Boston Post front page partial notice February 28 1910
The Boston Post issue from February 28 1910 shows subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions and publication details. It notes prices for daily one year three dollars, six months one fifty, eight months seventy cents, one month twenty cents, and Sunday one year two fifty, six months one twenty five, three months unknown. The paper is published by Post Publishing Company with office at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts and indicates Canada copy pricing and mailing terms.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
The
Sunday Post
Canada
Post
Post Publishing Company
Telephone addresses and editorial offices listed
Subscriptions to the Post must be paid in advance and will be discontinued on expiration. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly, notify by postal at once. Editor and Publisher BE A GROZIER.
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BE. A
Grozier
Supreme Court ruling backs license laws on streets
Massachusetts Supreme Court held unlicensed cars are unlawful in the street after a Melrose highway wreck involving two women and a man. The women sought damages for injuries and the man for car wrecking, all loses upheld. Obeying laws before coercion pays in more ways than one.
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Massachusetts Supreme Court
Melrose
Opportunity sparks New England business publicity fund
A Boston dinner of regional businessmen under the Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Pilgrim Publicity Association introduced a plan for a publicity fund exceeding 1,000,000 dollars to promote sectional products for one year. Freeman of New York estimates at least a fifteenfold boost in business from the campaign, predicting phenomenal outcomes if properly executed.
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New England
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Pilgrim Publicity Association
Freeman
New York
Responsibility in National Banks Stated By Directors
The Cambridge bank statement by Bookkeeper Coleman claiming he is “the whole thing” is rejected as misplacing accountability. Responsibility rests with the board of directors, then the subordinate officials, who are bound by directive limits. National banks serve the people, and no single person governs them alone.
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Coleman
Cambridge
Rebuff to Knox Diplomacy Overshadows London Talks
The British foreign office sent an unfavorable general reply to Secretary Knox's proposal to empower a high court at the London maritime conference to arbitrate disputes among Hague signatories. The editors fault Knox's manner, not the idea, noting American candor risks failing to achieve results without tactful diplomacy.
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Knox
England
British Foreign Office
High Court
London
Great Britain
America
Beef Trust Prosecution Takes New Jersey Course
The beef trust case moves to New Jersey court this week with Hudson county grand jury hearings. Prosecutor Garven may seek to void the National Packing Company charter, posing extradition questions for Chicago indictments and a possible end to the corporations if individuals dodge arrest.
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Beef Trust
New Jersey
Hudson County
Chicago
Illinois
National Packing Company
Garven
The Cambridge bank defalcation and fare swindle syndicate
Incidental revelations linked to the Cambridge bank defalcation expose a brazen fare swindle syndicate operating in Boston with New York ties. Police had official information of the gang and sizable victim losses, yet evidence collection blocked arrests. The piece questions motives and urges a cleaner game in Boston.
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Cambridge
Sunday Post
Boston
New York
Coleman Sati
Lodge Defends Tariff View on Beef Prices
A Senate discussion features Senator Lodge arguing the tariff does not affect beef costs. He cites U S beef production ranks and questions the impact of a 25 percent import duty, noting trusts would oppose tariff removal and push for protection of the American beef industry.
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Senate
Senator Lodge
Lodge
Argentina
England
Washington
High Lineage Milk Blue Prompts Farm Talk
A rural host bets on a ten dollar advance for a week of boarding, while a young man notes the milk looks blue. The man attributes the color to insufficient feed, prompting regional dialogue on farming practices and cattle quality.
Honest living keeps a man out of jail
Hyker states a simple fact that honesty should guide unprejudiced minds. Pyker asks for the basic truth. Hyker replies that honesty prevents the need for jail, framing moral conduct as preventive justice.
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Hyker
Pyker
All Sorts by Newton Newkirk Poem
Poets sing of gentle springtime and warm winds as seasons turn. A Brockton reader laments the pocketbook strain of Easter outfits, noting winter clothes pawned while spring promises bloom.
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Newton Newkirk
The Elastic Skin Man and Circus Sideshow Tales
A reminiscence recalls the era of elastic skin acts in side shows. The narrator describes a famed elastic skin man stretching cheek skin and a countryman’s prank that knocked him unconscious. He also notes a sword swallower's risky feats and comical aftereffects from brass tacks to nails and glass.
