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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1911
Page
10
The Boston Post announces a vacation-time notice with options for daily and Sunday editions. It details mail rates, subscription terms, and how to change addresses, urging advance payment and noting discontinuation without notice at expiry.
Claude Grahame-White is slated for the second Harvard Aeronautical Society meet at Squantum this month to seek more laurels. He faces stiff competition from Atwood and Ovington who have surpassed his past performances, promising a great contest.
In a united display the Democratic majority backed Representative Underwood during his rebuke of Bryan over steel schedules. The episode signals a break from Bryan dominance and a new era, with Nebraska’s man silenced on naming the next presidential candidate.
Antoine Simon the constitutional president of Hayti escapes aboard a foreign vessel after a failed flight. A deputy and his daughter are wounded in the melee as two revolutionary factions clash over the vacant leadership. Slaughter and gunfire rage as factions contend for power beyond Simon’s departure.
The passage notes continued unrest in Hayti where plunder drives events more than revolution. An American resident appears in Port au Prince's Committee of Public Safety, suggesting external influence. After the immediate fuss subsides, the question remains what to do about Hayti, as conditions grow disagreeable though not a major international crisis.
The Associated Advertising Clubs of America wrap up a successful Boston convention. The writer notes the event brightened streets and showcased warm hospitality, hoping for the clubs to return soon and stay as guides and friends to visitors.
A triple treaty among the United States Great Britain and France marks a step toward universal peace and the rule of law among nations. It seeks German concurrence and awaits Senate ratification while champions call it a new era of justice over force.
The Senate passed the congressional reapportionment bill with minor amendments, boosting House membership to 433 seats, up 42. New York gains six seats, Pennsylvania California and Oklahoma three each, Massachusetts two, and 16 states gain one seat. The editorial hopes for fair redistricting and avoids gerrymandering.
The Boston Herald hails Foss as courageous and intelligent but calls him insincere and demagogic, suggesting the public will re elect him by a comfortable margin while not truly knowing him. The piece questions Massachusetts voters discernment and character.
A fragment shows a speaker directing a boy to tell an automaker or auto to respond. The terse line suggests a workshop or casual scene with characters named Bo and Litt Jimmy in a dialogue about a machine.
The piece hints at Boston Red Sox games against Detroit Tigers in a pennant race and forecasts finishing no better than fifth. It also includes an inquisitive letter offering crude cosmetic advice about a 19 year old seeking guidance on greasy skin and hair with a suggested weekly bath.
The London Lancet warns that smoking prior to meals dulls the olfacto gustatory reflex due to pyroligneous compounds in tobacco smoke. The piece laments this finding and jokes about needing to stop smoking before eating to avoid “congestion” of the buccal mucosa and related effects.
A correspondent from Winsted questions the newsroom about publishing nature themed fake stories to break routine, citing professional jealousy as a motivation and prompting debates on editorial ethics.
The Heps earned a decisive win in St Louis on August second. Their resilience carried them through a tough fray, securing a celebrated victory.
Oceanologist Professor Morton Kilgallen describes how parent sculpin disciplines misbehaving offspring by forcing them to view their own image in a reflective surface. The newborn fishes are said to cry and groan for days after such punishment, while the scientist follows with a glass of cod liver oil.
A Dorchester thirst parlor advert mocks Donnybrook Musty from The Brewery claiming brewing should stay in offices at home in factories or even in a salon. The piece ends with a jab at a brewery jamais and questions the propriety of brewing elsewhere.
The piece questions a token price for intellect, contrasting a large sum given for someone else’s brain with a hypothetical 30 cent offer for ours, and suggests the disparity in value and moral judgment.
Wimpy Weems saves Katharine kToory with a squirt of violet water and declares love as The Falling Star soars. Michel Brianne notes the craft speeds toward Europe at 319 miles an hour seven miles above sea level. Seeel continues tomorrow.
A discussion of flood myths from many cultures, noting Dore's depiction of survivors clinging to a rock with a tiger and child, the range of land cover theories, and literary evocations by Byron and Macaulay describing the drowning earth and the last survivors on a mountain crown.
Observations recall the Court House on Court Square as a famed site for notable trials and a former prison. Tribute goes to the U S revenue cutter Gresham crew, Boston aviator Grahame White plans, and Henry Rafferty’s rescue at Centre Harbor.
A playful exchange shows a mother asking about people who live in glass houses and Horace replying that the maid should not announce their absence when they are still present. The vignette notes a sly humor about honesty and appearances.
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