Boston Post Expands Deep Cellars For Largest Press Plant
The Boston Post advances its press capabilities with 66 feet deep five story cellars beneath Washington Street. The plant houses a gigantic double octuple press and can, with all presses running, print over 700 000 eight page papers per hour. Construction required top down wall building to avoid interrupting daily publication.
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Boston Post
New England
United States
New York World
Post
Boston Globe
Washington Street
Winthrop
New York
Chicago
London
Paris
Hemisphere
R. Hoe & Co
Reese
Boston Post Press Plant Tunnels Under Beacon Hill Basements
The Boston Post carved a sub basement and sub-sub basement for a massive press complex on Beacon Hill. Workers built down from earth with steel beams and concrete to support a set of sextuple and quadruple presses. A vast ventilation and pumping system maintains air quality and safety throughout the four lower floors.
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Boston Post
the Post
Beacon Hill
Boston Harbor
Cobalt
Canada
North American
Boston
Women Begin 1200 Mile Auto Trip to Chicago
Mrs Richard Schindler of Norwood and Miss Helen Gove of Springfield Mass start from Norwood at 7 18 am for a 1200 mile journey to Chicago in seven days of driving ten hours daily with a Detroit stop and Albany overnight. Mrs Schindler is noted as the first woman chauffeur to cross into Canada per Canadian customs officials.
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Norwood
R. IL
Chicago
Richard Schindler
Helen Gove
Springfield
Mass
Detroit
Albany
N. vi
Schindler
Boundary Line
Canada
Protests to Taft Over Tariff Bills
Ir M Graves & Co of this city sent a telegram protesting tariff legislation to President Taft. They condemn Schedule KK as the most far reaching in the list and say current bills will not lower prices or aid industry. Signed RK H Graves & Co July 31 1911.
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Ir M. Graves & Co
Taft
William H. Taft
United States of America
Washington,d. Cat
Rk, H. Graves & CO
Noble Preble Dies After Carriage Accident in Richmond
Noble Preble aged about 80, long resident of Bowdoinham, was knocked from his carriage when his horse reared in Richmond Maine. He died immediately,因 from the shock or heart trouble, today at the curb.
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Richmond
Noble Preble
Bowdoinham
Boston U K Hails Boston-Europe City Comparisons
James H. Sullivan, chief of Boston public works highway division, writes to Commissioner Rourke praising Boston’s prospects and contrasting Berlin’s waste and sanitation unfavorably with Boston. He notes Berlin pays street workers $1.25 daily versus Boston’s $2.25 and cites London as having the cleanest streets due to labor costs. He adds boys and girls work beside men for about $1.25 weekly.
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Boston
Europe
Chamber of Commerce Party
James H. Sullivan
Public Works Department
Rourke
Berlin
Sullivan
London
Pensioner of Former Fellow Workers Dead
Courtney Piggott died at 62 in New Haven after six years of blindness from a trolley accident. For six years, trolley workers pooled nearly his lost earnings, giving weekly contributions at the car barn to support his wife and two children.
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New Haven
Courtney Piggott
Piggott
Mills Resume Full Time Amid Plant Shutdown Plan
Pacific Mills with over 6000 workers begins full time operations in all departments. Everett mills also resume full time today and will run until August 17 when the plant closes for annual vacation until September 6.
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Lawrence
Pacific Mills
Everett Mills
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Rhodes
Washington S
Pert
Attithr
John I. Griffin Company
C. H. Blackall
Eeere
Eesseee
Quinntuple Press
Ereeeers
Eeeerereveyes
Sextuple
Double Sextuple Press
Sextuple Press
Boston U. K
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