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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1908
Page
6
Boston newspaper item notes publication details for February 13 with issue number and office address listed at 256 Washington Street, Boston Massachusetts.
Rates listed for Daily One year eighteen dollars, six months nine fifty, three months seventy five cents, one month twenty five cents. The Sunday Post prices are two dollars fifty cents yearly, six months one dollar twenty five, three months sixty five cents.
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The bill to raise the dog license from $2 to $10 faces opposition as it would burden poor families. The writer advocates protecting dogs rather than taxing them, suggesting exemptions from vivisection and torture in state facilities.
Washington debate intensifies as supporters seek another survey to block the forest reserve bill. The pretext of delay follows Speaker Cannon’s earlier reluctance to bring the reservation bill to the House after Senate passage. Government experts warn that delaying the action will cause vast loss.
The writer argues punishment matters more than quantity in Lyman School discipline. Spare the rod when possible but use it with restraint and sorrow, not anger, to avoid brutalizing the boy. A tearful correction is urged over vindictive beating.
The piece critiques the view of the nation’s largest benefactor, arguing private fortunes shape denominational colleges and seminaries, and suggests higher oil prices would spur new endowments. It questions whether society should accept imposed philanthropy or choose its own charities.
The Aldrich measure in the Senate is an emergency currency bill to provide $500,000,000 in taxed currency for use during financial stress. It would retire the funds when conditions ease, operate automatically, and not constitute a permanent change to the money system. The bill draws support from Republicans who want safeguards against another distress period this fall.
The speaker argues the Aldrich bill is not a cure for all money problems but, as written, appears competent for emergency needs and enjoys public confidence despite party politics.
The piece argues the New Haven line secretly acquired B and M stock to gain monopoly power. It warns the merger cannot wait for new legislation as an existing restraining act expires July 1. Louis D Brandeis voices concerns about reduced competition in New England transportation.
Legislation proposes a $1500 salary increase for Supreme and Superior court justices, raising pay to $10,000 and $8,000 respectively. The piece argues current Massachusetts compensation lags behind national norms, deterring top lawyers from bench service and highlighting judiciary excellence in the state.
A contributor argues for regulation by presenting a physician’s vivid definition of vivisection. The piece lists routine experiments on animals, from brain to blood and breath, showing invasive procedures, starvation, exposure, and torture to reveal how far science goes.
The Rev Howard Key Bartow pastor of St Stephen's Cohasset and Eighth Regiment chaplain bought William H Crane's Cohasset Cove summer home for occupancy. Purchase price not disclosed but property assessed over $25 000. The home once hosted many actors and served as a rehearsal site for Crane's companies. The area was once called Actors' Retreat.
In Hartford on February 12 Edward D. Robbins director and chief counsel of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad marries Miss Charlotte Swan in a brief ceremony. The couple’s union joins Robbins’s prominence in the railroad firm with Miss Swan of unspecified background.
The item presents poetic and humorous lines credited to Newton Newkirk and a note about a piece titled Three Weeks with a sly remark on punishment and a non sequitur How to Catch a Cold.
An editor rants about a brutal cold in comic, self deprecating fashion. He laments the ailment’s power and lists failed cures, noting two weeks of misery and the shared misery of others in Boston. He jokes about anarchism if alone with the head cold.
Readable text shows a terse remark about preferring a spouse speaking behind one's back rather than to one's face. The line hints at tension in a personal relationship without additional context or identifiable individuals.
The Boston commemorations featured cannon fire, bells, national colors, and school exercises. A striking moment came as a ragged child in Adams Square drew sympathy from late commuters, receiving coins to cross the Mystic River. Complaints arose about speeding autos in Brookline and a street deluge incident on Cypress and Boylston streets.
A lively column notes Daily life scenes in Boston including a man asking for ten cents for flapjacks, community figures like L. O. Dennison flying to Washington to meet President Roosevelt, and local events from charity moves to dances. It documents local politics, sports figures, and parish notices with vivid portraits of residents.
Irregular meter verse excerpts from Gerald Griffin's Eileen Aroon reflect themes of beauty youth constancy and truth. The passages compare beauty to a rose and diadem while asserting Truth as constant, with lines referencing a cottage valley and Irish imagery.
A young bookkeeper asks how to win a widow's love. An advice columnist replies that age matters little to love and urges the suitor to accept the widow's stance, noting the appeal of her blue eyes and Cupid's bow while advising realism and patience.
In a domestic quarrel Mollie and Robert dispute an engagement forced by a will clause. He resents the obligation and tries to unravel the tangled plot while Mollie probes his lingering interest and past feelings. Their exchange exposes motive, loyalty, and social expectations in a sharp, witful scene.
In a tense dialogue Mollie recalls a four week old engagement with Bob and an ex fiancé’s demand that Mollie promise to refuse any marriage to Bob. He presses for a secret plan to marry during a leap year and escape the earlier promise. The pair debate duty, freedom, and clever arithmetic to test the timing.
Ameberst report states Professor Olds will attend the international congress of mathematicians in Rome Italy from April 6 to 11.
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