotton and the 45 yard selling price with averages set at May and November. If used, end of previous month averages would justify cuts to minimum wage rates. Mills choose to maintain current wages, showing corporate sympathy.
The editorial finds Taft's first annual message solid and calm, but uninspiring and cautious. It notes omissions on tariff reform and key issues, delays on antitrust and interstate commerce laws, and modest reforms like postal savings banks, while criticizing lack of bold action and clear forward progress.
The opening of the 62d Congress follows organization and the president’s message. Public sentiment is acute and may affect the November elections. Insurgent pressures grow as states threaten to redefine Washington representation, testing Taft’s administration and the balance of power with Congress.
A quirky column notes a sly quip about paying attention to appearance as advertising for a wife. It also reprints a bizarre ad seeking a very small tenement for one person with a family and discusses a Boston Transcript misread about a wife and two children with furnished rooms near Boston.
This excerpt traces the Society of St Tammany origins from 1805, noting Tamanend as patron and its rise in New York politics. It details wigwams in 1800s, shifts to électoral power under Burr guidance, Tweed's boss era, and leadership succession to Murp h y, emphasizing social aid and tenement outreach as key power bases. It ends with a note of a forthcoming scene on Wassau Street.
A playful verse recipe describes romance with measurements of attraction romance folly and whispers. It mentions two people a flushed cheek and lips a light scream and a cooling period with care and yielding as guidance. The note ends with a casual signature Cc A. Boston.
A brief advert or note from LITTLE MEMOIRS BUSINESS FOUR OR FIVE MAN group offering wheels in your garage as a sign of mobility and attitude. The phrase To have wheels in your garage is to have wheels in your head appears as a slogan.
A minister asks about Curtis's future as his mother defends him as studious. The father and mother worry he will pursue college scholarship rather than a baseball career.
A pair of speakers debate the morality of fault finders who always demand returning items to their owners. The exchange centers on a prelude remark about ownership and responsibility in dealings.
In a Chicago News verse, the speaker laments a thin scalp with a crescent of hair at the crown. Friends urge quick fixes from cantharides to petrol washes while mocks of vanity and wit surround the puny crop and fear of social mockery.
A Walt Mason verse urges kindness to strangers and friends alike. It warns fortune shifts between rich and poor and that today a tramp may be tomorrow a neighbor, urging mercy and gentleness as life’s uncertain breeze.
A reader asks how to pronounce Sioux and print numbers in Roman numerals. The exchange covers presidential salaries from 1789 onward and the cost figures for the U S S North Dakota and a typical battleship.
Slice the cabbage very fine, place in a barrel or tub and allow it to remain for a week until fermentation sets in.
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