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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
8
The Boston Post issue from July 29 1909 lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions with yearly and shorter terms and a note about vacation time and mailing. It includes office contact details at 259 Washington St BostonMass and advertising lines.
The article argues that immigration reflects economic health with 1905 to 1907 seeing about 1.25 million yearly arrivals and later declines as labor remains sufficient. It calls for limiting Chinese entry via Canada and Mexico and cites June immigration at 119,382 as already ample for development.
The piece notes new toque rasse and small hats for American women next fall as abroad. It critiques extreme styles such as peach basket and mushroom hats, comparing them to 17th century court headwear and suggesting moderate hats will ease streetcar seating and improve comfort for men and women if fashion allows.
The piece reports that Gifford Pinchot relinquished maps and records on Indian timber lands to Secretary Ballinger after a dispute over Forest Service authority. It questions Ballinger's ability to manage forestry and defends Pinchot as the founder of national forestry.
A New York life insurer applies to erect and maintain a sanatorium for employees and policy-holders with tuberculosis. The plan faces questions of legality as company business, but the proposal is praised as potentially beneficial. Hospitals for TB are crowded, public care limited, and preventive treatment urged. The insurer argues keeping insured men alive preserves wealth and citizenship.
A plan to establish a tubercular sanatorium is outlined, noting the toll of disease with an estimate that a policy-holder dies from tuberculosis every 32 minutes.
The 1909 budget debate stretched 14 hours in the Commons amid opposition attacks on land value unearned increments and a new internal revenue tax on spirits. The Liberal government pursues passage with a strong majority as peers threaten possible amendments in the Lords provoking a cross house clash. Lord Lansdowne condemns the budget as a move toward subverting society and hints at a public appeal if a Lords reform fight ensues.
Philadelphia aims to restore prestige by rebuilding its port and piers, challenging New York and other rivals. The Chestnut street pier nears city turnover, Arch and Dock street piers receive repairs, and Italy line contemplates greater Mediterranean service. Boston activity prompts questions.
William K. Adams of Boston writes to the Post imploring readers to address cruelty to cats in Bay State road during summer. He reports starving, skeletal felines left to fend for themselves while owners vacation, calling for intervention by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and condemning pampered house pets.
Zionist groups worldwide mark Dr. Max Nordau's 60th birthday with public events in Boston at the Jewish People's Institute on Sunday evening August 1. Leopold Morse Home Band will perform, with speakers J de Haas and Max Gaster addressing the crowd.
The annual summer gathering of the New England Hardware Dealers Association drew 169 members and friends to Nantasket Beach. Dealers won an exhibition ball game, followed by a shore dinner at Palmwarden Paragon Park at 5 pm. A committee led by F Alexander Chandler organized the event and attractions.
A busy reader outlines the evolving plot of a comic serial as Stealthy Steve and Slipshod Sue honeymoon in Cork while the Central African Glassware Company backs Roosevelt. Stub the Sting lies bound by Colonel Roosevelt who finally remits his bonds after a tense exchange about the square deal and Stub’s shameless vanity.
Inverness is the principal town of Inverness-shire with about 25 000 residents of whom 5000 speak Gaelic. It is an ancient city with royal charters and historic sites. The harbor supports a thriving foreign trade and local industries include iron foundries shipyards woolen manufactories and bleach works. Nearby deer forests attract American and English and Scottish sportsmen to a renowned hunting country. Tomorrow features a view of Melrose Abbey.
George Sargent, open professional golf champion, played a hard match at Van Cortlandt Park against Gilbert Nicholls of Woodland Golf Club Auburndale Mass. Sargent won the first two holes Nicholls won the fourth and fifth holes the next eight holes were all even.
Charles A Whitney mechanical superintendent of the Waltham Watch Company died at his home in Waltham today from a paralytic shock. He was 53 and one of the citys best known residents.
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