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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1907
Page
6
The Boston Post issue dated June 27 1907 provides daily newspaper content from office at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts. It lists publication number and volume details for archive reference.
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The Daily Post offers U S subscriptions at 25 cents monthly and the Sunday Post at 2 15 cents monthly. Canada rates rise due to postal changes with Daily Post at 50 cents monthly, six months three dollars, yearly six dollars. Subscriptions prepaid. payments by check or money order. Editor Fr A Grozier.
In a fierce electric storm yesterday the flagpole near the summer executive offices at Oyster Bay was smashed. The event appears to be an omen as leaders Fairbanks Taft Foraker and Knox have not yet drawn presidential lightning while the storm seems to focus on Theodore Roosevelt.
Professor Lowell returns from South America with photographs showing canal-building activity on Mars this season. The note expresses encouragement that Martians might later glimpse Earth and Panama through their telescopes, hoping for new discoveries.
Gov Guild, speaking at Harvard, urged a national law to regulate bankruptcy and corporate incorporation. He argued that stock watering is a crime whether in New England or New Jersey, and said revolutions hinge on how corporations act under current state and local controls.
Judge Landis in Chicago issued a strict order to compel Standard Oil officers to answer questions. Subpenas are due in a week. Rockefeller and Rogers may be forced to testify despite vacation plans. Questions target the company’s financial standing and its Illinois monopoly affiliates.
The BA output yesterday marked a high water mark in higher education. Honorary degrees reflect wise discrimination and merit. Harvard’s list shines with literature, science, theology, and philanthropy, underscoring universal brotherhood of intellectual advancement and educated citizenship.
The Harvard Yale varsity contest on the Thames at New London faces a setback as Glass is taken ill. Harvard and Yale prepare for a tense race with Yale favored in the four car event. Yesterday at Poughkeepsie seven colleges competed with Cornell leading and a tight finish placing Columbia second.
A Senate debate on amending the anti merger bill unfolds with critics arguing that party bosses influence undermines Massachusetts authority and the autonomy of its laws. They urge strengthening provisions to curb alien corporate control of Boston and Maine, refraining from any post July 1 1908 concessions and demanding valid charters.
J L Richards of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company argues to the Post editor that dividends were not raised with price cuts under the sliding scale. He notes prior 8 percent, a drop to 7 percent, and potential 9 percent for 1909 if earnings justify, while consumers had four price cuts.
A Chicago event awards Dr Albert E Palmer, Pauline Palmer’s husband, a blue ribbon for unlikely virtues. The piece humorously lists traits praised by his wife, notes possible ulterior motives, and jokes about modern marriage norms and the burdens of paying wives’ bills.
The New England Society of California Pioneers met at the United States Hotel with Captain John L. Manson presiding. Twenty-one members attended and plans were made for an August 21 Salem Willows outing. The next regular meeting will be July 24 due to Boston’s Old Home Week, with the annual gathering set for September 8. The group notes 210 members, 116 had gone to California by 1949 or earlier, while the society once numbered 552 before deaths reduced the roll. The oldest member is Julius L. Clark, 94, formerly state auditor now at Newton Upper Falls Old Gentlemen's Home.
Pat Burns, a cattleman who dominates Saskatchewan Alberta British Columbia and the Klondike meat markets, told the Bee Commission he could starve the Canadian Northwest in 10 days if he abandoned his enterprises. The commission spent two weeks probing Western Canada livestock industry amid charges he fixed meat prices west of the Great Lakes.
Dear Newt asks when a mosquito sleeps and what period in a 24 hour day. The piece presents several theories from different readers, including winter hibernation, day and night squads, and somnambulist biting, with the editor humorously noting uncertainty.
A Boston area column recounts quirky events from Yellowstone clothing needs to a nakedly comic horse sighting on Elm street. It notes peonies for a former marshal, visiting English officers, wartime fort noise in Winthrop, a near accident with Governor Guild’s escort, and a cheery Chelsea court episode.
Night falls over the city as a freed inmate stalks through tenement wards. A deadly blaze traps a mother and child. the man charges into the flames, saving his daughter at the cost of himself, found with burnt remains and a loyal reunion.
An illustrated catalog snippet lists numerous novels and authors including The President by Alfred Henry Lewis The Battle Ground by Ebien Glasgow Brewster's Millions by Sarah P McLean Greene Man on the Box by Harold MacGrath Bob Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant The Two Vanrers Blazed Trail by George Barr McCutcheon Cried West Call of the Wild by Jack London Man of the Hour by W W Jacobs The Darrow Enigma by Melvin Severy Booth Tarkington Stewart F Edward White Mary Johnston Hopkinson Smith Cape Cod Folks Octave Thanet St Elmo Augusta Evans Wilson Sant Ilario by F Marion Crawford Saracinesca by Marion Crawford Sean Wolf by Jack London Rose of Old St Louis by Mary Dillon.
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