The Post Publishing Co. June 9 1909 notices and rates
Daily and Sunday Post subscription details with rates, mailing options, and address changes. Includes vacation mail policy and payment terms. Editor E A Grozier notes advance payment required and discontinuation on expiration.
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Sunday Post
Canada
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Post Publishing Company
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Daily Post
United States
E. A. Grozier
The New Head of Dartmouth
Professor Ernest Fox Nichols will become president of Dartmouth College succeeding William J. Tucker. Nichols, now at Columbia University, is a former Dartmouth physics chair and is praised for scholarship administration and teaching in a unanimous trustees vote.
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Ernest Fox Nichols
William J. Tucker
Dartmouth College
Nichols
Columbia University
Dartmouth
Hanover
Boston Workhorse Parade Inspires City Imitations
The annual Boston parade, praised for Memorial Day success, spurred imitators in New York Baltimore and Chicago. Henry Childs Merwin, the Boston organizer, should feel gratified by the widespread recognition of the idea.
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Boston
New York
Baltimore
Chicago
Evening Post
Henry Childs Merwin
A Long and Useful Life of William H. Baldwin
William H. Baldwin dies past four-score, celebrated for four decades shaping Boston’s growth. He reorganized the Boston Young Men’s Christian Union in 1868, guiding its mission to broaden public advancement and uplift the community. His lasting monument is the regard of Boston’s youth and generations.
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William H. Baldwin
Boston
Baldwin
Boston Young Men’s Christian Union
Wright Brothers to Receive Berg Club Medals
The Berg Club will honor Wilbur and Orville Wright for their invention and development of heavier than air flight. President Taft will present the awards in the East Room of the White House with a distinguished gathering. The article credits the Wright brothers with shaping aerial navigation more than Count Zeppelin.
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Orville Wright
Taft
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Zeppelin
Wrights Receive European Honors Stamp of Global Recognition
The passage argues the Wright brothers deserved to be celebrated at home for their invention. It laments missing the opportunity to honor them domestically while noting that European rulers have now recognized their significance and that medals should be awarded here as well.
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Atlantic
Europe
Porto Rico bill ends stalemate by automatic funding
The House passed a bill amending the Foraker act to prevent government paralysis if one legislature house withholds appropriations. It deems last year’s appropriations as the current funding, aiming to end anti American friction. Governor Post denies personal hostility toward Americans and calls violence rumors fictitious.
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Washington
Porto Rico
Taft
House of Delegates
Post
Forcing Temperance and a Call for Social Reform
H C Frick requires Carnegie Steel employees to sign and keep a temperance pledge, a policy echoed by several railroads. The piece argues temperance alone is insufficient, citing Pittsburgh’s dire living conditions and Russell Sage Foundation findings. It links employee welfare to home health and savings banks, urging broader social investment beyond pledges.
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H. C. Frick
Carnegie Steel Company
Pittsburg
Russell Sage Foundation
Pasteurization and milk quality debated across continents
In Budapest Nathan Straus warns against milk from tuberculous cows while Atlantic City hears Dr. W A Evans rank pasteurized milk mid among four grades. Buenos Ayres method shows lower infant death, urging municipal control and strict cleanliness to ensure safe milk for babies and invalids.
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Budapest
Nathan Straus
New York
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American Association
W. A. Evans
Chicago
Boston
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The national council of ministers of the New Jerusalem church opened yesterday at the New Church at Elmwood and will continue until tomorrow afternoon. The Worcester conference assigned Rev. G. L. White to the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Boston and Rev. J Frances Lee to Cambridge Church. Rev. Alfred J. Cardall, former pastor of Broadway Universalist Church South Boston and Danbury Conn., was called to First Universalist Church of Orange. Treasurer Frank H. Wiggin reports $9731.47 in the massacre district Turkey fund, with Harvard Congregational Church Brookline contributing $183.50 the largest single gift.
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New Jerusalem
Elmwood
Council
Everett K. Bray
Portland
Worcester
G. L. White
African Methodist Episcopal Church of
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J. Frances Lee
Cambridge Church
Sree Eee
Alfred J. Cardall
Broadway Universalist Church
South Boston
Danbury, Conn
First Universalist Church of
Orange
Frank H. Wiggin
American Board For the
Massacre District of
Turkey
Harvard Congregational Church
Brookline
Balloon Peril and Patchwork Rescue in Suspense Tale
A balloon careens toward earth as Colonel Roosevelt and Stealthy Steve face a deadly fall. Steve patchworks the torn top with a needle and thread, climbs back into the basket, then slips and falls into open air. To be continued.
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Steve
Earth
Genevieve
Cosey
Suburbington-on-the- Hudson
Miss Case Breaks Engagement With Claus Spreckels Jr
Miss Mary Adele Case announces to reporters that her engagement to Claus Spreckels Jr has been broken. She says her departure for Seattle follows her decision after a quarrel with his father John Spreckels over her singing on stage. She adds she loves her music and left the engagement for personal reasons.
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New York
Mary Adele Case
Claus Spreckels, Jr
Cincinnati
Seattle
Spreckels
Miss Case
Observant Citizen Notes Census Reprint and Local News
The observant citizen column discusses the 1790 census reprint facts, clerks pranking Clerk Trefethen with a cat and litter, coastal fishing luck along Beachmont, Chief Simpson’s transfer to Quincy and submarine work, a golden wedding in Newton, upcoming Lincoln cent and nickel changes, Ports mouth High School graduation speaker Samuel Crothers, cold winter observations at a ball game, Boston fire department reorganization under Chief Mullen with John Grady’s rise, and ongoing court house addition work.
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Post Office
Trefethen
Boston
Walpole
Providence
Beachmont
Simpson
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John A. Mullen
Boston Fire Department
John Grady
Transfer rights and streetcar habits in Greater Boston
Observations on streetcar riders in Greater Boston show riders rarely receive transfer slips unless requested, with conductors omitting transfer information while taking nickels. The piece also notes a Wakefield attorney’s NH road trip, a Newton Centre rehearsal scene, and news of James W. Leahy’s recovery and expected return to work at the Boston and Albany railroad.
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