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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1913
Page
10
The Boston Post issued February 10 1913 at 259 Washington Street Boston Mass. No. 9 Volume? The Independent Democratic Paper of New England published daily by Post Publishing Co. Office listings and masthead details present.
The Boston Post lists subscription rates for Daily and Sunday editions, with prices for 1 year six months three months and shorter terms. It notes Canada and foreign copy charges, mailing district postage, and payment instructions. Editor E A Grozier urges advance payment and warns of discontinuation without notice.
Quote from Robert Hoe praises the Boston Post as owning the largest newspaper printing plant in New England and the largest press in the world, highlighting the paper's manufacturing capacity and prominence in the industry.
The Birmingham Age Herald urges Congress to swiftly erect a Washington memorial to Abraham Lincoln. It argues placing Walt Whitman’s lines would complete the tribute to the Civil War president and martyr and calls the suggestion worth heeding.
A Boston School Committee hearing tonight will discuss a petition from the School Voters League to further ease the cap rule governing teachers political activity. Supported by the American Federation of Labor State, the State Federation of Teachers, Ford Hall Union, and the Boston C. L. U., the group notes recent loosening allowing petitions to the Legislature but argues teachers still lack many ordinary political rights. They contend looser limits help schools and the city.
The Pennsylvania railroad issues a rule forbidding staff from using friendly terms such as friend, stranger, comrade, brother, sister, or neighbor. Passengers must be addressed as sir or madam or beg pardon, ending a casual exchange like Morning neighbor. The note suggests keeping neighbor as a courteous exception.
The article recalls childhood spelling bee memories and reports that Chicago will revive these events in city social centers twice weekly with support from the Mayor and judges, aiming to crown champions as in old town hall contests.
Prominent citizens debate whether contests featuring puzzlers from earlier days will draw the public. Some see it as charming nostalgia, others warn it may seem old fashioned and naive to modern readers seeking sophistication.
A major uprising grips Mexico City with rebels in control and President Madero besieged. Felix Diaz leads the revolt as forces seize arsenal and public buildings. General Reyes dies in the fighting, signaling a tense struggle with potential U.S. protection risks for Americans in the capital.
A citizen claims study of weather signs cites earthworms surfacing before spring equinox as a predictor of continued winter. Critics note warm spell caused the worm to emerge, not a reliable forecast, warning that effects are mistaken for causes.
A narrator recalls Giovan and a merry festival with monkeys and a monk, where heavy drinking and revelry unfold. The monk grows sick and humiliated, while Giacomo boasts of high living and faces consequences. A concerned friend comments on the monk's misfortune and the foolishness of drinkers.
Poem in playful verse addressed to John Devine Inflater from a sender who longs for a letter and teases romance. The speaker mentions waiting months, ears plugged, and playful lines about Leander Leghorn, skaters, potatoes, and courting Devine Inflater with humor and flirtatious lines.
A compact reminder advises not delaying tasks but notes a caveat about the high ball habit, cautioning readers to act promptly in most cases while acknowledging a specific exception.
A 1918 tale depicts a powerful industrialist seeking a bank director from a town influencer. The Well-Known Citizen refuses, citing growing banking reforms and the new legal rights of depositors. The piece ends with a moral about justice lifting its blindfold to expose biased outcomes.
A Woonsocket social column details Mrs. A J Pothier hosting a grand armory ball that is hailed as an epoch and a social leveller. It notes the city’s pride, equal standing of soldiers and citizens, refined revelry, and a surge in ball dress demand as metropolitan peers are drawn to the event.
The Boston Post publishes its 1912 circulation analysis detailing reader gains, open access policy for advertisers, and the distribution of papers sold in towns with 20 copies or more. Average daily circulation was 399,701 with a Sunday average of 23,463, and last quarter daily 413,426. Display advertising totaled 5,894,529 lines, with 2,206,207 lines from foreign business, overseen by Kelly-Smith in New York and George Krogness in Chicago.
The article traces Lucretia Rudolph Garfield as the living former First Lady, detailing her life with James A. Garfield, her homes in Mentor Ohio and Pasadena California, and Williams College ties. It notes her generous fund for relief, her health-driven retreats to the seashore, and her later hosting role in brief White House duties. The piece recalls their early courtship, Garfield the Civil War hero, and her cautious optimism about future duties as First Lady.
A Boston column shares light vignettes from cultural life. Conductors, Harvard leaders, and local figures appear, including conductor Otto Urack, President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and Mrs. Lowell in Cambridge. Also recounted are a Klondike relic tale, Amesbury farming device, and charity events for crippled children, along with city planning talk for East Boston waterfront and a Bear hunt earnings snapshot.
A Walt Mason quip urges cordial praise for neighbors like J Augustus Caesar Jones. Compliments spread goodwill, gain friends, and shield you from cruelty, while negative talk breeds harm. The piece wraps a social ethic in playful verse.
In a reader letter from SERVESS Mildred Champagne addresses whether a couple can entertain at a man’s home. She argues that hosting a girl alone risks reputational harm, favors chaperoned visits, and outlines strict etiquette: a man’s parents should call first, then the girl may visit freely as part of the family.
Walking skirts for the country are of corduroy. Envelopes are wallet shaped or have pointed flaps. Little girls wear smart white dresses embroidered in Bulgarian colorings. Fanery edged taffeta in Bulgarian colorings will be used for millinery. White eventing gloves are slashed above the elbow and paired with wide satin ribbons matched to gowns.
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