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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1906
Page
6
The piece urges broad turnout in Boston for municipal primaries decisive for thirteen aldermen, a street commissioner, city convention delegates, and a School Board successor to Ellis. It stresses choosing worthy, energetic candidates and notes primaries outrank the recent state election in importance.
The essay decries street ticket scalping at Harvard games harming the university’s prestige. It argues Harvard undergraduates should self‑regulate to restore decorum, and warns against turning games into private profit. It then debates adopting biennial elections in Massachusetts, outlining constitutional steps and partisan implications.
Secretary Metcalf travels from San Francisco after a fact finding visit on Japanese school complications. Local sentiment remains wary with San Franciscans asserting federal officials receive limited information. The outcry suggests a difficult path to a cooperative resolution aligned with treaty obligations.
The piece urges Boston voters in Wards 9 and 10 to nominate Daniel L. Flanagan over Senator John J. Gartland. It accuses Gartland of dodging key overtime votes and aligning with special interests, calling for accountability in the district’s aldermanic race.
Digest of domestic and foreign postal rates with humorous asides. Domestic rates cover first to fifth classes from two cents per ounce to one cent per ounce and include varied items. Foreign rates list letters at five cents per half ounce and cards at two cents each.
The Sunday Post Magazine posts advance copies of its coming instalment The Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes on the circulation bulletin board to satisfy readers who cannot wait for the regular publication date. The allowance aims at those who besiege the office for early access to the spectacular exploits of The Thinking Machine.
Up society notes a major Boston marriage coming next week between Miss Rosamond Kimball Little and Karl De Laittre of Minneapolis. The piece highlights family connections, debutante status, anticipated gifts from wealthy relatives, and social prominence of Miss Little and her circle including Mrs Talbot Aldrich and Miss Georgiana Putnam.
Read through a day’s stroll of Boston life with notes on women drivers and a rising number of female chauffeurs, Salvation Army fundraisers for Thanksgiving, a comic hat theft near Charlestown police, a Harvard Carlisle football scene, local church nervous disease talks, Knights of Columbus degree work, Joe Harris refereeing Melrose basketball, Bar Harbor Y M C A work, Dartmouth Harvard football crowds, East Boston bulb factory growth, and odd thefts in Cambridge.
In Cal, Lillian Dodge pretends to be married to a man she barely knows to deter a persistent suitor, Mr. Weeks. Dare, her fiancé, supports the ruse then confronts the truth, and she finally admits the deception and its risks rather than commit to a sham marriage.
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