Boston Post March 5 1909 advertisement rates and notices
The Boston Post lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions and directs readers to pay in advance. The notice names editor and publisher ER A Crozier and provides office addresses at 1004 1005 Main in Boston.
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ER. A. Crozier
Inauguration Weather Forecast Proves Too Optimistic
The Weather Bureau chief warned that a sunny day for Taft was unlikely yet his forecast proved overly hopeful. The article notes it was the worst inauguration weather in memory and emphasizes meteorology remains a best guess science with no absolute prophecy.
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Weather Bureau Service
Washington
Mr. Taft
Taft's Inaugural Tone Signals Individual Policy Shift
The article analyzes Taft's inaugural address contrasting him with Roosevelt. It notes Taft will not imitate Roosevelt, promises speedier action on monopolies and law reform, and favors a tariff for revenue with relief of alarm for compliant businesses. It also discusses his stance on race, labor, currency, and imperial expansion.
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Patchy Forecast and Park Street Subway News
Weather Prophet Smith notes bum weather while Park Street Subway attendance lingers at five to six PM from rising 5 cent admission. Chelsea resident Algernon Jones seen with a handsome young lady near Tremont Street. Washington Street Subway may be offered to let amid poor business. Public Garden spring plowing nears, flowers good last year, vegetables poor. Numerous social functions on Commonwealth Avenue. Public Garden skating cited as punk. News scarce this week.
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Gas Company to distribute 12 million in refunds to customers
The Consolidated Gas Company of New York plans to return about 12 million dollars to its consumers as overcharges resulting from not complying with the 80 cent law. The news creates surprised excitement in the community as residents anticipate refunds from the utility.
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New York
New York Gas Trust Faces Law and Transit Debate
The piece contrasts Boston's 80 cent gas price and rapid adoption of city transit innovations with New York's slower stance. It suggests New York should embrace proven Boston ideas despite legal challenges and court rulings. A call to speed reform echoes through urban life.
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New York
Boston
Unsafe Economy Endangers People Over Mistaken Savings
A fragment questions why people expose others to danger for a supposed saving, arguing the risk is needless and driven by faulty cost cutting. The text implies critique of decisions that prioritize small gains over safety.
All Sorts by Newton Newkirk
A humorous verse by Newton Newkirk about a lamb that learns a rude habit, escalating from a lambs innocence to being transformed into mutton as it becomes a sheep and then is processed.
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Newton Newkirk
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The Wrong Car Dear Mr Newkirk
Louise from Boston complains about unreliable street cars on Newspaper Row to the Touraine route. She details taking two cars then walking, noting misdirected or unmarked vehicles and a boy’s quip about being on the track. The letter ends with a moral: if pressed for time, walk.
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Luther Burbank the Graf ter of Santa Rosa
A tribute praising Luther Burbank as the world’s greatest grafter. The piece lists his inventions including a raspberry blackberry hybrid, scented dahlia, frost resistant fruit trees, the gumberry, an edible cactus, and a chestnut tree yielding nuts six months after planting. It humorously urges him to graft practical items like an ash sifter and economic fixes.
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Noted readers and locals plan events across Boston area
The Observant Citizen Mary Elizabeth Ashton, a Tuilleries reading graduate, pursues a line of character work with growing popularity. Maude Odell will visit Boston this Saturday then depart for Beaufort South Carolina for the summer. Nurse E Cunningham assisted the wounded after Wednesday’s seven car wreck. Massachusetts corn ears competition at MIT’s Farmers and Institute on March 11 opens to MA citizens only. Judge Schofield harshly handles petty offenders, offering probationers a second chance. Thomas J Curley, killed in the trolley crash, was to join the Boston Fire Department. Chelsea feels safer with the new three way firehouse and neighboring stations nearing completion. Fire in Somerville brightened Prison Point bridge views late Wednesday. Cold rain froze sprinkled sand on Blue Hill Avenue causing slick streets after a crash. Rev Michael Scanlan of Holy Cross spoke to the Catholic Literary Union on Literature and Music at Charlestown clubs.
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Uncle Walt Says the Diet of Taft
Poetic humorous piece by M Watt Mason from 1909 describes Taft's imagined meals while in office. It references opossum meat, mock turtles, alligator steak, grizzly bear, and notes Panama travel with joke about what William ate there. It preserves playful gossip about the president's diet and travels.
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M Watt Mason
Public tours on battleships New Jersey and Missouri in Boston
The New Jersey and Missouri will be open to the public daily in Boston at the Charles Town Navy Yard, with Captain Southerland welcoming visitors and all facilities for inspection of the ships. David Goldstein receives a home reception after serving on Vermont, with his sisters providing music. A Gloucester pupil claims origin of George Washington, sparking laughter. Miss Anna McKenna visits Charlestown en route to St. John lectures. A Massachusetts town features a large house and barn with light painted blinds and doors.
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Charlestowna Navy Yard
Boston
Southerland
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Vermont
Albion Street
Henrietta Goldstein
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Katheryne Gorman
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Charlestown
Hlime
Massachusetts
House Restored With Sky Blue Doors In Honor Of Owner
The house draws many inquiries for its distinctive sky blue doors and blinds. The original owner, now deceased, left the estate to his eldest daughter on the condition that she maintain the color, a shade likened to a cloudless day sky.
Students Prepare to Leave Auburn High Over Secret Society Ban
In Auburn New York sixty boys and sixteen girls part of secret organizations plan to quit the school tomorrow to defy a board of education order that bans secret societies. The move heightens tension as students express resistance to the prohibition.
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Urban Transportation Lecture By Professor Zueblin
Professor Charles Zueblin lectures on Urban Transportation before Boston City Club members. The talk opens a three lecture series with weekly sessions beginning Friday evening.
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