Boston Post 1916 Daily Issue Overview
The Boston Post daily edition dated February 21, 1916 from Boston Massachusetts lists the publication as No 18 Vol 358 with office at 259 Washington Street. The front page features political and local notices typical of the Independent Democratic paper.
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Subscription rates for Daltiy and Boston Post
Rates list for Daltiy and Canada One year three months and six months options. Foreign one month and per copy charges. Sunday Post to Canada option. Postage in Boston District adds cent per copy. Payments in advance. no cash sent. checks and money orders payable to POST PUBLISHING CO. Contact numbers and offices listed.
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Daltiy
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Wise action seals Nicaragua treaty gains and leases
The Post notes the Nicaragua treaty grants the United States perpetual option on a canal route, with a $3,000,000 payment that prevents Europe from building a rival to the Panama waterway. It secures long leases of the Corn Islands and a naval base at Fonseca Gulf, a rare prudent bargain for Uncle Sam.
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Nicaragua
United States
Senate
Panama
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Fonseca
Sam
Roosevelt Delays Squelching Roosevelts News Reach
The article notes Roosevelt has not issued a decisive rebuke to the four Republicans Bird Gardner Cushing and Washburn despite wide communications between Boston and St Thomas in the Danish West Indies. It suggests he could speak but remains silent, disappointing Old Guard papers.
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Bird
Gardner
Cushing
Washburn
New York
Boston
St. Thomas
Danish West Indies
Massachusetts
Old Guard
Publication Caution in Mexico Correspondence
The State Department will withhold part of the consular and diplomatic papers on Mexico to avoid inflaming tensions. Congress accepts this as standard, not defiance of law, noting 47 of 123 American deaths occurred under the last Republican administration and that Mexico remained dangerous with widespread armed disorder.
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State Department
Mexico
Congress
Fragmentary quote on war costs and public opinion
A fragment reflects a question about whether Americans would have preferred greater losses from military intervention, highlighting concerns over human cost and policy choices.
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Ming Up
We Profited From War Says Sir George Paish
The United States gains from higher prices for wheat copper oil and other resources while immigration slows. Paish argues the war has driven Europeans from home but boosted U S prosperity, and that population growth will resemble past booms tied to business cycles.
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United States
George Paish
Europe
Luxuries Policy in England Targets Cigars and Paper
The draft luxury import rule would curb tobacco and paper while fruit and canned goods draw interest. In England the annual tobacco import tops 100 million pounds with 90 percent from the United States. Americans supply about five million dollars of apples and lobsters for import.
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England
Great Britain
United States
Literacy test bans unwanted immigrants at ports
The piece argues against a literacy test for immigrants, noting it could exclude desirable workers while letting in dangerous individuals like the Chicago poison banquet perpetrator. It urges admitting wholesome workers instead of relying on literacy as a gatekeeper.
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Chicago
Older Boys Close Newton Conference at Eliot Church
The 26th annual older boys conference of the YMCA MA RI closed with Aldred H. Stearns Phillips Academy principal as the principal speaker. He spoke on Dependableness. Over 650 boys aged 15 to 20 from 79 associations attended.
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Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Eliot Church
Newton
Aldred Hi. Stearns
Phillips Academy
Tyranny and Fashion in Historic Heatwave and Cold Snap
In a July meeting, a bold white fur trimmed suit and velvet hat stunned observers amid 100 degree shade. Today in Boston, a stark contrast appears with a flimsy decollete gown and straw hat as the East Wind bites at sixteen above zero.
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H. E. F. Boston
Aerial Navigation Pitch Targets Newt with Concrete Airships
A letter lauds Newt for spotting fraud and outlines a scheme to share profits from reinforced concrete airships. The proposal claims indestructible ships that survive falls, promising safe operation for crew despite high altitude disasters.
