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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
6
The Boston Post lists daily and Sunday subscription rates, office contact details, and Canada rates. It provides price tiers for daily, six months, three months, and monthly options, with notices on payment, delivery, and editorial staff.
The Finance Commission urges no city commitments beyond the current year. No leases contracts or department actions should extend past this year except temporary work. Adopting this plan would leave the incoming Mayor with a clear ledger and greater accountability, testing administration performance from a fair start.
Plans for a permanent opera house in Boston progress toward realization. Boston, a center of musical education with a renowned orchestra and oldest choral societies, lacks a sustained opera company and now attracts ready talent and public enthusiasm to support the project.
The Brooklyn Yacht Club plans an international challenge cup under mutually agreeable rules challenging the New York Yacht Club. The aim is to revive healthy interest in yacht racing with seaworthy, well designed boats and broad, liberal aims for the sport.
The Common Council faced swift disapproval for voting to rename old North square. The uproar centers on the idea that while the label North square is plain, it has endured through generations and the opposition argues against altering a familiar civic landmark.
A Boston contemplation argues for preserving historic parts of the old town as a link to the city’s past. The piece honors Mr. George A. Scigliano while noting a proposed memorial’s incongruity should he object today.
The Post reports Sir William C. Van Horne denies any plan by the Canadian Pacific to acquire the Boston & Maine, calling the rumor a bluff. The merger issue will go to the Legislature for decision, with measures proposed to curb mergers and tax New Haven assets. A lively, thoroughly considered debate is expected this winter.
San Francisco prosecutor William H Lang argues graft can be reduced by a city contract examining board. He criticizes municipal commission rule and urges strong local self government, recall, and limited party influence. He cites 20 indicted officials and 416 counts, praising public service corporations as enduring.
Newton Newkirk recounts a two day round trip from Kezar Lake Maine to Bald Face Mountain New Hampshire. He details a 15 mile hike over rough ledges blueberries and fatigue as five climbers reach the summit in August then return to camp amid aching muscles and a muddy trail night bog and sore feet.
The column reports on Boston cultural moves with Nordica's conservatory and a Lohengrin inauguration, civic duties like a Christmas turkey for widows, a fire department misadventure, Civil War relics, Eskimo winter life talk at Harvard, local politics and theatre deals, and assorted city notes. Several named people, places, and events anchor the items.
Guild A. Copeland editor of the Boston Advertiser is a candidate for trustee of public baths and may be appointed once Mayor-elect Hibbard takes office. Copeland, a tuberculosis expert and public health advocate, attends the L Street bath house daily and lives in Dorchester.
Patrick Calhoun president of the United Railways sees his trial delayed to February 1 after a 14 count indictment for offering bribes to obtain an overhead trolley franchise. Calhoun plans to depart for New York on business related to the street railway.
Reports from San Francisco say Abe Ruef the former political boss may be granted immunity to testify in the bribery graft cases now under way. His testimony is considered essential to secure convictions and reveal graft practices.
In a New Hampshire family a boy named Thomas Jones endures a Sunday ritual shaped by a missing new tie and an angry sister. After searching in vain, he attends church late with his old tie, then spirals into resentful thoughts of his sister and destroys her dresser items in a burst of anger, ending with a grim vow to become a criminal when grown.
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