Post Publishing Co Daily and Sunday Post Rates 1907
The Daily Post and Sunday Post subscription rates are listed for 1907. Daily options include one year nine dollars, six months four dollars and fifty cents, three months one dollar fifty, and one month twenty-five cents. Sunday Post prices are two dollars fifty cents yearly, with shorter terms at higher monthly equivalents. The paper offers vacation-time mail service at twenty-five cents per month for both Daily and Sunday editions.
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Case Carceses Osee
the Sunday Post
Canada Owing to Higher Dominion Rates for Subscriptions
The Daily Post offers 1 month 50 cents 6 months 3 dollars and 1 year 6 dollars while the Sunday Post costs 9 cents per copy. Subscriptions must be prepaid or they will be discontinued at expiration. Editorial offices at 1004-1005 Main and 1383-1384 Main. FP A. Grozier is editor and publisher.
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Daily Post
United States
The
Sunday Post
Canada
Dominion of Canada
A. Grozier
Provincetown Pilgrim memorial to lay corner stone soon
Less than six weeks remain before the corner stone laying of the Pilgrim memorial in Provincetown. Site clearance and foundations progress vigorously and memorial committee plans are matured. The event will attract the President of the United States and other state and national dignitaries with the North Atlantic squadron at rendezvous.
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Provincetown
United States
North Atlantic Squadron
Guardians of the Public Health
The Governor appoints fifteen medical inspectors under a new epidemic prevention law to cover all districts. Their duty is prevention over cure, aiming to improve sanitary conditions through vigilant, practical oversight across the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth
Government crop report predicts strong 1907 harvests
The Washington Department of Agriculture reports no wheat shortage and a large corn crop. It estimates corn yield at least 2 569 000 000 bushels, potentially the largest except for 1905 1906 and 1899, signaling ongoing prosperity.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
Stock Exchange
United States
Old Home Week to Feature Parades and Big Militia Showing
The Old Home Week celebration will include four parades plus an electrical show. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles will direct the military parade. Governor Guild is slated to lead 6000 Massachusetts militia on closing day. A Cambridge bridge dedication and clergy sermons are planned as highlights.
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Old Town
Nelson A. Miles
Governor Guild
Massachusetts
Cambridge
Public call for rate cuts after Post exposes abuses
The piece notes a six month period before the Post exposed corrupt practices at the New England Telephone Company. It details over $9,000 paid in gifts to politicians in that department, roughly $50 daily, and argues the stoppage since January 1 saves about $18,500 yearly. The author urges these savings to lower rates for subscribers.
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Dresser
New England Telephone Company
Common Sense on War with Japan and Finance
A national essay argues diplomacy over conflict with Japan, noting cultural differences and Western integration. It warns Japan’s debt after Russia’s war and stresses free resources for American welfare, advising avoidance of war unless national honor requires.
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Japan
United States
Family of Nations
Russia
West
New England Telegraph Cuts Costs in Boston Region
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company reports six months of favorable economy in the Boston district. Superintendent George H. Dresser describes the savings in a letter to Expert Patterson, noting policy changes about payroll practices affecting politicians and their allies.
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New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Boston
George H. Dresser
Patterson
Dresser
Underground Construction Department
Parker in Speech Hits at Roosevelt
Ex Judge Alton B Parker addressed the North Carolina Bar Association in Hendersonville to attack Roosevelt era centralization. He argued the Constitution is being ignored and that statutes replace common law, warning that interstate corporations back a move to concentrate power and diminish state sovereignty.
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Hendersonville
N. C
Alton B. Parker
New York
North Carolina Bar Association
Roosevelt
Twain entertains Punch staff at dinner in London
Mark Twain dined with Punch staff at a famous writers table. He carved his name on the table with a knife and joked about jokes, humor across the Atlantic, and a future exchange of wit between Britain and America.
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London
London Punch
England
Mark Twain
Mark
Clemens
Twain
Pawdon
Mr. Twain
United States
Great Britain
America
Americans
the Hague
Punch
Jeremiah Pennwhizz
Young couple wed in haste paid weekly alimony
A 16-year-old New York lad Anton Roberts is ordered to pay 6 a week to his 17-year-old wife Elia Johnson after a brief marriage. The piece satirically notes the haste of their union and the financial sting of alimony, urging caution in matrimony.
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Anton Roberts
New York City
Elia Johnson
Anton
Ella
Wealthy bachelor seeks wife for West Indies honeymoon
Henry H. Catlin of Terryville, a 72 year old bachelor, applied to the Waterbury Board of Charities to find him a wife. His only condition is that his bride accompany him on a honeymoon trip to the West Indies and the South Sea Islands.
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Waterbury, Conn
Henry H. Catlin
Terryville
Waterbury Board of Charities
West Indies
South Sea Islands
Volunteers named for Old Home Week guiding duties
Mr. O. G. Seeley and Dr. Frederick S. Piper of Lexington have volunteered as guides for Old Home Week. Lexington makes elaborate preparations. Boston plans music in Roslindale, Charlestown, and Winthrop Square. Immigrant influx strains port facilities and office space.
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O. G. Seeley
Frederick S. Piper
Lexington
Old Town
Boston
Roslindale Playground
Winthrop Square
Charlestown
Fek
Elizabeth Morrison
Paris
London
Eduardo Sottolano
Can You Name the Newlyweds Baby
The Boston Post seeks reader suggestions to name the famous baby of the Newly wed family. The artist cannot decide on a suitable name, so readers are invited to submit ideas to the Newlyweds' Baby editor.
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Post
Boston Post
Chelsea Proposes New Health Fountain and Police Runabout
District under Chief Burrell covers three or four Boston police wards. A runabout for the department is sought to avoid slow transit by horse drawn rigs. Residents support the plan and urge Council action. Chelsea plans to replace Isaac B. Stebbins’s granite drinking fountain with a steel model to be kept running year round.
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Quincy
Burrell
Boston
Chelsea Square
Isaac B. Stebbins
Chelsea
Watering halt at Montain? Boston–Lynn area water source
The article notes a single water site between Boston and Lynn that remains frozen during winter, offering little benefit in cold weather. It also reports quick police action against six youths breaking into a Dorchester house, and details the Everett launch at Fore River Works with sponsor Marion Boynton. It describes the Roughan Point breakwater work at Revere Beach and amusing note about Passamaquoddy chief Noel Loa adopting Father Gasson, seeking corduroy trousers as a sign of wealth.
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Boston
Lynn
James Halligan
John A’hearn
Everett Street
Dorchester
Quincy
Fore River Works
Marion Boynton
Everett
Revere Beach
Bay State
Revere
Noel Lo’a
Passamaquoddys
Thomas I. Gasson
Boston College
Father Gasson
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