Boston Post Subscription Rates And Details
The Boston Post lists annual and short term subscriptions with rates for Daily, Sunday, and Foreign editions, plus Canada and domestic postal charges. It notes payment in advance, mentions offices in Boston and London, and asserts the paper’s wide circulation and Associated Press rights.
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Canada
Sunday Post
Boston
Associated Press
Boston Post
Cockspur Street
London
Avenue de l'Opera
Paris
France
United States
Volunteers of America to distribute apparel to needy children
The Volunteers of America with Boston stores will distribute shoes stockings underwear and mittens donated by merchants to outfit as many needy youngsters as supply permits. The new effort follows last Christmas shoe distributions and aims to ease a severe winter as Colonel Duncan notes, contrasting with last year’s hardship.
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America
Boston
Duncan
Inventive minds urged to aid victims with telephones
The Ashmont girl, bound and gagged, reached the phone but could not speak. The appeal calls for a contrivance by telephone companies to aid in emergencies where quick action is crucial and delays may be fatal, noting past incidents and the instrument’s potential improvements.
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Ashmont
Rockefeller Jr Donates Funds for European Starving Children
John D. Rockefeller Jr. contributed 1.6 million dollars to aid starving European children. The article notes many other U.S. millionaires could follow, urging broader philanthropy to ease wartime hunger and suffering.
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John LD. Rockefeller, Jr
Europe
United States
Wealthy youths urged to aid Hoover fund rise
The piece urges inherited wealth to share riches for famine relief, noting Carnegie’s wisdom that hoarded wealth cannot enter eternity. It praises Young Rockefeller's philanthropy and hopes it inspires others to support the Hoover fund, arguing starving children cannot be fed without money.
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Carnegie
Young Rockefeller
Hoover Fund
Ford's Financial Needs and the Ford Motor Company
The Ford Motor Company seeks a banking loan of 73 to 100 million dollars, inviting public subscription to notes or bonds. Henry Ford, dominant in scale, has built a vast privately funded enterprise rivaling U S Steel and AT&T, now needing public aid to finance expansion, signaling confidence in the motor industry's future amid widespread pessimism.
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Henry Ford
Ford Motor Company
United States Steel
American Telephone
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ford
Napoleon
Stoke
eHe
Post urges aviation investment to maintain U S leadership
The Post argues for agreement to reduce armament but condemns Congress for undervaluing aviation. It warns that France and Britain surge ahead in aircraft tech, while the U S risks losing its role as inventor. It urges prudent public funding now as a high return for national defense and progress.
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Congress
America
France
Great Britain
Eggs From Far East Arrive In Vancouver Port
A high official notes eggs move freely as telegraphed Vancouver reports cargoes ready to load two thousand freight cars for nationwide distribution. The eggs come from Chinese and Japanese hens and should reach markets soon as fresh. The distribution drive has drawn attention from Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture which will host an exhibit shortly.
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Vancouver
China
Japan
Department of Agriculture
State of
Pennsylvania
Convocation on Egg Packing Techniques in Harrisburg
The article notes a Harrisburg convocation to determine the best method of packing for carriage and to instruct in this art. Produce News estimates a monthly loss of 100000 dollars from egg breakage during Eastern States transportation, even at a dollar per dozen, highlighting substantial waste.
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Harrisburg
Help a Good Cause for Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston needs extra funds though directors oppose a public drive. Citizens should respond generously to support its ongoing labor, laboring to maintain high standards and share its inspiration, as thousands visit and benefit from its treasures.
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Museum of Fine Arts
Boston
Art Museum
Rumor Fantasy on Hughes as Secretary of State
The article questions claims that Senators influence have dented Charles E. Hughes prospects for Secretary of State. It notes Harding may weigh Senate views yet could appoint freely. The piece rebuts a report that Harding promised to name a nominee disliked by the foreign relations committee and hints Warren G. Harding may become president, not a Senate office boy.