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Thomas Holmes
New York City
Post Card From Parsons Tenn Exposes Town Boosts
A reader forwards a Parsons Board of Trade card praising the town’s 700 residents, three churches, three marble yards, gravel pits, drug and jewelry shops, two hotels, phosphate mines, livery stables, a barber shop, a flouring mill, and a brick school. It notes Parsons lies midway between New York and San Francisco on a railroad line and jokes about a barber shop opening unless locals shave themselves.
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Parsons
Tenn
Parsons Board of Trade
Buckner
New York
San Francisco
Perryville
N. Cc
St. L. Ratloe
Through the Earth Hole Thought Experiment
A humorous exchange explains that if a hole could connect Boston to China and two people jumped in from opposite ends they would meet near the earth’s center. The meeting point would depend on each person’s weight, and the speaker declines to participate in such an experiment.
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Newt
Boston
China
Sing
Concord
N. H
A Little Winter Journey to Sunnier Climes
A Florida travel note contrasts Palm Beach anglers, food fishermen, and sport fishermen. It describes Miami day trips of 68 miles by auto from Palm Beach, and a shorter Lauderale run to the Apache exile camp in the Everglades, with a tomorrow image tease of the Royal Palm dock.
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Palm Beach
Miami
Lauderdale
Everglades
Royal Palm Dock
Fla
Hole with you in science plan to sell mine use
A student warns against underestimating him and outlines a plan to repurpose a hole for scientific use, with intent to sell it for mining, boiler interiors and other commercial applications after initial work.
Little Memoirs Business March Mystery
A compact item notes a witty line about “there is plenty of room at the top” and jokes about who cleaned the stairs, reflecting a light rumor column tone. No clear names or events are given. the snippet positions humor over specifics.
Observant Citizen recounts Boston area events and anecdotes
A Southbridge resident reveals he suspected bank treasurer John A. Hall of spending freely but not robbing the Southbridge Savings Bank. The column also notes a Boston hotel supper with champagne and cigars, a Middleboro dog Kingie who rings for Creedon, a cold-water beach plunge by William Douglas, sea gulls on Charles River, fashionably dressed women in Cambridge, a Winthrop Valentine routine, notes on Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, a Norwich alumni dinner, and other city observations including a damaged ice fall and Harvard Law School chatter. The piece closes with an ice accident involving Mrs. Charles P Daily in Beachmont.
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Southbridge
Southbridge Savings Bank
John A. Hall
Hall
Boston
Charles River
Norwich University
Young’s
Harvard
Charles Street
Steers
Indicted Forty Times The Copper King Tale
A satirical verse by Walt Mason portrays a self made magnate who rose from poverty to wealth owning railways and mines and achieving fame. The lyric notes he has been indicted twenty times and ends by lampooning his moral pretensions amid industrial triumphs.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
The Heart of Old Scroggins
An icy night at a box office finds a touring troupe short on fuel and money. Scroggins, a gaunt old man, hides a stash but the ingenue Jennie secretly retrieves an empty bag, leaving his guilt exposed as she gratefully accepts help for her fare.
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Scroggins
Jennie
New York
Episode in a Train Box Office Transformation
An old man Scroggins and a young girl improvise a lavish feast in a rainbound box office. Their pretend banquet turns sardine boxes into gold ingots and olives into emeralds, uniting them in hopeful happiness as a telegram arrives seeking performers. The pair embrace a shared, improvised fortune.
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Scroggins
Prithee
Wilson
Man chases fads and cults on street in comic exchange
A man eager to push new fads accosts a long haired stranger. He claims to follow Dr Fletcher and offers steak chewing advice. The dialogue shifts as the stranger reveals he is a poet and asks where to obtain the beefsteak.
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Dr. Fletcher
Remnant Rivalry Splits Once Close Friends
Mrs Everston and Mrs Wripper, once close companions, now refuse to speak after a sale incident. Mrs Hallentrager laments the rift, while Everston reveals the quarrel began over a single remnant they both desired.
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Boston Photo News Company
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Middleboro
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Newton Centre
Washington, D. C
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Herbert Johnson
Portland
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Quincy
Cleopatra’s Needle
National Gallery
Rockefeller
Henry Abrahams
Boston Central Labor Union
Harvard Law School
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Blackstone
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Charles P. Daily
Endicott Avenue
Beachmont
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Priscilla M. Sproul
Parker Hill Avenue
Ibatrogers Bros
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