Post Boston Daily Subscription Rates December 16 1907
The Post Publishing Co announces daily and Sunday subscription prices effective December 16 1907. Rates include daily one year three dollars six months one dollar fifty three months seventy five cents and one month twenty five cents. The Sunday Post one year two fifty six months one twenty five three months sixty five cents.
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Ballooning sports gain ground for next summer season
Experts estimate a balloon costs 750 dollars with 30 dollars for gas and 45 dollars for other expenses including return haul. The total remains cheaper than an automobile or a yacht but may fail to persuade strict economizers.
Postmaster General Eases Santa Letters Mail to Charities
Meyer ends red tape on Christmas letters to Santa Claus. Dead letter office holds many missives but will be delivered to any organized charitable society in the addressed city or town for philanthropic uses. The practice could make Santa mail increasingly bulky.
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Meyer
Santa Claus
Christmas trees flood market with four million demand
Gifford Pinchot notes the national Christmas tree market could reach four million trees, enough for one tree for every fourth family. He explains trees planted four feet apart fit on under 1400 acres, with major supply centers in New York City, New England, and the midwest forests of Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota supplying Chicago and other cities.
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Preserve Old North Square Name to Honor Scigliano
The piece argues against renaming Boston’s Old North Square in memory of George A. Scigliano. It warns that erasing the historic name weakens the area’s civic meaning and urges honoring Scigliano through alternative memorials rather than erasing a two century old landmark.
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George A. Scigliano
Boston
North Square
Debating a Street Name Change for North Square
The passage argues that renaming North Square would erase historic titles and set a dangerous precedent, warning against altering a familiar historic name even as streets and parks bear names tied to statues and monuments. The tone cautions the innovation as deplorable and unwise.
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North Square
American Armada Sets Sail From Hampton Roads
The largest fleet of U S battleships sails from Hampton Roads in a six mile long column for a Pacific voyage. Admiral Evans leads sixteen battleships plus support ships in a show of naval strength with a possible peace mission and future global circumnavigation.
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Congress
Income and Outgo in Washington Budget Forecast
Washington warns government income may fall short for next fiscal year. Appropriations chair Tawney estimates a deficit near 100 million dollars. This ties to tariff revision promises after the upcoming election, suggesting Congress could raise expenses and argue tariffs cannot be cut due to revenue loss.
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Tawney
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Fireman saves funeral procession from runaway horses
A citizen writes of a near disaster on Meeting House Hill when a funeral procession stopped at St. Peters Church and horses attached to a carriage ran loose toward Bowdoin and Quincy. A fireman from Meeting House Hill intervened, pulled the horses up, and prevented potential fatalities, earning a push for recognition.
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Quincy Streets
Whittier Centenary Praises Suffragist Link
Alice Stone Blackwell of Dorchester honors Whittier on his coming centennial as a suffrage ally and civil service reform advocate. She recalls his role as an officer of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and his call to empower women with civic duties and rights.
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Alice Stone Blackwell
Dorchester
Knitting Mills to Resume Operations in Utica
Utica yarn mill Mill No 4 will start operations on Monday and Mill No 1 will resume on January 6 according to the Utica Knitting Company plans.
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Knitting Mills
Utica
Utica Knitting Company
Ditch the White House and a Panama Canal in Old Letters
A Boston era paper prints humorous verse and reader queries with lines about Grant Roosevelt and the Sphinx, plus a column of All Sorts notes from Worcester and Cambridge. It includes editorial quips on nostalgia in politics and last minute gift humor for ten cents.
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Panama
White House
Watertown
Taxpayers oppose Lewis plan for teachers on travel study year
Worcester voters reject Superintendent Homer P. Lewis proposal allowing long serving teachers to take a paid year abroad or for study here in the United States. Taxpayers complain the idea increases costs and does not win support from those who pay the bills.
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Worcester
Homer P. Lewis
Roosevelt Declines Bid Then Accepts VP Nomination
In Philadelphia June 1900 Theodore Roosevelt states his decision not to be a candidate is irrevocable amid pressure. He later says decline would ruin his career yet acknowledges the high honor of the office. Three days later the Philadelphia convention unanimously nominates him for Vice President and he accepts.
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Philadelphia
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Ex Chief Richard Butler remembered by Chelsea Fire Dept
Obituary notes the death of ex Chief Richard Butler of the Chelsea fire department. He earned wide respect during his years with Greater Boston firemen and through heroic service in the 1872 great Boston fire.
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Richard Butler
Chelsea Fire Department
Greater
Boston
Dick Butler
Gorky’s Brother Among Ellis Island Migrants
Among passengers landed yesterday from the Kherson at Ellis Island was Ivan Rukawishnikov. He is Maxim Gorky's brother in law and a political writer of some note.
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Kherson
Ivan Rukawishnikov
Maxim Gorky
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