Concrete airship scheme targets war stock profits
A letter depicts reinforced concrete dirigibles announced by COLONEL SELLERS with a test at 2 PM next Saturday at the Saugus Navy Yard. The writer questions risks, mocks the plan, and suggests post-hole ventilators and rate quotes, highlighting wartime intrigue and possible profiteering.
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Saugus Navy Yard
Newt
Sellers
Terra Firma
Navy Yard
Saugus
U. S
Observant Citizen notes end of winter signs and local tales
The column highlights spring directory deliveries, baseball season near opening, a Newburyport hen hatched five chicks from a stolen nest, and letters from France. It celebrates long service in customs, hardy New England residents, twin horse colts, and Bethel Vermont nonagenarians, plus plans to grow alfalfa in Massachusetts for zoo feed.
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Cartload
Joseph Townsend
Boardman Street
Newburyport
New England
Bethel
Hannah Snow
Sarah J. Bowen
Jane Tolles
P. C. House
Hilah Robertson
John Marshall Shaw
Chapman
Zoo
Massachusetts
Bay State
Massachusetts Society For Promoting Agriculture
Tam
Maine
Shakspere Boyhood Scenes Inspire Imagined Portrait
The article sketches an imaginary early portrait of William Shakspere, noting his Stratford upbringing and exposure to diverse social classes. It contrasts urban squalor with Warwickshire's rural beauty, referencing Charlecote Hall Clapton House and the Forest of Arden as influences on his later works.
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Shakspere
Stratford-on-Avon
London
Shaksrere
Stratford
Charlecote Hall
Clapton House
England
Warwickshire
Coventry
Rolfe
Arden
Rosalind
Orlando
Minister Dole resigns after 40 years in Jamaica Plain church
Rev. Dr. Charles D. Dole, longtime pastor of the First Congregational Society, Unitarian, Jamaica Plain, resigns after four decades. As president of the Twentieth Century Club, he plans to continue public speaking on the peace movement, seeking to spread religion’s welfare promoting message without compensation.
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Charles D. Dole
First Congregational Society
Unitarian
Jamaica Plain
Dear Miss Champagne on E Love and Sentiment
A reader seeks guidance on a broken marriage caused by a husband's infidelity. The columnist discusses social pressures, the desolation of deserted wives, and the moral question of staying for the sake of children versus seeking personal dignity and independence.
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Miss Champagne
Truth Is Mighty in a World of Deceit
Poem by Walt Mason from 1916 argues that honesty over greed yields real peace and respect. Wealth earned by lies damages the cheater and attracts sorrow, while truth remains the strongest value and protector of the community.
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Thomas
Jake
Walt Mason
Adams Newspaper Service
Funeral for Orville Lincoln Story Held at Arlington Home
The funeral for Orville Lincoln Story was held yesterday at his home 10 Devereaux Street Arlington. The service was led by Rev. H D Maxwell of the First Universalist Church Somerville with Rev. Samuel C Bushnell of Arlington Pleasant Street Congregational Church assisting. Burial followed in the family plot at Walpole.
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Orville Lincoln Story
Devereaux Street
Arlington
H. D. Maxwell
First Universalist Church
Somerville
Samuel C. Bushnell
Pleasant Street Congregational Church
Walpole
Oldest Inhabitant recalls Boston February weather
The Oldest Inhabitant notes the coldest February 21 in memory was 3 above zero in 1893 and the warmest 63 in 1906. He cites 50s temperatures as common in the date and records several single day readings including 11 in 1910 51 in 1912 and 58 in 1913. He adds Feb 21 storms in 1906 1910 and 1912.
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Boston
Fad and Fashion Paragraphs From a Past Era
Combinations of materials appear in skirts and golf scarfs tied low at the back. Bell sleeves dominate cloth coats, bishop sleeves rare. Handbags grow diverse with black taffeta and velvet as top types. Fur puffed hats resemble flowers. muslin and batiste may appear in spring millinery. Plaid coats and skirts coexist with dark and light contrasts. Sleeves remain full length, with three-quarter sleeves showing bell flare.
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