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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1907
Page
6
The notice lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including one year prices of $3.00 and $2.50, six months $1.50 and $1.25, three months 75¢ and 65¢, and one month 25¢. It also states second class matter entry at the Boston Mass post office.
Subscription notice for The Daily Post and Sunday Post announcing mail delivery rates of 25c per month and policy for changes, advance payment, and discontinuation. Addresses and payment details referenced with editor Fr. A. Grozier.
As the Legislature resumes after Memorial Day, the Senate bill to empower a Mayor's commission to thoroughly investigate Boston's finances advances to engrossment. The editorial urges full cooperation for a plain business move toward public enlightenment and city confidence.
The intercollegiate rowing race between Harvard and Cornell crews is held today on Lake Cayuga. The outcome is awaited with anxiety as Columbia defeated Harvard last spurt, while Cornell remains a strong challenger with memories of last year’s Cornell win.
The police department revives its littering crackdown with hope for lasting reform after an earlier six month effort met initial arrests and then faded. Scraps and rubbish were once thrown onto streets with immunity, but renewed action targets lasting cleanliness.
The Board of Aldermen may seek a favorable report from the Committee on Public Improvements on directing the Board of Election Commissioners to offer limited evening sessions. The measure would let working voters change party enrolment without losing part of their day, a move seen as simple justice for those employed full time.
Weather writers admit May averages clash with common experience and warn of likely unsettled weather into June. They now partly blame sun spots for early season deviations, acknowledging the difficulty of predicting climate patterns. The tone remains cautious about future fair weather.
Plans by Mr. R Clipston Sturgis for the Franklin Union building on Berkeley street receive approval. The design emphasizes artful form and functional educational spaces with laboratories in the basement and a two story lecture hall, library and gallery on upper floors.
The notice praises the Franklin Union for its adapted design to house classrooms drafting rooms studios and a chemical laboratory, presenting it as a well conceived and ornamental addition to the city.
The article reflects on Memorial Day as a core national observance linking current Americans with Civil War veterans. It argues the day symbolizes citizenship, unity, and devotion, evolving from mourning to a broader celebration of patriotic memory across families and communities.
A flower service at City Point Pier in South Boston will remember Civil War heroes who died at sea. Dahlgren Women’s Relief Corps and Dahlgren Post G A R lead the event with hundreds of schoolchildren, escorted veterans, and a 10 o'clock ceremony. The group will then visit cemeteries to decorate graves.
Members of Trimountain Garrison with invited guests meet at Appleton Hall at 1 PM to march to Chelsea Naval Cemetery for memorial services led by Joseph J. Murphy. Bluejackets marines and a band accompany the procession to City square for car transport to the cemetery, followed by a 5:30 PM banquet at headquarters with distinguished guests.
The Massachusetts Woman's Relief Corps under Department President An nile C. Shattuck pledges full support for Boston Old Home Week July 28 to August 3. With 172 local corps and 15,000 members, the group offers aid from many units to help make the reunion a success.
Members of the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters plan memorial masses for deceased members across the state. Neponset and St. Anne’s Church in Neponset host a 9 o’clock service, with Winnifred Court and Bay State Court in Chelsea at St. Rose Church. Additional branches hold similar masses at their parish churches.
London May 2 General Methuen who suffered a defeat at Magersfontein in 1899 and was recalled from Kimberley after operations before Warrenton in 1900 will go back to South Africa as commander in chief of the British forces there. He has long served as adjutant general in that theater and has seen extensive service in the country.
Forty five years after Corinth battle Union troops honored fallen comrades as civilian life buzzed with races and baseball. Veterans gathered to lay flowers while prayers mingled with noise and a flag display guidance.
A comical Rag Time fantasy led by a pirate figure navigates lively seas of song and spoof. Performers project nautical whimsy through playful rhymes and vaudeville tempo.
Retired pirate Captain Shedd Gore on the ship Quinine is prepared for a final voyage but Gore is missing. The crew mourns as Fiendish Phil spots Gore bound atop a monument at Bunker Hill. A digressive tale follows of Fiendish Phil’s odd past and a mermaid debut in Boston society.
A poetical defense of flag faithfulness and national glory. The speaker argues republics value patriotism and devotion, noting the flag from ocean to ocean persists. The verse honors defenders who sleep in graves while their deeds endure across mornings.
The Flint Street Methodist and St. James Episcopal churches burned their debt documents last evening before packed congregations. The Methodist mortgage totaled 9500 dollars while the Episcopal parchment represented 4000 dollars.
A real jockey named James Jeffries rides in The Futurity Winner at Keith's with Dan Poole owned by Pop Daly. In court, Judge Dewey resumes appearances after appendicitis, amid peers, while other items report club trips, a Ringling circus crowd, a D A R resignation, navy yard visits, and Memorial Day flower market shifts.
Theo, mocked as a pretend soldier, vows to honor his parents by placing pansies on their graves. He seeks work at Mr. Parsons’ white house, facing a stern housekeeper before the kindly owner offers a kinder path to earn the flowers.
A brief nocturnal prayer asking night to cradle the speaker and ease lingering cares. It pleads for the return of a past delight and the solace found in love’s remembrance.
In a quiet Decorations Day moment Theo Barker learns he is Horace Barker and Lucy’s son. Mr Parsons, a veteran, offers to adopt him, bringing joy as they place flowers on graves that had known only lilacs.
Dr. Reginald Aldworth Daly named professor of physical geology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joins MIT to support a movement for a research laboratory in physical geology. For six seasons he has worked as geologist of boundary surveys for the Canadian government.
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