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Charles E. Hughes
Washington and Marion
Florida
Senate
Hughes
Harding
Foreign Relations Committee
Warren G. Slarding
Reader Questions and Weather Facts From The Post
A letter column answers readers about summer temperatures in 1920 Boston noting 90s on several dates. It also confirms US native-born citizenship for children of aliens, explains liquor delivery to guests, chronicles the Maine wreck fate, lists Bunker Hill monument measurements, and discusses correct pronunciation of buffet with preferred accent and dictionaries.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Boston
Vizetelly
Standard
Century
Lowervelopedia
Webster
For Sale Horses and Harness Items From Connecticut Ad
A Connecticut newspaper extract shows a rough classified saying horses and harness items for sale cheap. The dealer promises to stand behind every sale and requests applications to an withheld address.
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Conn
Napoleon Gomo Wears Modern Clothes in Town Tale
A first person narrator, Napoleon Gomo, recounts a comical misadventure after his wife Rosy pushes him into a department store. He is dressed in a flashy outfit, faces taunting and confusion, and endures a barber shop shave and haircut while wondering if his clothes fool people more than his face. He jokes about being mistaken for a circus horse and laments the price of his new look.
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Mike
Guy
Rosy
Napoleon
Boston
Napoleon Gomo
Observant Citizen recalls changes in daylight and life
In Boston era reflections note four minutes more daylight today than at Christmas and a 10 minute rise over the next week. The column recalls pool halls, Morse code origins, and local city life with brief bios of Chief Peter Walsh and William Bradford, plus readers’ letters about beans and school weather rules.
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Boston
Private pullets advertised for sale in Melrose ad
A Melrose clipping touts for sale one dozen pullets ready to lay at 2.50 each and six RI red capons at 3 each. The note playfully questions if hens can be trained to lay money, comparing them to the goose that laid the golden egg.
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Mr. Newkirk
Melrose
United States Mint
R. I
Boston January 24 climate blips and rainfall record
Fragmentary weather notes recount Boston coldest on January 24 at 1 below in 1Sh1 and 7 below in 1907 with warmest 60 in ch. Mentions no rain or snow on this date in most years except 1914 1915 1919 1820, highlighting anomalies in historical temperatures and precipitation.
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Boston
Princess Christina Belgiojoso Trivulzio A Patriot in Exile
Christina Belgiojoso Trivulzio rose as a vivid salon host and revolutionist in Italy and France. She linked with Lafayette, Chopin, Heine, Hugo, Stendhal, and Dumas, spurred Italian unification, endured Austrian pursuit, and lived Paris Milan and the Bosphorus before dying in 1871 at age 66 with Italy united.
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Italy
France
Lady Blessington
Gore House
London
Lafayette
Mme Recamier
Chopin
Liszt
Rossini
Heinrich Heine
Thiers
George Sand
Alfred de Musset
Stendhal
Guicclol
Byron
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Visconti d'Aragona
Triot
Emilio Belgrojoso
Vienna
Milan
Genoa
Switzerland
Metternich
Duchess of Plaisance
Lake Como
Europe
Orient
Hester Stanhope
Bosphorus
Cavour
Notable Early 20th Century Personalities Featured in News
Willam S. Hart described as a screen hero and pioneer boy who hunted, rode, and shared Indian games with a Sioux chum. Hart’s father linked to Oxford. Lafayette Flying Corps in the South Seas and Tahiti voyage. Mortimer N. Backner, Yale man and young New York banker, heads New York Trust. merger with Liberty National after Cochran quip. Maude Adams, famed stage star, ill with influenza on tour, facing possible permanent retirement at 48, begun as chorus girl.
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Willam S. Hart
Hart
Oxford College
England
Mortimer N. Backner
New York
Yale
New York Trust Company
Harvey D. Gibson
Liberty National Bank
Thomas Cochran
J. P. Morgan & Co
New
Maude Adams
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