Boston Post subscription rates and offices
The Boston Post lists subscription costs for daily and Sunday editions, with one year at $8 and Sunday at $1.60, plus six months and three months options. It provides editorial office addresses in Boston and states subscriptions must be prepaid and discontinued after expiration. Editor and Publisher ER A Grozier is noted.
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Trusts and the public interest in the wage and price debate
The piece argues that trusts should share profits with labor and consumers, citing Colonel Gaston on dissolving government-trust partnerships. It calls for repealing duties on trust products, halting higher domestic prices, and forcing trusts to meet implied ideals, with further remedies if oppression continues.
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Gaston
Elevator Inspection inquest cites sham checks after fatal Lynn crash
In Essex county we see that an elevator involved in a fatal Lynn accident was not overloaded and had basic inspections, yet serious defects existed. Officials admit inspectors were overburdened, prompting questions about the value of state inspection and the need for more staff to prevent further tragedy. The crash killed two, left one crippled, and another dangerously injured.
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Lynn
Insurance Company
Essex County
Odell Doubts Baer as Democrat and Denounces Dictatorial Conduct
New York Governor Odell labels President Baer as not a Democrat despite Baer’s appeal as a “divine right” figure. Odell cites Baer’s autocratic methods, contrasting him with Pattison, a Jeffersonian Democrat, and says the Post won’t classify Baer as a Democrat. He argues a party could bolt if such men represented democracy.
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Odell
New York
Baer
Pennsylvania
Tie
Pattison
Coke Price Hike by Cambridge Gas Light Company
The Cambridge Gas Light Company raises coke price to nine dollars a ton while coal costs four and a half. Coke, a by product, is priced at double the coal, mirroring fuel dealer practices amid anthracite scarcity. The piece notes the quasi public corporation’s profit motive and public franchise duties.
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Cambridge Gas Light Company
Quasi public gas firm urged to curb price extortion
The Cambridge Gas Light Company uses public streets under civic privilege and earns profits from essential services. The public must question whether its actions amount to greed or business and seek a higher standard of conduct for utilities serving the community.
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Cambridge Gas Light Company
President Mitchell Rejects Roosevelt Commission Offer
President Mitchell declines to urge miners to return to work awaiting a Roosevelt commission. He cites operators' refusal to accept tribunal findings and asserts need to safeguard miners' interests. The piece compares potential coal trust resistance to a Roosevelt arbitration proposal.
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Roosevelt
Mitchell
United States
United Mine Workers
Coal Trust
Observant Citizen notes on comets and Boston society
A fragmented Observant Citizen column riffs on the promised great comet, coal strike mood, opera memories, and local society. It mentions Mrs Mary Beebe Cutler, Boston Ideal Opera, church choirs, and social observations, with detours on Boston’s smoky streets and upcoming events at St Patrick’s Roxbury.
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Mary Beebe Cutler
Brookline
Boston Ideal Opera Company
Elevator collapses as piano crashes to three stories
A third floor elevator gave way the piano fell three stories crashing. MacDonald jumped to safety and found the piano uninjured with a perfect surface. A curious note on promotion emerges from an odd anecdote in the unfolded scene.
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MacDonald
Mr. MacDonald
Piano Company
Proven football hopeful grills with brutal test
A college football applicant endures a long rigid interview revealing his brutal strength and violent ideas. The transcript shows hard knuckles and a plan to tackle, break spines, and even swallow the ball if defeated. The piece closes with quirky letters and notices from Maine to Michigan about odd inventions and political planks.
Rubberine warms without coal from brisk daily walks
Akron inventor Albert H. Jones has patented a walking plan and a coal substitute named Rubberine claiming that hours of daily rapid walking can keep one warm enough to skip fuel purchases this winter. He vows to prosecute anyone walking less or more than 18 miles daily and seeks profit from his invention. In Venezuela the night saw four more revolutions, bringing total to 793 as leaders vanished. more uprisings are planned before sundown.
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Oshkosh
Mich
H. B. Hichborn
Akron
Albert H. Jones
Jones
United States
Canada
Caracas
Venezuela
Castro
Little Mignon Reunites With the Marriage Hopeful
Wade Alden, a wealthy suitor, falls for a flower girl named Mignon who loves him but is warned by his betrothed. Years later at the opera Wade recognizes the singer as Mignon, the street vendor, and asks to marry her, discovering a changed heart. The reunion ends with Wade’s transformation from a woman hater to a loving fiancé.
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Wade Alden
Wade
Mignon
One
Alice
Menon
New York
St. Albans
Alden
Beverly Hunters Wish They Could Shoot Deer
Local residents report sleek deer roaming North Beverly yards and cornfields. Fear of Maine game laws keeps hunters from firing, despite multiple sightings including two tame deer close to Dr. Chamberlain’s house.
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Beverly
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Maine
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BAPTISTS ELECT OFFICERS IN SALEM ASSOCIA TION
The Salem Association of Baptist churches met with the First Church in Danvers. Officers elected include President the Rev. George H. Miner of New Bedford, clerk the Rev. George F. Beecher of Gloucester, and treasurer George W. Creesy of Salem.
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Danvers
Salem Association of Baptist Churches
George H. Miner
Newburyport
George F. Beecher
Gloucester
George W.creesy
Salem
Dennison Opens Letter to Rivals in Ninth District
Joseph A. Dennison writes to Hon. Joseph A. Conry and Hon. John A. Kelcher outlining a fair path to nomination. He urges fusion or public withdrawal of pledged delegates to avoid a corrupt convention and protect democratic integrity.
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Conry and
Kelcher
Boston
Joseph A. Conry
John A. Kelcher
Congress
Ninth
Conry
East
South End
Charlestown
East Boston
Ward 12
Mr. Keliher
Mr. Conry
Dennison
New England
Mr. Kelcher
Liberal Unionists Confer on Education Bill In Birmingham
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain chaired a Birmingham conference of Liberal Unionists to shape their stance on the education bill. He acknowledged flaws but urged unity, arguing for secular schooling with some form of religious instruction, warning that a split would not yield better from a Radical government.
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Birmingham
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Chamberlain
Corey and party reach New York after overseas trip
Mr H D Corey Mrs Corey Miss Gertrude Going and Mr Harry Fosdick arrived in New York aboard the Graf Waldersee from Boulogne France after an extended automobile tour abroad. They planned to join the New York to Boston automobile run but were delayed at the New York customs and could not secure their Winton touring car in time.
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Gertrude Going
Harry Fosdick
New York
Boulogne
France
Boston
Custom House
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