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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1908
Page
6
The Sunday Post publishes subscription rates including six months for 1.50 and one year for 2.50. All subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued on expiration. Readers are asked to notify by mail if unable to obtain the Post. Editor and Publisher BH. A. Grozier.
The piece argues Congress will likely approve at most a temporary emergency currency up to 100 million dollars backed by bonds and taxed at seven percent. It criticizes the plan as stopgap and warns it would force the Treasury Secretary into the money market, with sub-treasury advisers offering little real financial insight.
A Texas congressman plans to introduce a House bill for free trade with Canada and Mexico. He doubts passage but hopes it sparks progress. The piece notes global tariff trends and compares U S ideas to European debates while questioning current protectionism.
The text discusses rivals cooperating on tariffs and pooling issues to form a global trade framework akin to a United States of the World. It says such a consummation is distant, but could emerge through a plan like the Texas Congressman’s.
The inaugural address surveys railroad merger issues and Boston finances. He favors broader Railroad Commission powers and hints at limited union terms, while proposing a temporary commission led by an appointive board with a mayoral veto to reform city government amid debt and maladminstration.
The piece argues naval and military boasting fuels war talk and political hysteria. It urges experts from both nations to stop bickering to reduce the chance of conflict and to give the world a chance to forget war exists.
A letter to the editor questions whether a son born in the United States to a foreign father can run for president, noting a January 1, 1308 reference and signing initials G, HL, B. Cie.
A fragment from a Boston Post Reporter page features Newton Newkirk and a boy named Robert Reece delivering a wandering elocution piece. It includes a collection of memorized lines, interludes, and tangential quips about elocution, fame, and a milliner’s sharp business asides.
A public contest invites readers to explain why the Boston Post bears that name. Prize includes a round trip Boston to Newton via B A R R and the chance to walk back home.
A quirky note recounts a husband mailing his own letters immediately while delaying his wife’s by a week to ten days after she hands them to him. The anecdote showcases unconventional mail etiquette within domestic life.
The All Sorts editor offers belated thanks for Christmas gifts including a music box, flat soaps, suspenders, and a clam shell calendar. Readers sign as Sofa Cushion and Mildred Gragg of Quincy Point Mass send items. editor jokes about using gifts and hopes for a prosperous 1908.
A busy column from the era covers a wide range of items. It notes a disputed interview about naval strength, a fenderless streetcar accident near South Boston, a boy’s pony named Cheer, church and civic honors for Somerville officials, streetcar congestion, humorous quips about Melvin Adams, a value of a new animal sighting in Chelsea, a New Year party with engagements announced, a birth of the New England Physicians' Club, a miniature water wagon at the Hotel Westminster, a letter at the South Historical Society, favorable fishing weather, Millbury’s long-lived resident Silas Dunton, a car conversation about purchase of a dog, and social and religious notices including Rabbi Bichler’s talk.
In a readers column, Mildred Champagne answers a question about a man inviting a young woman on car rides with his mother aware. The advice urges weighing consent from both families, warns against assuming a serious relationship, and encourages guarding one’s heart until a genuine or single commitment arises.
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