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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1907
Page
6
The Post Publishing Co announces daily and Sunday subscription rates with prices for 1 year six months eight months and one month and notes payment in advance. Editor E A Grozier requests readers notify by mail if papers fail to arrive.
The article questions the impact of mandatory pure food labels on prepared foods and medicines. It argues that disclosure changes perceptions of imitation flavors and colors, suggesting readers may have preferred artificial substitutes from maple sugar to mocha for years.
The piece argues that sending colored regiments to the Philippines is a convenient political remedy and calls for fair reinstatement of unlawfully discharged Twenty-fifth Regiment soldiers. It notes higher pay and retirement benefits for tropical service and urges assembling the dispersed troops before their April Manila departure.
A call for a thorough non partisan probe of Boston prompts debate over the proposed Legislature bill. Critics say the bi partisan commission plan is a bid to hobble the mayor and would saddle Boston with most costs, harming the inquiry’s credibility.
A shabby man entered a Philadelphia bank on Saturday pretended to seek a loan on collateral then detonated a bomb wrecking the bank and killing several, blowing himself to pieces. Later a bomb fell from an elevated railway station in New York City into the crowd below causing serious injuries to several with unclear motive.
The report cites a New York bomb dropped on a peanut stand of an inconvenient witness in a street fight case. It condemns bomb throwing as a bad habit and astonishing that such violence could be seen as a financial method in Philadelphia.
The Sunday Post reports 15 life-term murderers transferred from Charlestown State Prison to Bridgewater Hospital for the Criminal Insane over seven years. Transfers rose as time at Charlestown shrank from years to months, raising questions about crime, insanity, and the death penalty.
A Boston Stock Exchange episode left many speculators wrecked in minutes as bets on a stock dropped from a high margin. Women in the gallery fainted while losses mounted, illustrating the dangers of gambling on margin rather than buying outright. The stock later rose, rewarding those who had truly purchased the stock and held on through the turmoil.
A government report shows the king governs 11,193,000 square miles and 450,000,000 subjects, including 300,000,000 in India. Outside India the population density is low, with about four inhabitants per square mile, suggesting room for expansion.
Comic duo Bing and Bang present a pathetically punk skit in a vaudeville style exchange. The dialogue features rapid wordplay, social gibes, and a faux feud between the two performers as they riff on family and public affairs with audience cues and a staged musical number about a mother and father.
Hicks, a California miner freed after 15 days underground, signed a $600 weekly vaudeville contract. He appeared to a crowded theatre but froze on stage, sweat pouring and speech failing, then canceled the act and chose mining at $3 a day over vaudeville brass.
At the Germantown Citizens' Association annual meeting the group voted to push improvements on Stinson Street and to press Boston School Board Chairman James J. Storrow for a new Germantown school. They also formed a committee to discuss a New York New Haven Hartford railroad station at Centre street and elected officers including President J Henry Nay and Secretary William H Gleason.
A baby left at a curb in a crowded shopping district narrowly escaped a dray horse path as Lt. David Donaldson of the Lowell police rescued the infant. The piece weaves in local voices on cabs, muzzles, and a string of small town notes and obituaries.
The British freight steamer Min, which grounded near Sandy Hook while outward bound last night, floated at high tide without assistance today. The Min, undamaged, proceeded for Pernam buco.
Louis finds a necklace stolen from a foreign lady at the opera. He hides it to fund his sister Constance’s musical dream. Years later the beads resurface with Mme Z guiding Constance toward a singing career and a chance for a shared fortune.
The Kaiser instructs a motor car maker to repaint the motto on his vehicle panels from Gott mit uns to Gott mit mir, a small but notable alteration reflecting royal preference. This change is announced as part of Berlin news from January 6.
Albert Weldon Briggs of 23 Bradlee Street Dorchester writes to the Post Letter Box protesting the Dorchester telephone service. He argues complaints are ignored and urges action against the telephone company to improve service.
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