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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
6
June 13 1907 issue from Post Publishing Co lists office at 259 Washington St Boston Mass No 64 Vol 187. This item notes daily publication details and identifiers for the edition.
Daily Post and Sunday Post rates include daily and weekend options for domestic and Canada delivery. Timely changes of address allowed. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration. Editor BE A Grozier notes contact and office details.
Editorial voices praise Chief C F Pidgin of the Bureau of Statistics of Labor. He is commended for temperament education and long experience and for maintaining the Wadlin standard. Support urged for his reappointment due to the bureau’s important labor investigations.
The conference committee of both legislative chambers reached a favorable determination on continuing the charter of Moody Boynton's bicycle railroad. The Senate ceeded its opposition and the House prevailed, signaling immediate enactment and longer life for the enterprise with unlimited possibilities. This adjustment should be accepted without hesitation by both branches.
The Department of Justice tests the Pennsylvania coal combination's alleged monopoly and divine right claims. The suit argues the railroads control most anthracite transport and deposits, limiting independent output and forming a conspiracy to monopolize, with a long legal battle anticipated.
The savings bank insurance and annuity bill passes the House by a substantial majority and is expected to receive a favorable, nearly unanimous report from the Senate Ways and Means Committee. Support is broad among labor, business, and savings bank trustees across Brockton Whitman Ware Bridgewater and other manufacturing communities.
Governor Guild calls for a square stand to uphold foundation principles of legislation and enforce state law against the New Haven merger. The editorial condemns the railroad’s defiance and urges the Legislature to assert Massachusetts supremacy and protect public rights.
The death of United States Senator John T. Morgan of Alabama ends a 30 year career and removes a living monument of past days. He was praised as a learned constitutional lawyer and a staunch defender of old fashioned citizenship rights. His long opposition to the Panama Canal Enterprise and to the railroad rate bill highlighted his abrasive obstinacy and commitment to jury trial.
Mary E. Sheedy recovered 5000 in a Superior Court verdict against Lynn and Boston street railway. She alleged that on April 14, 1901 at Scollay square a sudden car start threw her to the ground causing serious injuries.
In a June 12 letter J. R. Ryan defends enforcing statute law against the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad. He argues lawmakers must act to uphold Sabbath observance and apply justice to corporations as to individuals, criticizing nullification by the railroad.
A 1910s style item announces the opening of the All Sorts Vacation Contest on a midsummer Thursday with a prize of an illustrated timetable for the B and A railway. Readers submit the worst vacation letter, with examples from X Y Z and a Holyoke blacksmith.
A writer recalls finding a watch in a harbor crowd and being detained by Inspector Joe Knox who rewarded the finder with a thirty day stay as a city guest on Deer Island. The note laments confinement despite pleasant air.
The piece notes opposition led by Martin Lomasney and others to a proposed merger of the Bachelor Limited with Honeymoon Consolidated lines, naming General Felicity as president of the merged outfit. It also cites satirical items about Revere and a letter from Father of Nine in New Bedford.
A humorous All Sorts item recounts Captain Shedd Gore of the pirate ship Quinine shot aloft by cannonball, thirstily declaring the balls are high balls as they fall. Other vignettes note city life from graduates and a Stuttgart oath to Boston police and firehouse antics, and local entertainment.
In Paris the distressed Grausfeldt princess admits a political crisis at stake and faces blackmail by the Comte de Fournelles who seeks one hundred thousand francs. Tarkington intervenes offering protection and declares he acts as her attorney to ensure the meeting proceeds with proper oversight.
Tarkington confronts the comte de Fournelles and extracts the letters. He then tells Princess Yvonne Louise of his love and proposes marriage, offering to abandon her royal life for America, but she declines, fearing their downfall and choosing duty over romance.
On days of the Country Club races June 13 15 and 17 extra cars will run from Park street subway station on the Ipswich street line. The service will run from 12 30 to 2 p m with 21 2 to 4 minute times and pass direct to Heath and Boylston streets near the Country Club.
Fire Commissioner Wells rebutted Alderman Bell's claim that Dorchester firemen were 15 minutes late at the Walcott street blaze. He said the alarm system was not at fault and the apparatus arrived within four to eight minutes after the first alarm.
A reader letter to Mildred Champagne warns that looks alone do not win true love. The writer argues a modest, respectful woman with self-respect deserves preference over a prettier but shallow counterpart.
The columnist counsels that a promise can motivate reform. The girl should consider waiting and encouraging the fiancé to work and improve. If he becomes the right kind, love might fulfill her parents and friends' wishes by the time of marriage.
Advert shows evening dress suits priced 30 to 40 dollars and black prince Albert coats 22 to 30 dollars. Separate fancy worsted trousers cost 4 to 7 dollars. It advertises furnishings hat and shoe departments and a booklet on proper wedding attire.
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