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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1910
Page
10
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, lists prices for 1 year, six months, and shorter terms, notes Canadian per copy pricing, and directs prepayment and payment methods. Editor E A Grozier is identified. office and telephone details are provided.
The Postmaster General urges universal home mail boxes or door slots. The department estimates this would lift delivery efficiency by at least 20 percent and spare households from missing carriers or unsafe mail when occupants are away. The public is urged to support the government’s mail service improvement.
Authorities publish the names of bakers and restaurant keepers who bought decayed eggs. Newspapers print the list to shame culprits and deter others. The public exposure, not modest fines, is presented as the effective penalty for selling rotten food.
The upcoming Legislature faces a duty to redraw congressional districts and should heed election facts. Despite Republicans winning 10 of 14 seats, Democratic votes lead overall by 9520, with most Democratic districts showing larger pluralities than Republican ones. The piece warns against gerrymandering and urges fair practice on Beacon Hill this winter.
Attorney General Malone announced an appeal against the Boston & Maine and New Haven Railroad milk tariffs set last October. He argues the rates unfairly discriminate against independent shippers and seeks ICC action to correct the injustice.
The text argues tariffs lack provisions for milk transport by rail in non carload quantities and for freight shipments below carload sizes. It contends small independents cannot deal directly with railroads and must charter cars or contract with others, a practice the author calls wrong and unlikely to be endorsed by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The United States must retain full control of the Panama Canal as a national asset. The essay argues the canal differs from the Suez project, being a public venture under US sovereignty with fortification and defense funded by American taxpayers. It urges continued protection and use for national interest.
The article surveys Britain’s multi-stage electoral process amid shifting party strengths. It notes Liberals 275, Labour 40, Nationalists 71, Independents 11, Unionists 273, with a historic Liberal majority of 124 in Commons, and ponders future power shifts and Lords reform.
The United States Court of Appeals upholds jail sentences for two Turpentine Trust officials, signaling that guilt under the Sherman anti trust law can be personal. The ruling aims to convict violators directly, not just corporations, and warns that further cases will emphasize individual responsibility.
The column discusses whether an oyster cocktail is a drink or food, proposing humorous terms like oyster mock cocktail and dronks, and notes the folly of drinking it while suggesting eating with a spoon. The piece leans on reader letters and a witty exchange with the Sporting Editor.
A column highlights a stray polecat at Roxbury Crossing and a police encounter, a deacon hunter and a cat incident, a newborn Nor ton Enneking Long, and a new Naval Hospital project in Chelsea. It covers Harvard dorm memories, early Christmas shopping, Rouse O’Brien comments on bathing, a prominent Boston magnate and street sweeper moment, coin tipping by a Watertown Needham line conductor, university law news, mining circles, Fanny Rice’s West tour, and theatrical memories.
Police Commissioner Cropsey decreed a citywide hush to curb noise. Police will suppress flat-wheeled trolley cars and new angled auto horns as disturbers of peace.
The Prussian government drafts a bill to merge Berlin and its suburbs into a Greater Berlin with about 3.5 million residents. The administration would resemble London's county council with a 100 member body, one third elected from Berlin proper.
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