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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1909
Page
8
The Boston Post published daily by Post Publishing Co with issue number 49 in volume 197 from 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts dated November 27 1909.
The ad lists daily and Sunday post subscription prices for one year six months and three months. It notes Canadian delivery 9c per copy and cautions readers about sending cash, directing money orders to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Editorial rooms and telephone numbers for the Post are given with the Sunday editor sports editor and main business office addresses. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration. readers should notify the paper by mail if unable to obtain the Post regularly.
The Finance Commission and city purchasing agent J Edward Mullen clash over responsibility for poor coal quality bought for ferry and sewer divisions under a April contract. Both sides claim proper analysis or its absence. the piece notes ongoing coal swindle exposures and urges vigilance to protect public funds.
The Railroad Commission faces a knotty issue defining the status of intoxicated passengers on streetcars. The piece questions whether drunken riders can be expelled or must be restrained, and where intoxication crosses a rights threshold. It suggestions involving Judge Dewey and urges a practical solution.
The piece brands Patten as a ruthless cotton futures speculator, arguing he profits from a short crop and bad conditions, inflating prices to harm consumers. It calls for government action to criminalize agricultural wagering and deter similar financial schemes.
The author argues against denying American citizenship to Armenians based on ethnicity calling it a fine ethnological line. He notes Armenians have no Mongolian blood and that many groups live in Asia, including Jews, without losing citizenship rights. He urges challenging such denial in court if the exclusion act is applied.
Official returns of the State election reveal a Governor chosen by a simple plurality rather than a large Republican majority. The Republican platform urged voters to focus on state issues, steering away from national ones, influencing the result and the makeup of the legislature.
The report notes a substantial number of Republicans voting for Democratic nominees. It states reasonable tariff revision and ratification of the income tax amendment as clearly indicated by the will of the people.
President Taft faces pressure from Republican insurgents to authorize postal savings banks with Democratic aid possible. The obstacle is the Monetary Commission which could delay action, risking political fallout as the next Congress nears and the issue remains within the GOP.
Seismic disturbances near Teneriffe are described as a true volcanic eruption with explosions from the summit and new craters. Lava flows threaten farms and villages while inhabitants flee, raising questions about planetary changes and Mars astronomy debates.
A column discusses Lotte Rogge and Ella Lyman Cabot, arguing women face home duties vs business, with humorous examples. It critiques street car etiquette and suburban train behavior, urging fair seating and courtesy and warning against hogging seats.
The article highlights the College of the City of New York at Amsterdam Avenue and 140th Street with its Gothic architecture, Blashfield mural, and a modern science lab. It notes historical shifts in governance, a seven year curriculum, and a 1908 building cost of about 4 million dollars, plus a library of 39 000 volumes and 4383 students. John Huston Finley is mentioned as president, and a Chelsea waterfront view is promised in Sunday’s Post.
A column of short items covers a bulle tin board complaint in Newspaper Row, a statistician’s estimate of turkey costs at Boston institutions, charity events at the Free Home for Consumptives, a curious train car scene with four Italian gamblers, new firefighters joining Hayes Square Outing Club veterans, a rector’s encounter with a vaccination aware boy, hunting misadventure in Maine, and plans for a Christmas sale and mass at St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum with medals for orphans.
The Rev. A. S. Di Miceli arrives from Pittsburg next Tuesday to begin his pastorate at the Italian Methodist Church on Dec. 1. Dr. L. J. Naftzger, district superintendent at Muncie Ind., visits the city. Evangelists Gray and Allen start union services at Asbury Temple in Waltham. Thanksgiving services were held by Congregation Adath Jeshurun with a sermon by Rabbi P. Israelio. Vesper services are planned at Central Church tomorrow at 4 15. Chelsea Baptist vestry at Shurtleff and Bellingham will open tonight with a bazaar for the building fund.
The piece offers early season shopping guidance. It urges buying early, sending packages in advance, meeting actual needs, favoring useful or beautiful gifts, and preferring items made under fair labor conditions. It reminds readers Christmas honors memory over display and calls for kindness to exhausted sales staff.
The report notes Dr Frederick A Cook’s records are en route to Copenhagen for Danish experts to evaluate, with results expected soon. Peary’s records have already been reviewed by Washington’s Geographical Society and deemed sufficient to prove his North Pole claim, leaving the question of Cook’s priority to experts and the world.
A satirical verse portrays Uncle Walt mocked as lazy until a doctor cures him of hookworm with a comic syringe. The patient then soars away on joyous hooves, burning a school and robbing a train in a surreal ending. Narrator Watt Mason credits science with wondrous feats.
A Springfield Republican excerpt quotes Philander C. Knox and others discussing U S policy toward Nicaragua. It portrays diplomacy versus force as the Roosevelt era stance, noting talk of spanking Zelaya and avoiding San Juan Hill sentiment while emphasizing preparing for potential action in the morning.
The speaker recalls a woman lighting a cigarette with admiration and disapproval. Though declared unsuitable for ladies, she lights one and reveals the cigarette was the speaker's own. A playful tension between propriety and intrigue unfolds in a short, lyrical moment.
A playful lyric laments unrequited affection and imagines perfect bliss in marriage as the beloved’s charms outshine all else. The speaker extols the beloved’s influence bringing peace and dreamlike escape while joking that matrimony would be ideal if wives possessed half the charms of the briar pipe.
PROVIDENCE R I Nov 26 Edward Payson Weston the famed long distance pedestrian plans another feat to astonish younger walkers He visited the city yesterday to spend Thanksgiving with his sister and detours to Westons famed pace.
A patient who recently underwent an appendicitis operation at Massachusetts General Hospital is convalescing and considered by physicians to be quite out of danger.
The ad touts Pape's Diuretic as a safe, effective remedy for backache, kidney and bladder misery. It claims rapid relief from pains, nervous symptoms, and urinary issues after a short, fifty cent course, urging readers to buy from any druggist.
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