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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1907
Page
6
Boston newspaper page dated June 25 1907 provides issue number and office address at 259 Washington Street with publication details for Post Publishing Co.
Subscription rates listed for Daily Post and Sunday Post including one year six months and three month terms. Canada rates note increased postal charges with daily and Sunday Post options and terms for changes of address. Editor publisher F.E. Grozifer signs notice.
The legislative committee on ways and means estimates the state tax at 4 million dollars this year, up from half a million last year. Boston bears the largest share with 1,438,800 while Worcester stands at 150,120, underscoring near exclusive burden on the city.
The Yale Law School audience heard Philander C. Knox argue that federal power cannot grow without constitutional amendments while urging use of existing powers to manage evolving social and commercial relations. He’s touted as a GOP favorite for president and hints at bolder moves than Roosevelt with caution against radicalism.
The Dublin convention's rejection of the Irish Council bill draws strong American approval. Hon. Charles Emory Smith urged returning delegates that dual parliaments and a national Irish Parliament would promise justice, peace, and renewed life for Ireland while bearing fair imperial costs.
The anti merger bill is set for a noon House vote in modified form after debate yesterday. Lawmakers seek an amendment to craft a proper and effective version ahead of the decision.
The editorial argues the Cole bill must include a clause disavowing any sanction of the Boston & Maine stock acquisition by New Haven interests and strips out a July 1 1908 stock-use prohibition. It condemns partisan aims and urges settling the issue on legal and public interest grounds.
The Boston Consolidated Gas Company will set gas prices at 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet from July 1, reducing from the prior dollar rate. The move follows earlier reductions linked to dividend increases, with the company praised for consumer consideration under President Richards.
Eight contracts were filed with the assistant city clerk. William Crane of 7 Water Street wins the largest, $45 980, for additions and alterations to Winchell schoolhouse. Others include Hobart School additions, a Roxbury sewer, water pipe relaying in South Boston and Kenilworth Street, garbage removal at Brighton, and asphalt pavement on Cooper and Washington streets at 2 50 per square yard.
Boston's portion of the state tax is 1 438 000. Nearby cities follow with Cambridge 122 720 Chelsea 30 920 Everett 27 040 Lynn 75 520 Malden 41 440 Medford 25 320 Melrose 18 000 Newton 50 Quincy 31 320 Salem 37 960 Woburn 12 560. The bill sets the state tax at 4 000 000 and total expenditures authorized rise to 11 224 036 21, with auditors' revenue estimate of 7 136 104 leaving 4 087 931 26.
Washington June 24. The government completed its presentation against E S Holmes Jr known as The Cotton Leak case and Holmes counsel began arguments to seek dismissal of the indictment.
Three tornadoes struck Medicine Lodge late last night destroying 25 houses in the town's north. Six people suffered serious injuries and one person is missing, but no deaths are reported.
In London June 24 Mark Twain, recovering after surgery, receives a humorous, tearful interview from a foreign correspondent. Twain laments intrusions, jokes about Windsor Castle, and contrasts English versus American humor while recounting royal hospitality and London fogs.
The column reports Mystic Shriners marching through hot streets, post office staff planning a two month Europe tour, and Charles W. Estey and other civic figures involved. It notes the return of the Hotel Kensington stone lions, a backward-moving pocket watch on a Newton car, rising popularity of smelt fishing near Winthrop, subway crowd issues, and a baseball game featuring Dr. Grainger and Rep. Tom Grady. Also mentions a memorial service program and canoeing trends around Dedham and Riverside, plus a charity circus near Dorchester for the Free Home for Consumptives.
Lighthearted early rule card warns canoeists to stay seated, avoid midship passes, and not switch places. It suggests cork cushions, proper life preservers, and holding onto the canoe if it capsizes while advising against proposing to a young lady in a canoe and falling for risky waterfront stunts.
The writer rejects mergers, framing them as unstable after citing varied examples. They urge President Mellen to review a divorce docket to see merger failures and argue mergers prove destructive across domains from marriage to transport.
Brebouf the trapper sets out with dogs and blankets to check traps near a post. A blizzard and misdirection leave him hopelessly lost in a vast white waste. The storm ends, but no trace remains of Brebouf or his dogs, leaving only the great white silence.
The steamship Admiral Sampson of the United Fruit Company arrived at Long Wharf from Jamaican ports. Among saloon passengers was Miss Ida L. Hattersley a professional nurse who went to Kingston after the quake and has since worked in a hospital there.
A nostalgic poem honoring Dorothy Q the daughter, granddaughter, and matriarch lineage. It traces a century of family memory from Norman roots through Civil War era image, praising enduring lineage and the painter’s portrait within a Boston publisher’s edition.
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