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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1909
Page
6
Daily publication record dated September 25 2009 issued by Post Publishing Co. No. 75 volume 196 identifies office at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts as the production base for the edition.
The Boston Daily Post lists subscription prices: daily one year nine dollars, six months four dollars, three months two dollars, one month eighty cents. The Sunday Post is two dollars fifty cents yearly, one dollar twenty five cents half year, sixty five cents quarter. Canada copies nine cents. Notices warn prepayment, advance cancellation, and risk of mail delivery. Editor Bea Grozier announces.
Women's clubs push to memorialize Congress to pursue fleeing husbands. They argue harsher punishment could cut desertion, but wife desertion is not a federal offense and cannot be covered by statute without a federal divorce law.
Mr Leighton chief hydrographer of the Hawaiian branch of the geodetic survey proposes reforestation of the island of Kahoolewai southwest of Maui and keeping records of climate to study rainfall. He suggests Nantucket as a suitable real world test noting its deforestation has led to soil loosening and erosion and recalling Shaler's warning on wind erosion over centuries. He urges federal foresters to consider Nantucket as an island experiment station and Massachusetts treasured insular possession.
Banking officials and business leaders greet a new law to take effect January first. It prohibits any note check or obligation under one dollar from circulating as money while allowing legal tender transactions. The reform reenacts a 60 year old statute to curb private paper as money. individuals may still write cents if funds exist.
The article notes that predictions of apocalyptic events repeatedly fail to occur on schedule and are continually adjourned. It cites postponements as evidence of the sincerity of participants' faith, while the globe's persistence defies prophecies and interpretations.
The Duxbury group discarded earthly goods to embrace a new life, modeling spirituality despite critics. They claim the end is near, yet others doubt such claims and argue the world remains flawed but not doomed.
A critic argues against using school buildings for caucuses and elections noting it corrupts civic instruction. He contends schools teach responsible citizenship, and exposing pupils to political coercion and "touts" undermines standards. The author warns that any cost savings are outweighed by damage to education and public virtue.
An editorial questions a $25,000 appropriation for the Presidents travel expenses and argues the trip served vanity rather than public duty. It catalogs Tafts day in Colorado with receptions, meals, mountain rides, and overnight wakefulness, asking if such exposure devalues the office and burdens the taxpayers.
For years opera managers blamed scarce American singers yet did little to develop native talent. Now the Metropolitan and Boston Opera have created scholarships via the New England Conservatory and the Institute of Musical Art. Beneficiaries are promised debuts under favorable conditions, potentially producing a new renowned American tenor.
A spoof court scene parodies polar exploration history. Judge Mutt and jury clamor for focus on real discoveries while historian Simon de Grees recites a comic chain of Arctic figures from Hudson to Amundsen. Officials bungle dates and jokes abound about Canuck canapés and canned salmon.
A brief quotation reflects on personal control in business management. It questions how one can run a venture to please others when self-direction is constrained, indicating a tension between autonomy and external expectations.
To the Editor of the Post a Roxbury reader protests schoolhouses as voting places arguing health risks to children. He asks opinions from Dr Harrington Dr Scanner and Dr Cabot and what the Anti Tuberculosis League would say.
A tour note describes Murren in the Swiss Alps as a lofty hamlet reached by cable and electric road, offering a grand Alpine panorama including Eiger Monch Jungfrau and peaks over 8500 feet. It notes hotels, May to October season, and a memorial to Mrs. Arbuthnot who died by lightning in 1865.
A column covers Boston theatre talents joining the White Star Line cruise of the Arabic to the Orient, local debaters at the Father Scully Society, and rising young figures like Daniel J. Kiley and Edward Shannon. It also notes civic anecdotes from Parmenter street, a North Pole mock kidnapping, and a clock tower timeliness crowd at 10. It mentions Dr. Cook’s putative disappearance in a staged scene and a Cambridge social scene noted for its leaders and entertainers.
Farmer wakes the household at four to scold lazy sons who prefer city life. He muses on their appetite and shelter, while his wife quips that perhaps they are not pigs. The piece under by Walt Mason, copyrighted 1909, George Matthew Adams.
The Rev. Frank Poole Johnson of St. Pauls Church in Boston has received a call from the Church of the Nativity in Cincinnati and will preach there tomorrow. Rev. Henry G. Megathlin of Park and Downs Church Wollaston resigns for a Walpole N H pastorate. Rev. H E Peabody of Windsor Avenue Hartford becomes pastor of South Congregational Chicago after declining Pomona College presidency. Rev. John F Wild to lead corner stone laying at Union Congregational West Medford tomorrow at 4 P M. Lawrence B Greenwood heads open air and tent services.
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