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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1909
Page
6
The Boston Post issue from May 10 1909 lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions editorial offices and contact numbers. It notes vacation mail options and payment requirements with advance payment enforcement and postal notification requests.
A revision downward to burden reducing tariff policy is discussed as the Republican pledge. The article notes Mr Lodge frames the pledge in technical terms while Mr Taft’s acceptance speech and later statements are read as confirming a protection oriented tariff revision. The piece emphasizes public understanding of the Republican commitment to reducing Dingley tariff burdens.
The Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange endorses the 1915 movement and names officers to cooperate with the central body. A special exchange meeting is scheduled to discuss progress, while Greater Boston school teachers from public and private schools and colleges are to meet at Tremont Temple to plan school involvement.
A new postal telegraph and telephone workers stoppage in France threatens serious disruption. The dispute has political overtones with Socialist agitation aiding the movement, reflecting fundamental weaknesses in a government that blends politics with public service.
The excerpt compares national holiday totals across countries and notes Massachusetts has seven legal holidays. It suggests cutting 28 Russian holidays could save a billion dollars but warns against loud Fourth of July celebrations with noise, injuries, and destruction. It also notes presidential proclamations govern holidays only in DC and territories.
The article argues that speeding cars drive road improvement and praises Telford and Macadam methods. It links good roads to farmer prosperity and notes a rising good roads contest in the upper South shaping a federated effort.
The piece envisions trunk roads binding regions from coast to coast with a future network from San Francisco to New York and Chicago to the Portlands via Washington to the South. It praises state highways, highlights Boston’s fine roads, and urges federal-state cooperation to build through highways for lasting benefits beyond evolving machines.
The trial of seven American Sugar Refining Company employees accused of conspiracy to defraud customs with false weights is set for Wednesday in New York. Only one had held a higher post than a dock chucker. the Brooklyn Have Meyer dock superintendent is the sole exception. The case targets subordinates, while the top profiteers are implied to face no punishment or discovery.
An essay argues modern ocean travel is a nerve stress factory. It laments speed quests, gambling, wireless noise, and luxury vessels. It calls for old fashioned steamers with slower passages, simple food, no gambling, and limited wireless use to avoid neurotic modernity.
A critique argues tipping degrades service in Switzerland and England, cites private houses, hotels, and laws resisting graft, and urges a universal ethic of honest wages. The author proposes printing a maximum tip scale on every bill and room menu to curb tipping abuse.
In Ostend a joke riffs on a famed writer claiming the ark rested in Michigan. A parent replies with a witty twist about Arkansas, highlighting local humor over a biblical mystery.
A heated debate features Gunner and Guyer on the rise of popular marathon races. They discuss appeal to all classes and the wealthy riding in automobiles, with marathons framed as a reason to walk home if the car breaks down.
In a forest scene Steve relieves himself from a 70 foot python with a fixed gaze and a single shot. He then returns to camp where Colonel Roosevelt invites him to review sealed papers guiding a side trip to Crystal Mountain. The segment ends with plans for the expedition continuing.
Miss Mamie Sarge of Seattle was held on $300 bond for court after forcing into lawyer E. C. Edgar Shreeve’s Camden Security Building office and embracing him. She repeatedly returned to the office and allegedly assaulted him, prompting a police protection request.
The Athens Club of Dorchester prepares a two night showing of An Angel's Tribulations in White Hall. Ned Surprise and Gerald Moore wrote the bright book and lyrics while James Gilbert directs and Mrs Gilbert guides the music. The production aims for an elaborate staging and social buzz.
A string of light, varied observations from Cambridge to South Boston recounts dog antics near a wire fence, a blooming peach orchard near Hartford, crowds at the Boston Public Library, factory medical care, school athletics under Arthur Gould, and famous figures at baseball grounds. The piece also notes a large boulder in Wellesley, court-house decor changes, and local social tidbits including yacht news and parish fund results.
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