The Boston Post July 25 1911 Boston edition
The Boston Post Independent Democratic Paper issue from July 25 1911 lists subscription rates for Burter year six months and one month and provides pricing for The Sunday Post including Canada delivery. It notes office address 259 Washington St Boston and cautions about sending cash and payment to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
THE
Sunday Post
Canada
Post Publishing Company
The Post in Vacation Time
The Daily Post offers mail delivery across the United States and possessions for 2 cents per month with the Sunday Post at 30 cents. Subscriptions are prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration. Editors list contact numbers and the publisher EB. A. Grozier invites reader notices to ensure delivery if unavailable at dealers.
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Post
Daily Post
United States
Sunday Post
EB. A. Grozier
Coolidge denies run for lieutenant governor against Luce
Louis A. Coolidge dismisses Saturday reports of entering the Republican race and says his aim would be governor against Foss over the United Shoe Machinery issue. He notes such service would benefit the company where he is treasurer as well as his current duties.
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Louis A. Coolidge
Luce
Foss
United Shoe Machinery
Coolidge
Ballinger Angers Public By Threatening Taft Fight
The ex secretary Ballinger, ousted by public opinion, is accused of turning against the Taft administration. The article argues he will bite the hand that fed him, while noting Taft can endure such enmity and still see political advantage in his opponents.
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Ballinger
Taft
War game uses and lessons for Boston militiamen
Citizens may smile at the theoretical war game between Reds and Blues around Boston, yet the exercises prove practical. They move men into field work, marching and camping, instill discipline, promptness, and obedience, and train militiamen with varied orders beyond past encampment rituals.
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Reds
Blues
Boston
Taft credits Democrats for reciprocity success
The Post's view on Canadian reciprocity is vindicated as Taft makes a frank personal statement. He says without Democratic support in Congress the reciprocity agreement could not have succeeded. He credits Democrats for following a higher policy rather than playing partisan politics.
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Post
Cpart
Congress
Taft
Milk Veto Sparks Debate Over Governor's Reasoning
The Governor vetoes the Ellis bill but critics say the move lacks clear reasoning and alignment with prior statements. A central clash centers on Foss objecting to concentrating power in an appointed milk commissioners board.
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Ellis
Vere
Foss
Board of Milk Commissioners
Governor Calls for Milk Control Bill Despite Veto
The state board’s authority is not absolute and requires due hearing before permits are denied or revoked. The Governor urged a single line of state control on milk production, and passage of the Ellis bill is argued as essential for clean milk for cities, invalids, and children, despite executive disapproval.
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State Board of Health
Ellis
The Blood of the Martyrs and Speed Pioneers
An opinion piece weighs aviation and auto crash fatalities as the cost of speed. It praises aviators and motorists who push boundaries as pioneers, arguing the dangers seed progress and that air speed has no earthly limit while land speed is capped by machines.
Tariff Revisions Ahead as Congress Faces Popular Demands
After the Canadian reciprocity issue, Congress moves to curb trusts and lower living costs. New woolen schedules due Thursday, followed by a farmers bill listing agricultural goods. Taft calls current conditions indefensible as the nation eyes a broad tariff revision in the next session.
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Taft
Congress
Riot in Westminster hurled as verbal melee in Commons
A lively riot of language erupts in the British House of Commons as MPs trade sharp words and heated exchanges. The scene echoes past Washington clashes, signaling possible pressure on the Lords to yield.
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House of Commons
Congress
Washington
Commons
St Lazarus Church Reunion Aids New East Boston Church
A church reunion and field day to aid St. Lazarus Church East Boston will be held at Oak Island Grove Revere tomorrow. Proceeds fund a new church in Orient Heights with events including races, a cheese rolling contest and a fat men's race. Morning baseball Orient Juniors versus St Lazarus nine, afternoon game Orient All Stars versus North End All Stars for a $20 purse. Committees led by John Cardoffo and Joseph Vesce with women’s committee members Mrs Masse Miss Elvira Lavezzo and Mrs Casale.
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St. Lazarus Church
East Boston
Oak Island Grove
Revere
Orient Heights
Orient
St. Lazarus
Orient All Stars
North End All Stars
John Cardoffo
Joseph Vesce
Masse
Elvira Lavezzo
Casale
Civil War Battle Narrative at Spottsylvania to Petersburg
A condensed recount of Civil War fighting from May through June detailing Grant and Lee in the wilderness around Spotsylvania Court House, the push toward Richmond, and the start of the Petersburg siege after Cold Harbor. It notes high casualties on both sides and strategic shifts toward the James River.
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Ness
Brady
Grant
Spott Sylvania Court House
Lee
Spottsylvania
North Anna
Chickahominy
Richmond
Movements of Civil War Armies Across Rivers in 1862 64
The text recounts 1862 army crossings over the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers near Brandy Station Culpeper Court House and the 1864 rise of Grant to lieutenant general with planned east and west campaigns under Meade and Sherman. It notes a May 3 advance of the Army of the Potomac of 90 000 men crossing the Rapidan to engage Lee in fierce battles.
