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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1909
Page
6
The brief item notes the January 18 1909 daily edition of the Post Publishing Co with issue number and Boston office address.
The Post Publishing Company lists monthly and annual rates for the Daily Post and The Sunday Post. Prices include one year five dollars, six months one dollar fifty, eight months seventy five cents, one month twenty five cents. The Sunday Post one year two dollars fifty, six months one dollar twenty five, three months sixty five cents. Canada copies nine cents each. Subscriptions must be prepaid and are discontinued at expiration. Editor E A Grozier.
The partial destruction of the old Park square railroad station by fire prompts reflection on urban redevelopment. The loss may hasten rebuilding toward using the three million dollar yard space for citywide benefit, ending years of idle yards in New England’s enterprise.
Municipal financiers scowl at the snow as slush forms yet New England gains a wealth of fertilizer value for gardens and farms. The blanket protects shrubs and roots amid temperature swings and likely averts water shortages in cities across the state.
One week from today President-elect Taft will set sail for Panama to study the canal project and prepare for handling the major administrative task. Voters favor calm handling of sea level and dam site debates, trusting Taft and his engineers to deliver a solid canal.
The piece notes that Britain uses its postal system to distribute old age pensions to 528,488 beneficiaries totaling 27.482 million dollars annually with weekly payments to England and Ireland. It argues future US postmasters may need qualifications beyond political machine influence as the USPS contemplates reforms like postal savings, telegraph, and parcel post.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners votes to let the New Haven system gain title to the Berkshire street railway. The decision is viewed as a potential precedent for similar mergers, with the broader aim of preserving competition between steam and electric lines and expanding trolley service to lower fares and improve urban housing.
Owners and drivers have over two weeks to learn the new traffic rules now in effect. The rules aim to ease congestion, especially in the shopping district. Police order states ignorance of the rules cannot be used as a defense.
The regulations are law to both police and driver, requiring enforcement and obedience. Ignorance should be enlightened and carelessness reformed. Traffic rules have proved their value and are here to stay, despite any hatred or resistance.
Alfred Austin delivers a timely yet discreet critique of Poe while the English-reading world gears up for Edgar Allan Poe’s centennial. He reads Poe’s verse as loud, unshepherded waves, provoking debate on whether Britain honors Poe while America snubs him from the Hall of Fame.
A Boston buyer paid 1500 dollars for a single partridge despite its plain appearance. The breeder cites selection, care, and feed, noting agricultural colleges’ proven results from breeds and crops like Country Gentleman corn and Countess Spencer sweet peas, and the record milk yield of Colantha Fourth's Johanna at 27,4327 pounds per year.
The Woman's Municipal League makes its public debut to push pure milk for Bostonians especially in tenement districts. Dr James O Jordan is set to speak to milk producers on Boston milk quality, lauded as a Nemesis to violators of milk laws who have long faced court action. If satisfied with today’s milk, it will reassure buyers wary after court records.
The piece argues that petitions and factions fail to overcome machine politics in Boston. It notes how party labels and districting do not prevent leaders like Whelton Curley and Anderson from dominating outcomes. The article critiques the Aldermen deadlock over a chairman and urges leaving the selection to voters.
A reader accuses Newt of being bald and urges him to publish an affidavit proving he has abundant hair. Newt replies with humor, denying baldness rumors and joking about affidavits to silence critics, asking for a notary public's certification.
A friend forwards a fragment advertising services used by John on his stationery. The notice hints at a personal marketing style, suggesting a concise, businesslike message meant to accompany his correspondence.
John M Morse of West Wareham Massachusetts is described as a dealer in everything from tacks to elephants to earn an honest dollar and maintain reasonable fee terms with his own conscience.
In Medford Hillside Massachusetts Whit writes from Sullivan square to Medford square, claiming Truker won a wager on crawling vs trolley travel during rush hour. He refused payment citing a five minute halt caused by a bobtail Tufts square car and asks for arbitration.
A letter claims the reader would have beaten Humker in a race if a bob-tailed car had not delayed them five minutes. The author cites Hoyle and other authorities and offers 25 cents as the prize, noting a confidential instruction to mail the amount back if the decision is not reversed.
The Observant Citizen notes the half staff at Thomas G Stevenson Post 26 G A R after the death of George O Whipple a prominent member. He died of pneumonia three days after illness and was buried in Cambridge on Sacramento Street.
The Rev George W King at People's Temple denounces Boston as self satisfied with misplaced charity and Joaferism. He cites moral decline and unsafe conditions for women on streets after nightfall and notes men acting as their own law in politics, business, and religion.
In Moorfield burying ground opposite Chatham a stone records Janet McLeod wife of John McLeod funeral inscription from July 1787 marriage to 1811 death. It notes she lived 87 years and left 6 surviving daughters and a note of memento mori for those remaining.
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