The Boston Post rates and subscriptions, 1907
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday papers, including 1 year, 6 months, and 3 months options. It notes vacation mail terms and altered Canada rates, with payment instructions and office contact details.
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Post Publishing Co
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Washington St
Boston
Mass
the Sunday Post
Canada
Dominion of Canada
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Labor Parade Draws Noted Boston Procession
In numbers approaching 10 000, organized labor representatives marched through Boston yesterday. The parade stood out for neat uniforms, orderly formation, and excellent alignment, making it notably attractive and creditable. A light rain later did not dampen the enthusiasm of participants in the day’s sports and celebrations.
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Organized Labor
Boston
A sturdy race births in Ireland reach over one hundred thousand
The registrar-general reports Ireland’s 1906 births at 103 536 from a population of 4 388 000, a birth rate over 26 per 1000. Deaths were 74 427, natural increase 29 109, while emigration of 35 344 caused an overall population decline.
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Ireland
Dramatic Season Opens with Vigor Across Boston Theatres
The Boston theatre season opened with two performances for holiday crowds and regulars. Old Boston returns as a stock company theatre while Tremont embraces vaudeville, Castle Square continues its wandertaking opera experiments, and new English speaking talent debuts at the Park. Boston confirms its status as a theatre town with strong public enthusiasm.
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Boston
Tremont
Castle Square
Wheat Supply Forecast Signals Higher Prices Worldwide
World wheat production is estimated at about 3.1 to 3.21 billion bushels, down from last year by roughly 288 million. The United States faces a ~50 million bushel drop, with Argentina as the only major producer likely to offset deficits. European demand remains strong, and US exports for seven months show growth in total wheat and wheat flour shipments, raising questions on sustainment amid potential European shortages and domestic crop declines.
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Budapest
United States
Argentina
Europe
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Bureau of Statistics
Grain receipts fall as exports slip in July
The total grain receipts for the month drop from 62,387,897 to 47,140,065 compared with last year. Exports of wheat and wheat flour fell in July, though June's surplus largely offset the decline. The piece notes concerns that feeding the nations on white bread may burden America’s grain supplier this year.
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America
Price surge in anthracite coal puzzles buyers
An early season rise in anthracite coal prices, while not unheard of, is unusual and puzzling. Dealers in New York point to higher demand for small coal sizes from skyscrapers and large hotels, plus alleged labor and transport constraints, yet the reasons remain inconclusive and gradual.
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New York
New York City
Pennsylvania
Tackling Shoplifting: A Plea for Stricter Penalties
The piece notes a rising trend of shoplifting in lower courts and criticizes lenient fines that do not exceed the value of stolen goods. It argues for more rigorous treatment, warns that calling the act kleptomania and imposing nominal penalties may encourage further theft.
Old Home Week Parade Highlights in City Hall
Labor Day side show features Col Sammy Morandi leading the Old Home Week procession through City Hall corridors. Alderman Curley sponsors the banner ceremony and hints it will adorn the Tammany Club room. John B. Hayward, Harvard ’97 and lawyer, visits his brother William H. Hayward at the city auditor's office. Mayor Fitzgerald and Alderman Curley’s feud noted. Ward 17 chief secures Columbia road stone crushing contract for Thomas F. Mahan. City Treasurer Slattery to oversee sale of $1,000,000 4 percent registered bonds at par. Councilman McCormack urges Mystic Park fence repairs after near drownings.
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Sammy” Morandi
Tammany Braves
Alderman Curley
Sammy
Tammany Club
John B. Hayward
William H
Hayward
Harvard
National Cash Register Company
Dayton, O
Adirondacks
Dove of Peace
Fitzgerald
Curley
Columbia Road
Thomas F. Mahan
Slattery
Boston
John J. McCormack
Mystic Park
Park Department
Charlestown
Daily Horoscope for the 246th Day of the Year
The 246th day features Pisces and Earth motifs. Favorable for soil related work and foundation projects while ordinary business is weak. Elderly people should be approached, and one may seek favors. Good for dress fittings, baking, wines, and cooking fish. Birthdate brings annoying letters or insults from younger people. careful in employment. The born child will have many helpful friends, requiring restraint in the first 19 years.
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Saturn
All Sorts by Newton Heweire
Mr. George C. Rice of Weominster Massachusetts, a cautious 62-year-old bachelor, courts Clara Annie in a comic romance that ends when he dodges a wedding. The column mocks his reluctant willingness to marry and urges him to say I do. Also noted are a copper market joke and a fanciful collar anecdote from Wilkes-Barre.
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George C. Rice
Weominster
Mass
Mr. Rice
Rice
George
Clara Annie
P. O
O. W. Hutchinson
Jed
Hutchinson
O. W
Hunter commissioned to trap grizzly bears and wildcats
Stephen Mason, famed West hunter and marksman, has been commissioned by a fur company in Seattle to capture two live grizzly bears and four live wildcats for the Empress Dowager of China. The Empress seeks to build an imperial museum of disappearing animals.
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Seattle
Wash
Stephen Mason
West
China
Mason
Marriage Failure After Twenty Years Trial
A. W. Smith, a 70 year old Trenton businessman, alleges his wife Ada deserted him for the third time in as many months. They wed when he was 50 and she 40. The case outlines a troubled 20 year marriage with repeated separations.
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Trenton
A. W. Smith
Ada
Smith
Autumn theater season opens amid rain and crowds
The observant citizen notes theaters crowded as Labor Day signals the start of the dramatic season. Managers greet crowds. performers like Charles Miller and Bertha Galland plan winter moves while others return from cruises and fishing tales spark city chatter.
Originality in a Gypsy Camp Love Plot
A narrator, forced to prove originality, borrows a gypsy fortune teller to test Alice and the others. He impersonates the fortune teller, then discovers Alice's true feelings as she reveals her long affection and chose him, ending with a deliciously self aware confession.
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Alice
South Woods
van Dyke
Four Die as Lightning Strikes German Church
A Catholic church in Lemberg West Prussia was struck by lightning during a ceremony marking the church's 400th anniversary. Four people were killed and 16 women and children were seriously injured in the ensuing panic as the building filled with worshippers.
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Lemberg
West Prussia
The Mountain Stream Poem Excerpt in Denver Republican
A poetic fragment describes a mountain stream born of glacier melt racing via pine forests. It contrasts peaceful, silvery visuals with a powerful waterfall that drowns birds’ calls and carries toward an unseen changeless sea, as noted in the Denver Republican.
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Denver Republican
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