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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1906
Page
6
Advertises daily and Sunday Post subscriptions with rates for one year six months and one month. Lists office address at 259 Washington St Boston and notes prices in dollars and cents for daily and Sunday editions dated November 12 1906.
The Boston Globe reports Secretary Shaw upon returning to the Treasury rejects continued Treasury support for Wall Street speculators and declines to relocate the U S appraisers stores in Boston. The article questions if politics influenced these swift decisions and urges stand against stock speculation while noting potential delays before a hearing on the appraisers’ stores.
The railroad commissioners test car fenders on Homer street Newton with care and apparent fairness. Some trials show devices performing their intended duty. While not fully conclusive with dummies, the tests may reveal if fenders reduce injury or worsen danger and, though a perfect fender may not result, progress toward fewer street accidents is hoped.
Senator Shelby M Cullom of Illinois argues for a tariff revision next year to avoid party consequences. He notes time constraints at the short session and urges action soon after to let the public judge the effects before the election.
The article reports Senator Cullom urging President Roosevelt to convene a special session of Congress after adjournment to revise tariff schedules. He says March 4 next is the logical time, arguing revision is demanded by the people and cannot be done in the short winter session.
A Saturday tremor at Vesuvius reports a cone collapse and ash eruption with heavy crater smoke. The piece notes widespread earth disturbances and cites Colorado’s Culebra Peak as a possible but unverified precedent, underscoring ongoing planetary unrest.
President Eliot praised the Harvard Carlisle game at Soldiers Field as a high order contest with the new rules. The match showcased more open play, fewer mass confrontations, and a promising forward pass. Harvard won by clean play, setting up a anticipated Yale clash next Saturday.
The article previews Miss Mary Hazelton Wade's Indian Fairy Tales and other fairy tale collections with illustrations by Sears Gallagher. It notes footnote connections to Hazlitt and Weymouth figures, lists contributing authors for holiday editions, and mentions Isabel Butler's hand printed Song of Roland with only 200 copies priced as the costliest Riverside edition to date.
The New England editors of the Associated Press held a luncheon at the University Club. Charles H. Boynton and Frank M. Barber spoke on service needs and news expansion. Many AP leaders from Boston, Portland, and Providence attended, with Joseph E. Sharkey presiding.
A jokey guide advises removing teeth to clean them and sending them to the laundry. It recommends keeping teeth in tepid water or a teacup on display and warns against misfit exchanges. Laugh with mouth closed to avoid flying teeth and possible mayhem lawsuits.
A backstage exchange shows the manager probing the chorus girl for talent and credentials. The chorus girl mentions a Pittsburg millionaire ex spouse as she signs a casual contract in a playful scene.
A reader seeks damages after a bulldog injures his dachshund and bites him during a street encounter with a neighbor. An editor’s note jokes that the case resembles assault by both dogs and the neighbor, urging appeal if needed.
An article notes a government run experiment with seventy five hens to increase egg production. It questions the propriety of forcing animals to lay and contrasts with ideals of freedom. The piece parodies such state intervention and ends with a whimsical verse about romance by the sea.
Miss Simboff a Russian revolutionary worker arrived in London disguised as a boy after slipping aboard a steamship from Odessa. She described Odessa police searching for her and noted cutting her hair and dressing as a man to reach the docks. She then worked as coal trimmer engine cleaner and painter aboard the voyage.
Secretary of War Taft and his party inspected Fort Riley areas prepared for two infantry regiments a engineers battalion and a signal company confirming plans to make the post a brigade installation. They then moved to Fort Sill Oklahoma and onward to Fort Sam Houston Texas with staff officers in attendance.
A lively panorama of Boston and nearby towns features Harvard students with crimson bands in a prank near South Station, Balloon races involvement by George Westinghouse and Bishop of the Aero Club, Somerville hunters in Maine, Boston trolley car etiquette signs, crowd issues at Harvard Carlisle game, Lt. McKay’s policing record, South Boston high school football pride, Judge Bruce’s Arizona trip, Maude Adams birthday, Mullens wagon, shipyard winter prep, a Confederate flag relic at Faneuil Hall, and Miah Murray’s two hospital operations and baseball prominence.
In Paris artist Billy Traver woos Maisie while chasing a Salon ideal. He pursues art over money, sees Maisie as a muse, and visits the wax-model Julie at Mme Chiffon's. Maisie leads him to a realization that she is his true inspiration as they plan a life together.
A fragment shows a speaker named Mrs Gablets remarking that something seems paradoxical and made out of whole cloth. The quote contrasts perception with fabrication in a terse, skeptical line.
A playful exchange shows a boy bragging about earning 25 today and a father reacting with a wry remark about raising the price of his dog. The cartoonish dialogue highlights generational attitudes toward money and parenting in a lighthearted frame.
A whimsical verse depicts a child pleading for rescue by father after family strain. The mother reassures, promising papa will lift the child home just as he pretends to ride an elephant or walk on his hands in play. The tone blends affection with playful fantasy.
London reports Zadkiel the modern prophet warns of European royal perils and British empire turmoil for 1907. Monthly items include shipwrecks and earthquakes in January, rail accidents in March, Indian crisis in April, religious strife in June, floods in September, and the cabinet’s awkward position in December.
Temple Texas Nov 11 A toss of the head caused Mrs John Dunn of Ballinger to dislocate her neck in this city yesterday She was visiting her daughter Mrs Lee Barnhill when the accident happened She was dressing her hair and a jerk of the head to move it caused the injury
William H. Taft Secretary of War and his brother Charles P. Taft plan to turn their Fulton Coleman ranch near Sinton into a truck farming project. Ten thousand acres will be divided into plots for garden truck with year round vegetable growing expected in the mild climate.
A nineteen year old rural girl asks if a gentleman who visited for three days can truly love after weeks of letters. The adviser urges trust in the letters, notes magnetism and compatible temperament, and suggests the suitor hopes to earn his own way rather than seek money.
A 21-year-old asks if an 18-year-old is too young for marriage. The adviser says the difference is same now as five years hence but urges caution because an 18 year olds love changes quickly as new experiences shape views on love and readiness to marry.
Philadelphia report of Goldwin Smith's interview from Toronto in which the publicist and historian discusses reciprocity and argues that Canada's annexation to the United States may occur. He notes England’s military withdrawal and questions mutual defense commitments under the Monroe Doctrine.
General Nelson A. Miles, famed Indian fighter, arrives in London and impresses with his sartorial taste. Described as a perfect Beau Brummell at 67, he wears a tailored frock coat, gray tie, suede gloves, tan waistcoat and patent leather shoes, outshining all in attendance.
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