The Post Daily Offers Vacation Mail Rate and Subscriptions
The 1906 notice markets daily and Sunday Post subscriptions with rates for one year six months and quarterly options. It explains vacation mail service to the United States and Canada and provides office contact numbers for the Boston Post Publishing Company and instructions for address changes and payment.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington ,&T
Boston
Mass
Poresteses
THE
Sunday Post
Mase
Post Publishing Company
POST
Daily. Post
United States
Canada
Our Public School Graduates
The commencement season opens with graduation exercises in public schools. Hundreds already graduate high school while thousands more follow from grammar schools. The future of the Commonwealth depends on the quality of these graduates and the work of their teachers.
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Commonwealth
Fall River Mills Grant 14 Percent Wage Increase
The wage restoration to pre 2 year levels is conceded ending a strike. About 271 000 operatives in 60 mills in Fall River will receive a 14 percent raise, benefiting New England cotton workers as centers follow suit and reduce worker exodus. The agreement, praised for avoiding distress and promoting production, signals wider regional impact.
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Fall River
New Bedford
New England
Yale and Harvard: Modern Rivalries in Major College Sports
The article notes Yale and Harvard as prominent rivals across athletics with rowing in New London, football in autumn, and a baseball series. It cites Yale as stronger in the Harvard defeat, Harvard's lighter, younger lineup, and suggests a decisive return game in New Haven next Tuesday could swing the trophy to Cambridge.
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Yale
New London
Harvard
New Haven
Cambridge
Arrest the Trolley Kidnapper
A Massachusetts call to halt the New York New Haven Hartford railroad from absorbing state trolley lines. The piece denounces a foreign railway as defying Massachusetts sovereignty and urges swift legislative enforcement to curb this corporate overreach.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Massachusetts
General Court
Commonwealth of
Commonwealth
Maine Democrats Nominate Cyrus W Davis for Governor
The Maine Democratic platform endorses Cyrus W. Davis as candidate and emphasizes local issues. It calls for enforcement of all laws including prohibition, immediate resubmission of the prohibitory amendment, curbing quasi public corporations, equal taxation, initiative and referendum, and ending ring rule in state affairs. Davis previously polled strong support and is expected to gain momentum with party backing.
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Cyrus W. Davis
Maine
State of
Davis
Harvard Baseball Game Sparks Hoodoo Superstition Debate
Reported aloud by college sports writers the Harvard baseball game drew focus on a stadium superstition known as hoodoo. Supporters say recent outcomes align with the belief, while skeptics call it mere luck in this exciting contest.
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Axa
Harvard
Letters of a Hairless Parent to an Heir Apparent
A 1906 Compiègne letter from John Rockefeller Jr. to his son offers satirical, brisk observations on anarchists, press agents, and the peril of wealth. It jokes about yellow newspapers, the need for a guard dog, and a dental gold cure institute, ending with a casual signoff.
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Compiegne
France
J. D. Rockefeller, Jr
Broadway
New York
Nestls
Standard Oil
Doc Biggar
Doc
Uncheon
John
What the Sphinx Says And Frost Warning To Hotel Men
A fragment from a humor page includes a frost warning to hotel men recalling a 1327 June frost. It urges taking in roof gardens at night and features aside about living in a modern flat on $11.79 weekly, with satirical sketches of Roosevelt, phonographs, boiler factories, and marital critique.
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Gents’ Home Journal
Roosevelt
U S Battleship St Paul Attacked Off Porto Rico
In a June 22 1898 report the U S battleship St Paul came under attack off Porto Rico from Spanish Isabel Ir and Terror. A year earlier Mary Rogers of Vermont had been granted a reprieve for the December 8 murder case.
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U. S
St. Paul
Porto Rico
Isabel Ir
Mary Rogers
Vermont
Boston Lawyer Honored for Role in Tobacco Trust Indictments
Attorney E N Hill of Boston receives praise for serving as special counsel for the United States in securing indictments against the tobacco trust before a New York federal grand jury. The Boston attorney was the city s only representative handling government affairs in this high profile case.
