Boston Post December 31 1909 front page notice
The Boston Post issues full subscription rates and payment guidance for daily and Sunday editions. It lists prices for six months and one year, notes Canada copy pricing, and reminds readers subscriptions must be prepaid with address and payment details to E A Grozier, editor and publisher.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
The
Sunday Post
Canada
Post
Fost Publishing Company
E. A. Grozier
Lamplighters of Boston Light 11 000 Gas Lamps Through Snow
The lamplighters of Boston kept 11 000 gas lamps burning during the worst storm night. They plowed 600 miles of snowy streets to maintain lighting and duty, without fanfare.
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Boston
Frank J. Conboy
Lamplighters’ Union
State Forester Seeks Funds for Massachusetts Lookouts
The request by State Forester Bane for an appropriation to maintain lookout stations across Massachusetts forest sections aims to prevent costly fires. Citing Maine’s savings, the piece argues a modest sum now will reduce future losses on Massachusetts timber and protect the state’s 1.5 million acres of forest.
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Bane
Massachusetts
Maine
Great Pine Tree
Regulating Futures Markets Stir Washington Debate
Opinion centers on government limits to futures trading for cotton, corn, and wheat. Proponents say real delivery is needed and would curb price manipulation, while opponents liken traders to gamblers and warn of harming legitimate business.
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Washington
Parcels Post Bill Aims at Local Rural Delivery Rates
Representative Weeks pledges a hearing on a bill to set local parcel postage on free rural delivery routes for farmers. The Vermont sponsor Foster hopes to create neighbor express service, potentially opening the way to a nationwide parcels post system.
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Weeks
House Post Office Committee
Foster
Vermont
Attitude of Express Firms Toward Small Improvement Bill
The piece notes how express companies react with resistance to a bill that advances modest steps toward improvement. It highlights a tense stance and the pushback from industry players amid pending legislation.
BUILD IT STRONG Dike rebuild between Chelsea and Everett urged
Officials of Chelsea and Everett must agree on ownership and funding for rebuilding the Island End River dike. Work to replace the seawall section wrecked by the late storm continues, and it must be rebuilt stronger to withstand future assaults of the sea. The loss goes beyond dollars.
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Island End River
Chelsea
Everett
The Inescapable Average Weather Pattern This Year
The piece argues that annual temperatures balance out over time with hot summers and cold winters averaging out. It notes rare anomalous cold or heat bursts but predicts an eventual evening of temperatures as natural cycles persist and forecasts improve with Weather Bureau science.
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Weather Bureau
Berkeley Street
Tremont
Dedham Street
The Three Mill Tax Controversy and Tax Equity
A report by the special commission on classification for taxation is expected to oppose the three mill tax on intangible property. Any change requires a constitutional amendment and passage by the legislature followed by a public vote. Supporters argue it fairly taxes vast intangible property, while opponents question the commission’s reasoning.
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Special Commission
Powdered Milk Dreams Spark Quixotic Letters
A reader asks if a cow fed on malt could produce malted milk and in what form. Cowslip responds with a humorous, sweeping proposal about extracting powdered milk, debating feasibility, costs, and an outlandish plan to feed cows powdered fodder while avoiding water to yield powdered milk.
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Newton
Cowslip
Cambridge
Mass
Standard Oil faces possible dissolution and flood of anti trust suits
The article notes the Sherman act fourfold damages provision and the potential impact of a Supreme Court ruling on Standard Oil. It highlights decades of anticompetitive actions, lack of public sympathy, and the chance that independents could force damages or dissolution through legal action.
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Standard Oil
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court
Miss Tarbell
Broadway
Snowbound Boston Delights in tobogganing on Schoolmaster Hill
The observant citizen notes crowds flocking to Schoolmaster Hill in Franklin Park for sledding as a long snowbound shore lures visitors nightly. Birds shelter inland after the storm while Thanksgiving week stories reveal charity and hardship amid Boston’s blizzard. Frank J. Conboy notes all 11,000 gas lights stayed lit across Boston in the blackout.
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Boston
Quincey
Merrymount Park
Quincy
Little Memoirs of the Business Man
The Lafth-hour Christmas shop per gets what's left.
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Per
Barry Promoted At The Navy Yard
David T. Barry of Medford formerly Salem will receive the New Year’s gift of the position of quartermaster of the anchor chain and rolling machine department at the navy yard. Barry is popular with the men and served his apprenticeship in the machine department. He has 11 years’ experience since apprenticing in the forge shop under ex Secretary of the Navy John D. Long. He has been secretary of the blacksmiths' local for six years.
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David T. Barry
Medford
Salem
Navy Yard
Barry
John D. Long
Dentist in Grandstand Laughs at Gridiron Collision
Describe a violent football clash with players losing teeth and a comic but provocative twist. A grandstand spectator, revealed as a dentist, laughs at the scene, prompting crowd outrage over the dangerous game. The exchange underscores the brutal nature of the sport and the joke’s inappropriate tone.
Open Door Policy Talk Sparks Washington Debate
Sam Sunflower and Pete Persimmons discuss visiting Washington to study the so called open door policy, weighing its implications and potential investigations.
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Sam Sunflower
East
Pete Persimmons
Washington
Yale Names New Education Professor Ernest Moore
Ernest Carroll Moore, then superintendent of schools in Los Angeles, has been selected for Yale University’s newly established professorship of education and has accepted the call.
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New Haven, Conn
Ernest Carroll Moore
Los Angeles
Cal
Yale University
Reginald and Miss Tabasco Banter About A Jungle Hideaway
Reginald voices a desire to hunt through a jungle where one vanishes for months. Miss Tabasco playfully encourages Regsy to pursue the idea, lending a humorous, teasing tone to their exchange.
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Reginald Pickle
Tabasco
Regsy
Millionaire Aims to Cut Fox Hunting Costs
A wealthy individual seeks to lower expenses in fox hunting to boost its popularity. The feature promises a full color illustrated page in Next Sunday’s Post.
The Big Black Dog Moral in Uncle Walt Mason Tale
A village scene features a stately large black dog walking past a small cur who growls and yaps. The dog remains calm and untroubled, while a cat bites its ear. the dog then shakes the cat and tells it to go. The tale ends with a prompt to find the hidden moral.
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Fido
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Restoring Streetcar Traffic After Blizzard and Local Oddities
The article notes firefighters and workers under difficult conditions restoring streetcar lines after a Sunday blizzard. It highlights CC. R. Hoyt and the Everett division as key figures, with cars running in Linden and Maplewood sectors by noon. It also mentions Capt Sparrow’s Portland steamer chest and local social events.
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CC. R. Hoyt
Everett
Hoyt
Linden
Maplewood
Eastern Avenue
Sullivan Square
V. Gilder
Watertown
Edwin D. Mead
Boston
McCord
Chesterfield
N. T
Churches of Greater Boston News Roundup
The Reverends August Erickson and Norace Hartley Hayes are noted in the Greater Boston church scene. Events include a Rockford Mission Tabernacle call, Chelsea First Baptist dedication, goodsell memorial service in Wesleyan Hall, a concert at Second Unitarian Somerville, and New Year open houses at Harvard Church Dorchester.
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August Erickson
Swedish Congregational Church
Moxbury
Mission Tabernacle
Rockford, Il
First Baptist Church of
Chelsea
Boston
Daniel A. Goodsell
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wesleyan Hall
Methodist Ministers’ Association of
J. W. Hamilton
W. F. Mallalieu
John Galbraith
Dillon Bronson
Norace Hartley Hayes
Lakeport
N. H
First Free Baptist Church of
Roxbury
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