Boston Post issue from April 22 1911 with subscription rates
The Boston Post lists subscription options for Pats readers and The Sunday Post with prices for one year six months and three months. Canada copy rates apply and payments are to be sent safely by check or money order to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
THE
Sunday Post
Canada
Mase
Post Publishing Company
Faitorial Notices From Local Publisher
Financial and sporting entities listed as subscripts with addresses on Main street. Subscriptions must be paid in advance. service will stop after expiration. If postal delivery is unavailable, readers should notify the publisher. E A Grozier editor and publisher.
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Wear Newsdealer
Newsboy
E. A. Grozier
Fdilor
The World in Boston Exposition Opens at Mechanics Building
The World in Boston is a missionary exposition and pageant opening at Mechanics' building. Over $100,000 has been spent to attract eyes and emotions of thousands. It blends moral religious aims with picturesque display and aims to educate rather than proselytize. It is expected to impress New England communities regardless of its financial outcome.
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Boston
Mechanics’ Building
America
New England
THE NEXT HOUSE APPORTIONMENT PROPOSED
A new Crumpacker bill would set the House at 433 members, up from 398, to preserve old census allotments. The measure faces the Senate, which is expected to pass it with little scrutiny. Massachusetts would gain two seats under the plan, a point dismissed as inconsequential.
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House of Representatives
Congress
Senate
House
Massachusetts
Give Us That Commission Massachusetts Finance Commission urged
The Governor and Chase press for a State Finance Commission to reform municipal finances. They condemn misused trust funds and borrowing against tax receipts, call for decisive action beyond political fears, and urge the Republican Legislature to act for the public interest.
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Commonwealth
Chase
State Finance Commission
Massachusetts Finance Commission
Income Tax Would Lower Prices Not Raise Them
A citizen letters debate rejects claims that income tax raises living costs. The exchange argues the tax substitutes for other levies, reducing prices on essentials for the general public while shifting burden from workers to idle wealth.
Free List Bill Promises Big Relief for Farmers
The farmers free list bill in the House would reduce national revenue by about 10 million dollars but save roughly 300 million annually for buyers of taxed or tariff lightened articles. Agricultural implements would drop about 14 million, lumber and related items 60 million, and leather goods 37 million, benefiting producers and lowering living costs.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
National Revenue
Big Bipartisan House Endorsement for Canadien Reciprocity
The House voted overwhelmingly for the Canadien reciprocity bill, about three to one, with a nonpartisan division across party and sectional lines. It now goes to the Senate, likely to face some opposition but not enough to defeat the agreement.
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House of Representatives
Washington
Senate
Senate rules allow extended talks amid broad public purpose
The Senate faces lengthy debates with estimates ranging from two weeks to two months, yet the end seems assured as the people’s will expressed in yesterday’s House vote drives the process.
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Senate
House
Aeroplanes in War and Naval Defense Impacts
Observation trips by army aeroplanes have been reported but navy use dominates. Secretaries Meyer experiments show bluejackets on the battleship Mississippi can down kites at 500 to 700 yards with 40 hits from 160 shots. Torpedo defenses would hinder aircraft approaching, and aviation's destructive art remains underdeveloped yet advancing.
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Navy
Meyer
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Cape Henry
Mississippi
Helen and Cleopatra in History and Art
The piece surveys Helen of Troy and Cleopatra as enduring icons whose beauty sparked wars and captivated posterity. It cites Alma Tadema and Ferrero, notes Rome’s contrast with Alexandria, and states the Boston Post ends its Story Pictures series with No. 100. It also previews Brady Civil War photographs starting tomorrow.
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Egypt
Rome
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Cleopatra
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Intelligent hens and dating eggs confound letter writer
A humor column recounts a reader tale of hens dating their own eggs with a calendar and rubber stamp. Another item shares a quirky anecdote about a pet hen Dorothea learning reading and jokes, followed by small classifieds about lost items, rentals, and goods for sale in Keene New Hampshire.
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Knot Hole
Council Committee Seeks Finance Commission View on Permit Fees
The City Council committee on ordinances voted to ask the Finance Commission for clarification on the charter section authorizing fees for marquise, bay window, and other permits. The panel has debated the issue for over a year.
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Finance Commission
City Council
Politicians Purportedly Open to Cheap Cash Purchases
A fragment suggests politicians may be bought cheaply for cash, reflecting graft concerns. The source frames the claim without naming individuals or organizations, indicating a political corruption motif within a local context.
Two G A R men reunite after forty five years
In Greater Boston two veterans from the 15th Maine Regiment John Allen Brookline fire chief and Sergeant A B Cook White Star line watchman meet after 45 years since January 1866 when Cook left the Union army They had fought together and kept notes of their shared service and now reconnect after a long separation.
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Boston
John Allen
Brookline Fire Department
A. B. Cook
White Star Line
Sergeant Cook
15Th Maine Volunteer Regiment
Help Things Along Ra Ls Copyright 19% by George Matthew Adams
Help Things Along is a George Matt Adams humor item noting a 19 percent copyright. The short piece presents a light moral prompt with a nickname style headline. It appears as a brief column snippet from a period newspaper page.
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George Matthew Adams
Reverend Gasson to repeat lecture on Joan of Arc
The Rev. Thomas I. Gasson of Boston College will repeat his Public Library course lecture on Joan of Arc tomorrow night in Boston College Hall. The talk will be illustrated with 200 stereopticon slides. A concert by several noted vocalists will precede the event, with proceeds supporting temperance cadets formed under church auspices.
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Boston College
Public Library
Joan of Arce
Boton College Hall
Temperance Cadets
Church of Gi Immaculate Conception
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