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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1916
Page
14
A writerly critique questions magazinists who condemn U S war policy yet avoid enlisting. The piece argues these critics preach for collective fighting while individually avoiding frontline service or hospital duties, noting a disconnect between opinion and action.
A Boston physician notes that the very rich get top doctors while the poor use free clinics. Massachusetts General Hospital opens Tuesday and Friday afternoon clinics open to all for a small fee, offering access to the best staff doctors. The average person is expected to welcome the plan.
A veteran editorial extols a long lasting heavy snow storm as a nostalgic return of traditional winter. It notes improved modern heating and cleared highways, calls the season a rare epoch in a generation, and reflects on public resilience amid heavy snowfall.
The remark reflects a shift to traditional methods for verification or record keeping, praising the return to familiar processes as reliable and preferable. It emphasizes the value of straightforward, time-tested approaches over newer, less tangible methods. It implies a sense of acceptance and satisfaction with this reinvigorated practice.
In a Washington bound protest against Louis D Brandeis for the Supreme Court Boston signers claim his reputation as a lawyer commands public confidence while criticizing monopoly power and organized greed The analysis notes many signers share offices or affiliations tying them to Moorfield Storey Harvard College and related entities and likens the petition’s network to a baseball team covering the state street end of the old State House and Harvard offices.
The Virginius affair saw a Spanish capture of an American flagged steamer and the execution of 36 crewmembers and 16 passengers, including Americans. Despite war talk, President Grant pursued extended diplomacy and negotiated indemnity rather than rushing to war.
The piece criticizes anti administration newspapers for flip flopping on Garrison's continental army plan. It notes prior denouncement as futile and later quarrels over readiness showing partisan bias and calls the president a dictator. It questions how a Democratic president can satisfy a rigid Republican press.
The Russian government with 250,000,000 gallons of vodka in storage faces peasant drinking pressure. A proposal suggests altering vodka’s properties to serve as fuel for cars, turning a weapon of intoxication into domestic and commercial use and reducing excess supply. If vodka could revert to potatoes and rice, it would feed people, but that outcome is deemed unlikely.
A look at Shakspere’s lineage highlights a literate mother and illiterate father lore, debunking myths of a godlike genius born from nowhere. Mary Arden’s Wilmcote farming kin and Warwickshire Arden ties suggest a middle-class milieu shaping the playwright.
Mary persuades Bob to take a loan from her to launch his dental practice with plans for an unusual honeymoon. After marriage the couple share a homey office and social life, but an expository twist reveals Mary’s loan grew into a $500 debt with high interest, altering their fortunes.
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