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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
6
Daily publication detail from Post Publishing Co dated June 13 1908 located at 259 Washington St Boston Massa notes issue number 64 in volume 191.
Daily and Sunday Post subscription prices are listed: daily one year $1.50 three months 75 cents one month 25 cents. Sunday Post one year $2.50 six months $1.25 three months 65 cents. Canada 9 cents per copy. Payments in advance. discontinue at expiration. Editor BE. A. Grozier.
The Steel Trust lowers prices amid a general downturn in trade, abandoning supply and demand laws. The monopoly’s attempt to defy market forces failed as the economy weakened and the price-cutting move proved ineffective.
The Roxbury district will test public proposals for furnishing teams to city work, shifting from patronage to businesslike contracts. Superintendent Emerson aims to curb civil service barriers, reduce demoralization, and cut costs by placing teaming contracts on a business basis in a district where it is heavily used.
The proposed railroad merger legislation was defeated. the Cole law time limit ends and the Boston and Maine stock by the New Haven may be sold unless courts intervene. Possible judicial action or buyer hesitation could shape outcomes, but the Legislature leaves no clear rule preventing outside interests from acquiring stock without Massachusetts consent.
The piece notes protests in Chicago as anti Taft delegates from the South are toppled by a strong front. McKinley condemns the method, arguing it places Southern patronage over fair party processes. He asks how the wrong can be set right amid convention control by Roosevelt and Taft allies.
The piece notes that the current players are using a well known tactic once employed by Mark Hanna twelve years ago and that those who participate in the scheme cannot complain, drawing a parallel to Roosevelt's methods and asserting a repeated pattern of imitation.
The New York race track betting prohibition took effect yesterday and appears to be enforced. Governor Hughes pushed through the legislation despite resistance, with Senator Foelker aiding by narrow margin. The measure aims to curb gambling and protect youths and workers from embezzlement linked to racing bets. It faces evasion but promises a cleaner sport and moral benefits.
In a closing note the Great and General Court aims to prorogue today possibly after a late session. Distance members may travel home for Sunday. No critical matters demand action. the legislature should finish its docket and depart with satisfaction. Au revoir until six months hence.
Dr. David Jayne Hill former minister to Luxemburg and the Netherlands arrives in Berlin to assume the American ambassadorship to Germany. He takes rooms at the Hotel Adlon and will be received by Chancellor von Buelow and Foreign Minister von Schoen shortly after his arrival is announced.
Four representatives en route to Louisville for the 12th international Sunday school convention were hosted at the Hotel Thorndike by W. N. Hartshorn. Delegates include Rev Alfred Rowland Charles Waters Frederick Taylor and Rev Frank Johnson with speeches by F M English Henson Capen Birdman Spaulding and Bishop Mallalieu. Plans advance for a United Society of Christian Endeavor building in Boston and a World Society fund reaches about 40000. The Universalist Church Youth Union meets July 1 in Washington DC at the Church of Our Father.
Rousing call proclaims George Reginald Margetson of Cambridge as Massachusetts Governor and national leader. The poem lauds his pedigree, bravery, public spirit, and divine guidance, naming 187 Brookline Street Cambridge and date June 10 1908.
The American Climatological Association in Boston warns the nation’s health suffers from a frantic pace. It criticizes constant activity from daybreak to night and excess nightlife, urging sleep, simple foods, and moderation to avoid early death.
A fragment notes frustration with lax security as residents mock locking routines, questioning the value of locking the safe amid ongoing disregard and repeated thefts. No additional context or names provided.
A reflective sketch on June graduates, contrasting the ambitions of graduates, both male and female, with the realities of ten years later. It portrays the boy seeking power over the world and the girl aiming for leadership, while noting life’s quiet outcomes.
A quirky Everett Massachusetts event ends with a noisy boarding house brawl as a stranger causes a disturbance. Police arrest the aggressor and the two narrators slip away, claiming they had a bird of a time.
George F. Lothrop owner and Jay Hunt manager of Bowdoin Square and Howard theatres announce a June 18 departure from New York aboard the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria for a six week continental tour to seek vaudeville acts and arrange foreign melodramas, returning by August 10.
A regional note highlights White Rock Water as a preferred choice among discerning households in New England, signaling quality and reputation.
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