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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1907
Page
6
Daily issue details from the Boston Post Publishing Company with date May 21 1907 and issue number 44 volume 187 listing office address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
The notice lists Daily rates at one year six months three months and one month options with prices 1 year 2.00 and smaller terms. The Sunday Post lists 1 year 2.50 six months 1.25 and three months 0.65 with second class matter at the Boston post office.
The Daily Post offers mail delivery across the United States and abroad for 25 per month, with the Sunday Post at 25 cents monthly. Addresses can be changed anytime, money sent at sender's risk, and payments by check draft or money order payable to the Post Publishing Company.
All subscriptions to the Post must be paid in advance and will be discontinued without further notice on expiration. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly notify us by postal at once. FE A GROZIER Editor and Publisher.
American missionaries report at least a million Chinese in famine districts dying with four times that many suffering starvation. The text urges local relief from Chinese and American citizens to aid the afflicted.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell returns from England with a Doctor of Science from Oxford and announces plans to adapt his man lifting kite into a powered man flying machine. His experiments so far yield a kite carrying a man and now a motorized propulsion is proposed to lift and move it through the air. The inventor of the telephone hopes to outpace rivals in achieving man flight.
Italian government examines emigration to the United States as 1906 shows 62,000 more emigrants than 1905 while money orders sent home fall by about 2 million dollars. Bank of Naples receipts drop from 7,971,596 to 5,977,738 across the two years. Indicates potential permanent residence and property ties in the United States.
One of Boston’s long standing traditions, known as Anniversary Week, has vanished. The city once thrived with philanthropic, religious, educational, and radical demonstrations and vivid ecclesiastical adornments. Now only the Unitarian Association preserves a weakened relic of the era.
The piece argues rail accidents stem from rail flaws and calls for better rails at lower costs. It blames a tariff protecting a steel monopoly for high domestic prices and argues reform should start with removing Republican taxes on railroad materials to lower costs.
The article weighs strong acetylene headlights on cars at night as a potential advantage for lighting the road and aiding driver choice, while acknowledging possible drawbacks.
A Dorchester fatal accident is described as caused by a pedestrian dazed by flashing headlights on crowded streets. The young woman who died wandered into traffic amid confusing, multi directional signals. The piece notes such light confusion as a possible factor in accidents.
The city struggles with persistent dust as rains offer little relief. Officials cite a watering workers strike over wages, proposing new contracts or higher funding to restore street cleanliness. Community pressure grows for action, or private contracts to remedy the problem.
A Tremont Temple preacher last Sunday declared the reign of the devil will end within eight years. The speaker claimed Boston has already deposed the old ruler with Tremont Temple and other monuments as evidence.
A large Dublin convention of Irish nationalists meets to consider key matters including the administration bill recently introduced in Parliament. The prevailing view is against the measure, and its repudiation is foreseen, though the issue warrants calm, careful discussion.
The St. James Ladies Total Abstinence Society organized a grab-bag party at Knights of Honor Hall 730 Washington Street for Thursday evening. Ticket returns reached 300, with many temperance leaders expected. Dancing arranged by Mrs. Kate Myron as marshal and Miss Anna Shea Miss Mary Murphy and Miss Nellie Hallisey as deputies.
John J O Hares address on Commodore John Barry the Father of the American Navy delighted the Charitable Irish Society at Youngs Hotel. President John J Keenan chaired with Past President Michael J Jordan also speaking on Ireland and home rule. Walter J Kugler led piano and James H Rattigan sang.
Frederick E. Keep of 75 Centre street Brookline a leading life insurance figure and former Boston Life Underwriters president died suddenly at home. He leaves a wife and their only child Dr. Charles Keep of Marlboro street. Funeral services are today with interment at Providence.
Two society women including Archbishop Farley's niece will lay bouquets on the grave of fire department dog Tip. Tip died after being run over while responding to a call and had previously directed firefighters to safety, saving two lives.
Exiled Honduran ex-president Manuel Bonilla arrived in New Orleans and told reporters at a quiet spot that he plans to go to Belize to live as a planter. He said he has no intention of returning to Honduran politics and criticized his former army for traitors and unreliables after his recent experiences.
A column recalls a historic wager 88 years ago over the Savannah voyage as a flying machine debate rekindles. It notes early balloon jumps, parachute progress and hints that future aeronautical feats may bypass vertical limits, with All Sorts skeptical yet hopeful of cross Atlantic travel by air or tunnel.
A delegation of marine architects questioned the chestnut construction of Captain Shedd Gore's pirate ship Quinine. They noted chestnut was used instead of oak, with many chestnuts sacrificed for the vessel's build.
A Bath resident on his Boston honeymoon left the Hotel Touraine after one day complaining breakfast lacked quill toothpicks. A Charlestown man boasted of visiting Bunker Hill Monument, claiming Bangor roots to explain his Hub visit.
All Sorts' outburst provokes a flood of explanations filled with emotion and misinformation. Replies blame personal motives such as a wife forcing a baby carriage outing, ward political protection from poll tax, or a neighbor's lack of thanks for an end seat.
Harrison avenue astrologer Doctor D Ope spends the week in town reading stars for All Sorts. For Tuesday, May 21 he notes births favor baldheaded boys and warns against copper speculation while iron activity should be warm and busy.
A playful old saying hints at spring weather patterns leading to softer goods like handkerchiefs, reflecting seasonal humor rather than a hard news event.
A romantic scene on moonlit sands ends with a missing pin and a vow to send a token. A young man recalls Dolly’s challenge to find the pin and reveal its meaning as he searches fatefully.
A phonographic sketch by Mr. and Mrs. Lovey Dovey parodies Camp Meeting Time for All Sorts Phonograph Co. It riffs on house cleaning chaos with noises, a wrecked curtain and a wedding present ruined, ending with a humorous quip about husbands taking to drink during house cleaning time.
A summer romance ends with a mistaken token. A young man confronts Dolly on the beach after finding a lavender stain on a pin and a white shawl. Dolly reveals the stain and shawl relate to ink from a typewriter, not a heaven sent message, ending the illusion.
A 29 year old woman asks whether to marry a rich 45 year old or a poor 22 year old. Mildred Champagne advises delaying marriage a year or two, ensuring the beloved earns more, and stresses not marrying for money but also not marrying someone who cannot support a wife. She cautions love under financial strain may not bring happiness.
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