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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1906
Page
8
Classifieds and notices from the New York Times issue dated December 1 1906 include postage rates subscriptions and pricing for daily Sunday and weekly editions plus foreign postage adjustments and advertising blocks.
A contemporary column quotes President Baer of Reading on Thanksgiving, arguing against silencing general education while warning against false prophets and demagogues. It praises education's role in happiness and industry, and notes the clash of minds as wisdom grows.
The ex mayor Seth Low voluntarily pays more than $27,000 in back taxes after a legal confusion over a $400,000 mortgage on his property. He says the tax law is unfair and calls for amendment, noting he acted honorably by paying what he would have owed under his current understanding of the law. He regards the technicalities as an aggravating factor and hopes reform follows.
A historical column links beef price unrest to the Beef Trust and city issues. It argues overcrowding, transit trouble, and overstaffed administration raise costs, warning smashing the trust alone may not lower meat prices. The piece analogizes medical folly to uncertain policy cures and hints at future municipal tunnels to ease traffic.
The piece argues that self defense against envious critics sharpens capitalists and morals as foreseen by critics. It condemns reckless revolutionaries and praises measures like Mr Baer’s reading speech and Controller McEvz’s cost cuts as restoring balance. The Beef Trust theory remains a pungent but contested point in the debate.
The piece argues American disarmament would not gain broader support from European powers and warns that any unilateral action at The Hague would be risky. It notes Britain France and others maintain armament levels far above proportional reductions and suggests Pan American calls lack unified backing.
A man named Connolly was attacked on a Broadway surface car near Forty fourth Street about 3 am. He fought one assailant but was struck with a blackjack and left insensible while his watch and money vanished. Connolly’s wife and friends were unharmed. the robbers fled. Police and detectives investigated, considering Pittsburgh origin for the thieves, with no light shed by nearby officers.
The piece questions police alertness after a Thanksgiving Day theft on Thirty-fifth Street and Broadway. It praises local thieves for a tidy job while criticizing patrolmen Noran, Livingston, and Casty for lacking light on the crime. Readers are urged to explain the officers’ inaction.
The New York Times Saturday Review of Books announces a special 56 page Holiday Book Number supplement for subscribers worldwide. It highlights Mapison Cawein's reviews, Cary's tribute to Lowell, Hearn essays, Elizabeth Bisland, and lighter pieces by Banks, Fredrick, and Wells, plus scholarly notes, gossip, and London correspondence on poetry and Shakespeare.
Archbishop Ireland spoke at the Army of the Tennessee reunion in Council Bluffs about social unrest and national concern. The New York Times will publish his article tomorrow outlining views on social and economic problems, among other notable pieces and photographs in the paper.
In a tense close to a Pennsylvania Cornell football game, neither side scored before the second half ended on the time limit. Cornell moved to the five yard line but failed to convert after three tries, a wind kick went out of bounds near the goal, and Pennsylvania then withstood a final three attempts. The ball remained with Penn at the end as time was called.
The column reflects on a tied Penn State game versus Cornell and lauds Pennsylvania defense amid adversity. It then diverts to tobacco and cigarettes, arguing modest risks and adult moderation, before praising a Turkey over turkey for Thanksgiving and critiquing modern turkeys as inferior and often dry or stringy.
A reader in New York on November 29, 1906 units Mary Mortimer Maxwell as delightful and confesses buying items out of impulse after reading her New York tales. The writer jokes about financial worry but seeks simple pleasures like a private bathtub.
A business woman from Arlington New Jersey describes repeated insults by men on cars and boats, praises police for their Caruso matter work, and hopes for continued action despite opposition. She notes other modest, quiet women face the same abuse and seeks punishment for the attackers.
The Charleston News and Courier argues the presidents dismissal of black regiments was not concession to Southern sentiment. It asserts Roosevelt shows little tolerance for white Southern prejudice and acted to protect negro regiments and maintain military discipline. It frames the president as the negro’s friend and the white man’s foe in Southern political races.
Dudley Field Malone argues New York press helped San Francisco after 1906 disaster and urges fair treatment of Mayor Schmitz. He recalls city recovery efforts, cites Grand Jury charges as unproven, and praises Schmitz for leading relief, police, and reconstruction actions. Malone urges presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
The Washington Times notes a South Seas tribe wears no clothes and hides eating as modesty while Worcester Massachusetts residents eat together without issue yet cover their ears at a humorous Adam and Eve study. The piece contrasts differing moral norms.
Over the last twenty years, Versailles and Trianon gardens have seen major works, but a sad spectacle now appears. Plantations and hedgerows are perishing, thickets are destroyed, and ruin and decay are lamentable across the domain.
The Houston Post notes that if Judge Robert Canine of Louisville lived in Dallas he would gladly assist Hon. O P Bowser in preserving Texas honor. The remark frames regional pride and a readiness to help public figures uphold state reputation.
Henry A. Stimson denounces Mrs. Parsons's book for endorsing trial marriage as a remedy for promiscuity while arguing for monogamous, spiritually grounded relationships. He questions its educational value for sociology students and warns of personal and moral degradation.
Edward White Gaillard of New York argues the Davis Taylor marriage occurred in 1835 at Miss Taylor's aunt's house in Kentucky with Gen Taylor and family present. He cites Mrs Varina Jefferson Davis and Gen Taylor's later visits to support ongoing estrangement, noting no definite breach nor secrecy before the war with Mexico.
A Washington observer sharply questions Senator Tillman on his stance about resorting to the shotgun. The remark notes that Tillman has not killed a black person in many years, if ever, and comments on the ongoing race question in the South.
A bellicose Bug confronts a taciturn Worm on a narrow twig as a sparrow sits below. The Bug demands passage and the Worm remains unmoved while the Worm uses hypnotic passes to force the Bug to drop below toward the ground.
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