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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1911
Page
6
The Boston Post issue dated January 30, 1911, No. 25, Volume 204, published by Post Publishing Co. at 259 Washington Street Boston Massachusetts.
The notice lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday Post services, including one year 3.00 dollars, six months 1.50, three months 0.75, and one month 0.25, with Canada deliveries at 10 cents per copy. It notes second class matter status, sender risk, and payment to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Local notices list properties on Main Street and a subscription alert for the Post. It warns discontinuation of service if payments lapse and asks readers to notify the paper if they cannot receive deliveries. Editor is E A Grozier.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, daughter of Professor Austin Phelps of Andover, famed for Gates Ajar, has died. A leading figure in the New England School, her later works retained quiet fertility and delicate charm that widened her popular appeal.
The piece notes a favorable report on submitting a constitutional amendment for direct U S Senate election by the people. It explains two paths: Congress action or state legislatures calling a constitutional convention, needing two thirds of states. Twenty seven states have demanded a convention. Massachusetts is urged to join.
Boston citizens launch a fund to allow students and the needy to attend Boston Opera House performances at half rates. The plan aims to educate and stimulate through grand opera, with contributions supporting reduced tariffs for those deemed deserving. A prompt response to the appeal is urged.
Early dispatches describe a severe plague in Manchuria and China with similarities to historic plagues. The bacillus is a pneumonic type, spread by contact and airborne droplets, with no recoveries reported and uncertain immunity from Haffkine's serum. The Prince Regent plans posthumous honors and rewards for frontline Chinese physicians, and missionaries in infected areas are praised for humanity.
A historical critique notes American coal mine fatalities since 1900 exceed 29,000 lives in twenty years, with a 3.29 per 1000 employee rate. It compares international rates, cites roof falls at 46.6 percent, and warns that haste and lax timbering raise disaster risk, urging better education and precautions.
The text notes that crossing the sea will occur but emphasizes that its spread in Chinese provinces serves as an international lesson in the necessity of sanitary precaution.
The piece questions whether the new Congress must meet in an extraordinary session to consider the President's reciprocity proposal with Canada. It notes Republican leaders may block action, warns of lost opportunity to redeem the party, and cites Rep. McCall's bill and House committee action as signals for potential extra-session timing.
South railroads face a clash over Jim Crow cars with the Interstate Commerce Commission ordering equal accommodations for Negro passengers. Judge Sanford in Tennessee has stated the obligation, and the strike could end with Jim Crow cars replaced or the law enforced. The case advances to the U S Supreme Court as the issue of equal pay for equal service intensifies.
The article extols Guido Reni s Aurora at the Rospigliosi Palace in Rome as a masterful dawn tableau. It contrasts its luminous color and motion with Wordsworth s Westminster Bridge and notes Reni s Renaissance sensibilities and later life gambling issues.
A satirical verse contrasts rich men and price with moral lines. The piece mocks materialism by noting how wealth fails to grant virtue and leaves only dust in its wake.
In Sandusky Ohio Steve Bolton a baker faced bankruptcy with assets 865 dollars and liabilities 1007. The tale mocks his failed plan to sell oversized doughnut holes as a new business. It promotes a stock scheme offering 10 cent shares to fund a factory making standard gauge holes for doughnuts.
An 18 year old Lexington Massachusetts woman offers marriage with a deed to her 50 acre farm if Mr Newkirk weds her. He replies he wants to meet her first and notes doubts about farm life while teasing the unusual name Asthma and the bride’s charm.
Worcester January 29. A new religious sect is blamed for the insanity of Rev Herman Gronlund who housed two disowned ministers in his Worcester chapel. He adopted their beliefs after long prayer and hours of devotion, and soon became mentally ill and is now in a hospital.
A Melrose man crediting the Post as his study source says he answered all questions in a railway mail clerk civil service exam correctly. Questions covered Taft cabinet, English politics, and national resources, drawn from the last month’s Post reading.
Poem laments city life and longs to return to rural toil and simple farm chores. Evokes dawn chores, hay, cows, pigs, eggs, and rustic rhythms as a nostalgic contrast to urban noise and fashion. Written in early 20th century voice.
The piece recalls a Republican brag about ex Governor Guild and Sullivan, a riverbank skating crowd despaired at Dan ger signs on the Charles, and a Redstone Readville wrecking train tour at Canton Junction. It also highlights John Taylor of Hyde Park leading a wrecking crew with stocked kitchens and a medic chest. Eleonora Sears is praised for horse knowledge and aviation interest, while Harry Fogerty announces a new voter arrival a son named George Hibard Fogerty.
Robert C. Pitts, awaiting death from injuries after a fall beneath a railroad train, smoked a cigarette at Charity Hospital in New Orleans as surgeons spoke with him. He died late last night with the cigarette held between his lips.
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