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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1908
Page
6
Daily bulletin issued by Post Publishing Co from Boston Massachusetts dated May 19 1908 No 42 Vol 191 with office at 259 Washington Street.
The Post lists subscription prices: Mally one year 183.00, six months 1.50, three months 0.75, monthly 0.25. The Sunday Post one year 2.50, six months 1.25, three months 0.65. Mail options and notices explain second class matter, advance payments, and contact addresses for editorial and business offices in Boston.
The Sixtieth Congress voted 1 026 000 000 dollars in a single session, creating a projected deficit of about 60 000 000 by June 30. The excess spending is cited as a reason to keep the Dingley tariff taxes on industries, which the people have long demanded relief from.
The State Senate is urged to reconsider its engrossment vote on the employers' liability bill. The measure aligns Massachusetts practice with the federal statute, mirrors interstate commerce principles, and is deemed intelligent and conscientious with no reason to alter the Senate’s approval.
With the Republican national convention four weeks away in Chicago, an estimated 300 to 400 federal officeholders participate in the nomination process. This group, part of a government workforce totaling about 980 to 992, could wield decisive influence over the outcome. The administration will steer the convention with greater force than the current Congress, making Theodore Roosevelt the key power behind the nomination.
The North Pole quest is framed as a financial problem after Morris K. Jesup's death cut Peary's funding. He seeks new aid with rising confidence in his estimates. Eight failed tries have occurred. the ninth dash is viewed as the essential attempt toward the goal.
The piece argues forged paintings attributed to Inness, Martin, and Wyatt undermine living American artists. It questions the value of patronage tied to unsigned works of dead masters and urges supporting contemporary artists to elevate American art and investment value.
House agriculture committee weighs sending ten lawmakers on a summer investigation to study the White Mountains and Southern Appalachians with a $20,000 budget. Critics warn the trip delays forest reservation legislation and could fuel another year of lumbering damage despite prior investigations urging immediate action.
The sixth annual Boston Work-Horse Parade, Memorial Day week from next Saturday, will be the largest yet with 958 horses on the official schedule. Organized by the Boston Work-Horse Parade Association led by Henry Childs Merwin, the event has become a city institution and has influenced similar parades in New York and beyond, including aid to Chelsea fire victims.
Tokyo dispatch reports general elections held Sunday yield unclear results but predict a substantial Constitutionalists majority likely larger than the previous session. The government expects to confront the next Diet with a clear overall majority.
London suffragists organized a great demonstration as the culmination of the year’s fight for women’s suffrage. It will be held in Hyde Park on Sunday June 21 with an expected attendance of 300000 women from across the country.
Delegates from about a thousand dioceses worldwide will attend the Pan-Anglican Congress in London in June. The group includes laymen and clergy, most accompanied by their bishops.
While Newton Newkirk is on three weeks vacation readers submit fun notes and sketches to Boston Daily Post. Two $10 prizes awarded on his return for best and worst pieces including stories poems sketches and wise sayings.
A short poem about finding light in darkness and sharing others' burdens. It includes a humorous column of queries and anecdotes from readers about hens laying odd eggs, fake cures for drunkenness, and a hotel slate riddle about “letter B,” illustrating lighthearted newspaper miscellany.
In Atlantic, Sam Mullen faces a famed pitcher with saliva and knuckle balls. He finally connects, sending the ball over left field to win the game as rooters roar.
Baptiste Paquette recounts a folktale from St. Cessaire Quebec about Blodah an old man and his dog Puppie. Puppie loses her tail to an express train and Blodah applies salve promising a new tail. The tale ends with a wry line about who truly wags whom.
Acclaimed actress Ida Mulle has arrived to teach and entertain children through club work and performances. She will present a matinee at Sheafe's Hall Huntington Chambers on May 27, inviting local audiences to enjoy her stage style and charitable activities.
The piece gathers light local vignettes from Newton and Boston area life. It mentions Jamaica Pond crowds on warm days, a clock correction at the Dewey Square entrance, a family with infant twins heading to the Public Garden, a disrupted newspaper delivery incident on a Nepon-set car, veterans reuniting at the State House, a guard dog at a Roxbury street store, and Brookline fireman Hoseman Tom Burke celebrating the birth of a boy.
The poem compares a life to a summer rose, an autumn leaf, and desert footprints on Tampa’s shore. It laments impermanence, noting no one will mourn the speaker. Each stanza ends with a refrain that none shall shed tears for me. The imagery shifts from nature to a solitary, unwept existence.
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