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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1909
Page
6
Boston daily paper item noting edition details Post Publishing Co at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
Daily one year 3.00 six months 1.50 three months 0.75 one month 0.25. Sunday Post one year 2.50 six months 1.25 three months 0.65. To Canada 0.09 per copy. Entered second class matter at Boston post office. All money sent at sender's risk. Make payable to Post Publishing Company.
The Daily Post will be sent by mail to any address in the United States and its foreign possessions for 25c per month, and the Sunday Post for 50c per month. Address will be changed as often as desired.
The notice from editor BE A GROZIPR states subscriptions must be paid in advance and will be discontinued at expiration. Readers urged to notify by mail if the Post is not regularly available from newsdealer or newsboy.
Justice Giegerich grants an injunction to a resident near a restaurant with a string band and automatic piano playing from sunset to 5 AM. The court defines reasonable sleep hours and orders silence within them, asserting the right to sleep exists across states and should be used when nuisances disturb city residents.
War Department reports 104 vacancies for army medical officers and scarce candidates. Assistant surgeons receive first lieutenant rank with about $3400 yearly pay and allowances. The improved position, bolstered by last year's legislation, should attract capable young physicians, ending the prior scarcity as awareness grows.
The article notes Washington does not claim possession of lands explored by Dr. Cook or Kane and observes Spitzbergen remains under Russian reach with no clear authority. It argues Antarctica may shift ownership long term as Britain asserts control near the Falklands, and warns whaling limits in coastal waters.
The piece notes that the Falkland harbors require no annual license and that Antarctica, largely claimed by Britain after Wilkes discoveries, holds potential whale fishery value. It muses that a similar fate could await Arctic regions with future developments and national claims.
The article discusses potential issuance of US certificates of indebtedness to cover a growing federal deficit due to higher tariff-driven revenues, rising expenditures, and Panama Canal costs of about $3 million monthly. It notes Republican tariff policies’ doubts, July and August receipts trends, and uncertain financial outlook.
Letters by James Buchanan reveal that U S ministers were underpaid before the Civil War. He spent two years’ salary in his first year at St James’s Court and urged Congress to provide an official residence and fixed legation. The piece denounces U S diplomacy as underfunded, forcing ministers to pay their own way and favoring the wealthy.
Preparations for a second national apple show in Spokane this December are under way. Past event details show 100000 plus paid admissions and 35000 in premiums at the 1908 fair, while Washington Oregon and Idaho produced a combined 14000000 dollar fruit crop. Washington alone has about 200000 acres of nonbearing orchards as Eastern states lag in cultivation. Western states benefit from statutory support for growers, and Eastern regions are urged to study Western practices to boost orchards and reverse a trend of declining national apple output from 1895 to 1908.
A passenger recounts on a Boston bound voyage how passengers' appetites swing with rough seas. One man fights sickness with anger and meals, while the narrator. He snubs the sick man then orders clams and ice cream. The sick man collapses, seeks help, and the narrator later returns to shore, unsure if thanked.
A compact musing questions identity and heritage at the heart of personal history. It contrasts ancestral arrival with present selfhood, urging a focus on current actions and character over lineage.
A historic overview celebrates Paris views from the Eiffel Tower including its height 984 feet, platforms at 190 380 and 905 feet, and lantern vantage for 800 people. It notes costs 20 10 10 total 40 cents, rising to 60 on Sundays holidays, and warns most visitors do not reach the top. Tomorrow features a Latin Quarter view.
An assortment of light items from Boston society and news. A tame baby red squirrel delights a friend, Miss Mary Desmond signees a six year engagement in New York, and locals like Jack McCarthy and Mollie Mann vacation in Meredith NH. Other notes include a Lincoln penny in blueberry pie, purser Fred Smith praised, Browne to wed Anna Plummer, and PFC McGowan rescuing a tagged pigeon. plus auto monitor Jerry Mahoney and new Fells Line recreation growth and a bronze Isthmus medal for P M Carpenter. Professor Barrett Wendell heads to Nantucket summering, with Belden library praise under way.
Uncle Walt Mason headlines a humorous verse about the approaching winter. It mocks rising costs from ice, wood, coal, gas, doctors, and utilities, urging readers to cheer up and spend as summer ends and bills grow. The piece, circa 1909, reflects early 20th century urban life and witty social commentary.
Mr and Mrs Edwin Sheafe of Chestnut Hill announce the engagement of their daughter Barbara to Allan McKissock also of Chestnut Hill son of William McKissock consul in Boston for the Argentine Republic.
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