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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1911
Page
8
The Boston Post dated August 29 1911 lists subscription rates and contact details for the publication. It includes daily and Sunday plans with prices, office addresses at 259 Washington St Boston and telephone lines for editorial and business offices.
Mr. Lawson spent many hundred dollar bills on legal advice with little certainty of value. If he agrees not to commit a worse breach of the law than at the Marshfield Fair, society may treat him leniently.
The piece notes a handsome apology by Congressman Gardner to Messrs. Walker and White for crowding them from the political limelight at Hamilton. It questions whether the Republican machine can apologize so effectively again at the primaries if it has already crowded out other figures.
An eminent member notes real society does not pause to think about the Astor Force engagement. The piece mocks a society that swaps marriage partners as casually as gloves, inviting readers to guess what real society thinks.
The Record cannot prove Mr. Foss promised voters that electing Democrats would lower prices. The Post did not echo such a claim. The higher prices may reflect Taft’s failure to approve price-lowering legislation.
The Brookline town commission on public improvement notes poor sidewalk conditions. Similar issues exist in Boston, with potential metropolitan footway upgrades benefiting many residents and costs.
The cranberry harvest on the Cape is set to begin tomorrow as pickers arrive in large numbers and railroads plan cranberry specials. Within a week bogs will be busy while textile mills reopen, offering work to out of work fibers and signaling a regional economic shift. The Hamilton corporation mills resumed operations yesterday.
A Massachusetts ruling under Chapter 121 of the Acts of 1911 shields divorce co respondents from public notice. The piece argues publicity serves as a societal corrective, noting no broad demand for secrecy and warning that concealing transgressors may breed increased vice.
Senator Lodge misfired in his Hamilton address last Saturday. He drifted from logic into alarmist rhetoric, allegedly bungling a remark about Massachusetts and its woolen and cotton mills, prompting critique of his reasoning.
A speaker warns that ae and shoe factories may shut down or cut wages to English and German levels unless Massachusetts voters elect a Republican governor this year. The passage argues the state issue could determine the election standings and implies a Democratic win in protest.
Laurence Minot argues the public should maintain a partnership role in transportation settlements without seizing company control. He says public sentiment, not investor fear, endangers money for public services, citing past lease plans and current fair proposals with broad support. If private capital wanes, public credit remains as a fallback.
The New Haven railroad company reports that a wreck near Middletown resulted from deliberate rail tampering. It claims every spike was pulled and angle bars removed on both sides of the curve, with ties and spike-holes supporting the finding. The motive appears purposeless malice, not plunder or personal enmity. The company and state vow full investigation and punishment.
The piece argues that GOP plans to run national issue campaigns in Massachusetts fail to address local concerns. It notes focus on tax reform, a State Finance Commission, direct legislation, and a reelection bid by a progressive Governor. It also points out no federal elections occur this year and tariff action is deferred.
L Cuirez de Lara once editor of a Los Angeles socialist paper and later a captain in Madero's army has been jailed in Torreon on charges of assailing President Taft King Alphonso of Spain and Emperor William of Germany in public speeches. A complaint signed by local consuls for the three nations attributes the remarks to him. In Torren he said Taft is "out for cash and cares not for Werteral."
A collage of brief digests covers political notes about Congress, art world sparing remarks on the Mona Lisa and celebrity situations. It mentions Maine water work progress with divers filing reports and a light touch on auto speed and alimony in judicial matters.
Merely to relieve any apprehension on the part of the aero experts the weather reports have omitted to put over any thing about an early fall.
The Atchison Globe questions eastern papers for boosting a Kansas sanitation story involving shaving a cat. Editor Ed Howe denounces the push as envy not progress, noting local cats lack even safety razors and far from progressive.
In Carlsbad Germany the international chess masters tourney reaches its third round with draws in Lowenfisch Johrer Perlis Suechting Kostic Burn Chazes Salwe and Rabinowitsch Widmar games. The report notes a hot Kostic Burn tilt and comments on declining American athletic talent and upcoming changes to coal bill style.
A humorous piece in a faux British voice mocks American baseball terms and customs. The narrator notes tea breaks, slang like give it a ride, safety punch, ivory beans, and arbiter antics, joking on cross culture quirks and travel plans.
Wimpy Weems spots a home made craft crash in a desert as Maston Petrol and John Charles Jolsom are knocked to the sand. The exchange hints at tensions with a villain and a stubborn moral stance from Uncle Bunk and Bill Perkins.
The article recounts the Exodus story from Egypt to Canaan with emphasis on the ten plagues, the firstborn death, and the journey lasting 40 years. It compares the event to other historical military retreats, notes the growth of the Israelite group, and lists prior Core Pictures in the series along with subscription details.
The tale closes with Wimpy Weems rescuing Katharine k Toory from Bedouins aboard The Falling Star. Wilton the Numidian lion bites and the crowd is scattered. Wimpy professes love. Katharine sobs. plans wedlock in Biskra follow. author hints a final vacation soon.
A man seeks to woo Mildred Champagne described as about 80, well educated and refined. a letter suggests attending her church, enlisting the minister’s aid, and discreetly learning who accompanies her. The writer advises patience and multiple suitors if necessary, framing potential success as broadening social effort.
A customer asks if stain pens are kept. the shopman replies no and accuses the customer of being too clever, with a sarcastic remark about Dikasa and a lewd jab.
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