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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1908
Page
6
Daily issue of the Post Publishing Co from Boston reports local notices and brief items. Contains date November 28 1908 and issue number 61 percent volume 193 with office at 259 Washington Street.
The Daily One Dollar rates and The Sunday Post pricing are listed for various periods. Canadian copies cost 9 cents each. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration. Editor and Publisher BR A Grozier signs off.
The extension of savings bank insurance and annuities, authorized by the last Legislature, progresses with banks acting as principals. Ware Savings Bank took an agency from Whitman Bank this week, prompting calls for Boston working people to access this affordable option through local banks like Franklin and Home.
The Fellows of Harvard College adopted resolutions praising Dr. Charles W. Eliot for forty years of leadership. They credit him with shaping every department, guiding expansion, and earning public confidence in both himself and the university as its enduring monument.
The piece notes Congressman Gardner may seek House rule changes to curb Speaker Cannon's power, challenging the authority seen as favoring New England interests and trusts. It suggests Gardner could gain Democratic support but doubts a Republican majority will curb the Speaker's authority.
The Finance Commission studies Boston revenue and expenditure, seeking waste reduction and better funds use. It highlights purchasing waste and argues taxation precedes disbursement, urging fuller use of revenue sources to balance annual accounts.
The Finance Commission should address street use open-air trading licenses garbage disposal highway damage by private firms and gas privileges. It must close gaps in municipal administration and secure revenue for privileges the people now grant for nothing.
The piece argues Congress must raise taxes to close a growing treasury deficit of 50 million dollars, possibly via direct taxes on inheritances and incomes or higher internal revenue. It questions stamping and other wartime levies, noting public resistance and potential political battles under Taft and Cortelyou.
Shawmut Congregational Church led by Rev. A A Berle creates a six person paid team from Harvard and Boston University to extend service. The team will grow to 12. The Baptist Social Union and Congregational Club merge in a major city gathering next Monday.
A Maryland woman cites a Boston clipping praising a horse kick as a cure for a stiff knee and general lassitude. The note argues horses remain valuable, offering a humorous fictional prescription: one kick for a stiff knee and repeated swift kicks for energy.
Dr. Rachel S. Skidelsky told a Philadelphia club that tobacco used properly could aid women in nervous disorders. She argued women smoking would not be beneficial for men, imagining wives and daughters smoking and lighting pipes, cigars, or cigarettes, which he decries as unthinkable for women.
A Press Club turkey dinner recollection includes a tale of an English officer and a Montenegrin colonel, a misadventure with a newsboy’s headgear, and commentary on vessel size over comfort for transatlantic travel. Also notes a Cunard line surgeon joining the Ivernia and a Thanksgiving week weather scene.
The passage surveys varied topics from poems about Sheridan’s Ride and debates on a charger’s color to a Bridgeport court appearance by Adele Ritchie, plus public safety concerns on trolley rides, springtime street scenes, a Thanksgiving club dinner at Parker House, and a Telpho Trio event at Hyde Park's French's Opera House with local workers forming a notable attendee list.
In notes on Irish Freemasonry, W J Chetwode Crowley notes Penn’s Irish landlord origin through his Cork estate influence. Springett Penn served as deputy grand master of Munster in 1726, linking Cork and Philadelphia in Freemasonry. An 1734 Dublin Pocket Companion records a Philadelphia lodge at the Hoop in Water Street, with Ireland’s Grand Lodge registry acknowledging the entry.
In a letter to the editor the writer corrects Sir William J. Walshe by citing Britannica that William Penn was born October 14 1644 in London to Admiral William Penn and Margaret Jasper. The letter notes Penn’s Irish estates came from Cromwell after his birth and predates any conquest of Ireland. Reader November 26 1908.
The note reports a reader submission about the recent Colorado election urging reflection on the vote and its implications. It references general civic process without naming candidates or results.
Mrs Alma V Lafferty of Denver was chosen a member of the State Legislature Miss Katherine M Cook of Henderson was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction and Mrs Mary Co C Bradford county superintendent of schools for Denver county all three on the Democratic ticket. Alice Stone Blackwell Dorchester Nov 27 1908.
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