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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1907
Page
6
Daily publication details issue date and price list for subscriptions and the Sunday Post. Provides rates for one year six months three months and monthly options. Includes office address 259 Washington Street Boston and legal notice of second class matter entry.
The Daily Post offers mail delivery across the United States and possessions for 25 cents per month and 25 cents for the Sunday edition. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiry. Contact RB. A. Grozier, editor and publisher, for details.
The Evening Traveler deserves the lion's share of credit for the bucket shop bill now law. The Post supported the measure and acknowledges it was originated by its Evening contemporary and pushed through, a public interest effort worth noting by newspaper critics.
Frightful dust storms during unseasonable winds have caused unseen aggregate damage likely higher than cost to suppress. Hospitals report health impacts, urging economy in dust control despite immediate expenses.
An inquiry into the New York Life Insurance Company election reveals alleged substitution forgery suppression and destruction of ballots by insiders and opponents. The International Policy holders Committee claims hostile ballots were treated as they were by management. The result appears to reflect unscrupulous politics favoring the insiders.
Illinois Legislature grants Chicago a new charter shifting authority to City Hall. The city gains police power regulation and taxation of public service corporations with amendments possible by voters, reducing state control. Supporters say Chicago may become the most beautiful and best governed city in the country.
Postmaster General Meyer ends need for ten cent special delivery stamps by allowing ten cents in two cent stamps to secure immediate delivery after July 1. The reform removes bureaucratic delay and simplifies quick delivery for businesses and students alike.
On the day the Massachusetts Senate engrossed a bill allowing juries in capital cases to qualify a first degree murder verdict by excluding the death penalty, a Federal Court jury here also qualified its finding in a Marine private’s case for killing a comrade in Cuba. The federal law merits this discrimination and it has.
The trial proceeded swiftly with a jury deliberating just over an hour. The guilty verdict was deemed just, and the use of the federal provision adopted in Massachusetts statutes is expected to yield equally favorable outcomes in practice.
Governor Hughes wins a hard fought victory as the public utilities bill passes the New York Assembly with no dissent. The act places state commissions in charge of public service corporations including railroads gas and electric firms with broad powers to regulate rates rebates and franchise transfers.
A Boston reader from Grove Hall calls for improved ash and garbage removal. He notes repeated delays, needing to phone crews, and cites barrels unemptied for 10 days and 20 days since last removal. He asks who is to blame and how to reach the service head.
Boston readers learned on May 14 that Sir Lajpat Rai, a Lahore bar member, was deported from India without trial on sedition charges. Rai, who visited in 1905, urged simple justice and local administration rights without opposing British rule. The move sparked claims of panic and wider unrest in the Indian dominion. ERVING WINSLOW.
A western Massachusetts debating society asks for a topic avoiding politics inspired by an 18th century shipwreck tale. The story follows two husbands choosing differently to save their families and ends with one pair’s doomed feud and another’s enduring friendship, prompting a light moral question.
A satirical note describes a mezzotint portrait of Sin ful Sam the pirate cook caught tying. A Salem New Hampshire society delegation visits the All Sorts boudoir to discuss a family friendly pirate tale titled Bounced on the Bounding Billows.
A quirky verse about a singer and a drum loving friend forming a duo in a submarine racer. They imagine diving under the sea to watch mermaids, lobsters, and sharks, while drums beat and silly dialogue plays out. The fantasy blends music and sea life with playful, rhythmic sounds.
The narrator argues that most people buy autos to take families and friends out. He notes during crippled children's outings or similar events, nearly all the town's notorious scorcher drivers volunteer to lend their cars and drive them as carefully as possible all day.
A stark city report counts 4124 agencies for charity while a penniless stranger in Boston seeks a square meal before nightfall. The piece highlights urgent hunger and where relief might be found.
The excerpt shows Phyllis and Philip sharing a daily routine centered on ice cream soda. He feeds his sweetheart Phylis, treats her kindly, and expresses affectionate, devoted sentiment. The tone is playful and intimate, highlighting their affectionate rapport.
A column of light items covers stamps changes and social mischief as a landlady’s odd charge leads to a refused lodging. Practical jokes on a Malden train amuse and anger a sleeper. A theatre moment, police quip, and civic notes on schools, cadets, sparrow nests, and local figures wrap in brisk, period tone.
Nellie Conser of Selinsgrove seeks livelihood from the railroad after her father's death in service. By order of ex president A J Cassatt she is placed in a block office at South Danville, learns the key and switching levers, then moves to Shindel where 44 freight and four express trains pass daily and her superiors on the division anticipate promotion.
Allison completes a fiction achievement but questions if fame can replace love. She fears her husband John drifted to the club as she poured into writing. When she finally decides to burn her manuscript, John returns and calls her, proving love endures. Caption notes a memorial sermon for a Sunday service in Boston and veterans’ assembly details.
An ad touts Morse's clothing with a repeated claim that if it’s at Morse's it’s correct and if correct it’s at Morse's. It urges readers to compare value, quotes Dr. Samuel Johnson on true value, and promotes $20 suits amid a $10 to $35 range. It invites requests for a Spring booklet.
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