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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
16
Daily newspaper edition from December 6 1912 featuring local Boston news, notices, and community items. Contains early 20th century reporting on events at Boston and surrounding areas, with period tone and header details.
The Daily subscription rates are one year three dollars, six months one dollar fifty, eight months seventy five cents, one month twenty five cents. The Sunday Post costs three dollars per year, six months one fifty, three months fifteen cents, two months sixty cents, one month eighty cents. Canada and foreign per copy charges apply, with Boston postage added. Do not send cash. make checks or money orders payable to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Public notice of editorial offices and contact numbers for Sunday and sporting editors plus Main office and business office. Includes subscription policy requiring advance payment and discontinuation on expiration. Signed by E A Grozier, Editor and Publisher.
A statement attributed to Robert Hoe asserts that The Boston Post owns the largest newspaper printing plant in New England and the largest press in the world, highlighting the paper's expansive production capacity.
The federal legislative, executive and judicial bill moves to the House without a commerce court provision. Taft has tried to save the court, even vetoing tweaks, but consensus says the once restless body will fade away as judges return to circuits and peace prevails.
Boston yachtsmen discuss the possibility of assembling a challenger if the competition with New York advances. They note Boston's historic role in America Cup races and claim a new school of designers could produce a strong entry if needed.
The Pilgrim Publicity Association proposes a new Publicity House in a building on the Bromfield Methodist Church site. The group, a lively Boston advertising circle, envisions a hub for local promotion benefiting Boston and New England. The association vows to pursue its impactful plans with its past success and enthusiasm.
Express companies under the Interstate Commerce Commission now require employees to paste a yellow label on prepaid packages and a white label on collect packages so recipients know what to do. If no label is affixed, delivery is free and the matter adjusted later. Public cooperation is requested to implement the plan.
United States District Court probes penalties against three railroads for federal violations. Focus centers on alleged breach of the safety appliance act after a car with a broken coupling left Allston yard in July. If the road knew, reproach and penalties follow. Other issues include overtime work claims against Boston & Maine for excess hours.
The text notes that Central Vermont began work with a five man crew and a similar overtime from Millers Falls. It argues federal statutes regulating railways must be clarified by the courts to prove effective, urging judicial definition of their scope and application.
Attorney General Wickersham's annual report is challenged for denying strengthening of civil Sherman act provisions. A Boston federal court private hearing ruling is criticized as misreading the public stake. The public, as real party to the suit, deserves to know the evidence and timing, not a closed proceeding.
A commentary on the edition de luxe scandal warns of gullibility among readers and crafty solicitors while defending the overall integrity of the U.S. book publishing industry. It urges public exposure of frauds without tarnishing legitimate publishers and highlights the sector as a substantial, honorable enterprise.
The New Haven railroad bets on electrifying the Boston & Maine to Beverly and urges legislative power with a short start deadline or forfeit. Public trust hinges on secured promises, while potential motives against the rival Boston & Eastern line are seen as incidental. The public would benefit if the project proceeds on its merits.
Peter C. Brooks favors keeping The Appeal to the Great Spirit by Dallin in the museum quadrangle. Yet the writer argues the statue would gain strength if placed in a woodland setting, enhancing its impact and posterity value.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce proposes a three months tour to South America in early spring. The goal is to strengthen business ties between northern and southern commercial interests via personal contact rather than long distance communication. Participants will gain experience from travel through tropical and temperate zones, enjoying the contrast.
A voice laments rising prices after moving to town and selling milk, noting five cent milk in the country, higher town prices for light and meat, and longing for a cow. The speaker recalls the Farm era with humor and dissatisfaction at the Ile Trust light rise.
Ted RowWinson, daily column conductor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, muses on the distinction between comic opera and grand opera. He notes fans of grand opera view comic opera as serious, while comic opera lovers find grand opera more comic than grand.
Mr and Mrs W N Cone express heartfelt thanks to the friends who worked hard to save their house from fire last Thursday at their Hartford Michigan home and say they hope to return the favor, in the Day Spring notice.
A humorous letter in which a veterinarian-like figure diagnoses two goldfish as suffering fleas causing nervous, frenetic swimming and tail biting and a parrot named Lucy as coin-obsessed and fidgety. The so called expert prescribes goldfish flea soap baths and parrot corn-plaster distraction, humorously noting a $25 fee and requesting payment by certified check.
Miss Helen Holmes of Kingston Smith College 1887 urged women to pursue farming and floriculture as promising careers at a conference held by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
The article describes Sofia as a progressive, rapidly growing capital with modern boulevards and grand buildings, comparing its future to major European centers. It contrasts Bulgarian pragmatism with Serb and Montenegrin volatility and notes Bulgaria's rising regional power, ambitions in Macedonia, and potential to expand toward Constantinople, influencing great power diplomacy.
An observant writer recounts encounters with R. G. Leavitt a Costa Rica trading rep and Olympic hurdler, Chinese student presence at Tech and other local notes. He cites Boston weather, a Norfolk area bread artifact from 1861 and various civic items from Lynn to Hampden County.
A poem attributed to Walt Mason laments the fading year 1912 as it nears its end. The author uses playful personification to describe Time as a funeral director and the year as waning, while observers reflect on aging and the Christmas shopping season.
A Maine moose tally includes 68 this season with one felled by Cement Ford, treasurer of Stone & Webster affiliates. An amusing note says Ford bought a cheap Mannlicher rifle after a friend mocked it, then used it to shoot a 798 pound moose two weeks later. The painting gift from the Massachusetts Bar Association awaits reception by county commissioners likely on the 19th.
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