The Boston Post July 30 1917 print notice and masthead
Daily and Sunday Post details subscription rates and delivery notes for U S Canada and foreign zones. editor publisher Edwin A Grozier lists offices and contact points at 259 Washington Street Boston with rate structures and postal charges. The issue carries editorials and poems including Clint Scollard quotation and Fourth Estate endorsement.
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Edwin A. Grozier
Thirty Years Of Success By Barron At Boston News Bureau
Clarence W. Barron marks thirty years as publisher of the Boston News Bureau. The Post lauds his leadership from its birth through growth to a robust paper, second in influence among its kind. Congratulations are extended for continued brilliance and longer tenure.
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Germany's Money Plight and War Finances
Germany nears its wartime debt limit of 94 billion marks while refusing to quit, hoping indemnities will cover losses. The piece argues Germany endures through distraction from wealth, urging that the United States must win militarily to save itself, not merely to aid allies.
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Russia
War costs and German hopes amid global conflict
The text notes that the wealthiest nation would bear the lion’s share if Germany wins, while Germany opened the war hoping for an easy victory and now fights to avoid national bankruptcy.
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Germany
Appeal to Women Urges Food Conservation and Patriotism
President Wilson urges women to lead home food conservation as part of a national war effort. He highlights storing potatoes and vegetables, preserving fruit, and consuming perishables locally to ease transportation and speed victory. The letter calls for maximum efficiency and every housewife to prove patriotism.
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Next Step in Draft Exam for Massachusetts Contingent
The physical examination for men registered under the recent draft for service in the Massachusetts contingent of the first army quota begins Friday and should finish within a week. General Crowder urges local boards to treat the task with gravity and fairness, stressing careful, impartial evaluation of each registrant’s physical fitness and conformity to height and weight standards.
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Crowder
Handling the Crops: New England Faces Potato Distribution
Administrator Endicott's commission plans early for distributing the harvest food products. Large crops are expected across New England, with potatoes at the forefront. Observers note increased cultivation on marginal land, prompting careful marketing to avoid glut or scarcity. Nature has been favorable, and efficient handling is urged to prevent muddled distribution.
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New England
Alcoholic Autoists Get Chance To Redeem License
The Highway Commission says a first offender caught driving under liquor must pledge abstinence for a year and gain employment with a responsible firm whose endorsement may restore the license if all else is equal. A second conviction would bar future licensure.
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Beverly vacation home dedicated for Boston’s needy girls
A. C. Ratshesky, president of United States Trust, donated a Beverly vacation home for poor children and working girls. The gift was presented to the Jewish Charities of Boston yesterday afternoon and the home will open to vacationists tomorrow.
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Limerick spatters in All Sorts by Newton Newkirk
A reader sending a spoof poem to Newton Newkirk in All Sorts recounts a Worcester theme limerick about a rich woman and a handsome groom. The response with two letters jokes about critiquing the poem while avoiding direct insult.
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Napoleon Gomo Struck by Freight Train Near Slab City
In a rustic tale from St Albans Vermont, Dere M’sieu Noot-I recounts a freight collision that injures him and his family while returning from a visit. He describes the mishap, the chaotic medical “treatments” attempted by locals, and the humorous yet grim aftermath as neighbors tease him about his survival and his name Napoleon Gomo.
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Slab City
Tam
Observant Citizen notes on home life near Guard camps and local events
The Observant Citizen column reports wives of National Guard officers seeking housing near their husbands in the South, while Somerville marks Mayor Cliff’s farewell address with a lettuce bearing boy in attendance. Cape Ann steamer Cape Ann sold for freight use, and Mrs. Elsie Alger’s potato harvest illustrates garden efforts to curb living costs. Professor William D. Hurd is summoned to Washington to support national food conservation.
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City Hall
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Elsie Alger
Water Street
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William D. Hurd
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Washington
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Hurd
Department of Extension Service
Oldest Marblehead Resident Captures Post’s Gold Cane
A Marblehead Messenger sketch recalls Captain John Orne Johnson born May 6, 1828, as the town’s oldest living citizen after receiving the Post’s gold headed cane. His seafaring life included circling the globe thrice, a Boston carpentry stint, and marriage thrift.
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William W. Johnson
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New Fountain Inn
Boston July 30 Records and Rain Events
The record highs for Boston on July 30 span years 1873 1840 reaching 93 degrees and 92 degrees in 1898 with 90 in 1903. A garbled line mentions 55 in 1884. Rain on this date occurred in 1907 1911 1913 and 1914, based on past decade observations.
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The Diary of Constance Ann in Pigeon Cove 1917
Constance Ann recalls a day centered on eggs and a mistaken price. She navigates arithmetic, a potential misstatement, and a Red Cross act, then receives a five cent windfall for her sash money and a ring exchange before hurrying home. The entry blends small wartime patriotism with childlike reflection and family dynamics in a coastal town.
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Red Cross Society
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Granma Jis
Facts and Fashions: New Sports Shirts and Attire
The piece describes wash satin sport shirts with high collars, contrasting color ties, and buttoned fronts. It notes black alpaca and black satin frocks with taupe accents, decorative double eyelets with ribbon, black and white parasols, and new sailor hats with red crowns and blue brims.
Penguin Characters Charm Antarctic Explorers
The penguins of the Antarctic amuse with curious behavior and comic courtship. They resemble men in evening clothes, stalk explorers, and defend nests with feisty flippers. Emperor penguins reach four feet and 80 to 90 pounds, proud yet curious of humans.
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Everyday Etiquette Reflections From a Southwest Trip
A Los Angeles diary piece notes differences between Southwest Indians and Eastern tribes, praising industrious heritage and a queen of beauty who grinds corn. It muses on earth care, frugality, and a return to grandmothers common sense. The column then shifts to social manners and classroom politeness, with tips on table use and gratitude to teachers.
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Experience Uncle Walt
A 1917 George Matthew Adams verse vignette follows Uncle Walt as a motorist in a choo choo dragoon fears a muddy road after a farmer warns him. He drives into a marsh drains his pride and learns life’s road is slippery and costly despite bravado.
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George Matthew Adams
Uncle Sam's Good Memory in Kansas Ditch Handler
W C Preston, in charge of an irrigation ditch near Ingalls Kansas, recalls how 27 years ago during an Indian uprising he helped mule handling and was offered a regiment post by a colonel. He declined, returned to Dodge City, later moved to Gray County, and says government kept tabs on him for stock handling duties.
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Summer Apples and Bob Whites in the Heart of Summer
A lyrical meditation on midsummer orchards. Waxen cheeks and mellow apples glow under sun as bees hum and Bob Whites call from hedges. Ripened fruit falls, dew-kissed gardens awake, and youth feels joyful in the dreamy heart of summer.
Post Letter Box questions on numbers and pearls
A reader column presents queries about large numbers and pearl sizes. The exchange notes the Beresford Hope collection pearl at three ounces and 412 inches around, and discusses Mexico’s 1860s upheaval leading to Maximilian’s empire and subsequent execution in 1867.
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Beresford Hope
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France
Napoleon III
Republic of Mexico
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