The Boston Post July 11 1907 Subscription Rates Notice
The Boston Post issue outlines daily and Sunday subscription rates for U S and Canada. It lists prices for 1 year 6 months 3 months and monthly vacation rates and notes payment in advance with address change options and contact details.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
Sentienes Eee
the Sunday Post
Canada
Dominion of Canada
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Usual Thing Reported On Massachusetts Nautical School
The article notes no favoritism in the Enterprise matter and says the Post printed news promptly. It argues commissioners should not be too hard in their governor’s report, claiming fairness and public service.
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Massachusetts Nautical Training School
Enterprise
Willam F. Low
Low
Boston Registration Figures Show Drop In Names
The election department lists 100 747 names in Boston, down nearly 12 000 from December. Officials note the figure underestimates voting strength due to deaths removals and ongoing registrations. Supplementary registration opens for the State election next Monday and runs to mid October.
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Election Department
Boston
Arbitration at The Hague Conference Aims for Permanent Court
The United States backs a proposal for a permanent international court to judge disputes that diplomacy cannot resolve. The plan would ensure the court's decisions bind nations and replace war as a means of enforcing duties. Skeptics call it sudden and possibly impractical, yet it points to a civilizational goal.
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United States
the Hague
World Tobacco Trust Faces U S Court Challenge
The United States suit against the American Tobacco Company and 60 affiliatesincluding two English firmshighlights a two-hemisphere monopoly controlling about 75 percent of U S tobacco. The government seeks to halt foreign partners from doing business in the U S while breaking the trust into its components.
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United States
New York
American Tobacco Company
Department of Justice
Rockefeller
Rogers
Archbold
Carnegie
Frick
Harriman
Tobacco Trust
Telephone Inquiry Probes Boston Rates and Service
The Highway Commission continued hearings on the Post petition seeking reduced rates and improved Boston service. Evidence pointed to inflated valuations and government-linked wage practices in the underground construction department, with about 9000 dollars excess labor costs over six months. The newspaper notes reforms have reduced spurious payrolls, hinting at possible rate relief pending fuller fact gathering.
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Highway Commission On the Post
Boston
Commission
Highway Commission
Whitman
Post
George H. Dresser
The
Telephone Company
Underground Construction Department
Dresser
the Telephone Company
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Governor Names Elijah George to Probate Office Promotion
Governor Guild selects Elijah George for 30 years as Register of Probate and Insolvency, granting life tenure and broad support. The slate includes trustees for the General Insurance Guarantee Fund and a 15 member health inspection panel, all aimed at steady development and public welfare.
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McKim
Guild
Elijah George
Mr. George
George
Suffolk Bar
Governor Guild
Executive Council
General Insurance Guarantee Fund
Savings Bank
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The Fool Who Rocks the Boat Play Draft
A short scene shows Algeron and Wilhelmina at sea in a canoe with chocolate fudge as ballast. Algeron rocks the boat causing fear and a spill into the lake as The Fool Killer watches, fate unsettled by the missing pair and a red white and blue banded straw hat.
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Algeron
Wilhelmina
Curtain
What the Sphinx Says on How to Get a Summer Tan
Old Subscriber asks how to secure a coat of tan. The answer describes beach bathing, sun exposure, cold cream, and a shedding skin process to produce a fast color that lasts all summer, detailing steps from sun up to bed and aftercare and noting the tan’s lasting quality.
Teddy Bear sparks debate among mothers nationwide
Mothers worry the Teddy Bear may substitute for a real baby as stores sell them for 2 to 8 dollars. The piece argues the bear lacks true needs like feeding and growth, though it notes some drawbacks for real babies. It concludes nothing replaces a real child in a woman's heart.
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Stork
Fairbanks Heroically Saves Girl at Yellowstone Lake
Vice President Fairbanks saved a girl from drowning at Yellowstone Lake in Wyoming the other day. The feat will be remembered alongside the cocktail episode as a notable incident in his history.
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Fairbanks
Yellowstone Lake
Wyo
Wordplay and Punchlines from Taunton Hiram Wellfleet
A humorous exchange appears with lines about beer in the ark and the bear being brain, followed by a Capitol corridor encounter with a page who says he is running for Congress. The note ends with a postman joke about mail and fighting, attributed to Taunton Hiram Wellfleet.
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Ark
National Capitol
House of Representatives
Congress
Taunton
Hiram Wellfleet
Observations and anecdotes from Boston and beyond
A collection of vignettes covers a city ordinance idea on safe transport of cases, Major Harry T. Herring’s Boston visit, a Back Bay resident’s sparrow nest under an awning, Mrs. Low’s popularity aboard a ship, Shrubb at Charlesbank gym, Deputy Marshal James Ruhl’s vacation, a Brighton car conductor’s mishap solved by a boy, and social intrigue at the Holland House with Amy and Crofton amid engagement twists. Additionally Olympia cruiser target practice off Barnstable stirs detonation chatter.
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Barnstable
Jackies
Olympia
Naval Academy
Howard
Annapolis
United States
Crofton Delights Dinner Guest Amid Romantic Drawn-Out Yearning
Crofton of Somerville hosts a quiet dinner while brooding on Amy whom he courted years ago. A note from New York arrives, and his restrained smile hardens as he reads the handwriting and the line from Amy.
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Crofton
Amy
Europe
New York
Bobbie
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Democratic Paper
New England
Post Publishing Company
F. A. Grozier
BY Newton Newkire
Sphinx
You Bay
George M’manus
Papa
Pitty
Baby
Harry T. Herring
St. John’s Military School
Manlius
Major Herring
West Point
C. F. King
Powell Street
Brookline
Dewey
Manila
Charlesbank Gymnasium
Shrubb
James Ruhl
John D
Adams Square
Brighton
Hanover Street
Holland House
Lady Wheaton
Bob
Lord Grayburne
Warton
Prince
Batiste
Wallace
Mabelle M. Harvey
Sycamore Street
Somerville
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