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E. N. Hill
United States
Tobacco Trust
New York
Boston
Hidden Buttons Spur Unlikely Rescue Plan
A note praises a mysterious bachelor button used on one side with a warning against bachelor buttons and on the other side a cue to Lovers Lane. The item is said to have saved life and reputation, prompting a request for more buttons to avoid the risky Lovers Lane treatment.
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Lovers’ Lane
Sparker Cogger Machine Draws Boys to Ride
Sparker Cogger's new machine proves unusually popular with the boys who nearly come to blows vying for a ride.
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Sparker
Cogger
Debutante Miss Nancy Hale Among Favorites
Debutante Miss Nancy Hale of Brookline is listed among favorites for society events. Daughter of Mrs. Josiah L. Hale, she bears the Hale family name and shared in a winter tea with debutante cousin Miss Lella Tuckerman. Hale, known to intimates as penny, is noted for her bright conversation and resemblance to elder sister Miss Margaret Hale.
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Annie FP. Hale
Penny
Miss Hale
Josiah L. Hale
Chestnut Hill Avenue
Brookline
Lella Tuckerman
Margaret
Cambridge
Beck Hall
Leila Burnett
Southboro
Robert M. Burnett
Victoria
Nancy Filley
Europe
Oliver B. Filley
Saxonia
Miss Filley
Warren Delano, Jr
New York
Delano
Touraine
Delanos
Lyman Delano
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Richard T. Wilson, Jr
Marion Mason
Orme Wilson
Cymric
Francis B. Forbes
Commonwealth Avenue
Benjamin Cable
Suzanne Cable
Philo L. Cable
Alfred Winsor
Walnut Street
Kennard Winsor
Marjorie C. Appleton
Boylston Street
Weld
Hingham
Coolidge Roberts
Frederic Tudor
Amy Logan
Reginald Foster
Fenway
Is Foster
Paul Hamlen
Alexander 8. Porter, Jr
Clarendon Street
North Shore
Richard M. Saltonstall
Bay State Read
Prize and romance entwine as Jim wins twice
Jim pursues a $2000 short story prize and, after heroics in San Francisco, earns editor approval. A budding romance with Frances hinges on a 1907 bet, then an unexpected $3000 gift from a former San Francisco friend alters his fortunes and future.
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Jim
San Francisco
San Francisco News
James Fredericks
Boston
Frances
Old Schoolboys Meet At Nantasket Banquet
The Boston schoolboys aged fifty and more gathered at Hotel Atlantic Nantasket yesterday for reminiscences of prewar days. Thomas Hills chaired the association and shared jokes while Rev Henry A Cook gave the invocation. Speakers included Colonel Charles W Sawyer Charles C Kurtz Professor John Moore Darius Cobb Fred Nazereau and Spencer Richardson. A piano recital by Miss Alice B Munroe at 4 Spencer Avenue West Somerville drew several attendees and praise for advancing pupils.
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Boston
Hotel Atlantic
Nantasket
Thomas Hills
Association
Adams School
Henry A. Cook
North End
Alice B. Munroe
Spencer Avenue
West
Somerville
Miss Munroe
Margaret Kelley
Margaret Malconson
Bessie Mathews
Florence Mitchell
Theresa Magson
Arthur Magson
Millie Mathews
Esther and
Ruth Boline
Warren G. Wetmore
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B. A. Gro
Br, Pastor and Publisher
Democrats
Newton Newkirk
Sphinx
Frost
Sinclair
Certll
Tillinghast
State Library
William H. O’connell
D. D
Diocese of
Boston College
Guy F. Newhall
Guy
Miss Mae Louise Daily
Dedham
Mount
Malden
Merrimac
Haverhill
Lawrence
Johnson
Steve
Nancy Hale
Lillian F. Kelley
Bickford Street
Roxbury
Nancy” Hale
Providence
Hub Highty-five Street
Boston Elevated Railroad
Castoria Tc
Childr
Browning, King & Company
Madras
Washington St
Corpsr Square
Washington
Iyi
Te Ying
Inter Stree
Norfolk
Lace
Els
Gyula Bennett Manson
Arizona
East Boston
Martinez
Ariz
Musetts Institute of Technolgy
Ening
Céebra
Rincon
Arigona
Trenton Street
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