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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1909
Page
8
The Boston Post lists daily and Sunday subscription rates, terms, and vacation mailing options for 1909. It includes prices for 1 year, six months, and quarters, Canada rates, and advance payment requirements, plus instructions for address changes and notices to the publisher.
A Boston editorial praises yesterday’s verdicts against a Suffolk county lawyer a former Boston alderman and a present council member whose resignation preceded sentencing. It argues small grafting is stealing and says punishing the small grafters restores public confidence, emphasizing the moral impact on bigger offenders.
The editorial urges retention of railroad control by the Massachusetts Legislature, rejecting outside influence and stressing that the act for the Boston and Maine absorption may be amendable, but the core aim remains to serve regional industry through strong state oversight. It emphasizes the primal purpose of keeping railroads accountable to Massachusetts and New England.
The Secretary of the Navy bans marriages of midshipmen not yet commissioned as ensigns, requiring at least two years of active service. The rule, argued to apply to civilian graduates too, aims to curb hasty marriages by young graduates, with cadence that experience from sea life or a college diploma can temper judgment.
The Zeppelin II’s collision with a pear tree spurs the U S Signal Corps chief General Allen to pursue a national balloon corps. The Post urges Congress funding for aerial experimentation and coast defense plans while noting the lack of dirigibles. The piece argues for first acquiring scout airships before expanding to zones and stations.
The article contemplates early airship design, noting the current craft is fragile and rudimentary. It suggests that with proper support, a sturdier, more capable dirigible could be developed, marking a promising step in aeronautical progress.
The piece argues for protecting banana production in New England despite no local cultivation. It mocks tariff logic, cites Senator Gore’s irony, and imagines Maine becoming a banana belt. It notes recent wheat corn and potato duties and urges protection for bananas to aid regional industry.
The piece argues that pulp mill sludge and industrial smoke pollute water and air, yet can be repurposed for profit. It cites New York pulp mills and Standard Oil as examples, urging science and engineering to turn waste into valuable by products and eliminate smoke via better furnace design and stokers. It advocates eliminating unnecessary waste and implementing efficient, continuous fuel feeding.
The Seattle exhibit opens as a national effort to showcase the Alaska Yukon Pacific fair. It portrays rapid regional development and the nation’s vigor at its farthest frontier. Critics question the cost but attest the fair can broaden visitors’ view of national resources, beauty, and potential.
TIFLIS June 8 Prince Fristoff a leading member of the Union of Unions was murdered by unknown persons on his Klonteff estate. The sensational crime shocks the political and social circles as authorities investigate the killing and search for suspects.
In a desert prelude Roosevelt and Stealthy Steve wake to a new scheme. Steve skins Salome to harvest elephant hide and crafts a 50 by 380 foot rectangle into layered patterns and a balloon by sewing pieces with linen fiber. The two joke about tailoring, then realize the final product is a balloon powered by their own hot air.
A rider crashes as a cuto collides and overturns but smiles through injuries. Despite a wrenched ankle and missing teeth, he jokes about joy riding and notes the team still excels in 60 mile sprints as doctors wrap his injuries in plaster and splints.
The column reports on disinfecting Mt. Vernon street in Boston’s park area, naturalist Rev. Horace W. Wright’s bird study with 120 species, and a Plymouth veteran reunion set for June 17 marking the 40th gathering of the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteers. It highlights Chelsea clerk Grace A Norris’s peak workload after last year’s fire, a Norumbega Park couple, and a Swanzey farm cat that raids corn. It covers Dr Arthur W Rogers’s outdoor sleeping scheme, Bellevue Golf Club’s nine holes, flag salute trends at theatres, Pere Marquette Council K of C planning a big reunion, Chelsea tree neglect complaints, Wakefield baseball pride, Rose Gross and Harry Sunberg engagement, and a 13-pound landlocked salmon caught near Kezar Lake.
Malt Mason tells of a man with an ugly tongue who spread gossip and venom across the world’s early days. Death ends his caustic speech and neighbors bury him as crowds celebrate with bonfires cannon and parade in a vivid, old time moral ballad.
In a signed interview Pastor J Frederick Rake of First Baptist Church denounces the ballroom scene asserting girls attend dances to be hugged. He labels dances for girls only as public silliness and says dancing expresses failed thinking. He had called society rotten in his prior sermon.
Valenciennes and Irish crochet are the popular laces. Black or white coats may be worn over various gowns. In yokes the sun ray plaitings are the thing just now. For the princess dresses one should have princess slips. Messaline silk in exquisite Dresden patterns makes charmingly dainty underskirts. Black collars on white serge suits are not so often seen as earlier in the season.
Three hundred delegates from 57 branches of the New England Associate Alliance of Unitarian Churches met for their annual session at Second Congregational Church in Lynn. Officers were reappointed and noted clergy movements, while other local churches marked anniversaries and upcoming sermons across Greater Boston.
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