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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1919
Page
12
The Boston Post lists subscription prices for U S and Canada, Foretan, and Stanley plans, with daily and Sunday options. It notes postage, foreign copies, and payment instructions, including to make checks or drafts payable to POST PUBLISHING CO.
Editorial and press notices list offices and staff contact details. Subscription policy warns of discontinuation after expiration. Notices mention Associated Press rights and international bureau locations.
A Boston reader praises "Big Bill" Keliher after prison release, commending his fault acknowledged and vow to be a useful American. The letter urges local support, noting his choice to stay in Boston to gain redemption and prove himself a new man.
The editorial notes criticism of prominent New York women forming a National Women's Democratic party. It argues women voting en masse is hard and major parties appeal beyond gender. If the party educates voters about politics, it could be useful despite doubts about a women's party becoming a strong political force.
In Boston a tag day appeals for contributions to aid Armenians not for clothing but to rescue and return girls carried off to Turkish harems by Moslem raiders in the late war. The Armenian National Union of America leads the drive to bring the captives home, amid a history of 19th and 20th century massacres and widespread captivity.
Astronomers led by Professor William H. Pickering of the Harvard Observatory expect an undiscovered planet outside Neptune. Based in Mandeville Jamaica he plans telescope photography in opposition to the sun around December 30. He will compare plates taken days apart to detect minute movements of distant points.
The text notes photographs being taken at Mandeville Cambridge and other observatories and expresses hope that a Pickering may discover a suspected new planet in the near future.
Washington signs reveal rising unease among mild reservationists about blocking the peace treaty. Senators fear political fallout for the party as delays threaten ratification and the nation’s standing. Railroads face wage demands and uncertain rate hikes, with the cost of service likely guiding regulation.
The piece surveys rising reform efforts beyond prohibition including anti tobacco activism and pending bills to curb interstate gambling and betting. It notes forthcoming measures proposed by the International Reform Bureau such as restricting coffee use and frames the reforms as approaching a new era.
An opinion piece critiques Austria for abandoning peace to join the war and urges American aid to feed and aid the Austrian people. It argues the war era punished the country and warns civilization's commandments were ignored. The author views postwar relief as a chance to win global goodwill and restore civilization.
President Wilson postponed the return of the railroads to March 1 due to lacking regulatory legislation. Congress has bills in conference, and the extra two months may still be insufficient to reach an agreement. Without new laws, many roads cannot safely revert to private operation as revenues fail to meet government guarantees.
The Post thanks its readers for the Christmas fund that brings sweaters food and toys to thousands of poor children in Greater Boston. The initiative reflects the paper’s readers generosity and Christmastide spirit and is celebrated as a community achievement.
The Republican convention gathers a crowded field of candidates from the Far West to the East. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University joins the list as a notable entrant. His bid gains unexpected support from President Wilson’s administration, while Massachusetts also features Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Senator Lodge. Delegates face a crowded choice, likened to a lover with many appealing options.
Marquis of Blandford heir to Vanderbilt wealth selects Hon Alexandra Cadogal as bride. she inherited a fortune from Sir Henry Meux’s widow. Other notes mention Captain Nahan Franko recalling a royal moment with King Edward, writer Sam Davis’s meeting with Sarah Bernhardt, and the Guinness lineage funding Dublin housing.
Synopsis of prior chapters details Stealthy Steve, a U S secret service operative aboard the Loon, his海venture against U boats and Zeppelins, and his arrival in Paris where Bertha von Glick plots his downfall while he remains unaware.
Stealthy Steve, a sleuth, is drawn into drinks with Bertha von Glick, a beautiful spy. He naively flirts while Bertha plots with Hamburg Harry and Biff the Stiff to undermine him at Cafe L Apache that night. Steve admires Bertha and promises to join her on a slumming outing, unaware of the danger.
A concise look at the Pilgrim era and Plymouth’s Town Brook. The Dutch visitor of 1627 describes fish weirs and salt-leaned maize growth aided by river salmon and fertilizer. The fortune of the Fortune voyage and backers’ profit chase are narrated with hardship and loss.
A Boston column recalls St John the Evangelist Day with tales of drinking healths in the old days and the end of such customs after Prohibition. It notes misleading signs for intoxicants, hard cider myths, and social rites, alongside city life details from Mayor Peters to War Camp service, weather, and local quirks.
Charles Franklin Jones urges readers to shape the present to improve the future and avoid letting present evils grow. He notes the past offers lessons, the future remains unseen, and action in the now matters more than idle dreaming. A prison anecdote contrasts generosity with imminent execution.
A reader asks what owning a "section" of land means and doubts Cleopatra's beauty. He notes a section equals one square mile and argues Helen of Troy was the greater beauty, poetically called The World's Desire.
Palm Beach lies on the Atlantic coast between the ocean and the Everglades. The Atlantic side’s average temperatures are warmer than the Gulf side, with Southern Florida seeing 13 to 103 degrees.
The user cites a Robert W. Service poem with stanzas ending Carry on and a final stanza urging perseverance and duty. They quote lines urging belief in mission and making the world better, ending with Carry on, my soul, carry on. The request seeks identification of this poem by title.
The Barnum name remained connected through marriage as a Ringling daughter wed into the Barnum family and inherited control, ensuring the circus stayed within the extended lineage rather than a direct sale from Barnum himself.
The guidance states that both should not precede alike. use I treated them alike instead.
The first American production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Pinafore occurred at the old Boston Museum on November 25, 1878. The garment pinafore predates the opera by over a century, explaining the naming order.
A description of an ancient practice that uses the first word on the left page of a randomly opened Bible to decide yes or no. If the word has an odd number of letters, the answer is yes. if even, the answer is no.
Observations recall Boston's coldest on this date reaching 0 degrees in 1914 and 9 above in 1904 while the warmest was 60 degrees in 1895. In the past decade there has been no rain or snow on December 27 except in 1911 1912 and 1915.
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