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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1908
Page
6
The Boston Post lists rates for various terms including one year 9300 six months $1.50 three months 75c and one month 25c. The Sunday Post offers one year $2.50 six months $1.25 three months 65c. Notices emphasize advance payment, discontinuation on expiration, and payment methods with editor B A Grozier as publisher.
Governor Guild declines chasing the Republican nomination while stating a balanced, sensible personal platform. He emphasizes dignity and responsibility in the nomination process.
The 1908 Legislature has completed eight weeks of its session. Committees have threshed out matters and both houses have advanced to final disposition of questions. If this momentum continues, it will establish a precedent of quick and effective work.
The city plan by Mayor Hibbard to govern Boston with a Finance Commission advisory board meets growing Republican resistance. A conference of House Republicans advances the mood, with the Post suggesting attaching a referendum to let voters decide on the experiment.
The Sunday Post recounts the drowning of young Jason while skating in Cohasset on Saturday. Rev. Edmund C. Sliney of St Anthony's Church plunged into icy waters to locate the boy, dragged him to the surface and held him in his arms. His selfless, rapid action surpasses that of a professional lifeguard or athlete.
The text argues a long tenured city clerk who is a Democrat is favored to head the collector's office, provoking Republican bosses. It criticizes Mayor's changes since taking office that purge Democrats while filling posts with Republicans, noting party rewards in city positions.
The statement questions Mayor hopeful Mr. Hibbard’s pledge of non partisanship noting he commits to a single party approach. It asserts the plan would expel all Democrats and install only Republicans in office.
Dr. George S. Meylan reports on examinations of nearly 700 young men over two years, finding smokers are taller heavier with greater lung capacity and total strength than non smokers. He cautions results may reflect preexisting differences rather than tobacco effects.
President Lucius Tuttle addresses the New Hampshire State Board of Trade urging patience with the merger dispute until the Commission on Commerce and Industry delivers its report. He warns against prejudging the case and stresses prompt action before legislative timelines lapse.
Despite lingering debris from the panic, commercial and financial tones improve across business. Horace White predicts a brief distress period and an early revival if crops stay favorable, noting capital to liabilities now higher than in prior downturns.
Andrew Hamilton, former counsel to New York Life and insurance litigations chief across the country and Canada, was found dead in his Albany home. An autopsy showed acute dilation of the heart, likely causing instantaneous death during the night after a period of declining health since July following Mrs. Hamilton’s death.
Cold weather renews effort to end hats as a greeting in Vienna and adopt a military salute. A club committee forms under Count Harrach to lead the movement and push for change.
Lieutenant John H. Ferguson led the after turret eight inch gun crew in practice at Magdalena Bay on January 21. The salvo achieved 2 hits out of 25 shots, setting a new gunnery record for the United States Navy according to the Navy Department.
About 10,000 people benefited from a large produce distribution donated by the Pittsburg Produce and Merchants' Association. The Salvation Army directed the aid effort.
Dear Mildred Gragg writes her life from age 15, describing herself as tall and short, with varied hair and eyes, a playful yet shy personality, and a mix of talents from sewing to piano. Newton Newkirk notes any man seeking a wife would be disappointed, praising her affinity and potential.
A Boston letter satirically notes a price rise from ten to eleven cents at Pi Alley eateries due to egg shortages. Caterers inform they will substitute less fresh eggs in lemon pies to keep the ten cent menu, prompting humorous commentary on the cost of dining.
Among passengers aboard the North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wilhelm II from New York to Bremen via Plymouth and Cherbourg tomorrow are Boston residents including Jacob G. Elz, Mr. and Mrs. B Grew and maid, L M or Miss Frieda Kehrhahn, J S Patterson and George B Parva.
Francis Bigelow, aged 68, former member of the Middlesex county board of commissioners, died yesterday after 15 years on the board. He had previously served in both branches of the county governing body. He is survived by a daughter.
Berlin March 1 Professor Koch thanks Andrew Carnegie for his generous endowment gift and expresses hope it will be followed by many others to support his program.
The Observant Citizen reports ex mayor Burke on Roosevelt methods at a Bryan dinner in Faneuil Hall. The piece notes Governor McMillin and Colonel Beech smoking, magnet-like tin scraps on an L structure, a boy and Newfoundland sailing offshore, and artful remarks by Art Barnard at a Boston Underwriters banquet. It also mentions local town politics, Gore’s speech, Bryce vs Carnegie lookalike, the Washington elm in Cambridge, and Ruby Boynton’s fourth birthday party with gifts.
The speaker longs for Ireland while helping with hay in England. He laments wealth in England and yearns for Corrymeela and the blue Irish sky, imagining Corrymeela, Corrymeca, and Mollie as symbols of home. The song contrasts English towns with Irish memory and love.
Berlin reports Dr Wendel, a leading German authority on beauty, argues that men are biologically superior in beauty to women. He blames neglect of masculine features, alcohol, and immoral living for declining male appearance and urges orderly living to restore manly beauty.
London on March 1 notes a push for domestically produced goods as Britain seeks self sufficiency. Government pressure grows for English eggs alongside English boots bacon cheese clothes and other products to support national industry.
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