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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
6
The Boston Post lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions in 1908, with rates for one year six months and three months. It includes office contact details, publishing staff, and notes on payment terms and delivery reminders.
The Model License League proposes penalties for minors who buy liquor while misrepresenting age. They argue the seller and buyer share guilt, equating the tempter with the tempted, and urge a common sense approach to liquor laws.
Judge Bolster fined 15 offenders five dollars each for spitting in public places as part of a campaign to curb tuberculosis spread. Eminent specialists say eradicating promiscuous spitting will ease the broader public health challenge.
Secretary Taft adopts Lincoln’s practical stance as a statesman. He counters opponents by stressing belief in unionism’s legality and condemning abuses of injunctions in labor cases, signaling a tempered approach to labor disputes.
Professor Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard proposes that no student should receive honors unless he has attained a certain grade in gymnastics or athletics. The idea aligns with college athletics favoring mass participation on the playground over grand stands. A Princeton-Harvard football schedule would be spectacular but likely gains more student support than faculty approval.
The dog fish faces trial before Dr. Wiley, head of U S pure food enforcement, as critics joke about a war against the Bay State sacred cod foe. Rumors hint the fish may be eaten by proxy and served as savory nourishment.
The text claims milkweed is preferred to asparagus when cooked right and notes many so called weeds are eaten in New England. It suggests Dr. Wiley could promote dog fish as tasty but would need a name change to profit.
Boston's Common Council faces a leadership vacuum as Aldermen Curley and Baldwin dispute seniority and Mayor Hibbard may be unavailable. With no aldermanic chairman or council president, City Clerk Donovan's death leaves John T. Priest to call the body to order, risking partisan entanglements. The piece argues voters should determine the mayoral succession to avoid chaos and protect Priest's impartial record.
Time for the majority to act as factions within the Democratic State organization clash over control of party machinery. The two bodies of the state committee clash over leadership with elected caucus members facing a convention dominated bloc. Leaders are accused of preferring personal power over party harmony and success, urging reorganization.
General Manager George F. Evans of the Maine Central railroad died after years of neglecting meals for work. Once receiver of the Louisville Evansville and St. Louis, he reorganized a bankrupt property, made it profitable, and earned a strong reputation, but acute indigestion years later followed his refusal to keep his dinner hour sacred amid business demands.
The Massachusetts Universalist Sunday School Association holds its second annual mid-winter meeting at Roxbury Universalist Church on January 25. Events include a 10 15 AM session with Mrs. E M Barney of Providence R I giving an address, a state roll call, and a talk in the afternoon by Rev John Coleman Adams on The 20th Century Sunday School plus a discussion of The Exodus.
The Universalist Leader notes two Child Labor Sunday events, with Jan 26 fixed. Through New York resident secretary Owen R Love joy the movement spreads widely. A second lecture in the series by Professor B C Moore is at King's Chapel on Monday at 2:30 titled The Naturalization of Christianity in the Far East. Rev Paul Revere Frothingham leads next Wednesday's service. The New England Unitarian Associate Alliance meets next Thursday at All Saints Church Roxbury.
A column by Newton Newkirk assembles a miscellany of jokes and aphorisms centering on everyday life and public figures. The piece opens with a pointed quip about a so called good hater and memory.
A reminiscence recalls Edna Goodrich defying a Thaw trial summons by tearing it up and stamping the fragments. The piece then shifts to a Pittsburgh divorce case where a reporter faced contempt of court fines, delays, and a jail threat before paying costs and vowing to quit the story.
The Observant Citizen notes Eugene Tompkins ill at his Back Bay home and Dr. Harry M. Haynes celebrating his fifth wedding anniversary at 19 Lancaster Terrace Brookline. The Majestic Theatre farewell of Signor Novelli uplifts Boston Italians as Howell Hansel and the Boston Conservatory perform in The Charity Ball at Castle Square Theatre on January 24. Letters to Mr. Keith pour in from across the country marking his 2th anniversary. A Cambridge car incident in Nonantum Square entertains a 100 yard dash man causing a trolley pull and crew boarding. Everett and Maiden send many new California arrivals, while Roslindale gypsy peddlers amuse Washington Street crowds. Subway car delays and a reservoir breakdown create rush hour frictions. Oxen draw wood on Washington Avenue Chelsea. A Brookline Line rider switches for a tired woman, a Vermont Mutual scholar from Sue and Maurice Dewey, and Lt. Fottler’s long police service in West Roxbury. Quincy Sergeant Barry returns after illness. Roxbury charity at Premier Theatre cheers St Vincent’s orphans. Hampden Street shop proclaims Wood and Coal by the bag. Tahiti-bound Hugo Parton writes on island life. Insurance loan effects rise as policyholders cope with hard times.
A quotation contrasts finding a woman's hair on a coat upon departure versus at return, signaling distinct implications for absence and presence. The statement suggests varying significance or perception of evidence of a relationship depending on direction of the homeward journey.
Alice Stone Blackwell of Dorchester argues that the Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women has inflated its strength by counting signatures as members. She notes no fees are paid by so called members, and compares to higher petition totals for suffragists and referendum support in Massachusetts and New York.
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