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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1906
Page
6
The fragment notes a daily issue published by Post Publishing Co with a date of September 18 1906 and issue number 64 in volume 184. It lists an office address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
Daily Post yearly rate three dollars. six months one fifty. three months five cents. one month twenty five cents. Sunday Post yearly two dollars fifty cents. six months one twenty five. three months sixty five cents. Entered second class matter at Boston post office. Do not send cash. Checks payable to Post Publishing Company. Daily Post and Sunday Post mail rates to US or Canada twenty five cents per month. Address changes welcome.
All subscriptions to the Post must be paid in advance and will be discontinued on expiration without further notice. If you cannot obtain the Post from your newsdealer or newsboy, notify us by postal at once. E. A. Grozier, Editor and Publisher.
A Boston scene describes a spring surge of pupils returning to schools. The writer notes a vast, cheerful influx of youth, calling the schoolbell a rally that revives the city’s streets with noise, color, and activity as one hundred thousand children head back to class. The piece rejects the idea of a declining youth race.
The piece argues Massachusetts and New England push for Canada reciprocity while Washington allegedly reports Canada will reject further talks. It suggests Sir Wilfrid Laurier might push a high tariff bill to favor Canadians, used by opponents to influence the massachusetts race. The author says tariff reform remains a merchant and manufacturer concern regardless of Washington rumors.
The proposal to end shorthand and stenography in Boston public schools is seen as a backward step. Shorthand is viewed as essential public education, not a mere fancy branch or technical skill, on par with core subjects like the multiplication table.
The article discusses shorthand as a useful skill for professionals and students, noting its convenience and potential inclusion in curricula. It argues stenography requires practice but can be taught for practical purposes and that schools may or may not include it, depending on curricular priorities.
Boston merchants urge Senator Lodge to take their protest to the President about Secretary Shaw's choice of sites for the new appraisers stores. They argue the action harms importers and the service and should be reviewed at the highest level. They note past perceived slights and press for a presidential intercession.
Professor Goldwin Smith wills his brain to Cornell University for close study. Dr. Herbert Keenan opens a new School of Commerce on Winthrop Street. James E. Sullivan receives the Royal Order of the Savior from Greece. An upcoming London exhibit by the Linked Ring features George Bernard Shaw posing as Le Penseur, photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn.
Miss Bessie Lowney of Dorchester aged 26 died at 23 Bellevue street Tuesday evening after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held at the Lowney residence this afternoon at 2 30 conducted by Rev Allbright. Interment will be in Forest Hills Cemetery.
Newkirk notes Bellevue Hospital doctors’ observations on alcoholic patients, projecting an average capacity to drink before death. Estimates claim 160,000 drinks and 10 tons of alcohol, with later tremens and multiple hospitalizations, all underscoring total abstinence as the path to success.
The entry recalls the 1847 capture of Chapultepec during the Mexican campaign and notes a year ago today Senator Lodge addressed the Essex Club asserting Massachusetts needs a mercantile marine.
Ex Senator Louis C Southard and family take possession of 21 Francis street Brookline in a recently acquired estate. The Spanish American War Nurses thank Boston press for fair reporting of their Sept 4 8 annual meeting. John B Schoeffel hosts guests aboard his yacht refit with a Marblehead lunch voyage. Ancients honor Arthur Prince at the Orpheum. Prince linked to London Honorary Artillery Club. Captain Sydney A Anning and Dr Miles Prior of the Romantic and Mr Rooney and Dr Young of the Republic attend. Effie Williams of Cambridge celebrated for swimming with Margaret Hurley of Charlestown at Magazine street beach Cambridge. Luke Day of St Josephs Court 89 M C O F receives a silver service wedding gift. Fiery Cross issue features Canadian historical sketch by John D McKay focusing on British French clashes for Canada. Officer Chassion praised for saving many lives. friends likely to present a tribute. Charlie Vickers out of Massachusetts General Hospital after appendicitis recuperating in Roslindale. Fr Maurice L Toppan Brookline Swimming Club member returns from Duxbury Beach Kingston swim 4 1/4 miles in 2 hours 38 minutes. Maximilian Fisher near recovery after appendicitis operation. Guy Lowman Brookline athletic director returns to lead school teams. Quincy backs Captain A T Sadler to start a Quincy life saving corps branch. Metropolitan park police Officer Powers relieved as Medford schools reopen and bathers depart Mystic river. Horace S Taylor dies leaving a mark as student and engineer in Adams Academy Tufts Dartmouth. Francis J W Ford Harvard athlete makes first plea as lawyer before Judge Bond in polygamy case George A Foster. Ford delivers strong address but judge not swayed.
Paul Carter, a Chilean mine owner in the Cordilleras, is torn between Senorita Carmen Obaldia and Beatrice Morse as a rich ore find ties him to the region. He plans a return to Beatrice but is pressed to stay, and Carmen urges him to marry locally. Months later Carmen greets Carter’s wife as the sun sets over Chimborazo.
Miss Annie E. Dennis of Canton, 22, among Boston Normal School's youngest graduates, starts teaching at Canton Grammar School. She finished at Girls' High and Boston Normal School at the head of her class. She loves horses and boating and handles reins with ease.
Dear Miss Champagne offers advice on a 19 year old vacationing woman at a country boarding house. A man 14 years older showed affection and professed love but did not propose. Parents oppose, the woman is torn between love and disobedience. The columnist urges dismissing the older man as a likely flirt or manipulation and to heed parental guidance.
In Society items record Mrs. Oscar Iasigi leaving Stockbridge for New York to visit her son in law and daughter while accompanied by Miss Margaret French. Other society tidbits mention villa closures, Newport entertainments, guests from Marlboro Street, a Lenox dinner hosted by the Westinghouse couple, a Beatrice Blake wedding in England, Agnes Blake and Stephen FitzGerald’s quiet Saranac Lake ceremony, and a Lenox Lake Mahkeenac boating luncheon with social figures including the Bacon, Forbes, Dana, and Shaw families. Julia Meyer, daughter of the ambassador, departed Lenox for Boston after a stay with her aunt.
Miss Mary J O Neil of Edgeworth street Charlestown becomes a new Frothingham School teacher. A Charlestown High School and Girls High School and Boston Normal School graduate, she completed a gymnastics course. She enjoys aquatic sports and spent last summer on the river.
Dr Morton Prince's The Dissociation of Personality, a biographical study in abnormal psychology, draws wide comment. The book follows Miss Beauchamp who appears as multiple personalities B I to B Ill, including Sally who fears spiders and sometimes gathers snakes for others, with Prince claiming to have cured her in a 569 page work.
All soft refined sugar grades advanced 16 cents and all hard grades gained 5 to 10 cents per hundred pounds in New York trading today.
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