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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1909
Page
6
The Boston Post issue from March 31 1909 lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, details postal handling and office contact, and notes payment rules. Editor and publisher EB A Grozier is identified.
The speeches on the tariff bill are delivered to an empty audience as the House proceeds by party majority. The Payne bill advances without real debate, with limited five minute speeches and no genuine consideration before Senate review.
Mr. Dana Estes argues that hunter fatalities in Africa are not one tenth of those in Maine and the Adirondacks. He cites personal experience and supports Roosevelt’s relaxation hunt among lions abroad as safer or wiser than local big game. The piece mocks Maine deer and warns of dangers hunters face in Darkest America.
The piece notes a recall provision tied to two years in office as a test in Los Angeles. It criticizes Mayor Harper for poor governance and questions the likelihood of similar recall success in Boston.
A partisan clash in Porto Rico over supply bills leads to reduced police, cut public works, and closed schools. The Unionist House of Delegates opposes American rule while seeking autonomy, with Taft urged to find a middle course to allow island revenues to fund local needs.
A 200 member gathering at the City Club endorses a cooperative plan to coordinate efforts for a greater Boston. The movement seeks efficient use of resources, lessons from other cities, and public support to create a city of homes and industry by 1915 with new headquarters at 20 Beacon Street.
An in-room mock boxing tale places Jeffries in Boston with Sam Berger as referee. The four round bout in Jeffries dressing room features kid gloves and playful banter about Johnson, tariffs, and 1909 era chatter.
The rat-tail gown debuts in ratched braid from hem to collar on pongee in a Moyen age bias cut with a below hip waist. It pokes fun at fashion mania and jokes about Dressmakers' Protective Association while critiquing husbands' roles.
The resolution argues the Philippines serve no current US use or profit and calls for an international agreement to keep the islands neutral and independent. It suggests Europe and Asia would back neutrality, allowing Filipinos to pursue self government while the United States withdraws.
A reader argues the Civil War caused a large drop in native-born children, citing about 100 000 casualties and long term demographic impact. George F. Murphy claims the war’s losses slowed progress and progeny, calling the conflict race death by own action. Meridian Street address provided.
Amoy March 31 The third squadron of the American Pacific fleet under Rear Admiral G B Harber left Amoy for Shanghai at seven oclock this morning amid stormy weather. American members of the Amoy Club hosted a ball for the officers last evening.
Water Commissioner William BE Hannon and City Engineer Jackson started a tour through New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania to inspect water mains in several large manufacturing plants.
Fourteen sailors from the Hamburg American steamer Altenburg are missing after a blaze in Havana yesterday. It is feared they perished as rescue operations continue and authorities review the ship’s destruction.
Observant Citizen notes Senor Constantino of the Manhattan Opera Company visiting Boston with his white dog Peter. The piece also covers Oscar Hammerstein’s Boston Opera House visit, a 20th anniversary at the Boston Industrial Home, Mayor Hibbard’s City Club workspace, potato transportation by the Boston & Maine, and dockyard sailings on the Mystic River. It mentions Roxbury girls walking, attorney Thomas Hunt’s hour-long speech, a state street tunnel newsboy looming to sing opera, Patrolman Flynn’s recovery, and odors from a Marine Park ash-fill affecting City Point homes.
A poetic critique recalling how a talksmith in times of crisis distracts from real work. The piece ridicules the urge to spin speeches and empty promises while taxes fund government and bills mount, ending with a lament on hollow public discourse.
The piece notes rivalry between Captain Burr and Templeton Briggs for the first base spot on Harvard's baseball team, both former Yale first basemen. It also mentions Union Square residents former Chief Parkhurst and Joseph J. Giles as local figures, and Cambridge officer John Neilon leading a civil service fitness class at the YMCA gym for about 30 men aiming to pass police and fire exams.
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