The Post in Vacation Time
The Boston Post announces its vacation policy with daily and Sunday editions mailed to U S addresses for a monthly fee. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration without notice. Editor E A Grozier remains publisher.
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Governor Pothier Enforces Rhode Island Gambling Law
The Rhode Island governor ordered gambling to stop at the Woonsocket trotting park drawing caustic comments from horsemen and pool sellers. The law bars pool selling, and the governor is enforcing it, deserving commendation rather than blame.
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Woonsocket Trotting
Reconsider Tax Question Stirs House Vote
The House yesterday referred the state income tax issue to the General Court by a voice vote. Call for reconsideration argues for a full roll call to reveal representative positions and inform constituents on this closely divided matter.
Americans in London Misread True Nation, Critics Say
The writer mocks Marie Corelli for claiming Americans would like a king and notes only a few genuine Americans were seen in London. He argues many visitors paying high fees to touch the coronation chair or buy token paper misrepresent Americans, while true Americans stay home tending to business.
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Marie Corelli
London
George
Marie Corelligaw
Oxford Cambridge Defeat Harvard Yale By Narrow Margin
The merged Oxford Cambridge team edged the Harvard Yale aggregation by one point in yesterday’s meet. An American hammer thrower, Rhodes scholar Putnam now at Oxford, secured the decisive point. The score stands two to two.
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Yachts Clash In Global Contest Reflections On Balance
A writer reflects on international college competition and sailing rivalries. The piece notes the value of sportsmanship over constant victories and discusses the enduring dominance of America’s Cup defenders over English challengers.
The Triumph of Public Opinion in Subway Reform
The pending subway and merger bills seem likely to pass and be credited to the General Court of 1910s. Governor Foss, the Public Franchise League led by Brandeis Filene and Eastman, Senator Tinkham, Elevated management, and a cooperative press have united to reflect public interests and opinion. West End stockholders remain contentious but may accept the outcome.
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Herald
Bridgeport Train Tragedy Prompts Call for Safer Railroading
An editorial laments the Bridgeport Federal Express disaster, urging a thorough investigation into switch speed, signaling, and maintenance. It questions responsibility, highlights loss and mourning, and insists on lessons to prevent future wrecks while extending sympathy to victims’ families.
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Pass the Small Loan Bill
The Tinkham-Cavanagh bill regulates small loan agencies and pawnbrokers, seen as a good though stringent measure intended to abolish or minimize evils in small loan transactions. It creates a state supervisor of loan agencies with broad authority, replacing local authorities, and hinges on appointing a competent official for success.
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Tinkham-Cavanagh
The Smart City Youth
A country youth boasts a cabbage head six feet in circumference to his city cousin who asks who made his hat. The exchange highlights rural exaggeration versus urban wit in a lighthearted note.
Charleston’s Colonial Spirit Through War’s Long Shadow
The article recalls Charleston as uniquely preserved in its conservative heritage, where birth determines status and civic life maintained martial vigor from 1856 through 1865. Olmsted’s observations, Confederate defense, poets, diarists, and Woodford’s 1835 view illustrate a city resisting change yet bearing wartime hardship and shifting economy under siege.
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Frederick Law Olmsted
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Paul Hamilton Hayne
Sherman
Carolinas
ALL SORTS Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Forecast calls for fair today and tomorrow with very dry spells from Winthrop to Roxbury. Thunder showers may bring unsettled weather and wetness. cooler air arrives if the wind shifts northeast. Low pressure over Bismarck moves rapidly, making heat, with uncertain Boston impact.
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Weather and gossip reach Paramatta in cryptic note
A fragmentary news note speaks of cool weather at Paramatta and reassures about Mrs. William Howard’s calm state. It references Montserrat refreshment and hints at uncertain times with youthful Charlie, prompting a complaint over propriety.
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William Howard
Charlie
Our idea of nothing to do this weather is anything
A lighthearted note about finding tasks or amusements during bad weather. The line plays on the irony of having nothing to do while weather limits activity.
Hot Weather Hints From Goods Mutchinson
A humorous column advises office wear to beat heat using sleeveless undershirts and sandpaper at the elbows to stop slipping. A sponge hangs around the neck for mopping, squeezed into a desk tub every three minutes, then bathed in salt water at day’s end for health.
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Heat Haunts Speaker With Unbearable Discomfort
The writer expresses extreme dislike for heat describing sweat behind the ears and in the shoes. They note constant aversion and the physical discomfort caused by high temperatures. Their tone conveys strong personal repulsion toward heat.
Unloved and Unvalued Utility Hypothetical Rhapsody
A rivalling speaker rejects an unnamed object as unwanted and barren to the point of horror and loathing. The text advocates a preference for extreme cold and describes future winter as terrific while urging support for a cooling breeze.
How to eat green corn without using eyebrows
In a humorous exchange the editor explains a traditional method for eating corn. A reader asks for etiquette to avoid corn silk in the eyebrows, and the response describes holding the ear, blowing to remove silk, biting from the large end, sliding kernels with a 45 degree turn, and using tweezers to finish.
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Thomas
Bathes and borough notes from the city page
The column reports on a busy summer with youths stealing fruit, a police capture, and a jail stay. It notes Bath Commission improvements at L Street bath house reducing theft, cites City Councillor Attridge in Wisconsin, and Captain Gove's ship Delaware returning from London with coal usage details. Also covered are ambulance calls, beach picnickers harming bathers, and local residents like George Crockwell rising in the U.S. marshal ranks.
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Charles Augustus Gove
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London
Fragmented quotation on justice and punishment
A criticizing voice condemns a harsh jailment of a virtuous boy, arguing if he offended against no law he should not face torture or public shaming in multiple languages. The fragment hints at a plea for fair treatment and humane justice.
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Prometheus
South Boston Press Club outing and local civic notes
The South Boston Press Club, formed by peninsula journalists and professionals, held an Nantasket outing with a dinner discussing South Boston welfare topics including extending street baths to Marine Park. Deacon George W. Fowles of Jamaica Plain observed his 90th birthday and remains an active West Roxbury figure. City Point officer Reserveman Nickerson returned a lost 25 cent piece. State bath house records at Revere Beach show 3271 women bathers and 8274 total bathers, a Labor Day peak past only once in 1904.
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