The Boston Post subscription notice and offices
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for six months and one year with advance payment required. Addresses for offices in Boston and New York hotels listed, encouraging prepayment and noting discontinuation on expiry. Editor and Publisher EB A Grozier signs the notice.
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A Bright New Year 1902 Reflections
A 1902 New Year message proclaims the century’s second year as a path of progress. It urges confidence in continued advancement, faith in the rational pace of history, and a practical, sturdy American spirit ready to fulfill the year’s promised outcomes.
Monopoly Collapse Lessons From The Asphalt Trust
The piece compares a failed monopoly to past trusts like Amalgamated and copper cornering schemes. It notes legitimate business can falter when raw materials are oversupplied, causing unjust profits through restraint of trade. The author warns against future blind pools and hopes for staggered collapses to avoid repeats of 1893.
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Laureate Austin’s New Year Greeting Critiqued
The critic demeans Alfred Austin for a New Year poem praising Anglo American unity. It questions the verse’s poetic quality and urgency and argues the rhetoric undermines any popular sentiment for a British alliance. The piece notes the poet’s reliance on well worn lines and poor inspiration.
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Arbitration urged over Venezuelan rail deal and bonds
The case concerns German capitalists who built a Caracas to Valencia railroad under a Venezuelan guarantee of 7 percent interest and reorganizational costs. President Castro condemns prior construction as robbery and rejects predecessors' obligations, prompting a plea for The Hague to settle on equitable terms without further belligerence.
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Early 1902 Legislature Opens With High Hopes
The new year brings the Legislature of 1902 to Beacon Hill with optimism for a swift session. The piece notes a clear majority and smooth early organization, predicting prompt committee appointments and full operation by the coming Monday, while acknowledging this may be ambitious.
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A Collapsed Trust Describes Asphalt Trust History
The Asphalt Trust did not own asphalt or plants but held stock in about 70 working companies. It created a fictitious structure to restrain trade, similar to other monopolies like the Sugar and Tobacco Trusts. It bought up firms at inflated prices, issued watered stock, and sold certificates to the public.
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New England Post year 1901 set million weekly reach
The Boston Post logged over a million weekly copies in 1901 with an average daily circulation of 161,873, rising to 177,397 in the last four months. Sunday circulation reached 127,068, the largest in its history, while the Daily Post remained ahead of several New England papers. The paper aims to pass 200,000 daily and lead Sunday coverage.
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Loyal public service pledge for the new year
A fragment notes continued support and a vow to faithfully and fearlessly serve the interests of the people in the coming year. The terse line emphasizes duty to the public and persistent commitment without detailing specific actions or officials.
GOOD-BY OLD YEAR AND HUB CLUB SIGHT GAGS
A Boston club meeting jokes about snow removal schemes and weather clerks. The Hub Municipal Club ponders a 20 000 person snow brigade using buckets or heated flasks, while concerns arise about misused equipment and bond penalties. The meeting adjourns after forming a committee to confer with the weather clerk.
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Condittions Competition In the Sunday Post
Anita Wellseley reads a letter from her lover George Freeman, who returns after three years with no fortune. Pauline Winslow, a poor cousin, resembles Anita, and mistaken meetings lead to growing affection between Pauline and George. Anita schemes to secure wealth, but loses George when she reveals a wealth-based engagement. Pauline learns George is rich and accepts him, while Anita realizes her true love was George.
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January 1902 North Atlantic weather forecast
The naval hydrographic officer releases a January 1902 forecast for the North Atlantic. Expect stormy conditions on transatlantic routes with frequent strong westerly and northwesterly gales. Areas north of the 30th parallel show gales, with intermittent fog north of the routes, and trades moving southward.
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Boston Chinese residents deny Nickerson funding
In a letter to the editor, Stephen W. Nickerson states he has not been retained nor funded by Chinese residents or any group to oppose the Geary act or any anti Chinese legislation. He asserts he opposes discrimination as he would oppose any race facing discriminatory laws.
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Boy Dies After Ice Hole Accident at Crystal Lake
Gardner reports Alfred Carmier aged 14 skated backward into a hole in the ice at Crystal Lake this afternoon. He was pulled from the water unconscious and died a few moments later.
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Chelsea Barber Heir to Fortune Revealed in Portland Land
William L. Brackett, a Chelsea barber, is named as an heir to a $9,000,000 Portland Maine land estate. Heirs of Old Falmouth Brackett seek to recover the fortune claiming rightful ownership. The land sits on Portland’s valuable central area as a long term lease dispute resurfaces.
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Farewell to Rev Emory Hunt at Clarendon Street Church
A farewell meeting at Clarendon Street Baptist Church honored retiring pastor Rev. Emory W. Hunt D D who has been chosen president of Dennison College. Outsiders including Rev Messrs Shaw Plum mer and Gordon attended as the program led by Deacon Perkins featured a petie farewell by Miss McLeary and heartfelt testimonials from a large audience.
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Important reorganization of Mutual Life Boston agency
An important change in the management of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York in Boston takes effect today. Charles A. Hopkins retires as general agent. Frederick E. Keep becomes manager for Suffolk and Essex counties, to head the Boston Agency. L. L. Hopkins becomes manager for Barnstable to Plymouth counties, heading the Eastern Massachusetts Agency. Headquarters are at Milk Street, Boston, in newly improved offices. George K. Sargent is superintendent of agents for the Boston agency, with Theodore H. Ormiston as superintendent for Western Massachusetts, and Charles W. Tarbell remains cashier for both agencies. The region posted record business last year and expects a larger agency force under the new arrangement.
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Fraternal Bond Across Nations in Union of Flags
A poem of alliance and shared duty urges Kent England to stand with the United States against alien plots. It extols fraternal fellowship, unity in action, and mutual resolve to fight for Freedom, Duty, and shared heritage under the flag as shamrock rose and heather are joined.
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