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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1909
Page
6
The Boston Post announces its daily issue dated September 27 1909 listing issue number and office address at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts with standard publication line for the daily record.
The notice details subscription prices for Daily and Sunday Post services, including yearly, six month, and monthly rates, plus Canada mail rates. It states entr y details, second class matter in Boston, money handling policies, and payment instructions to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
The Post informs readers subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration without further notice. Readers are urged to mail notice if they cannot obtain the Post regularly from dealers, signed by BE. A. Grozier, Editor and Publisher.
A contemporary critique argues the census should count children of native fathers and foreign birth mothers, calling the omission deplorable. It stresses assimilation and urges census directors to apply logic and address how foreign elements are absorbed.
Republican watch committees show strong backing for Plan 2 of the charter amendments to be voted at the state election. Ward 23 Chairman Weeks explains the plan is easier to amend than removing the objectionable features of Plan 1, a practical idea steadily gaining ground.
The article notes the Democratic State convention nears and calls for harmony in messaging. It highlights broad agreement on endorsing a federal income tax and a downward tariff revision to protect both consumers and manufacturers, with attention to state expenditure policy.
A New York judge assigns William Hornblower Samuel Untermyer and De Lancey Nicoll to defend three murder suspects. They will be paid 500 dollars each, less than their usual fees, reflecting service for prisoners who cannot hire counsel. The lawyers pledge to serve the poor without mean compensation, emphasizing lawyers as sworn officers of the court and servants of justice.
The statement argues there is no reason to expect Dr. Cook will sue Commander Peary for slander over pole claims. It asserts scientific debate should be resolved by recognized authorities, not court action, and praises Cook’s conduct as dignified.
A stark view of the suffrage campaign notes that English women risk brutal treatment in Birmingham prisons. Refusing food, they are fed with a stomach pump, handcuffed after violent resistance, and kept at hard labor. The piece argues suffragettes are not criminals and previews possible government pressure to submit female suffrage to the people.
A recent despatch details Columbia's unique football practice with 300 freshmen facing 300 sophomores. The game centers on moving a pigskin placed at midfield, limited to four rushes. The exercise aims to satisfy all participants and is noted as a curious tradition.
After a recent quarrel among about 600 combatants, most had black eyes or bloody noses. By the third rush, clothing from the second wave was mostly destroyed. A few were sent to the infirmary and sophomores won, granting them the right to select 20 freshmen for hazing at a smoker. Columbia, the university that banned intercollegiate football, is cited.
John Kenneth Turner reports after a year in Mexico that peonage is widespread across most states. Slaves are used on plantations and as servants, debts are enforced with coercion, and police may beat or kill runaways. The article notes protests to Taft and potential U.S. mail ban.
Yesterday saw Rally Day across Baptist and other churches in Greater Moston. Notable figures included Rev. Cortland Myers of Tremont Temple absent from his pulpit. Rev. William A. Wood and Rev. Maurice Levy officiating morning and evening services respectively. Dr Myers learned of his father Abram Myers’s death, aged 82, in Kingston, N. Y., leaving two sons. Groundbreaking held for a new Central Congregational Church in Chelsea with a $50,000 budget. Park Street Church calendar featured a tribute to the late Dr John Lindsay Withrow.
A poem praising a polar life where cold relief comes from free ice and simple living. It envisions a yearly wardrobe, no fashion battles, and a frosty, untroubled sphere. The piece frames the pole as a haven from bills and modern pressures.
A fictional courtroom scene opens with Judge Mutt presiding at 10 a m and reading a mock old parchment claiming Hannibal Mutt discovered the North Pole long before Cook or Peary. Eskimo companion Katahuk joins as their Arctic chase follows polar cats north with humorous nautical and zoological asides.
An eccentric diary recounts a quest toward a pole with humor and tall claims. The narrator, Hannibal Mutt, notes latitude reached, odd polar frost imagery, a pole cat encounter, and a mock scientific contest with Dr Hook claims and Eskimo affidavits.
Bruce McRae and Isabel Irving star in a Criterion Theatre production. The plot centers on Lieutenant Lascelles and Major Thesiger during a Kandia siege in Crete. Lascelles masquerades as heroic savior and risks court martial to shield Thesiger’s memory.
The excerpt describes Judge Mott handing a document to Erasmus Longitude, the jury foreman, for consideration as evidence before the court adjourned. It references tobacco, six weeks, and a northernmost point in a terse, incomplete exchange.
A Boston reader reports a strange sight at the Bottomless Pit in Franklin Park where water sudenly bubbled and a swan surfaced as if from the earth. Other items note a heavy rainstorm scene, Daughters of Vermont meeting at Vendome with Colonel Albert Clarke as speaker, Mrs Moore addressing Champlain Tercentenary, and humorous street incidents. The Peabody Museum exhibit at Harvard arrives from South America, rat sightings on Hanover Street provoke a chase, and clubs discuss upcoming social events and local sports figures, including East Boston High coaching changes and a Wakefield player’s recovery. The Boston Floating Hospital will winter at Charlestown before spring overhaul.
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