Boston Post January 24 1908 subscription and staff notice
The Boston Post outlines subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions including U S Canada foreign and Canada post charges. It lists editorial and business offices and identifies editors and departments. The note confirms advertising and payment terms and Associated Press rights with international office locations in London and Paris.
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Sunday Post
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Fourth Estate
Brave Men to the Rescue by Guardian in Boston Gale
Lt. Frederick J. Swendeman commanded the police boat Guardian in a 70 mile gale off Boston harbor rescuing the fishing schooner Reliance and its ten crew members. The effort combined seamanship and cool judgment with Rescue team Perry Lyal Crowley Driscoll Necco praised. urged Chamber of Commerce and Carnegie Hero Fund Commission to note the incident.
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Frederick J. Swendeman
Guardian
Boston Harbor
Reliance
C. B. Perry
John H. Lyal
James Crowley
William Driscoll
John Necco
Chamber of Commerce
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Death of Viscount Bryce Celebrated as Man of Greatness
The death of Viscount James Bryce is noted as the passing of a towering figure in literature, diplomacy, and thought. Author of The American Commonwealth and Modern Democracies, he shaped political thought and fostered strong Anglo American ties as Britain's ambassador.
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James Bryce
Lord Bryce
Hemisphere
United States
Ill Advised Bridge Relocation Affects Cambridge Area
Advisory board suggests moving Cottage Farms bridge over the Charles to St. Paul and Magazine streets to ease motorist trips between Brookline and Union Square Somerville. The plan would slice Magazine Street playground in two, ruin the bathing beach, and impact local children and residents.
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Advisory Board of Engineers
Metropolitan District Commission
Cottage Farms
The
Charles
St. Paul
Magazine Streets
Brookline
Union Square
Somerville
Cambridge
Magazine Street
Children and Safer Playgrounds Urged Over Car Traffic
The piece argues against cutting playgrounds for speed concerns urging more deliberate planning of safe play spaces for children and prioritizing their safety over automobilist convenience. It emphasizes preserving and expanding playgrounds rather than reducing them.
Woodrow Wilson Foundation Endowment Campaign Extended
The extension runs to January 350th and urges immediate subscription to State headquarters in Boston. The foundation aims to reward service to democracy and peace and to be preserved as long as America exists, named for Woodrow Wilson as a national civic honor and a beacon for future generations. Massachusetts is urged to lead this movement.
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Woodrow Wilson Foundation
America
101
Tremont Street
Boston
Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Massachusetts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Annual Report Shows Gains
Morris Gray reports a reduced deficit of 14000 dollars and a 31583 rise in yearly attendance at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Subscriptions grew, Sargent murals were completed, and valuable paintings were added to the collection as public interest strengthens.
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Morris Gray
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Sargent
Gray
Observant Citizen notes on doughnuts and Massachusetts mining
The column muses on the New England doughnut craze and large holes, cites Boston pharmacy sales, and recalls Seventy years since Robert Grant, plus California gold and Massachusetts mining outputs. It also hints at Hindy the Post cat and reader letters about webster and grandparents.
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New England
One Boston Pharmacy
Department of the Interior
Romantic schemes in office meet a bittersweet twist
In a Pleasant office two men pursue flirtations with female tenants and a milliner next door. A subtle rivalrous romance ends when a hatter falls for a grieving woman who reveals she will marry the psychologist who restored her brother’s sight next month.
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France
Hatter’s
Songs, memory, and taste shape our loves and dislikes
A farmer and a writer discuss how memory and circumstance color our views of songs and places. Personal experiences, from a youth’s organ memory to fish meals and a salesman marooned in a town, illustrate memory’s power to make or mar what we cherish.
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Roy Neal
Roy
Harding Denounces Agricultural Bloc in National Policy
President Harding rejected a sectional farm bloc as mere class legislation. He argued national welfare requires aid beyond the West and South, noting unequal funds from the War Finance Corporation and the need for inclusive farmer support across regions.
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Harding
Agricultural Conference
Mississippi River
Ohio River
Luce
War Finance Corporation
New England
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New York
Army training plan targets 5000 officers 2000 men per corps
The War Department will train 5000 officers and 2000 men in each of the nine army corps areas this coming summer. Brigadier General William Lasaiter informed the House Military Committee.
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War Department
William Lasaiter
House Military Committee
Oldest Inhabitant Recalls Boston January Cold Spells
The oldest observer recalls Boston weather extremes for January 4. Official records show 13 below in 1882 and 7 below in 1907. They cite a warmest 60 in 1904 and note no rain or snow on this date in several years.
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Boston
No Stories Without Self-Addressed Stamp Envelope
Publisher states stories will not be returned until a self-addressed stamped envelope is provided. Readers are asked to retain a copy of any story sent to the office.
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Sunday Post
Questions and queries from the Letter Box readers
The pages present letters asking about a Southern Magnetic Pole near 72S 156E and various home science and social questions. Topics include Raisins in cake, odor in old butter, bread sponge timing, who pays for rings in double ring weddings, and using windpower with storage batteries for home electricity.
No. 9 The Corner of Washington Summer and Winter Streets
A historical sketch of Boston’s Summer and Winter streets contrasts 1822 life with 1922 activity. It notes early residential use, notable residents like Samuel Adams and Daniel Webster, Windmill Point, Trinity Church, and the changing urban landscape. It cites moral mores and a 1818 public piracy execution observed by thousands, finishing with a teaser on Tomorrow's Picture The Frankland House.
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New York
Washington
England
Samuel Adams
Purchase Street
Winter Street
High Streets
Trinity Church
Summer Street
Essex
South
Federal Streets
Windmill Point
Samuel Adams Drake
Boston
Geyers
Memorial History of
Josiah P. Quincy
Rainy Wandering Verse by Walt Mason
The poem rails comically at relentless rain chasing the narrator from Kansas to a sunlit land. It portrays flood and drought swap with drought turned to deluge, humorously blaming the narrator for climate whimsy as clouds burst and cows swim. The piece ends with the speaker as the hoodoo causing storms wherever he travels.
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Kansas
Noah
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Night fog and potato service spark readers questions
Letters to the editor discuss windless power storage for a house, baked potatoes at formal dinners, the Lowe Institute free lectures founded in 1839, and the meaning of Cimmerian darkness from Homer.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Boston
Lowe Institute
John Lowell
Porter notes Jerry Steele holds many town offices
In Westport Ontario residents are told that Jerry Steele serves as constable street commissioner sanitary inspector school attendance officer pound keeper dog tax collector temperance agent and custodian of public property with a salary of 200 dollars a year.
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Fads and Fashions Spring Styles Rise in Color and Trim
Lad Volles with batik colorings will be in demand this spring. An effective costume of black velvet has facings of broadcloth. Narrow ruffles appear as lingerie trim. A gown of silver gray crepe de chine is beaded in hydrangea blue. Copper brown and lilac shade afternoon hats. Smocking debuts under the yoke. Plain chiffon over foulard returns. Paisley silk coats dresses in cloth. Gowns lay flat with winged drapery at sides.
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