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Army of the Potomac
Rappahannock River
Brandy Station
Culpeper Court House
Grant
Culpeper
Meade
Sherman
All Sorts Clams Eater Advice Letters From Readers
All Sorts prints a reader letter jokingly instructing how to eat steamed clams. The piece includes step by step antics such as prying the shell, handling the clam, peeling the head, and using discarded pieces as floor debris, ending with a note to swallow it whole and save the heads as erasers.
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Winthrop
The Death of Private Brown in a War Scene
A historical verse recounts Private William Johnson Brown defending Boston amid a 1911 war. The Red and Blues clash as Brown contemplates fate and supper, then is struck by cruel death. The piece reflects wartime sacrifice and tragic humor in a grim tableau.
Adjective Notes from a Neighborly Column
A reader writes to a neighboring column conductor describing a young man with blue eyes and auburn curls, joking that he wears pink ribbon shoulder-knots on his pajamas as part of the quaint courtship tale from the page.
Gazinger detail noted in Star Wimpy Weems tale
In the falling Star, Wimpy Weems installs a bifus cated gazinger praised for its delicacy of mechanism. The fragment hints at a technical element within the chapter but provides limited context or outcomes. No further events are described in the readable text.
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Wimpy Weems
Biplane Crash Brings Daring Pilots to Edge of Disaster
Wimpy Weems and Michel Brianne face a fatal plunge as their biplane the Falling Star lurches out of control. The diverging gaze and gear fail as they plummet toward earth at hundreds of miles per hour, planning to jump and survive.
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Wimpy Weems
Michel Brianne
Manruss
Earth
Michel
Winsted
Paragraph Points and Cartoons Weighed Down
Fragmentary note describes fringe elements and cartoons used to weight down items. Mentions weights, heights, and recurring phrases with unclear meaning. No clear event or person identified in readable text.
Guild Reaches Russian Post as Ambassador Returns
In Irsburg on July 24 Curtis Tolvpin arrives as the new American ambassador to Russia. He succeeds William W. Tolvpin had been at the office recently due to a stay away, and has returned to the capital today.
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Ersburg
Curtis
William W
Tolvpin
Marblehead Yacht Club salutes friends of all sexes
A social evening at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Marblehead harbor featured dancing on the floor and lively verandas while stewards stayed busy entertaining guests of both sexes. Other items note L K Eddy's motor boat escapade, a noisy pavement fix at the State House archway, and local life saving service activity at South Boston beaches.
The Secret of Health Uncle Walt Mason Poem
A humorous verse by Walt Mason from 1911 mocks doctors and patent foods. It extols a hearty diet of meat, cake, and raisin pie, celebrating stomach independence and resisting fad diets. The piece echoes early 20th century health quackery satire with playful rhymes.
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Dr. Hutchinoods
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Boston North railway workers toast at Maplewood square
In Maplewood square motormen and conductors on late cars stop for aqua para drinks earning praise as a district boon. Bernard H. Nolan of Somerville begins a two month vacation visiting Ireland and the European continent. Governor Foss’s halibut haul of 25,000 pounds marks a record for the fishing schooner. Colonel Ernest E. Smith of Lawrence spoke on Elks convention proceedings in Atlantic City. A summer fashion note praises Turkish towelling hats with a satin facing, while a Catholic temperance regiment drills ahead of a Wilkes-Barre unit visit next month, aided by Malden Roxbury and South End companies.
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Boston & Northern Railway
Maplewood Square
Governor Foss
Boston
Fred Thompson
Gloucester
Lawrence
Ernest E. Smith
The
Elks
Atlantic City
Smith
Catholic Tempérance Regiment
Maurice Dinneen
Wilkesbarre, Penn
Malden
Roxbury
South End
Fall Fashions Spotlight Fads In Small Hats And Trims
Paragraph points on fads and fashions describe fall styles led by small hats with sugar loaf shapes, ball fringe on sleeves and skirts, and vivid trimmings on black and white striped voiles. Fichu and surplice necks drive corset covers with V-shaped decolletage, pagoda sleeves, and adjustable chemisettes for cool days using lace net and Brussels lace. Bright petticoats and tub skirts with embroidered edges complete lined frocks in dotted or striped patterns.
Boys Unearth Antiques In Cambridge Dump
Two boys exploring a Mass terhouse Street Cambridge dump find old books pictures and bric a brac from a vanished era. The items include a Bible bearing Governor John A Wheeler names Flora and Captain James Do and a frontispiece with tintypes. Police sort through the mixed trove as investigators examine the cased letters and prints.
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Massterhouse Street
Theachusetts Avenue
Wat Cambridge
Cambridge
Ray
John
George H. W Wheeler
James Do
Heeler
Flora
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