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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1911
Page
10
The Boston Post published on April 8 1911 from 259 Washington Street Boston Mass reports daily news briefs and notices for readers. This issue includes local happenings and standard newspaper items of the period.
The Sunday Post and Daily rates are listed with options for one year two years and shorter terms. Canada delivery is 19 cents per copy. The notice notes second class matter at the post office in Boston and warns all money sent at sender's risk with checks drafts and money orders payable to Post Publishing Company.
Readers are reminded subscriptions must be paid in advance or they will be discontinued on expiration. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly, inform the office by mail at once. EB A GROZIER is editor and publisher.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce drafts a practical plan to accelerate pier construction and improve approaches without awaiting formal contracts. The measure, designed to enhance port development, will be presented to the Legislature with significant hearings anticipated.
Debate centers on Speaker-elect Champ Clark allegedly ordering Henderson china glassware and mahogany furniture from Capitol storerooms to furnish a private dining room. Critics call it un Jeffersonian while noting the items were paid for long ago and may not offend public taste if Congress and the nation approve.
The New York Sun argues against Governor Hughes and others opposing ratification of the federal income tax amendment. It claims Justice Hughes overstated a state bonding risk by taxing income from all securities, noting no discrimination if Congress taxes all securities equally.
The speaker argues the market would remain strong with the same ratio. Exemption from local taxation would continue, making them still more desirable in comparison to alternatives.
The article notes mileage distances on the Boston and Maine line from this city to other stations often lengthen in updated tables, seemingly justifying higher tariffs. It questions why improvements like straightening curves do not shorten measured distances and urges the Railroad Commissioners to conduct an official survey to resolve the issue and protect travelers.
Denial of Governor Foss plotting to reap point Police Commissioner O Meara is rejected by public sentiment. Citizens hail his efficiency, devotion, justice, and leadership, noting esprit de corps and pride in service. Call remains for Foss to reappoint him, aligning with independent governance.
President Diaz opens the Mexican Congress and pledges to back reforms long demanded by insurrectos. He promises changes to election laws and judiciary, a single presidential term, local government through popular governor elections, and equitable land distribution, signaling a shift to appease unrest and seek stability.
The Democratic caucus endorses a robust legislative agenda for the upcoming special session. Priority items include reciprocity with Canada, direct senate elections, reapportionment after the census, admitting New Mexico and Arizona, and strengthening campaign contribution disclosure before elections. The new Congress faces a heavy workload due to its predecessor’s failures.
The painting The Crofter's Team by H. Hamilton Macallum, in the Tate Gallery, contrasts Scotland's 1880s crofter hardships with the Crofters Act of 1886. It shows a child and a girl pulling a plow while poverty persists near barren land and sea. Macallum, born 1841 in Argyllshire, depicted seascapes, and this late work highlights enduring misery despite land reforms.
A lyrical ode to spring opens the piece, followed by a humorous chain of letters from Meredith New Hampshire to Boston. Martin Ericson requests a handkerchief for a church fair while J J O Connor writes cheerfully, and a responder mocks the request with a playful allergy metaphor and plans for a shirts and collars cruelty society.
A Belleville resident, Henry Ude, reportedly hatched six ducklings from eggs placed under a common barnyard hen. The hen swam with the ducklings and even dove to catch fish, astonishing onlookers and inviting humorous comparison to tall tales.
An exchange at breakfast has an old man joking about the noises from the parlor last night. The girl says Mr. Fitz-Adams was practicing violin. He hopes to lead an orchestra and face grand opera. The father retorts he should face the grand jury if his playing does not improve.
The late John H. Barker of Michigan City left a fortune exceeding 30 million dollars to his 14 year old daughter and warned against speculation. He told young men to avoid speculators who stand on shaky ground and cause constant worry for families.
Dear Mr Newkirk the town plans a fair during Waster week to raise funds for furnishing a clubroom for boys all sale items will support the cause. The note requests participation and notes the purpose and timing of the event.
A reader from Fitchburg complaints that a local laundry damaged garments including a lavender striped shirt and a polka dot shirt with collars left rough. He describes vivid misfits and odd shirt substitutions, claiming laundries ruin happiness and proposing no easy remedy.
Newton’s Captain John Ryan buried General G A Custer after the Little Bighorn battle while serving under Custer for a decade. The piece notes Reisner’s lecture on the Pyramids at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and his claim that a full Egyptian art history hinges on its collection. It recounts teens in Newspaper Row, Perley Skillings and Kneeland’s Boston police careers, Wakefield Common baseball, and various local curiosities and incidents in Salem and Boston.
A poem by Walt Mason from 1911 laments enduring lies and old myths. It mocks the “liar’s” tales of snakes and the snake charmer’s trade as society clings to familiar yarns.
A quote from David Graham Phillips about journalists and editors. He recalls instructing a magazine editor in New York to consider talent and future potential, ending with a sharp, careerist remark. The anecdote highlights early struggle and ambition in publication.
A summary of church events in Greater Boston includes Bishop William Lawrence speaking at St. Paul’s noon meetings on Tremont Street, the Boston Baptist Social Union’s annual Ford Hall gathering with Rev. A. S. Barbour as speaker, and the Lotus Male Quartet’ s Tremont Temple welcome and music for services. Additional notes cover Rev. H. Clayton Wyand’s deaf ministry sermon at First Presbyterian Church, St Stephen’s appeal for baby carriages from Florence Street, Universalist ministers addressed by Roger F. Etz, and the Cambridge Association of Unitarian Ministers meeting at Rev. A. H. Robinson’s home in Newton Centre. Also mentioned are Rev. Henry E. Holenberg’s visit to Grace Church and Rev. Rufus S. Chase’s absence from parish work due to a Bermuda trip.
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