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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
6
Daily issue from the Post Publishing Co. reports news and notices dated June 29 1907 with local Boston content and standard publication details. The brief item lists the issue number and office address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
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The Daily Post offers mail delivery to any U S address and possessions for 25c a month and the Sunday Post for 25c a month. Readers may change address as often as desired.
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The Findlay Ohio State Court verdict in the Standard Oil case would not bind Judge Landis in Chicago Federal Court. If Ohio had convicted the fines and costs would total about 60 million dollars. Landis believes his court can levy up to 400 million and has summoned Rockefeller Rogers and Archbold to determine the extent of the plunder.
The State Highway Commission signals quick resumption of public hearings on telephone rates and service after prorogation and a lengthy, exhaustive review of company accounts, slated as soon as the General Court adjourns.
The final day of the rowing races between Harvard and Yale on the Thames ended with Harvard freshmen victorious in a tight finish. The Yale varsity substitutes won the four car race. Harvard lost Lunt to the varsity eight, leaving Cambridge hopeful for future success.
In St Louis a young woman of beauty and wealth who wagered her hand in marriage against a race horse has canceled the bet due to parental intervention. The piece praises the father's veto as a corrective measure and urges suitors to win a woman honestly.
The executive council refuses to confirm Charles F. Pidgin as chief of the State Bureau of Statistics of Labor. Critics claim the free employment station, active six months, spends per capita more than similar programs elsewhere, but supporters urge patience. Pidgin has served over 30 years in the bureau and has aided thousands into self supporting work.
The speaker commends an expert statistician who links statistics to labor relations and civic value. The bureau costs are defended as money well spent, contrasting Boston’s costly but useless department with Chief Pidgin’s proven capacity and urging Governor Guild to renominate him for reconsideration by the council.
The prorogation closes a 178 day session that produced 887 acts and 133 resolves. The record is largely creditable with notable laws including overtime, anti shoe machinery, jury reform, anti-railroad merger, and a tax on inheritances. It failed to reform Sunday laws or extend public opinion options. these can await next year.
A humorous tale recounts a man who waits on the Boston and Maine track for an Albany Express crash to prove life’s futility. After weeks of waiting, he learns the express is late and returns to Boston, finding the ride behind schedule and life resumes.
A 1907 Massachusetts legislature act targets campaign advertising. requires responsible signatures and clear labeling as advertising and bans corporate contributions from banks trusts insurers railroads utilities and landholding holders. Penalties exist and strict enforcement could reform party politics in the state.
Fire Commissioner Benjamin W. Wells reports no changes in fireworks sale licenses this year. Applications have been acted upon recently and conditions will be similar to last year. Licenses for bonfires will be issued to organizations making application, with the major Fourth of July event likely at Wood Island Park in East Boston.
Medford society awaits the fall market release of Little Me Too by Mrs. Julia Dalrymple of Woburn street. Dalrymple is a prominent club woman tied to the Neighborhood and Woman's clubs in the city.
The Rev. Allen Jacobs of Christ Episcopal Church Portsmouth R IL accepts the Cambridge Christ Episcopal Church curacy to fill the post of Rev. Hervey C. Parke who resigns to pursue missionary work in Virginia. Jacobs takes charge on Sept. 1.
In Taunton Miss Lillian Cote of Fall River married cowboy John Pierson from Silver Bow Montana amid police searches at her parents request. The couple hurried to Taunton where the wedding took place before the original plan to locate Lillian could conclude.
The piece notes a New York preacher arguing that many skip church due to lacking good clothes. It satirically suggests this excuse won’t stop late arrivals at the Pearly Gates when the moment arrives.
A varied column mocks a St Louis woman who eloped with a Chinaman and notes Mars canal activity. It warns about Taft’s presidential prospects, recounts a Michigan tale of a man seeking a quarter for a marriage fee, and reports an electric bolt leaving a strawberry mark on a Syracuse cow.
A devotional fragment in verse asks for guidance to live only in the present day. The speaker seeks strength and patience from a higher power to endure today’s path and to be healed by divine love, avoiding thoughts beyond today.
A Boston column covers summer music at Marine Park Jamaica Pond and the Common, actor De Pachmann avoids the Atlantic until June 1908, and society news from Belmont and L Street bath figures. Also notes on police, transit, and Gloucester Old Home week preparations and Waltham July plans with local personalities.
A 21 year old stenographer asks Mildred Champagne for guidance on attracting a 23 year old automobile businessman coworker. The letter suggests the man may be bashful and advises letting him take the initiative while offering gentle encouragement and inviting him to call.
A business owner confronts a youth about a past bearing a mother’s death. He recounts his own forty seven years of regret and the choice to reveal the truth to the boy. The story ends with the lad returning home to his mother, grateful he is not too late.
A cheerful new volume titled The Comedy of Life showcases comic daily moments with full page Life illustrations. Contributors include Gibson Hutt Bayard Jones Read Foster Blashfield Hanna Kemble Montgomery Flagg. Published in New York. bound in green cloth with Blashfield cover art.
Tf it's correct it's at Morse's. If it's at Morse's it's correct. The thermometer pace suggests a hot summer ahead. Morse’s offers a comprehensive stock of summer wearables including two piece outing suits from eight to twenty dollars and three piece suits from one to thirty five dollars. Morse-made means trustworthy quality after 55 years.
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