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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1908
Page
6
The Boston Post dated March 28, 1908 issue number 71 in volume 100 from 259 Washington Street Boston details daily news and notices typical of a regional paper. The brief entry records the newspaper’s publication information rather than specific events.
Subscription rates listed for Daily one year and six months payments. The Sunday Post price is shown for one year six months and three months. Notes include mailing details, payment methods checks and money orders payable to the POST PUBLISHING COMPANY. Editor B A Grozier instruction to pay in advance and discontinue notices.
Mayor Hibbard will ask the Legislature to suspend its rules to allow using the idle 60 000 dollars set for Mt Washington Avenue to repair the Boylston Street bridge. The move aims to end months of neglect and open the avenue to traffic quickly, with transfers from the South Boston appropriation and City Council support. The Common Council resists a quid pro quo involving Copley Square funds.
This week 32 delegates were elected bringing Taft to 142 of 212 Republican delegates, with 70 anti Taft delegates. Projections suggest Taft could reach 404 apparent strength but still 86 votes short of a first ballot nomination. Opponents doubt the math claiming Taft cannot exceed 350 votes.
Harvard professors consider restricting athletic excess following President Eliot's views. The athletic committee resists curbing sports while President Hadley of Yale urges positive measures, stressing regular attendance and duty performance to keep students engaged.
The independent Boston opera venture gains momentum through a substantial pledge from Eben D. Jordan. Plans, already aired in the Post, outline a Boston home of opera to enhance entertainment, musical education, and city attractiveness for commercial vitality.
The school devoted to native talent develops operas across the season. Henry Russell, famed for his work with the San Carlo company last winter, is engaged, signaling prudent tactics for success.
Beverly and north shore residents fund the gypsy moth suppression effort, adding 20000 to the State's 10000 appropriation as the campaign opens. Officials warn that local action must pair with broader control to protect threatened woods from drifting moths.
In Washington on March 22 Congressman Joseph O Connell of Boston helped Democrats seize a House majority by whipping 82 Republicans to back a fortifications bill amendment authorizing overseas military purchases in any quantities. The shift followed a tight roll call as anti Taft forces claim inflated delegate tallies and foresee a growing lead against Taft in the weeks ahead. Don O Connell and a Boston party entourage arrived to visit Joseph O Connell citing ongoing political maneuvering and local ties.
The tale opens with a duke saving Kate Welkins on the Matterhorn and admitting love at first sight. He reveals royal title in a moonlit Europe scene and proposes marriage, offering to renounce his throne. The senator father in West Virginia contemplates a marriage deal with a royal fortune stake.
A duke declares he renounces royal rights and plans to naturalize as an American. He intends to live with his fiancée after marriage, while a Senator dismisses the proposal, refusing to pay for a foreign son-in-law. The chapter closes with the duke aboard a steamer fleeing to New York.
The Boston Post led a petition to the State Highway Commission for telephone rate relief and improved service. An expert’s report recommends lowering Boston to suburbs tolls from ten to five cents per call, but urges a full appraisal of the telephone company’s property before further steps. The piece argues rates are high and service inadequate, urging quicker action by the commission.
Harvard students identify J B Ivins of New York as the author of the Harvard Anarchist, the red paper that shocked the campus before the mayoral election. The Lampoon satire sold for five cents, ran to a fifth edition, and drew wide college interest amid political fever.
A lighthearted line notes baseball season approaching as an office worker jokes about his grandmother’s rapid decline, blending humor with sports anticipation. The remark reflects a playful newsroom tone and seasonal chatter.
The speaker jokes about preferring winter chores over spring tasks such as vernal cleaning and yard work. He notes bills for coal, dislikes leaves and flowers, and complains that spring brings wives who must sew for summer. The tone is humorous and self deprecating about spring enthusiasm.
The Cambridge Public Library marks 60 years of service with a planned social event. News items include Emma Thursby’s New York reception, Geraldine Farrar’s mentor Charles Bond, spring timing and a long winter, Easter lily crops, a pigeon feeding on Water Street, and lectures by G Everett Bean in Tremont Temple. Also noted are the First Universalist Church 75th anniversary, Harvard Travellers Club talk, a daring flag pole painter, Newton Club humor, Memorial Week plans in Cohasset, and diners with Horsedom host Walter Wixen.
The reader is presented with a lyric by Tom Moore about enduring love beyond fading beauty. It extols a steadfast heart that continues to love as time passes and beauty fades. The poem compares a devoted heart to a sunflower turning toward the sun.
Helena Mont March 22 The 22 000 fine imposed on F Augustus Heinze and his two mine superintendents Frank and Treria for contempt of court was sent to the national treasury in Washington yesterday the final day of extension allowed by Judge Hunt
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