Boston Post July 1 1911 subscription rates
The Boston Post dated July 1 1911 lists subscription pricing including six months 1.50 eight months 0.75 and one month 0.25 for the daily, plus The Sunday Post annual 3.00 six months 1.50 and other options. Canada copies 10 cents. Payment terms warn against sending cash and advise parable checks or money orders to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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Sunday Post
Canada
Boston
Mass
Post Publishing Company
The Post in Vacation Time
The Daily Post offers mail delivery to any U S address and possessions for a monthly rate, with the Sunday Post at half that price. Subscribers may change address as desired.
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POST
Daily Post
United States
Sunday Post
Soc
Editorial contact and subscription notice from Post
The Post lists editorial rooms and contact numbers for Sunday financial and sporting editors at 1539 Main and business office 1383 1384 Main. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued on expiration without further notice. Notify via mail if the Post is unavailable from dealers or newsboys. Edward A. Grozifer is editor and publisher.
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A. Grozifer
The Jumping of the Lamb at Chicago Stockyards
Chicago advices report spring lamb rose 65 cents per hundred pounds at the stock yards on Thursday. The gain translates to about half a cent per pound, expected to reach three or four cents at the retailer, provoking sharp remarks about the meat trust.
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Chicago
Meat Trust
Conviction Tied to State Banking Laws Over Federal Statutes
The article notes Joseph B. Reichman, ex president of Carnegie Trust Co New York, was convicted under new state banking laws banning false reports of a bank's condition, not under federal statutes. It warns that crooked bankers face increasing legal risk as personal guilt doctrine and warnings against law evasion spread.
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Joseph B. Reichman
Carnegie Trust Company of
New York
Mercy Afloat Brings Hope to Harbor Babies
The Boston Floating Hospital sails into summer with mercy journeys for babies and mothers seeking healing. The charity appeals for funds to cover the costs of transport and care, urging readers to support this good cause and uphold the duty to aid the vulnerable.
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Boston Floating Hospital
OUR SUMMER CAPITAL TAFTS NORTH SHORE VISIT
President Taft and his family arrive for a summer on the North Shore, praised as an attractive vacation area though Beverly awaits fuller bloom due to congressional season lulls in Washington. Taft’s stay is welcomed, with hopes he enjoys weekends away from duty watching Congress.
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Taft
North Shore
Beverly
Washington
Congress
Massachusetts
Country Club liquor violations should be treated like any other
The Brookline Country Club faces liquor law questions similar to other clubs. If proven that liquor was sold to non members at an open bar in a no license town, officials must be held to account. The piece argues that wealth or status should not shield illegal dispensing of alcohol.
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Country Club of
Brookline
Party Platforms and the Direct Primary Law
The new direct primary law reverses political roles by placing nominations with the people while conventions declare party principles. Previously, committees controlled nominations and used conventions to determine platform positions for candidates.
Principles and aims of party’s system clarified
The text asserts that the declaration of principles and purposes will be a strong pledge by the party and its candidates, not a mere form. It emphasizes that candidate selection by the people expresses the popular will and purpose, signaling a move toward government by the people.
Harvard Day: Crimson Win Fourth Straight Varsity Rowing
Harvard won the New London varsity rowing race over Yale in a clean, well-pulled contest. The Crimson led from the start and extended their edge, with Yale’s crew unable to close the gap. Harvard’s victory marks a fourth consecutive win, a streak unmatched since the early years of the rivalry, while Yale looks to a strong freshman crew for next season.
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New London
Harvard
Thames
Yale
Crimson
Cambridge
Not in the Wrong Jail and Morse Pardons
The article notes transit transfer rules around various Boston streets and mentions public transport routes. It then discusses Morse and Taft, arguing that Morse’s punishment’s classification as felony or misdemeanor is legally neutral and that if he ended up in the wrong jail, the current one is deemed acceptable.
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Orthampton Street
Boston
Massachusetts Avenue
Xrthampton Street
Washington Street
Dover
Morse
Taft
Republicans Fracture as House Advances Direct Vote and Reform
In Washington the Senate delays while the House asserts the people’s will with direct senatorial voting, campaign finance publicity, Canada reciprocity, reapportionment, executive-branch probes, and wool and cotton revision. The direct vote bill passed April 13, publicity bill April 14, reciprocity April 21, reapportionment six days later, and statehood for territories May 23. The people spoke. Democrats claim a clean record and Republicans show disorganization.
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Senate
Washington
House
United States
House of Representatives
Is It a Dead Loss for White Mountains Land Defense
The report notes no timber lands bought in the White Mountain and Southern Appalachia regions from the 2 million dollar annual appropriation authorized by Congress. With the fiscal year closed unexpended funds lapse. A Weeks resolution may allow saving the sum. 30,000 acres in Georgia are reported as taken over. Delays in Washington should not deny New England its rights.
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White Mountain
Congress
Appalachias
Commission
Treasury
White Mountains
Congressman Weeks
Georgia
Washington
New England
Jefferson Davis as Confederate Leader and Personal Tragedy
Matthew Brady photographed Richmond after the 1865 evacuation capturing Libby Prison the Capitol and Jefferson Davis House. The piece reviews Davis’s career from West Point to president of the Confederacy and his mixed legacy. It notes his capture in 1867 his bail posted by Horace Greeley and recounts the sorrowful death of his son Joseph in 1864 described in Mrs Chesnut’s diary with vivid detail.
