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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1911
Page
8
The Boston Post issue dated April 6, 1911, published by Post Publishing Co. from 259 Washington Street, Boston Massachusetts.
The notice lists daily and Sunday Post subscription prices including one year eight dollars for daily and five dollars for the Sunday edition. Rates show six months and shorter terms with per copy rates to Canada ten cents. Payments should be sent by check or money order payable to Post Publishing Company.
Editorials list contact numbers and duties at the Post. Editorial and sporting editors are on Main, with business office numbers also shown. It urges subscribers to pay in advance or risk discontinuation, and asks readers to notify via the portal if delivery ceases.
Reads like an OCR capture of daily posting totals across dates in March. It shows totals for daily posts and Sunday posts with averages, but many characters are garbled. Key figures include a daily average of 1209 and a Sunday average of 3502.3, 801, 632, and 302,343 appear as stray numbers without clear context.
The Massachusetts House urges the Railroad Commission to investigate elastic mileage practices by the New Haven and its rail subsidiaries. The move lends official credibility to the inquiry and pressures the company to justify or correct stretched distances between stations, as previously raised by the Post.
Legislative debate hints at unsafe boilers at the State prison, Charlestown, with accusations of danger to life. Urges immediate action and funding without delay to remedy conditions, ignoring procedural delays and red tape if the claims prove true.
The record and reports indicate Boston University will welcome Dr. Lemuel H. Marlin as its new president. His successful career as an educator includes leadership at Baker University in Kansas and promises of increased efficiency at the historic institution.
The Boston Herald argues the new federal income tax amendment could be stopped if Massachusetts and New York act, noting no true revolution but a constitutional path for changing the charter. It recalls the 1895 ruling and emphasizes adherence to the Constitution for amendments.
In a Boston Public Library panel Edwin A Abbey portrays Galahad facing the Holy Grail in Amfortas’s castle but remaining silent. He fails to seek its meaning, the Grail vanishes, and his quest continues as the Leatherly Damsel reveals the world’s hidden evils. Seven knights, symbols of the seven sins, oppose the maidens within the castle. The prolonged conflict ends with the knights seeking safety after fatigue.
Confidence grows that he will prove a worthy successor to Dr Huntington, with expectations centered on his abilities and potential to uphold the duties and standards established by the former leader.
The president’s 600 word message to Congress urges passage of reciprocal trade with Canada. It argues public sentiment supports the measure and notes benefits to consumers, farmers, and industry, while avoiding new subjects for this session. It defends income tax rights and the people’s right to amend their constitution peacefully.
The Bank Department report by Expert Chase finds banks sound but notes rising audit costs. He suggests state legislation to make trust and cooperative banks cover audit expenses and urges methods to cut costs. The state departments’ examinations are praised as unbiased and constructive.
A panel from The Castle of the Maidens shows Galahad receiving the key of a castle from an aged warder and then the thanks of released maidens. The scene contrasts maidens in colored robes with dark walls while a maiden urges summoning knightly lords to restore old customs.
A fragmented prose collage blends law talk about antitrust actions against coal railroads with a playful mock monologue on stage persona and costume. It weaves legal authority, a cav novel knight tale, and a casual automotive aside into a single, unusual contemporary fragment.
A foggy morning hampers harbor pilots and ships. Notables include Harry Luther, a former Boston journalist now theatrical figure, ill at City Hospital. Lowell Boy Scouts aid a farmer fighting a brush fire. Florence Drinan named stenographer to Circuit Court judges. Helen Passoff praised for calm leadership at a Shirt Waist Makers' Union tribute. A Harrison Avenue coal tipcart delays cars. George H. Galpin promoted to clerk of Somerville Board of Health. Melrose Center lantern clock starts as city timepiece. Lake Quannapowitt boathouse activity signals season. Snow falls while boys play baseball on the Common.
A Supreme Court opinion this week signals the death knell of the anthracite coal trust, separating production from transportation in Pennsylvania. The decision ends railroad domination of coal production, promising relief from extortion by a monopoly that controlled material and its delivery. The Hepburn act aimed to sever transportation from ownership in producing firms, but railroads later won a ruling allowing stock ownership in a producing corporation.
A comic lament in verse reports a Fall River shopper facing a daunting Easter bill. The speaker rants over overwhelming totals, hair pulling nerves, and wild gestures as the bill rises. The piece preserves local color and a playful fright at prices.
A brief curio from Worcester in the column What the Sphinx Says and Dear All Sorts ponders how fictional titles like The Girl From Rector's Two Women and The Wasiest Way would react to Mayor Fitz. The note hints at playful satire and local chatter.
The Maverick Club of East Boston invites Mr Newkirk to join an old time minstrel show at Maverick Church on April 17. The letter requests blocking of face with burnt cork, bones, jokes, and a song titled My Dusky Southern Queen with interlocutor announcing him as Mr Newkirk. Mr Newkirk declines citing difficulty removing burnt cork from his features.
Fourteen hens and one rooster for 90 cents each are up for quick sale as the seller moves. Address E. 142 Times Office. The item highlights Maine poultry progress and ends with a playful jab at a crowing rooster that supposedly lays eggs.
A gentleman advertises a second-hand car with a 10 gallon tank and newly rubber tired tires. The ad asks buyers to be specific and requests more details about the vehicle and price. The market buyer seeks further information before purchase.
In his noon St. Paul’s address Bishop Lawrence urges that modern life erases painful trials that forge character. He warns Americans risk losing daily connection and spiritual growth by shrinking from painful duties. An April 17 Boston Methodist Social Union meeting will feature Isaac Headland on By-Products of Christian Missions and The Outbox by C. H. Stackpole.
Letter to the editor arguing for a comprehensive milk inspection bill to standardize and improve dairy safety. It urges reform of chaotic state laws, supports uniform inspection for farmers, cites a dip tank issue in Boston, and appeals for farmer and consumer groups to unite for safer milk.
A large fire swept Kadikoi, a suburb of Constantinople, destroying one hundred houses and shops. The estimated loss reached $500,000 as flames razed the area today.
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