Boston Post publication and subscription rates notice
The Boston Post issues a publication and subscription rate notice listing daily and Sunday rates, offices at 259 Washington Street Boston, terms for Canada deliveries, advance payment requirements, and a forwarding address to notify if the paper cannot be obtained. Editor and Publisher Ek. A. Grozier.
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Taft Avoids Roosevelts Welcome on Return from Elba
President Taft will not join the dockside welcoming assemblage for Theodore Roosevelt upon his return from Africa. He declines to be a third term contender and prefers to pursue the nomination for his own succession.
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Taft
Mr. Roosevelt
Lodge
Elba
Theodore Roosevelt
Swiftness in Meat Prices Provokes Public Reply
A Swiftian proposal urges reducing meat demand to curb prices and critiques fireless cookers’ role in household economics. The piece mocks the idea that choosing best cuts drives costs and questions the cattle baron’s stance, urging Swift to explain cooker influence on meat prices.
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Great Trust
Lewis I. Swift
Lewis F. Swift
Restitution Is Warranted But Not Immunity for Sugar Bosses
The National sugar refining company repaid 604 304 to the government, part of 3 434 304 recovered from customs fraud. Convictions have targeted dockers and a superintendent, with an indicted secretary. calls for higher ups to face federal jail. Spitzer cried that the Sugar Trust used him as a scapegoat after 29 years of service.
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National
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Spitzer
Atlanta
Sugar Trust
Massachusetts Demands Independent Rail Finance Probe
In hearings before the Ways and Means Committee at the State House the need for complete municipal financial accounting is stressed. The piece condemns New Haven figures and Byrnes push for charter respect, urging a hard Commonwealth led audit before any railroad investments. The argument frames savings bank funds as state backed capital for tunnels and electrifications, insisting on an independent commission review before validating securities.
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State House
Byrnes
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Charles 5. Mellen
Massachusetts
Legislative Committee On Railroads
New Haven
Mr. Byrnes
Boston & Maine
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Morgan
Mr. Mellen
Mr. Morgan
Boston
New Haven Railroad
Railroad Commission
Connecticut
Your Grace! Duke seeks American heiress duchess in quirky letter
A mock earnest letter from Grace Elpstitch Innnersole of Grockton Massachusetts addresses a Duke of Bunshire. She proposes marriage for social gain promising $100,000 and requests evaluation of his elegance. The Duke replies with wary, mercenary humor about choosing a duchess by appearance and wallet, noting the impracticality of swapping a title for a duchess.
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Naples
Father
Duke OF
Buncoshire
Closer Familiarity Promotes Self-Government Interest
The passage argues that closer familiarity among people with their own interests leads to finer self-government. It emphasizes local knowledge, participatory engagement, and the alignment of governance with community needs. The idea promotes civic responsibility and practical oversight by residents.
Company Commended For Raising Wages Of Young Female Employees
The Post praises the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company for voluntarily allocating 200000 dollars to boost pay for young women earning below the maximum. The paper notes the move reflects hard work and fair service, urging other firms to follow suit.
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New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Stationery Ad Promises Power of the Press
A Colebrook News and Sentinel item touts office printed stationery as a magical tool. It claims 1000 statements helped a man gain fortune, wedding notes led to marriages, but warns forged names and misuse result in penalties. It lists myriad claimed uses from luck to divorce and office triumphs.
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News and Sentinel
Why a man blows on his fingers and coffee
A correspondent asks why people blow on their fingers to warm them and blow on coffee to cool it. A cold morning image shows breath warmer than fingers, while breakfast shows breath warming coffee rather than cooling it.
Little Memoirs of T T Business Mam
When anybody offers you 10 per cent on your money, wipe the dust off your glasses. This remark cautions against high yield schemes and warns readers to be wary of tempting financial guarantees.
Fashions and Fads Highlight Delicate Details and Hemstitching
Fine frills of hemstitched lawn brighten woolen or dark silk waists. Unfinished fabrics such as homespun and hopsack basket weaves appear as novelties. Sleeves feature flounces, blues range from deep marine to lapis lazuli, and embroidered stockings decorate instep and ankle. Russian velvet coats show pouches below belts, shepherdess hats sit low over the ear, and skirts favor varied pleats on yokes or side seams.
San Juan Porto Rico Fortified City and Harbor Details
San Juan, capital of Porto Rico, lies on the northern coast about 35 miles west of Cape San Juan. Population 82,048. Harbor channel 400 yards wide. ships drawing 30 feet can enter in calm. Americans improved the harbor and plan a major West Indies naval station. The Morro fortress on the islet’s northwest end began after Spanish occupation and completed in 1584. The old city is the oldest U S possession in the area, founded in 1506, with planned streets, plazas, Columbus statue in Plaza Colon, and Ponce de Leon statue in Plaza San Jose. Houses are massive Oriental- Spanish style, once lacking sanitation before American rule, now improved.
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Porto Rico
Cape San Juan
West Indies
United States
Havana
St. Augustine
Fla
Plaza Colon
Columbus
Plaza San Jose
Ponce de Con
Local Notes Narrate Quirky City Scenes and Talks
A Boston column collects quirky vignettes from city life. An Auxiliary meeting features Miss Mary Boyle O’Reilly on child care with a tale of a boy chasing Indians and a pawned gun. Other items note athletics talk at St Mary’s, a windy Dorchester ride, a hat chase, a city visitor’s comment on Boston, ventilator antics in a Dorchester car, and fish scales lighting Boston docks.
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Mary Boyle O'Reilly
Roslindale Unitarian Church
Nebraska
Prairie
Ike
Johnny
The High Prices Uncle Walt Sings Of Inflation
Poet Walt Mason laments rising food costs in a humorous verse set at a hash house. He mocks prices for butter, duck, beans, cream and eggs, noting the landlord’s despair as meals become unaffordable. The piece reflects early 20th century inflation with vivid consumer details.
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Drake
Walt Mason
Five alleged misuses of town funds prompt sharp remarks
A fragment from a Boston-era item notes critics questioning five alleged misuses of public funds by town officials. The piece shifts to reflections on Thom as J. Feeney’s career move to advertising in the New England Telephone Co. and comments on political operatives including Frank Claire and Mary Meyer. An anecdote depicts cold storage in a market and a Chinatown Ash Wednesday coinciding with the Chinese new year.
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Chinatown
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The Rev. William C. Minifie returns from Europe after evangelistic campaigns in England Scotland and Wales touring France Switzerland Germany Holland Belgium and Italy He will preach at First Presbyterian Church Boston then lecture on Rome as I Saw It The Rev George A Gordon of Old South Church lectures on The Religious Value of the Divine Comedy Meanwhile Emerson College students entertain at First African Methodist Church for Harriet Tubman House proceeds A Salem district Sunday School Association convention 400 members held at First Baptist Salem Brotherhood Society banquet at Ruggles Street Baptist Church Griggs lectures for Women s Christian League at West Medford Congregational Church Parker to lead Church of the Disciples next Sunday Archibald called from Brockton for First Baptist Columbus Ohio to the First Church of Brockton
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Wales
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Letha
Emerson College of Oratory
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Salem
Massachusetts Sunday School Association
First Baptist Church
Howard Edward Griggs
Women's Christian League
West Medford Congregational Church
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