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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1907
Page
6
Advertisement style notice listing subscription prices for the Daily Post and The Sunday Post. Includes rates for one year six months three months and monthly options. Also notes vacation time mailing at 25 cents per month for the Daily and 25 cents per month for the Sunday edition.
Owing to higher postal charges to the Dominion of Canada, daily Post rates are 50 cents for 1 month, 3 dollars for 6 months, 6 dollars for a year while Sunday Post costs 9 cents per copy. Subscriptions must be prepaid and handled through the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY in Boston.
The event on August 20 will mark the laying of the Pilgrims' monument corner stone with President Roosevelt delivering the address. Governor Guild discussed the plan with Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill yesterday, and many Old Home Week visitors plan to stay for the ceremony.
The essay extols electricity as the chief cause of social and urban change in Boston this week. It claims nights become daylike, rainbow-lit displays captivate crowds, transportation spans vast distances rapidly, and communication with home is seamless, marking an electrical age for display and comfort.
The article notes ongoing maneuvers to test Boston coast defence with land side fort seizure and artillery repulsion using blank cartridges. It reflects on a hypothetical sea attack and recalls the Cervera squadron scare of 1898 as lasting memory. The piece hopes defenders prevail.
Fire sweeps through several acres of structures at New York area resorts in midsummer heat. The Revere Beach fire nearly worsened if the State bath-house had not escaped damage, with Hull and Long Beach also affected by the blaze.
Old Home Week featured a 10 mile swimming race with 47 entries and 31 starters. Louis J. Jacot led through Deer Island Light and Gallups Island, finishing after 5 hours 13 minutes in frigid 52 to 55 degree water, praised for stamina and manhood.
City Registrar McGlewen presents a dense historical guide for visitors during Old Home Week. The displays tie modern Boston to colonial and revolutionary eras, noting landmarks such as the Sears building site where Governor John Leverett once lived and reminiscences of Cotton Mather crafting his works.
In Boston the streets map memories from Peter Faneuil’s site to Pemberton Square and Milk Street birthplaces. The article notes Scollay Square subway access and 1684 district writing school as parts of a living, historic urban fabric.
The St. Petersburg accord grants Japan privileged coast rights in Okhotsk and Yellow Seas and Bering Straits with potential beach curing and ship repairs. Analysts say the move, paired with growing ententes with Britain and France, signals Russia may back Japan’s territorial claims and alter the regional balance, including Korea.
Governor James K. Vardaman of Mississippi, in a Brookhaven speech, declares preferring rebel rule under Jefferson Davis to Roosevelt’s presidency and criticizes trust dictation, praising the plowman over the politician who panders to wealth.
Halifax July 29 the Dominion Iron and Steel Company has abandoned all hope of settling the 2 million suit against the Dominion Coal Company. The case is the largest ever brought in Nova Scotia.
A gasoline line exploded this morning on the launch of William M. Fleitman of New York in Bar Harbor Maine. Fleit’s son suffered eyebrow burns and minor facial burns while the engineer was uninjured. The craft’s machinery was disabled.
A nostalgic plea invites the immigrant to return to Boston with references to sacred cod, halibut, baked beans, and local pride. It celebrates the city’s growth, urges visitors to travel by rail or boat, and promises bright streets and welcome.
A playful call invites visitors to the All Sorts booth in Boston during Old Home Week. Attendees are urged to drop by four blocks east of Atlantic Avenue, on a line with T' Wharf, with a lighthearted note about feeling hurt if they miss the spot.
The column playfully claims Hrome as a place where rent is not due, presenting a quirky saying attributed to a satirical source. It frames the idea as a humorous regional motto rather than a formal policy or event.
Alfred Noyes, the English poet, married Miss Garnett Daniels of Washington at Trinity Church in London after a courtship largely in Oxford shade. The ceremony linked a renowned New York society figure with a rising literary talent.
Boston reports the Water Wagon tours were discontinued January 2 with tour services halted due to nonpayment. In related city notices a Washington Street street car parade is planned daily for the week while Boston Common remains in a gray squirrel close season. Belgian hares outpace Swan Boats in garden pond breeding.
Observant Citizen notes Museum of Fine Arts lace displays and art loans. Dorchester Lower Mills Knights of Columbus hosts eleventh annual banquet at Gilbert Stuart School Milton with Mayor Fitzgerald and others. Tim Kelliher to preside. Roaming reports cover Rev. Ready’s health, Jamaica Pond festival cancellations, Jamaica Plain carnival, and Old Home Week tours by the Dorchester Historical Society.
St. Petersburg reports that Grand Duke Peter Nicholaievitch, cousin of the Emperor, was traveling from Peterhof toward St. Petersburg when a petard placed on the track exploded within ten miles of the city. No injuries were reported.
An advertisement from B B Dental Parlors offers visitors to Boston during Old Home Week one free tooth extraction each day this week. Limit one pulled tooth per customer. Take a tooth home as a souvenir.
Due to the crowd of Old Home Week visitors at the Old South Meeting House the Professor Hosmer lecture scheduled for tomorrow afternoon has been postponed to the Wednesday after the remaining lectures of the course.
Francis Greatrix, a 38 year old furniture polisher, has been missing from his Charlestown residence at 4 Jenner Street since June 22. He left behind his wife and five children. no cause for the disappearance is known.
Letters explain the emblem used in O H W decorations tracing origin to Navajo Indians said to have lived near Boston before migrating west with Pilgrims. The piece humorously notes Indians moved on from Buffalo to Omaha before settling at the Pacific, swearing along the way, and that the copyright on the motif has expired so anyone may use it.
Poem urging courage amid naysayers and envy. It praises facing the light, helping others, and staying true to the right path. The author May E Roche signs at 163 Warren Avenue, promising a reward of honor and recognition.
Readers propose humorous and varied names for the infant including John D Jonah Graft Winner Allmouth Allmouthy and Sweetness while a western tale recounts Gentle Pawnee and Pete coping with the mystery of a mother and a lost wife who returns in a ballad of memory and graves by the creek
The story centers on Pete and Pawnee at the Double Bar V ranch and their encounter with a pale traveler named Gentle and a young boy. Pete keeps the stranger and boy at the ranch while plans form to handle Gentle’s mysterious illness as the tale hints at a deeper quest for a mountain and fate.
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