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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1907
Page
6
Daily issued item notes date and issue details for the Boston Post Publishing Co. paper with office address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
The notice lists Daily subscription prices: one year $33, six months $1.50, three months $13.30, one month 25 cents. The Sunday Post rates: one year $2.50, six months $1.25, three months 65 cents. It notes Second Class Matter in Boston Massachusetts entries and payment guidance.
Subscriptions to the Post must be paid in advance and will be discontinued without notice on expiration. If the Post is unavailable from your newsdealer, notify us by postal mail at once. E. A. Grozier Editor and Publisher.
President Baer asserts the anthracite coal trust operates under divine right, noting there is no doubt about its control, contrasting with questions over Bible publication in the United States.
Several cases appear where people who lost friends in the Larchmont disaster recall premonitions in dreams or other occult ways. The piece warns against taking such notions seriously, noting that modern philosophy says worry often predicts nothing.
Oklahoma debates constitutional revision to align statehood with Congress enabling act. A movement seeks repeal, a setback for flag makers who placed the forty fifth star on the flag as recently as last Fourth of July.
A call for ships to be built so passenger vessels cannot sink after a collision. Advocates push watertight bulkheads and strict inspections, seeking universal unsinkable design and enforcement to prevent rapid sinking after ram from a schooner.
Congress is poised to pass an act restricting railroad workers to 16 consecutive hours. The House committee replaced the La Follette bill with a new measure, risking delay but not defeat. A pending amendment would set nine hours for tower operators and 13 hours at day stations.
The house is unlikely to oppose Senate action on the conference report creating presidential discretion to exclude Japanese laborers. The compromise aims to ease labor-immigration tensions, avoid partisan conflict, and balance risks of executive power against the need to manage foreign labor imports amid Japan tensions.
The article recounts Gladstone's warning after the 15 year old home rule bill's Lords defeat by ten to one. It notes Campbell-Bannerman's government aligning with Commons to push the Lords on the defensive and curtail its powers amid an impending political struggle.
The proposed home rule plan offers an Irish Council with provisional powers within five years. It would control Dublin Castle departments and most Irish taxation while Parliament retains full legislative power on private bills. Savings from imperial costs would belong to Ireland, guiding expansion toward a full Irish Parliament if moderation holds.
Joshua T. Small of Provincetown questions Massachusetts Senate Bill 433. He and residents worry that Boston's 80 school physicians would monopolize exemption certificates for vaccination, questioning doctors' qualifications and influence behind Dr. Harrington's bill.
Handel and Haydn Society’s second season concert drew a sizable appreciative crowd despite cancellations by Mme. Schumann-Heink and Mr. Gogorza. The altered program featured works by Svendsen to Wagner with soloists Edward Johnson Willard Flint Mme Louise Homer and Mr J H Duffy. The Walpurgis Night performance drew strong applause and was praised as outstanding by the ensemble.
Dr. A M Tozzer displayed rare photographs of pre Columbian architectural remains at Harvard Agassiz Museum revealing the advanced Aborigines. He cited excavations in Yucatan showing a nation with centuries of development and architecture rivaling Rome Greece and medieval Europe.
Biddeford Me Feb 17 The Second Congregational Church of this city voted to extend a call to the Rev. William A. Haggerty of Cambridge Mass to become pastor He is presently engaged in YMCA work in Boston Massachusetts
A poem by MURPH and another by A J G from Boston features a satire on wealth and social pretension. The first piece mocks greed and display while the second laments a single voice calling for a beloved. Both reflect turn of century verse popular in Boston newspapers.
A proposed clam trust in Massachusetts prompts strong public remarks. Opponents chant Down with the clam trust as supporters call for open clam digging rights and warn of potential price increases to 50 cents a dozen.
A Cambridge passenger recalls a crowded car episode where a padded coat obstructed a woman’s seat. She rises, rebukes the aggressor with resolve, and moves away. The narrative then shifts through notices of academic appointments, club revivals, and forthcoming public events across New England.
Amid Larchmont horror reaction, Massachusetts lawmakers propose making steamship lines list passengers for each sailing. The editorial critiques legislatures for acting after disasters and urges proactive, foresighted action rather than after the fact fixes.
Ninety men and one woman sworn in to practice law in Massachusetts. The piece portrays the lone woman as a strong, advancing figure breaking century old gender roles and sharing the professional stage with men, urging continued progress.
A reader asks which dress color suits an at home wedding reception. The columnist recommends a light dress for evening wear and suggests bright light colors to add to the scene for the honeymooners.
Rev. Dr. P. S. Henson at Tremont Temple recounted meeting John D. Rockefeller and his claim that his wealth belongs to God with him as trustee to see it used for the greater good. Rockefeller did not meet the asked amount but pledged to consider it. Home Missionary Society fund drive aimed to exceed $1000 with five platform members giving $100 each.
Granada Caravan 3 of the Knights of Columbus held a meeting in Deacon Hall with representatives from Greater Boston and 120 candidates proposed for Alhambra membership. John A. Mullen, chief of the fire department, gave a paper tracing firefighting from its origins to modern equipment.
A stenographer earning ten dollars weekly and a suitor earning twelve discuss marriage viability. Expert advises waiting until the husband can provide a home and stable life, arguing a wife should manage the household rather than continue working after marriage.
Williams College President Hopkins stated that scarlet fever is declining with no new cases since Thursday. Only one student is ill and not seriously, and there is no fear of an epidemic.
The Gaelic societies plan a reception and meeting at Fanueil Hall on Sunday evening March 10 to honor Bulwer Halson of Belfast Ireland. The organizing committee will meet at 7 45 this evening in the Franklin school building at 1151 Washington street. John H. Dillon will preside.
At St. Paul’s Church on Tremont Street Bishop Sessions of Louisiana preached on The Temptation of Christ. The sermon covered Christ’s 40 days in the wilderness and Satan’s temptation. He spoke at noon daily this week for the Lenten services.
A famed botanist discovers a new plant and a neighbor reveals her secret marriage plan to a consumptive lover. He contemplates exposing his breakthrough to win her, but resolves to destroy the plant to keep her from choosing the other man.
The one hundredth anniversary of Henry W. Longfellow’s birth will be celebrated on the 27th. The English speaking world will honor his memory with rereading his renowned poems. The Post will publish daily gems from his works leading up to the anniversary.
A reflective verse from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow speaks of children as living poems whose warmth and sunlight outshine books and ballads. The speaker contrasts the children's bright inner world with the wind of autumn and the first snow, praising infancy and play as sources of true wonder.
Mrs. Charlotte B. Whipple, 85, of 42 Mt Vernon street, Boston, died at 4 yesterday morning after a long illness. Born Feb 28 1821 in Boston, she hosted Longfellow Whittier and Charles Dickens at her home, was married to Edwin Percy Whipple, and left two children. Funeral at 3:30 pm Wednesday from 12 Mt Vernon street with Rev. Charles G Ames officiating. burial Mt Auburn.
A DAR dispute in John Paw Jones Chapter flares as Miss Floretta Vining seeks expulsion of Vice Regent Mrs. Elizabeth Gosse. Three expelled members may rejoin via the reformed John Adams chapter to save fees. they plan to resign after transfer to John Adams.
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