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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1909
Page
8
Daily publication notice from Post Publishing Co informs readers of the Boston office address at 259 Washington Street and confirms issue details No 14, volume 197 for October 19, 1909.
Subscription rates listed appear jumbled but indicate daily and longer terms with prices like $3.00 for some period, $1.50 for six months, $0.25 for one month. text is garbled and fragmentary. No clear publication name or date is present.
The Sunday Post lists pricing for subscriptions at one year 2.50 six months 1.25 and three months 0.65 with Canada 9c per copy. It notes Second Class Matter at the Boston Maia post office and warns to avoid sending cash with payments and to make checks drafts and money orders payable to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Subscriptions to the Post must be prepaid and will be discontinued on expiration without further notice. If the Post is not available from your dealer, notify us by postal mail at once. B. A. Grozier, Editor and Publisher.
Republican managers in Massachusetts wake to action after a sluggish start. They opened in Worcester with decent speeches while Democrats Rally in Springfield. Campaigning intensifies as a lively fortnight to finish the race looms ahead.
The YMCA building fund gained 23490 yesterday totaling 136800 to date. The drive aims for 500000 by Nov 1 with progress from citizens and business groups, and past years show broad community impact with thousands assisted.
General Robert Oliver, Assistant Secretary of War, said the War Department favors continuing war games for regulars and national guardsmen despite militia hardships in the Boston campaign. General Wood and others defended the maneuvers as valuable for citizen soldiers. Oliver later reaffirmed the policy, noting no need to change the established plan.
San Francisco marks the 140th anniversary of Gaspar de Portola's Bay discovery with a half million dollar celebration drawing hundreds of thousands and 25 foreign nations. The event doubles as a celebration of the city's rehabilitation after a devastating fire, highlighting resilient growth and regional leadership on the Pacific coast.
Oklahoma bankers prepare to test the constitutionality of the bank deposit guaranty law. A Nebraska federal court previously voided a substantially identical statute, with judges Vanderventer and Munger stating the act attempts to bar individuals from banking unless through a corporation and imposes restrictions as a condition to engagement.
A court declares a bank guaranty fund act void for conflicting with the 14th Amendment and state constitution. It asserts the law upholds neither common sense nor business morality and would impose double guaranties on prudent banks for others’ errors, citing Oklahoma as an example. The decision emphasizes equal protection and constitutional constraints on state action.
In Worcester last evening Governor Draper argued that national issues should be debated only during federal elections and that state campaigns should muzzle discussions on matters Congress has already settled. Springfield leaders countered, urging tariff reform and income tax amendment support as essential national questions for Massachusetts. Patriotism and politics, they said, must not silence public discourse.
Ferrer’s alleged execution sparks widespread unrest in Barcelona and protests across a dozen European cities. Prosecution claims instigation of riots triggered the violence while anti clerical and Socialist factions seize on the event for political agitation. Alfonsd’s unwise approval shocks many and risks a domestic uprising as the army wavers in loyalty.
Hastings Maine report notes denatured alcohol duty repeal collapses local plant. Chief industry unprofitable, workers leave town, and the village becomes deserted.
In a letter to the editor, MITTEN states the Boston Free thought Society unanimously passed a resolution at its Sunday meeting, expressing deep regret over the execution of the Spanish patriot Ferrer and criticizing the fairness of his trial.
A fragment from George Thurston in Boston humorously notes a weary hobo in a mow of hay a quarrelsome farmer with a bulldog and a seatless pair of pants as two coat tails over a garden fence provoke a comic miscue plus a quip from The Sphinx on self regard.
The columnist avoids a firm forecast after ten years of reading All Sorts. He jokes that predicting the future is risky and shares self deprecating stories about market misadventures. He asks Jay Mack what he believes will be the fate of a person who writes All Sorts for a decade.
A conned teaser offers free stock worth 10000 dollars in exchange for a note bearing 6 percent interest, promising dividends cover principal. The tale shifts to a humorous Abe Lincoln anecdote about a soap gift and an instalment Morris chair offer.
A fragment notes a man reflecting on workplace dynamics, preferring direct eye contact with employees while avoiding staring them out of countenance. The line hints at managerial style and authority in a humorous or aphoristic tone.
The column offers guidance on design education in Boston directing applicants to the Franklin Union on Berkeley Street. It also explains citizenship and presidential eligibility: a foreign born child under a naturalized father who resided in the U S at the time may gain citizenship through him, but non native born individuals are not eligible for the presidency.
Reader asks the cost for passage around the world. Answer shows the United States paid about $130,000 in tolls to the Suez Canal Company for the Atlantic fleet’s voyage.
The answer states that there are no national holidays since Congress has never declared any day a national holiday.
The Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs received 448,453 votes in the presidential election as noted in the historical tally.
A question from BE. Co. C. asks what power a Pinkerton detective holds in New York. The answer states he has no authority, cannot serve a warrant, and cannot make an arrest.
The article highlights the new public library in Manhattan built on the former reservoir site. Designed by Carrere & Hastings, it features 390 by 276 feet dimensions, a 10,380,000 cubic foot space, and a 65 mile shelf capacity for 3.5 million books. It houses Lenox Americana, Emmet papers, 1000 newspaper volumes pre-1800, Shaksperiana, and vast music and geographical collections, with an estimated cost of 6 million and expected 2 million more before opening.
A ten year old pupil in a Roxbury area public school writes that Henry W. Longfellow was the greatest American poet born in Portland Maine while his parents traveled abroad. The piece mentions Alice and Phebe Carey as among his fastest friends and reflects schoolwork on the poet.
A daily need for a Chelsea Boston tunnel is noted as drawbridges open 10 to 20 minutes, delaying vessels and frustrating residents. Meanwhile parish events proceed in Dorchester under Rev Daly with St Mark's reunion planned. Sam J. Adams performs in Boston tying to past ties. rail study shifts to New York as Costello advances.
A nostalgic verse recalling a bygone country fair with jam quilts old-time crowd vigor and family delight. The poet contrasts village pleasures with modern expositions featuring dusty tracks and street acts, lamenting lost charm and simplicity.
The balloon Boston, owned by Charles H. Glidden of Boston, sailed from Fitchburg to Woburn in a 40 mile trip. Piloted by H. H. Clayton, with Jay B. Benton of Boston and Walter Flagg of Worcester aboard, it faced two snow storms driving snow into their faces yet maintained about 18 miles per hour eastward.
Mary Silver of Fleet Street North End paid a $50 fine in gold coin after Municipal Court finds her guilty of illegal liquor sales. Special Officers O'Donnell and Flynn alleged she offered a bribe of $10 each to avoid punishment. She claimed lodgers’ rent payments were tied to whiskey on demand.
Washington October 18. General Charles H Whipple paymaster general of the army argues for higher clerk salaries citing a mercantile agency report that cost of living has risen 49 percent since 1896. The appeal frames wages against soaring expenses to sustain government service.
Secretary Norton begins trip to major eastern cities including New York and Boston and likely Dublin New Hampshire. He will speak Thursday night in Boston to the Commercial Club on the reconstruction program for Chicago.
About 10,000 men from Bible classes nationwide marched in Pittsburg for the Christian Church convention closing with three large meetings. Today’s session focused entirely on Bible school work as part of the international centennial celebration.
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