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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1910
Page
8
The Boston Post dated June 18, 1910 lists daily and Sunday subscription prices for one year, six months, three months and one month. Rates include Canada delivery at 9 cents per copy and note that all money sent is at the sender’s risk with checks payable to Post Publishing Company.
The Daily Post offers mail delivery nationwide for 25c per month and the Sunday Post for 2hc per month. Subscriptions require advance payment and may be stopped at expiration. contact Fiditorial Rooms at Main 1004-1008 for subscription issues. Editor E A Grozier directs operations.
The community and BU celebrate a $400 000 endowment fund completed within a short 11 day period. The result honors the retiring president Dr Hurtington as Tremont Temple welcomed the final announcement Saturday night.
A letter from the secretary of the National Fire Protection Association endorses the Post's warning against snapping matches. He notes the association's Chicago meeting resolution urging universal use of safety matches and urges households to abolish snapping posts to protect life and property.
The first Republican State convention adopts a Milwaukee platform approving the present tariff as progressive while hinting at future revisions. The stance faces insurgency in Washington and unrest in the Northwest, and may shape the upcoming congressional elections.
The United States Department of Agriculture issues a pamphlet warning about the pestiferous house fly and urging citizens to kill it whenever opportunity offers. The notice emphasizes the insect's harm and reflects wartime or public health framing.
The author urges strict defense against flies entering houses, arguing they spread disease. They promote screening and catching any intruder inside barriers, warning a single fly could cause significant losses later and calling for constant vigilance for household health.
Ex-Governor Douglas argues high living costs stem from tariff protection rather than global gold depreciation. He cites sugar and wool prices, noting the sugar trust exports and undersells Americans, and urges reducing duties to only revenue purposes to lower living costs and raise purchasing power.
Still higher up the Sugar Trust conspirators evade conviction while on heavy bail awaiting a Supreme Court appeal. Government says prosecutions will continue to target all involved as investigations extend from operatives to executive officials, with a possible leap to the top of the conspiracy.
Washington reports Canada desires to begin negotiations for a reciprocal trade treaty with the United States. The move challenges the Payne Aldrich tariff that hinders cross border trade, a treaty could be arranged by executive action outside congressional obstruction. Dominion authorities may act next fall, but the signal is encouraging.
The article urges individuals in the public eye to conduct themselves properly when in the spotlight, emphasizing measured behavior, respect for others, and adherence to expected standards in public appearances.
Katherine Campbell Kranke Cranke seeks to retract a published likeness of her assistant Miss G Magnoliar Gumdrop and airs a public apology. She asks Mister Nookoik to publish a formal apology through columns and warns against misrepresenting individuals in newspaper satire.
Mrs. Caroline Dressler of New York City heard a joke from a neighbor and laughed so hard her lower jaw dislocated. In Harlem Hospital the jaw was reset and after two days she was told to go home, but recounting the joke caused another dislocation. Her husband jokes she should never tell it again.
A Newton Massachusetts husband writes asking a neighbor to secretly visit at night to confirm his alleged snoring. He offers a night latch key and requests a report by letter if snoring is found. The reply refuses the invitation and mocks the conceit of snores, noting the nuisance of such intrusion.
An argument about visiting a home at 2 a.m. to confirm an addiction leads to imagined danger. The speaker imagines a vengeful response, with a husband wielding a revolver and firing at the intruder. The piece ends with a call to snore and seek neighbor testimony.
A Boston man buys two bunches of asparagus and learns cooking times via a prank call. At a Boston University fundraiser banquet, attendees cheer as reporters panic with notes. Raymond Gorman and Isaac Simon plan a European tour after winning travelling scholarships. Wellesley College expands physical training and a new gym opens. The Newton Catholic Club acquires the Fuller estate in West Newton.
Verse about a man who boasts of a big catch that got away and the endless retelling of the tale. The narrator mocks such yarns as tedious antiquated jokes told by fathers and remembered by neighbors and kin. The piece appears as a humorous 1910 era reflection on boasting fishing stories.
The article notes hundreds of prominent residents supporting a club with a renovated clubhouse and two new bowling alleys planned for summer. It also profiles Emiglio Caruso, East Boston orchestra leader, returning from a Pennsylvania coal mine trip where he worked six years as a youth and began studying music.
A light domestic quip about bath time for a baby. The fond mother praises the infant’s velvet skin while George, brushing soapsuds away, notes the red hue and his reluctance to be washed. The dialogue playfully contrasts tenderness with mild irritation.
A brief local humor item notes two farmers debating snail farms in France. Weatherby-Well argues hired hands cannot keep up, Ryetop counters that snail farms could succeed despite pace concerns.
A mother questions Willie about his wet hair as he returns home with neighborhood friends. He resists but soon explains, confessing that a fight or mischief led to the damp hair while the poem captures a boyish impulse and maternal concern.
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