Boston Post offers daily and Sunday editions with rates
The Boston Post of April 12 1913 lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions including yearly and monthly options. It notes postage and payment terms and promotes the paper as having the largest printing plant in New England per Robert Hoe.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
THE
Sunday Post
San Gorin
Bostontal
Boaton
Mase
I Post Publishing CO
Boston Post
New England
Robert Hoe
R. Hoe & Co
Boston Wins Lowell Plans for $10 Million County Court House
Boston's architectural prestige is cited as Guy Lowell's design for New York City's county court house winning by unanimous, anonymous competition. The article stresses Boston's superiority in civic, ecclesiastical, and theatre design and links the victory to the city's broader reputation.
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Boston
America
Guy Lowell
County Court House
New York City
Lowell
New York
Proposal to loan postal deposits locally for home use
The piece endorses letting postal savings bank depositors issue checks and expand the idea to allow loans on proper security directly to local residents. It argues the plan aids homemakers and the broader economy, suggesting it is fair and feasible and better than concentrating deposits in national banks.
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Don C. Seitz
New York World
Post
American Federation of Labor
Sail from Boston sparks revival of Warren line steamship service
The Warren line plans two modern steamers for Boston to Liverpool service signaling a passenger revival after years away. Local efforts by the New Haven road, the Chamber of Commerce, port directors, and newspapers aim to draw European trade. The call is for a strong East Coast mobilization centered on promoting Sail from Boston.
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Warren Line
Liverpool
New Haven Road
Chamber of Commerce
Boston
Liberal Massachu setts role in Panama celebration at San Francisco
The Massachusetts representation in the Panama celebration at San Francisco should reflect the Commonwealth’s character and standing. The Legislature should provide generous liberality to ensure a dignified display, recognizing the event’s world wide significance and the opening of intercontinental communication along the western coasts.
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Massachusetts
Panama
San Francisco
Commonwealth
Massachusetts Urges Broad Representation at San Francisco Exposition
In San Francisco a grand exposition is planned to honor a significant achievement. Massachusetts expresses a duty to participate cooperatively and maintain adequate representation. It would be unworthy to do less.
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San Francisco
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Widows Pension Idea Gains Legislative Attention
Bills from last year and this year seek periodical payments to destitute widows with dependent minor children. Advocates urge state coordination, citing failures of private charity and existing aid, and argue keeping children with mothers may better serve their futures while the State builds a guarded pension system.
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State Board of Charity
Works Both Ways on Japanese Land Rights
The editorial notes a proposed California policy curbing Japanese land ownership could violate the US Japan treaty. It argues treaties are supreme law, and cites reciprocal rights to enter reside and trade. It warns California should avoid nullifying this treaty or provoking reciprocal curbs.
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California
Japan
United States
Food price relief ideas echoed in European industry
The article notes firms abroad tackling high food costs by cutting middlemen and supplying cheaper meat and fish to workers. Wurtemberg Metal Works ships fish to workers, Schleswig leather works slaughters oxen, a mining company fattens cattle, and a Jena firm imports Danish meat.
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Wurtemberg Metal Works Company
Schleswig
Jena
Denmark
All Sorts by Newton Newkirk
A humorous verse about family ailments and misfortunes including mumps a broken leg housemaid's knee a jail sentence illness and a troublesome car and cat. The speaker reassures self and asks if worry is needed concluding with not.
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Newton Newkirk
Sue
Jimmy
Parcel Post Rules Fluster Patrons With Absurd Requests
A city reader’s guide lists parcel post quirks and limits. It notes that a baby grand piano or a house and lot cannot be mailed, while ancient eggs may be sent but should not. It warns against shipping molasses, limburger cheese, or certain items, and emphasizes parcel post is a common carrier with bulk and weight limits.
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Parcel Post Department
Parcel Post
P. P
Stealthy Steve Prepares for Washington Mission
The detective Stealthy Steve races from Suburbington-on-the-Hudson toward Washington D C to thwart counterfeiters of $1000 notes. He awakens his sleeping wife Genevieve after debating farewell with her, choosing to kiss her goodbye before departing.
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Suburbington-on-the-Hudson
Washington, D. C
Steve
Sharp
Washington
Chief Sharpere
Genevieve
To Be Continued in To morrow's Sunday Post
Footnotes reveal humorous and irreverent asides about a serial tale. The author mocks overblown violence language and jokes about a character named Steve whose tally of victims is casually exaggerated.
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Tomorrow’s Sunday Post
Fortune of Leopold II Detailed in Wealth and Wrongs
A portrait of King Leopold II of Belgium notes his self made fortune rising from about $3 million to nearly $100 million, much of it earned from Congo plunder. The article contrasts his charitable acts at home with brutal colonial abuse, his family disputes, and a final transfer of wealth to Baroness de Vaughan.
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Leopold II
Belgium
Europe
de Vaughan
Leopold
Congo
Armenia
Africa
Baroness de Vaughan
Lear
Daughers
Jimmie Foster Remembered in Boston Tales and Local Notes
A nostalgic column recalls Jimmie Foster who drove a bob-tail horse car in Boston suburbs and saved an elderly passenger on a stormy night. The piece then roams through varied local curiosities from a missing Irish flag to epitaphs in Elmwood Cemetery and a luggage of quirky anecdotes about city life and public notices.
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Jimmie Foster
Jimmie
Boston
Tobe
Holyoke
Elmwood Cemetery
J. Pierpont Morgan
Lucas Morgan
Hugh Ferris
Ferris
The Daly Ditt y of a Proud Immigrant Gentleman
A humorous 1913 verse voice proclaims personal worth and ambition while wrestling with teased ethnicity. The speaker, a self styled grand man, asserts strength and charm, noting family advice and a nightly restraint that contrasts daytime bravado.
Call of the Spring Poem About Choosing a Road
Poem urges a traveler to pick a path and depart. It speaks of a white road to May and distant lands where roads meet. The verses contrast travel with memory of friends and the idea that journeys end at a shared destination.
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North Station
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Salisbury Beach State Reservation
Supreme Court
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Connecticut
Cambridge
Central Square
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Alfred Noyes
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Boston Safe Deposits Trust Co
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