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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1909
Page
6
The Boston Post announces subscription rates and mailing options for daily and Sunday editions, with annual and short-term prices. It details vacation mail service, address changes, and prepaid policies, noting editor Be. A. Groziopr and contact offices in Boston.
In Putnam's Magazine Edward Vallandigham questions New England's cultural decline. He notes Boston once produced famed writers but now crowds of Philistine throng its streets, lacking Emerson Hawthorne Longfellow Holmes Lowell and other great minds. He praises native stock yet seeks evidence of regional literary greatness.
Earthquake tremors rattle the canal zone on Monday prompting M. Bunau Varilla to forecast destruction of the American canal. Colonel Goethals says the quake was not strong enough to affect canal work though officials fled to streets. Seismologists deem the event volcanic in origin with smoking nearby volcanoes.
The notice warns that today is the final day for male adults in Boston to be counted in the police enumeration. Officials emphasize completing the census of eligible residents to ensure accurate city records.
Citizens urged to confirm names on the police list before midnight as primaries, state and municipal elections shape future government. Officials advise visiting Pemberton Square today to ensure registration and voting eligibility in Boston.
The upcoming Massachusetts election faces the ratification of a federal income tax amendment. The piece urges a decisive voter will to ratify soon, warns against delaying tactics by Republicans, and calls for clear public stance by candidates and parties on the issue.
Police raided opium dens in Chinatown around Harrison avenue and Oxford and Corning streets. Arrests targeted Asiatics but hints of American victims emerged as authorities vow continued enforcement and suppression of the narcotic trade.
Baseball at Detroit leaves Red Sox in position to win the series. Marblehead hosts a second sonderklasse yacht race showing American dominance. Readville trotting derby draws crowds as Baron Alcyon wins a field of 40. Strong support for keeping the Readville track.
George Bronson Howard the playwright was indefinitely paroled today on the charge of forcing Theresa Raymond stage name Gerard to give him a diamond ring at dagger point. Raymond has refused to testify against Howard.
The narrator describes a night in a steamer state room preferring the upper berth, avoiding a stranger roommate, and struggling to sleep amid blankets and leather tufted mattress. He recalls Chris Columbus comparisons, muttered mutts, a singing duet, and a rainlike splash of ice water before drifting to sleep, to resume tomorrow.
A line from the memoirs reflects on sobriety, asserting that for some men, the prospect of tomorrow morning sustains their abstinence. The phrase hints at personal discipline and future consequences guiding present choices.
The Madeleine in Paris rises from 1764 plans halted by revolution to 1882 completion by Hare with a 3 million dollar grant. A Roman Corinthian temple with a tall portico, 16 south columns, 23 foot basement, and no interior windows. Notable artworks include Lemaitre’s Christ as Judge and Ziegler’s History of Christianity fresco. A tomorrow view of Place Vendome is promised.
The Observant Citizen columns note David Muzzey sailing for France to lecture on American history and finish his work. Actor Leice Hitchcock loses his Great Neck home to fire. Mrs. Hitchcock and Flora Zabelle away. Mr. and Mrs. Hurtubis sail for America aboard the Deuthsland. health cited as a reason to defend motorists. Mrs. Robert Edeson will reside with her parents in Brookline during her husband’s Hollis engagement. Jamaica Pond’s peculiar frog fish puzzle is recounted. Lt. James J. Walsh, West Point graduate, returns to duty near New York Harbor. Boston enforces motor boat safety rules with an inspector at Marine Park. few fines so far. Captain Kimball’s home struck by lightning bricks. Pigeon missing from bath superintendent Michael Kelley’s care. Beehive found during painting at Dr A P Clarke’s Cambridge home. A tenor singer in a suburban church reports shock from choir boys playing as he walks to service.
The piece presents Walt Mason’s 1909 verse on aging and youth, contrasting old man sorrow with the supposed vigor of youth. It explores sympathy for aging while critiquing youth complaints as empty, framing youth as a divine gift in a satirical tone.
A man attending a game remarked it as an odd start to worship while a pastor friend treated it as normal. Dr. Harry Finklestein and his wife returned from a western trip where he spoke in many medical schools. He claims Boston hospitals and private institutions cannot be matched in the United States.
A newspaper reader column offers concise answers on violin values and authentication, lease validity after ownership change, proper display days for the U S flag, fruit versus vegetable questions, locating the Grand Trunk Pacific office, debt collection statutes, day of March 17 1881, Cuba’s status, Memorial Day weather in 1909, congressional holidays, U S navy yards locations and Boston banks directory.
The Swedish Congregational Church weighs whether Rev August Erickson will accept a unanimous call from Rockford Mission Tabernacle. Other updates note Rev W W Bustard's Cleveland post and Boston marriage plans, Lawrence Greenwood's move to lead the Biederwolf campaign, Sagamore Beach Labor Day events, Mrs C P Gifford chairing the Baptist Vineyard auxiliary, and the Gordon training school opening October 13 with many graduates already serving abroad.
Mrs Sophronia Harrington of Winchester will receive back the $50 000 donated for a town hospital after trustees could not raise sufficient funds to guarantee construction and ongoing maintenance of the institution.
A heavy frost last night caused great damage to crops in eastern northern and western New Hampshire. Local farmers report fruit trees and vegetables were affected with potential losses mounting as yields decline. Officials warned growers to assess damage for insurance and relief programs.
Boston street commissioners and Mayor Hibbard remain deadlocked over laying out Opera place along the north side of the Boston Opera House. The commissioners defend their order for taking property after extensive investigation. Eben D. Jordan, builder of the Opera House, has spent over a million dollars and paid about twenty thousand in betterments, and has offered the property to the city for roughly half its assessed value.
Boston College President Rev. Thomas I. Gasson, S. J., has returned and is preparing for the entrance examinations for high school and Boston College. Examinations begin this morning at 9 o'clock for the high school.
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