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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1911
Page
14
A fragment from the Boston Post issue dated December 1817 notes the newspaper’s office at 259 Washington Street. The brief entry confirms publication details and periodical numbering for the city’s daily record.
Publication lists rates for daily and Sunday editions with three and six month terms. It notes payment methods including money orders and cash and urges subscribers to notify if unable to receive the Post regularly.
The item notes a Boston Post report highlighting a new press plant in New England claimed as the largest in the world, associated with Robert Hoe and R Hoe & Co. The tone emphasizes a groundbreaking development in printing infrastructure.
The Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company and the Commercial Cable Company battle over rates. Substantial cuts by Western Union met by Commercial may prove that when big monopolies clash, the public gains lower under ocean service prices.
The building commissioner's office reports 1778 permits for the city in the 11 months ending November 30, surpassing all full year totals in a decade. Permits reflect a city's material progress, and the count suggests positive development for Boston.
The Advertiser denounces a proposed presidential preference law as an assault on representative government and a socialist propaganda. It urges neighbors to remain calm while noting Massachusetts delegates to the 1908 Chicago convention largely backed Taft.
Reporters say James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice president candidate, does not want to rejoin the Taft ticket on a low tariff platform. Intimates claim he aims to run for governor of New York, despite doubts about winning on a hard stance.
Stockholders of the Sun Cook Valley railroad in New Hampshire decide to operate the line themselves rather than take President Mellen’s stock exchange offer that would yield under 3 percent. Under the Boston and Maine lease the Suncook Valley property brings about $14 000 annually.
The proposal would grant only about $5000 in earnings, leaving any excess as a justifyable reason to reject the deal. The decision could sway other stockholders of Boston and Maine leased lines and signal more proposals from Mr. Mellen. If Sun cook Valley performs independently, the Boston and Maine faces stiff dilemmas ahead.
The President’s annual message urges diplomacy over drastic steps as Ambassadors pursue talks with Russia to clarify the 1832 treaty and rights of American Jews. He urges ratification of arbitration pacts with Britain and France, and explains troop movements on the Mexican frontier amid Tripolitan and Chinese issues.
The Premier announces in the House of Commons that the government will use all constitutional means to pass a Home Rule bill for Ireland this Parliament. It signals a major readjustment in Ireland's relations to Britain, though the Lords may still reject the measure. The Commons seeks to override the Lords through a three-session act, keeping Liberal leadership in power through the next election unless the Lords yield.
A New York judge who fined a rich smuggler and spared prison for revenue violations upholds a harsher penalty for a poor cigar maker using boxes for home made cigars. The judge cites a difference between customs and internal revenue laws, sparking critique of unequal justice between wealthy art dealers and impoverished workers.
A study of Boston's Federal Street Theatre opened in 1794, rebuilt after a 1798 fire, and popular until 1852. It highlights John Howard Payne Edgar Allan Poe and Edmund Kean, their careers connected to the theatre, with notes on Payne's exile and Poe's Boston birth, and Kean's troubled Boston visit and crowd reaction.
Newton Newkirk recalls a Boston Opera House evening in which the focus falls on a well dressed gentleman beside Thomas W. Lawson in box 47. He praises Zina Brozia's Thais performance and Caricatures Athanael while recounting social antics, missteps, and a playful in foyer episode over lemon phosphate drinks.
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