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Matthew Brady
Richmond
Libby Prison
Jefferson Davis
White House
South
Fort Sumter
West Point
Lee
Johnston
Appomattox
Georgia
Fortress Monroe
Horace Greeley
Joseph
Brady
Mrs. Chesnut
Dixie
Joe
Little Joe
Mr. Davis
All Sorts Humorous Scribbles and Letters to All Sorts
A collage of quips and reader letters about everyday life and society. It opens with a comic scene of a man swatting a fly during a sporting tale, then shifts to notices about the Henry Siegel Company store and a playful river ode. A correspondent asks how to drink soup without a slurp, prompting a facetious response about spooning and spilling soup.
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New Summer Street
Henry Siegel Company
Addance
Truth From The Waterfront And A Wealthy Bostonian
A Bostonian on the docks reveals he bought a Rembrandt in Paris. The reporter asks about horsepower of a French car. A swordfish injured a liner and died in convulsions. Moses Gage Shirley the Goffstown warbler shares a brief note.
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Paris
Moses Gage Shirley
Goffstown
Egan the Umpire and a Halliburton of Sharks
An ardent fan lampoons umpire Egan, claiming he sleeps through two innings and loses count on called strikes. The verse follows with a note on a “hammer headed shark” named for the head’s resemblance to a sledge hammer and the Professor’s sketchy描.
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Egan
Phi Fish
Be shark poses peril to mariners and ships
The text contrasts a full grown hammer headed shark’s behavior with others. It describes the H. H. shark pounding ship bottoms, pulling nails from hulls, and its hostility to swordfish, including driving swords into ships. It ends noting Jack Johnson would not last against a Be shark.
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H. H. Shark
H. H
Jack Johnson
Asbestos Curtain Protects Bad Shows in Town
A Boston dramatic critic jokes that the asbestos curtain protects poor shows from roasting. A distinguished visitor questions why bad performances aren’t critiqued, while the critic shrugs and delivers the witty line.
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Boston
Dorchester Information Operator to Be Away Two Weeks
Miss Gertrude Lamb at the Dorchester exchange will be missed for two weeks as she travels with three chums to Jefferson for a fortnight. An aviator flew above the Nantasket steamer Old Colony as Harry N. Atwood in a Burgess Curtiss bi plane circled low over the water and waved to passengers. Myron Hinckley of Marston's plans a summer move from Everett to the Hinckley homestead in Centreville with his son-in-law Roscoe Goodard and wife. Ex-Congressman Joseph A. Conry, Boston Russian consul, will go abroad.
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Dorchester
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Jefferson
Nantasket
Old Colony
Harry N. Atwood
Atwood
Nantasket Beach
Myron Hinckley
Marston’s
Everett
Hinckley
Centreville
Cape
Roscoe Goodard
Joseph A. Conry
Boston
Saturday Night Uncle Walt Sings of Moral Gains
The verse by Walt Mason reflects a weary businessman weighing wealth against moral deeds. He laments trading in land and lending money, noting empty triumphs and the deathless call to help others as a path to true humanity.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Boston Note Book: Trade visits and personal news from the city
A Boston observer reports on a prospective continent voyage to study Russia trade, Miss Alice Clarry hosting her sister Miss May Murray en route to Froebel pilgrimage, and local updates on Edward Cassell's joy, a newborn 12-pound boy, and D. J. Mullins in Albuquerque citing continued Post readership and city ties.
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Alice Clarry
Malden Street
May Murray
Kindergarten Review
Springfield
Mass
Bureau of University Travel
Edward Cassell
Boston
Melrose High
Washington Street
Melrose
Mellen Seeks Quebec Entry Through Rail Purchase
The New Haven and Canadian Pacific announce joint control of the Quebec Central railroad. President Mellen of the New Haven is reported to have moved to secure a Boston & Maine route into Quebec City.
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New Haven
Canadian Pacific Roads
Mellen
The
Boston & Maine
Quebec
Refuses to Adjidge Firm Bankrupt
Judge Dodge of the United States District Court declined to adjudge the Massachusetts Hide Corporation of High Street bankrupt on a petition by Norfolk-based Belt interests The court ruled the petition must prove solvency at the time of transfers The petition was dismissed and the firm placed in receivership with estimated assets of 300000 dollars
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Dodge
United States District Court
Massachusetts Hide Corporation of
High Street
Petitio
Norwich Belting Company
Norwich Belt Manufacturing Compan
J. G. Bridge Company
Alleged Postal Law Violations Lead to Indictments
Chester P. Gurney of Springfield and Roy B. Foster of Beverly were indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged postal law violations. Gurney allegedly forged Elmer B. Clark’s signature on a five dollar postal money order, while Foster allegedly abstracted two dollars and fifty cents from a letter to Geo P. Brown Co. of Beverly. Four other secret indictments were also reported.
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Chester P. Gurney
Springfield
Roy B. Foster
Bevarty
Federal Grand Jury
Gurney
Elmer B. Clark
Foster
Geo. P. Brown Co
Beverly
Grand Jury
Buy a Farm The New England bargains advertised in tomorrow's Post
The notice promotes farm bargains in New England and invites readers to explore the ads in tomorrow's Post. It emphasizes practical land deals and agricultural opportunities without sensational detail.
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New England
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