Subscription rates and postal details for The Post
The Post lists daily and Sunday rates for U S and Canada with yearly and short-term options. Rates include foreign copies and Canada postage, plus a two week and monthly option during vacation time. Address changes and payment methods are specified with care not to send cash.
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Port of Boston approves high price for pumping station permit
The Port of Boston replies to the city’s permit request for a Fort Point channel pumping station, stating a $33,550 fee will be charged. City officials had hoped for no cost or a nominal sum, and the port directors have not yet explained how the channel would be damaged to justify the price.
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Boston
Fort Point
New York Democrats Back Wilson Policies Endorsed at Convention
The New York Democratic convention endorses President Wilson's policies on Panama tolls currency reform trust regulation and Mexican affairs with no dissenting vote and praises Wilson as a great national leader.
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New York State
Wilson
Empire State
Woodrow Wilson
New York
Commendable Restraint by German Captors in Brussels
War dispatch from Rotterdam reports that German captors in Brussels have behaved kindly toward inhabitants. Officers purchase large supplies and pay with coin. The restraint, whether expected or not, is commended as proof war has not unleashed the worst passions.
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Hillier
Rotterdam
Brussels
Belgium
Safety First Auto Tour Promotes Caution Nationwide
The Safety First Society of New York plans a nationwide tour in a car equipped with devices to promote safe motoring. Over ten days it will begin in the Eastern states and travel through the South and West carrying representatives to preach the gospel of caution to motorists and officials. They seek cooperation from city leaders to advance the safety message.
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Safety First Society of
New York
Safety First Society
Safety First
One Hundred New Flags for American Registry Ships
The order calls for 100 U S flags to adorn ships under American registry from United Fruit Company Standard Oil and United States Steel Company as required by the new congressional law. The language frames the move as a patriotic shift with universal approval.
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United States
United Fruit Company
Standard Oil Company
United States Steel Company
Congress
Return of American Mercantile Fleet Seen Boosting Trade
The passage argues American ships will resume sailing to Europe, boosting mercantile tonnage to about 1,000,000. It predicts a surge in exports of goods Europe needs and asserts that trade stagnation fears will fade as ships depart, bringing renewed economic vitality.
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Europe
Germany and Russian offensives shift WWI balance in Europe
The piece notes German advances in Belgium and Namur as Allied defenses falter and questions their ability to strike Paris before Russian forces reach Prussia. It ponders northern German troops, potential fleet moves, and whether Berlin can repel the Russian invasion while Paris looms.
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Belgium
Alsace
France
Namur
Liege
St. Petersburg
Prussia
Konigsberg
Gulf
Baltic Sea
Germany
Berlin
Paris
Mexican Conference at Nogales Aims Stable Government
The Nogales talks between Carranza and Villa representatives seek a definite basis for agreement. Carranza is provisional president in the capital while Villa demands reforms before recognizing the regime. Outside forces urge U S intervention, but officials expect settlement on honorable terms without outside interference. Villa seeks moral support from Americans for a government free of military rule and promises strict morality in governance.
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Nogales
Carranza
Villa
Mexico
United States
Is The Hague Peace Plan Aimed For Revival
Sixteen years after the Czar initiated the Hague peace conference and nations embraced arbitration, nine nations are now at war and Holland faces armed conflict. The piece questions whether The Hague plan has failed and suggests it may still offer a resource for a final settlement.
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Russia
The
Hague
St. Petersburg
Holland
the Hague
Bogus Vermont News Solicitor Targeted Subscriptions
A fake newspaper agent operated in Vermont seeking subscribers for the Post and other papers. He appeared in Jericho Centre offering greatly reduced rates. Police in several towns are watching the man, who has collected money from victims.
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Vermont
Jericho Centre
Post
Instructed Decline of a Bard by John Devine Inflater
A satirical verse from Newton Newkirk addresses a pretender named C.ear Box and a bard of fleeting fame. The speaker, John Devine Inflater, refuses to have his name written or spoken, challenging the pretender to read time’s parchments and bridge imagined gaps.
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John Devine
Bowled Out Parents Plead For Child Welfare
Fond parents who give an infant something it ought not to have simply because it cries may be said to be bowled out. The remark suggests concern over improper infant feeding and the need for better parental guidance.
