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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1910
Page
10
The Post PUBLISHING COMPANY lists rates for ATLY and SUNDAY POST incl year and short-term plans. Canadian copies incur a 9c per copy surcharge. Notices advise payment methods, office contact numbers, and discontinuation policy. Editor E A Grovier signs as publisher.
The legislature is urged to study the milk trade in Boston. Consumers want clear data on the farmer's cost to produce a quart, the cost to move it to the contractor, and the price at the consumer’s door. If profits are undue for any party, the public will demand reform and fair returns.
The Massachusetts House defeated the federal income tax amendment, blamed on Republican party bosses who pressured allies to oppose the measure. The piece condemns party machinery, cites Taft's sincerity, and argues the struggle continues as seven states have accepted the amendment and 35 await action.
Congress has approved funds for raising the wreck of the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. The President will sign promptly and begin the expiation work to honor the dead and remove the unsightly monument to indifference.
A bipartisan three month study by a state legislative committee calls for strong action against trusts and monopolies. It condemns limits on free trade between producer and consumer, notes retailers face fixed wholesale prices, and flags the control of supply chains and retail margins shaping food costs.
The piece argues that city dwellers become assets to trusts, yielding tribute "as heavy as the traffic will bear" beyond supply and demand. It contrasts this view with the Ohio decision against trusts, deeming it more justified than a local Scottish verdict.
The Railroad Commission approves a revised bill allowing the Boston Elevated to merge with connecting lines with conditions. A 35 percent stake triggers an offer to buy out stockholders at the average price, and a 5 cent fare within 5 14 miles from the State House on acquired lines. The measure aims to curb minority control and reveal the elevated plan early, while raising concerns over blanket absorption of the state's electric transit system.
Tabulated exports from the United States to foreign countries for the first nine months show a rise of nearly 39.6 million to Canada and 5 million to Argentina plus 7 million to Cuba and 5.5 million to Mexico. China and Japan fall by 2 million and over twice that, respectively, while combined shipments to China and Japan total 27.176 million. Argentina shipments reach 30.356 million and other regions show 39.93 million to one and 43.45 million to Canada. There are facts.
A lyrical reflection by John Devine Inflater on the arrival of spring. The piece evokes Moosehead and Rangeley Lakes as open water returns, calling fisherfolk to abandon business for lake travel and the lure of the season.
A Denver uncle leaves Paul Garvin eighty thousand dollars but the will requires him to marry before he receives the fortune. Garvin, bashful and uncertain, is urged by a columnist to accept help in finding a wife and to pay a nominal fee, jokingly offering forty thousand dollars as a reward while asserting no payment for the act.
A reader ponders a Boston newspaper horse advertisement for a 10 foot long livestock for sale. The critic asks if glass doors on the horse sides, lettering, and lockable housing add real value. He jokes about oats, ventilation, and storm windows while weighing price and safety.
A terse aphorism on self sacrifice and paradox, suggesting victory comes with personal cost and loss of self. It frames a moral tension between achievement and inner erosion, echoing themes of renunciation and moral calculus. Nature and author unspecified.
American visitor Colonel Roosevelt will be formally received at the Royal Palace of Stockholm, finished in 1740, famed for its Norrbro bridge and grand rooms. The Lejonbacken approach, state apartments, armory, and costumes display royal Sweden era artifacts. Roosevelt may visit the National Museum after tours of the palace.
The Observant Citizen reports a Charlestown High School Alumni Association reunion planned for tomorrow evening with Hon. Charles S. Sullivan presiding and street commissioner Hon. Salem D. Charles speaking on Early Recollections. Also covered are Max Sacks’s farewell banquet, gift of a diamond-inlaid gold cigar cutter, and farewell to New York-bound traveler.
A whimsical 1910 verse by Walt Mason urges living fully and kindly before death, praising honesty, joy, and helping others while warning against dwelling on doom. The speaker promises to support you at the end, underscoring the finiteness of life and the value of a virtuous path.
P Lennox & Co morocco manufacturers of Lynn once bankrupt on March 19 1909 with over 1 million dollars in liabilities submitted a settlement to creditors. The plan offers 49 cents on the dollar for all claims against the firm 100 cents on the dollar for all claims against Patrick Lennox now five years old and 100 cents on the dollar for all claims against James T Lennox his son.
A comet party timed to Halley’s visit will ascend in the balloon Massachusetts at midnight from Pitts Field. Professor David Todd, Amherst College astronomy head, and his wife join Charlie J. Glidden to observe the skies.
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