The Sunday Post Subscription Rates 1907
Issued September 7 1907 by Post Publishing Co announces subscription rates for Daily and Sunday issues. Details include domestic and Canada rates with monthly and yearly options, mail delivery abroad, and payment instructions for money orders and checks.
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Editorial notice on prepaid subscriptions for The Post
The Post urges prepaid subscriptions for continued delivery and warns of discontinuation at expiration. Readers without regular Poet delivery should notify by mail. B. A. Grozier is editor and publisher.
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B. A. Grozier
Jail Sentence For Reckless Driving On Plymouth Road
A district court judge fined and sentenced a speeding driver to three months in the House of Correction for reckless driving near Plymouth. The offender has appealed and will face a jury trial, with potential jail escape only if the jury is lenient.
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Plymouth Way
House of Correction
Navy defers Constitution move to Annapolis
The Navy Department reports the frigate Constitution is postponed indefinitely from relocation to Annapolis. The desire is for a definite assurance she remain in Boston where she belongs, potentially requiring Congress action. Public interest grows as ten times more visitors come to Old Ironsides in Boston than would visit Annapolis.
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Navy Department
Annapolis
Congress
Boston
The Tribute of the North Arctic Expedition Disasters
Hudson Bay Company messengers report an Arctic tragedy near Athabasca. Three Anglo American expedition members vanish after their vessel sinks. Their dog team returns empty as the search ends in failure. Peary and Wellman may be glad to remain home this year.
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Athabasca
Mackenzie River
Peary
Wellman
Petition Sparks Broad Inquiry Into Telephone Costs
The petition urges highway commissioners to widen their probe into the telephone company. It asks to include more than a year of past affairs and to hear testimony on waste of subscriber funds campaign contributions staff nepotism subsidies to the press and improper influence on legislation and salaries. The panel will decide whether to reveal these facts.
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Whitman
GRAFT Inquiries Probe Frauds in City Coal Contracts
The Finance Commission inquiry exposes graft in city coal contracts with the Fastern Clay Goods Company. Individual profits seem modest, but the total across all contracts sums to a substantial amount. The text hints profits were shared with another party, prompting questions of where the money went.
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Finance Commission
Fastern Clay Goods Company
Critics ask who benefited from Boston coal frauds
A speaker cites a Board of Aldermen member with indirect salary ties to a coal firm and profit shares, alleging coal specification manipulation and false bills of lading to favor a single corporation. The speaker questions which officials conspired and who received illicit gains from Boston’s coal frauds.
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Boston
Clean Sweep Demands Resignations Over Boston Incompetence
The piece argues Mitchells resignation exposes a broader pattern of neglect across Boston city departments. It calls for swift removals of many officials responsible for coal procurement and administration of reformatories penal and benevolent institutions. It urges a full clean sweep to restore public accountability.
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Michael J. Mitchell
Supply Department
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Finance Commission
Boston
Clam Eatin Rivalry Ends With Loss of Bet
News notes from town include subway work progress, vacationing residents, and a humorous clams contest in Bloomfield. Ferguson bet $25 he could eat more clams than Higgins. Higgins consumed 50 raw, 60 in a pie, 50 in stew, and 650 fried clams before clams ran out. Higgins won pride but Ferguson left empty.
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William H Merrill Dies After Short Illness in Hingham
William H Merrill associate editor of the Boston Herald died at his Hingham home after a brief illness. He began in a New York country weekly about 50 years ago and worked steadily in journalism since. He came to Boston in 1875 to edit the Golden Rule with Rev W H H Murray and later was known for his work with the New York World and the Boston Herald. He was a versatile prolific writer respected by his peers.
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Redfern
Daily Horoscope Preview From Noted Astrologer
A daily horoscope series prepared for Post readers by a respected astrologer offers insights for all signs. The feature emphasizes accessibility and appeal even for skeptics.
Astrological Forecast for the 250th Day of the Year
The text proclaims a highly auspicious day with planetary aspects favoring youth and entertainment ventures, education, advertising, and employment. It advises letter writing, circulars, and ads, notes favorable electrical dealings, and predicts marriages, promotions, travel, and family joy, with cautions about a potential early-life injury.
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The House Hunted: Open Season for Rentals in September
Open season for hunting houses runs through September. Listings include a three room flat with top floor bath and basement kitchen, a two room apartment with kitchen, a room for a piano and folding bed, a room for two with hot water and air heater, a suburban villa of eleven rooms on six acres, and a country homestead by a river with broken windows and trains two miles away.
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Woman quizzes subway guard on express trains
A New York woman on a downtown subway car questions the guard about express trains. She asks timing and direction with the guard answering yes and pointing north as the roar of a train arrives, eliciting a smile from him.
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New York
Dreadnought Launch Date and Early Service Record
The article notes the battleship Dreadnought was launched at Portsmouth on February 10, 1906 and commissioned for temporary service on September 1, 1906. It also reports on community notices including a charity tribute, theater plans, and local incidents.
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Archbishop Williams
Mary A. Follansbee
Monument Square
Charlestown
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