Drakes and Ducks Egg Mystery Questioned
A reader in Atlantic Massachusetts asks if a drake could lay an egg or if a duck could lay two. A neighborwriter debunks drake egging, notes ducks never lay eggs, and recounts farm mischiefs and a fence-hole egg surplus tale.
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Newt
Atlantic
Mass
Jan
Plymouth Rock
N. N
Witness Says Choosing Silence Over Danger in Assault Case
A Dublin witness explains avoiding police reporting by saying it is better to be a coward for five minutes than a dead man for life. The remark highlights fear and perceived risk in the assault investigation.
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Dublin
Ipswich Old Houses and 17th Century Kitchen Preserve History
The Ipswich Historical Society hosts the Whipple House museum dating to about 1650 and notes its 17th century kitchen with low beams and visible joints. Antiques include an 1596 and 1693 iron pieces, cradle churn, muskets, powder horns, and fine books. Meeting House Green hosts local landmarks and Mary Lyon’s Ipswich ties.
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Ipswich
Historical Society of
New England
Theotel Cluny
Paris
Esther Singleton
the Historical Society
Meeting House Green
Ipswich Feminine Seminary
Mary Iyon
Mt. Holyoke Seminary
Ipswich’s Bronze Tablet Marks Early Town Landmarks
A bronze tablet on a Phillips ledge records Ipswich settlement in March 1633 and notes the hilltop meeting house, the fifth structure on the site, and the nearby whipping post stocks and prison. Eminent ministers Nathaniel Ward Roger Nathaniel Rogert John Norton Cobbett led a long line of clergy. Ipswich is 12 miles from Salem and Newburyport, reachable by auto trolley or train.
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Ipswich
Nathaniel Ward
Nathaniel Rogert
John Norton
Thomas Cobbett
Salem
Newburyport
Observant Citizen highlights colorful Boston notices and local lore
The column sketches varied vignettes from fishermen near Boston and price gambles at sea to family events in Manchester by the Sea. It notes a Bulgarian parliament link to an American college, a 92nd birthday in Concord, a 98th Cape Ann birthday, and a raccoon photo moment in Franklin Park.
Just Chalk It Down Warns Against Credit Spends
Poet Walt Mason urges readers to curb debt and spendthrift habits. He decries buying on credit for food and luxuries, noting payday ruin and the danger of future poverty. He encourages saving stamps and building a savings fund to weather sickness and grief.
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Walt Mason
We Haven't Come to Arcadia Yet A Dream of Peace
The speaker envisions a distant Arcadia beyond struggle and hate. They describe quiet beauty, white wings, stars, and a land where peace and rest prevail. The poem speaks of dreams guiding through turmoil toward a promised land where rivers, blossoms, and song endure.
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Arcadia
Opal
Addis M Whitney Safe in Lucerne
Cablegram from Addis M Whitney treasurer of the Massachusetts Lighting Companies to Arthur E Childs reports he and his family are safe in Lucerne and attempting to reach London. He says authorities are being urged to help and asks his parents and friends be notified.
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Arthur E. Childs
Massachusetts Lighting Companies
Addis
Visitors Fail to Recognize Member in Commons Gallery
In the Strangers' Gallery a rural district couple tried to identify their MP on the floor. One sighed that he could not distinguish him, and the other replied that the member cannot even distinguish himself.
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House of Commons
Ainsley Returns from War-Torn France to Boston
John R. Ainsley of John R. Ainsley & Co. arrives in Boston after a suspenseful flight from war stricken France. He spent the prior week touring Metz Luxemberg and Treves amid heavy fighting as the conflict erupted and reported Paris as the crisis began.
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John Hopkins Denison
Central Church
Boston
Lower East Side
New York
Church of Sea and Land
Denison
Egypt
John R. Ainsley
John R. Ainsley & Co
France
Mr. Ainsley
Metz
Luxemberg
Treves
Paris
Love and Money in a Dilemma of Two Suitors
A young woman writes Mildred Champagne seeking guidance between two suitors. One is a poorer man she respects and could be happy with if love exists. the other is wealthy but younger, offering future money. The columnist urges weighing love and shared ideals, warning against marrying for money alone.
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Contoocook
N. H
Miss Champagne
Man Charged With Wounding Claims Provocation At Police Court
A man charged at Liverpool Po lice Court with wounding stated the prosecutor struck him first on the jaw. When asked if he hit first he replied no, asserting that had he struck first the prosecutor would have been in hospital, not himself.
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Liverpool
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