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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1910
Page
8
The Boston Post lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, with annual and short-term options, plus rates for Canada. It notes second class matter status, advance payment requirements, and payment methods.
Editorial urges voters to consider the public good over bias or faction. It emphasizes electing Storrow as the candidate who best serves the town’s interests.
The piece argues for full turnout in Boston’s mayoral race between Fitzgerald and Storrow. It cites Post space allocations to counter claims of bias, notes campaign vigor, and urges voters to choose the candidate they deem best for Boston's prosperity and reform.
The upcoming National Civic Federation session in Washington features President Taft as the first speaker. The conference covers a broad program including automobile licenses insurance regulation and birth and death registration. A central aim is uniform marriage and divorce laws across states to raise public morality and decency.
Citizens are urged to vote today to elect a new leader under the new charter. The exhortation emphasizes sweeping changes and a fresh approach, urging residents to support the candidate described as a new broom ready to swing for reform.
A political struggle links an insurgent faction of House Republicans with the Pinchot Bal linger affair. Democrats aid a move to strip Uncle Joe Cannon of appointing House members on the investigation committee. The Senate amends a joint resolution to let the House pick its method. Fears arise that continued fighting could split the party and weaken the Ballinger inquiry.
The passage argues that while the Republican party is strong, its insistence on suppressing truth amid grave national scandals could lead to its destruction. It emphasizes the danger of shielding misconduct and the demand for accountability.
The notice urges residents to vote in a Boston election and endorses Storrow as the candidate favored for the city’s interests. It presents a concise civic call to action without additional details.
Mrs. Mary Freer of Ashland Ohio died over six years ago leaving an estate valued at 95000. Lawyers settling the estate have collected large fees and filed an official account showing only 144 cents remains for heirs to share. The piece mocks high priced probate work and suggests bequeathing to a well known lawyer as a joke.
A traveling American figures the public wants live or dried specimens as requests pour in from small U S zoos. He dismisses the idea as folly while a famed zoologist’s exploits are cited. The piece suggests the ex President could supply animals to museums worldwide.
A West tourist at a downtown Boston luncheon overheard a diner call for baked Indian. The visitor boasted unfamiliar meals like roast prairie dog and rattlesnake but vowed he would starve before trying baked Indian pudding.
A West Brewster couple trains a hen to sing scratch her head with her feet tumble over as if dead and perform other stunts yet the bird has not laid an egg at nearly four years old. The note mirrors debates on education and gender roles echoed by Clark University leaders.
A call to voters to choose the most capable candidate in today’s election. The note urges selecting the candidate deemed best suited to perform the duties of the office.
A compact item features a business man with a proverb urging restraint yet readiness. The remark hints at caution in handling supply or labor, using a paradoxical line about tools to suggest strategic timing.
The Boston Public Library lists Dr Frederic A Cook’s works as fictitious narratives. The page notes that To the Top of the Continent fits the category, but The Daily Work of an Arctic Explorer and Through the First Arctic Night document real expeditions. It argues the classification stigmatizes Peary's 1892 journey and the Belgica expedition of 1897.
Michael C. O'Neill of Boston commends the Post editor for a calm and unprejudiced appeal to voters in favor of Mr. Storrow. He notes the editor avoided fence straddling and acted in the interest of better government for current and future citizens.
A brief civic notice urges voters to choose a candidate who can deliver for themselves and families, emphasizing practical welfare benefits and personal responsibility. The short appeal signals a local election drive encouraging support for a capable public servant.
Christina D. Page praises the Boston Post as one of two papers deserving the title. She thanks the editor and the staff for courteous treatment during interviews, signed from 416 Marlboro Street.
The White Star liner Romanie is due today from Italy after missing yesterday’s dock time. The ship has already been heard from twice, and the delay sparks no alarm. Easter and Lent dates are noted with early spring fashion signals.
A playful verse by Walt Mason, 1909, recounts Captain Loose aboard the Shark in a wild storm tale. The narrator blends nautical fiction with comic whimsy as bears on wheels and antlered geese drift into the scene, ending with a boast of the ship’s voyage from a hotel room.
Alfred G. Barr of the custom house plans an extended trip to southern Europe with a sendoff from friends. George C. Glover of Indianapolis near Melrose will soon return to the city, where he is an architect welcomed back. Reverend Herbert S. Johnson of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church is advised to ride for health and enjoys a spirited horse on Commonwealth avenue as he contemplates a sermon.
The pastor tried to pass but the Johnson horse surged ahead. The spirited horse charged to a dramatic finish in one of Commonwealth avenues most exciting brushes, despite the clergyman’s wishes.
Congressman's widow Mrs Griggs of Dawson says she wants to choose his successor and backs H H McIntosh editor of the Albany Herald for the seat. McIntosh is expected to run, but six candidates are anticipated as the field remains unsettled.
The New England branch of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a conference with its secretaries and treasurers tomorrow at 10 o'clock. Speakers include Mrs Fayette Nichols Mrs Ella C Turner and Mrs William N Rice. The Second Universalist Church Brookline addressed by Frank L Locke of the Boston Y M C A. A reorganization of the women's ministerial conference occurred yesterday at 65 Mt Vernon street led by Mrs Julia Ward Howe. A candidate was advanced to Episcopal priesthood yesterday at St Pauls Paris by Bishop Lawrence with local clergy assisting. The Rev Thomas W Bishop of Appleton Church Neponset died last Saturday in Auburndale. A talk on developing missionary spirit was at the Universalist Society meeting at Second Universalist Church. Rev A Edwin Clattenburge resigns rectorship of St Chrysostoms Wollaston effective March 28 to pursue missionary work in North Dakota.
At her New York home on January 10 officials report Mme Louise Homer, noted contralto, showing marked improvement after an illness believed to be a grip infection.
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