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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1908
Page
8
Daily Boston newspaper note outlines publication details for November 27 1908 at Post Publishing Co. with office location 259 Washington Street and issue number 50 in volume 193.
The Post and Daily prices listed for one year six months three months and monthly terms with Canada copy cost. Notices include payment instructions renewal requirements and editor contact at Post Publishing Company Boston.
Speaker Cannon signs on for tariff revision saying it will be honest and involve concessions. He notes monopolists hold rival claims while 80,000,000 consumers want cheaper goods and lower living costs. The people won’t bear higher taxes for wage gains. A compromise session led by Cannon is not promising.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce directors urged Washington to cut tariffs on coal lumber pig iron and hides and seek a reciprocal trade treaty with Canada. The call comes with long standing support from manufacturers and trade groups, yet the speaker notes political resistance from tax imposing majorities in Massachusetts.
A Boston mayor is praised for municipal reform ideas and economy measures. The piece questions the value of broadcasting these methods to other cities while noting the benefits and doubts about his approach for Boston residents. It urges delivering the lessons directly to Boston people.
The Census Bureau reports 12 832 044 marriages over 1887 to 1906 with rising annual totals to 853 290 in 1906, plus 945 625 divorces in the same 20 years. Early rates reflect population growth and economic shocks, including the panic of 1893.
The report shows from 1880 to 1906, population grew steadily while divorces rose by 70 percent 1890 to 1900 and 29.3 percent 1900 to 1906, indicating divorces increased about three times as fast as population. It notes U S divorce rates exceed those of foreign countries with available statistics.
The city faces reduced library hours and branch closures citing a tight budget. Citizens view cuts as harming education and access, while trustees blame mayoral and council funding gaps and urge quick remedies to restore full service.
A light verse sequence recounts Tabby the cat fleeing a barking spaniel who chases her up a tree. The piece ends with a playful line about Themas and a cryptic hook quote attributed to CAROL VOX and The Sphinx.
A humorous exchange about animal quirks and a broken answering machine yields oddball explanations. Questions cover why a white colt is unseen, grass eating directions, vine twisting, rope unwinding, and animals’ rising patterns. The piece blends satire with whimsical logic and a homespun tone.
In correspondence the assistant to the post master is best termed assistant post masterine. The feminine ending hints at the sex while the base title shows the job as the post master’s assistant. The questioner is advised to ask more such queries for guidance.
Otto B Phulleba ck asks a circular debt puzzle about players owing quarters and halves. The reply suggests a humorous solution: visit the office between 2 and 3 am for 75 cents to settle debts, paying the full back and reimbursing the left end’s loan.
The Letter Box notes Rev Samuel Dickenson Burchard addressing about 600 clergy at the Fifth Avenue Hotel New York City. He states the Democracy’s antecedents are Ruin Romanism and Rebellion. Other notices list political letters and contact references unrelated to the main event.
The Observant Citizen notes drizzle but harvest joy for theater managers as B F Keith distributes turkeys to about 150 employees. Immigration officials, catering for detained immigrants, report a record Thanksgiving dinner.
DARAGCRAPE and [FASHIONS FADS BY PISS MARY Trimmings on velvet have a certain degree of novelty and in all cases are effective. A new boot has patent leather vamps, braided cloth tops and two-inch Cuban heels. Some skirts are made with the high empire corselet belt in taffetas generally in black. Big hats that swoop over the head and seem to weigh their wearers down with their ponderous size are popular. Pearl ropes long enough to go around the neck and tie end with long tassels. Black touched with gold in embroidery mousseline paillettes or cabuchons is seen for evening wear. The chic Parisienne is now ordering high-button velvet-topped with kid in step and back for her dressy afternoon shoe. New coats show high Napoleonic collars embroidered in gold with cuffs to match and plisse muslin or lace jabot. The vogue of the long coat and waning petticoat usefulness are compensatory features of present day styles. There is some tendency toward severe styles again but they will not arrive until the current rage for frills fades.
A rough-trim tramp riding a freight train shows compassion after foiling harm to a sick fox terrier. He risks himself to save the wounded animal, later earning a hospital visit where a nurse helps him cherish gratitude for life, limbs, and his doglums.
Girt Spencer of Owen Indiana was accidentally shot and killed by his fiancée Misa Ida Rheinhart in Louisville Kentucky. The couple planned to marry on Christmas Day at the girl's home in this city yesterday.
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