January 9 1909 Boston Post front page overview
The Boston Post issue details subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including prices for various durations and Canadian delivery. It notes the newspaper is a second class matter and provides office contact details and payment instructions. Editorial and business offices are listed along with telephone numbers.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
THE
Sunday Post
Canada
Postoffice
Maas
Post Publishing Company
Boston City Council Fails to Organize Amid Crisis
The Boston Common Council and Aldermen persist in failing to organize for business after multiple summons by the Mayor. While the State Legislature organized, Boston politicians haggle over factional goals, prompting talk of abolishing the City Council.
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Boston
Common Council
Beacon Hill
City Council of
Northern Avenue Bridge Franchises Spark City Push for Fees
The State Harbor and Land Commission urges granting the eternal Northern Avenue bridge franchise to the New Haven Railroad. Mayor Hibbard vetoed the grant, calling it a free gift of public funds and privileges to a railroad, and citizens demand that such exclusive rights be taxed or charged to corporations.
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State Harbor and Land Commission
Northern Avenue
New Haven Railroad Company
Boston
Atlantic Avenue
Hibbard
Iarbor and Land Commissioners
War to the Knife in Washington Power Struggle
The House votes 212 to 35 to expunge parts of President Roosevelt’s message claiming they breach House privileges. The outgoing president counters with the Hale correspondence aimed at Senator Tillman, raising graft claims. Public confidence in institutions is the key concern as political antagonism deepens.
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Congress
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
House
Representatives
House of Congress
Senate
Tillman
South Carolina
Hale
Executive Department
Washington
Polar relief fund urged for Cook expedition return ticket via Lloyds
A newspaper column argues for a relief expedition fund after Dr. Cook’s 1907 North Pole voyage and his disappearance in 1908. It proposes explorers and backers buy Lloyds insurance to guarantee prompt rescue after a prearranged time.
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Dr. Cook
New York
North Pole
Paleocrystic Sea
Lloyds
Greeks Aid Messina Relief Effort Across Centuries
A Greek cruiser carrying nurses surgeons and medical supplies anchors at Messina while a second warship arrives. The Bayern carries $58000 in hospital goods as American aid under Ambassador Griscom reaches torn areas. Estimated losses reach 160000 lives and 1.2 billion dollars in property. Subscriptions rise as sympathy widens.
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Greece
Rome
Messina
Griscom
Brotherhood of Na
Earthquake Relief Urges Feeding and Housing the Unfortunate
The speaker calls for ongoing aid in every large city to feed and house orphans and victims of the disaster. He emphasizes a shared humanitarian impulse and insists relief must continue until all those affected are cared for.
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United States
Italy
Naval buildup and a tale of Archibald in transit
Secretary of the Navy presses Congress for a major expansion with four 26 000 ton battleships and a fleet of cruisers destroyers and minor vessels. The American Peace Society counters with a vague anti arms stance and a vision of a peaceful future hindered by disarmament. A transit scene with Archibald Smudge features a Boston Elevated stations exchange ending with a cliffhanger.
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Congress
Newberry
House Committee On Naval Affairs
American Peace Society
Robert Treat Paine
United States
Congress Adopts Mr. Paine
England
France
Germany
Japan
Mr. Paine
Brooks Blasts Cleveland Schools In Interview
Stratton D. Brooks, superintendent of Boston schools, criticizes Cleveland for politics in its system while praising Boston's board driven governance. He says Cleveland turmoil stems from political interference and contrasts it with Boston where the board sets duties and holds officials responsible.
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Cleveland
Stratton D. Brooks
Boston
Brooks
Archi Bald Smudge Hopes to Catch Bay State Limited
A New Yorker, Archi bald Smudge, leaves the Westminster at 9 15 a m to catch the Bay State Limited from South station at 10. Yesterday he did not catch it. today uncertain.
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Archibald Smudge
Hair Cutting Contest Held by New York Barbers
The New York barbers plan a hair cutting contest at the Manhattan Lyceum on February 28 at 8 p m. Prizes go to the barber who can cut four heads fastest, with contestants having hair between two and three inches. Participants receive no prize beyond a haircut, and the piece calls out the dangers and humor of the event.
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Archibald Smudge
Archibald
Ingersoll
Floorwalker
Boston Elevated
New York City
Manhattan Lyceum
New York
Observant Citizen notes social life and local incidents
The column reports Mrs. Lamb convalescing after typhoid at Massachusetts General Hospital and tickets for Somerville high school vaudeville at Unitarian Hall on Feb 5 featuring Ernest Ver Wiebe. It sketches oddities from January fireflies in Woburn to a Newton car anecdote, shipboard habits, and local causes and opinions on loitering and public life.
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Fred Lamb
Massachusetts General Hospital
S. O. M. Club
Somerville
Unitarian Hall
Ernest Ver Wiebe
Harvard
The Newlyweds Their Baby and civic notes in Boston
Geo McManus profiles a public figure described as courteous and a gentleman, while ex Mayor Fitzgerald denies forging a check and recalls a $50 relief donation misposted by a firm. Chelsea reports brisk building, a dog named Brand linked to the great fire, and a South End landlord defends safety, with Russell Club invites for Boston fire officers on Jan 26.
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Fitzgerald
Lee, Higginson & Co
Lee, Higgison & Co
Chelsea
State Armory
First Baptist Church
Charles EF. Donahoe
Russell Club
Boston Fire Department
Washington Street
Skates and Skaters Advice From Gloucester
A reader asks if a man can skate without wearing a skate. The reply explains multiple skating types and notes dry land skating requires a skate, while beginners often sit to skate. It jokes about skates coming in pint and quart bottles and closes with a playful miswording about snakes instead of skates.
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Newt
Gloucester
Mass
P. S
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New England
Bitar
A. Grozier
Northern Avenue Bridge
War
Arctic Insurance
MR. Newberry and
North Station
South Station
Supt. Brooks
Newton Newkirk
Sphinx
Copley Square
Woburn
Newton
Franklin Park
Jamaica Plain
B Company
First Corps of Cadets
Bobby’’ Nichols
Potter and Howe Halls
Massachusetts
R. W. Emerson
Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edward A. Horton
Ancient
Order of Hibernians of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Salisbury
Father Walsh
Roxbury
Rock Cottage
Amos L. Allen
Maine
Geo. McManus
Brand
Lodging House Commission
South End
Nightt
Papa
Dolly
Ouch
Eral Prin
F. G. Long
Mes
Gators
Boys’ and Children’s Department
Porter, Mer
Mark
Hanover Street
James Otis Porter
Prietor
Burke&Co
Custom Tailors
School Street
Harvard Sq
Cambridge
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