Boston Post Ad Rate Card June 22 1911
The Boston Post lists subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions. Rates include one year 12 dollars daily, six months 6 dollars, and 1 month 75 cents, with Canada copies at 10 cents per issue. Payment details note sender risk and checks payable to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
THE
Sunday Post
Canada
Ffier
Mase
Post Publishing Company
The Post In Vacation Time Notice
The Daily Post offers mail delivery within the United States and possessions for 2 cents per month and the Sunday Post for 20 cents per month. Addresses may be changed as needed, with contact numbers provided for offices and editors. Subscriptions continue in advance and must be paid. notify by mail if the Post is not available from a newsdealer.
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Daily Post
United States
Sunday Post
Fonday
Financial, Sporting Editors
Matin Business
E. A. Grozier
Stand by the 25 year limit of public leases
A Boston editorial argues against 50 to 61 year subway leases and urges adherence to the 25 year public lease cap. It warns longer terms could hinder public ownership, elevate eminent domain barriers, and threaten future transit funding while calling for negotiated extension of existing leases only if fair to the public.
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Senate
Crane
Boston
Chamber of Commerce
Franchise League
West End
Imog
Muncipal Civil Service
Elevated
Tinkham
Beacon Hill
Coronation of George V Emphasizes Democratic Spirit
The ceremony at Westminster Abbey crowns George V with pomp while stressing that the crown rests on the consent of the people. The nation and empire celebrate royalty as a symbol of liberty, unity, and democratic tradition with global admiration.
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Britain
George V
George
Westminster Abbey
Old London
Abbey
England
Refusal to Haul Sleeping Cars Impacts New England Travel
The Boston and Maine declines to haul Grand Trunk sleeping cars from Portland and Rochester Junction to Old Orchard and Kennebunkport. Canadian passengers for these destinations will be forced to transfer at Portland and Rochester Junction, then ride a cab train to Union Station before continuing. The move strains Grand Trunk service, though B and M cites Portland tracks as the reason.
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Mellen
Boston & Maine
Grand Trunk
Portland
Rochester Junction
Old Orchard
Kennebunkport
New England
Kennebunk
Union Station
Houston
Texas
Boston& Albany
Springfield
Worcester
Taft calls for tighter law to curb medical quackery
The President condemned the Supreme Court’s recent interpretation of the pure food and drugs act and urged Congress to amend the law to prevent nostrum makers from labeling products as sure cures. The Post had highlighted the decision and pressed for action.
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Taft
Supreme Court
Congress
First Great Battle of Civil War at Manassas and Bull Run
The piece recounts early Civil War events from Virginia, noting Beauregard's command near Manassas, the Henry House Hill fight where Stonewall Jackson rose to fame, and the fatal wounds of Mrs. Judith Henry as shells fell nearby. It reflects on uniforms, morale, and the chaotic early battles before Johnston's reinforcements changed the outcome.
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McLean
Lee
Virginia
Manassas
Appomatox
Beauregard
Richmond
Fort Sumter
West Point
McDowell
Bull Run
Potomac
The
Henry House
Stonewall Jackson
Judith Henry
Henry
Sudley Road
Johnston
Washington
Imboden
Jefferson Davis
A Humble Hat and a Gusty Day
Kenneth L. Roberts recalls a cheerful man who buys a straw hat for three and one half beans and faces ridiculous misfortunes. A gust lifts the hat, it lands in a street puddle, and by the time he retrieves it the hat is fried onion colored. A passerby comments that the man deserved the mishap for spending so early.
Seats for coronation seats offered in London cable
Our London correspondent notes a few seats remain for the coronation exercises. Listings include a cross bar on telegraph pole at 12 guineas per hour, a chimney top near Westminster Abbey at 60 guineas per day with soot protections, and a small elm branch opposite Parliament at 50 dollars per hour in advance.
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London
Westminster Abbey
Parliament
Phoebe Fleeing From Field Bee Sparks Humorous Verse
A playful limerick tells of Phoebe who hates field bees and flees after a sting. The short poem ends with her exclamation about following her feeling to escape.
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Phoebe
Reservoir war on Dinobryons and Chlamydomonas sparks a clash
The piece rails against the Health Board for tolerating Dinobryon and Chlamydomonas in Sudbury reservoirs. It jokes of mythical fights with Jim Sullivans, then shifts to a humorous anecdote about a world famous traveler and an Elk, before a section on Cod biology and behavior.
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Aroglena
Sudbury
Health Board
Scituate
Montmorency Wigglesworth Swoons for Janet Grogan
Montmorency Wigglesworth, aided by Janet Grogan’s father, secures a census enumerator post. He asks Janet her age, amid a scene with beauty and romance. A cartoonish Cod feature promises a future of sea eggs and vast oceanic abundance, with playful, surreal musings on fish and summer.
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Montmorency Wigglesworth
Janet Grogan
Not a Gentleman Mrs Nosey Delivers Quick Wit
In a brief comic exchange Mrs Jokose mentions a doctor who is no gentleman and Mrs Pashence confirms the quip. The remark pivots on a wordplay about a "lady docton" and the parlour joke tone prevails.
Water quality notes from 1908 Wa chusett Sudbury and Framingham
The report records minimal Asterionella growth in Wa chusett and Framingham reservoirs causing no taste or odor issues. Sudbury reservoir saw brief Urogiena blooms in April, reappearing in May and fading by June, with Chlamydomonas and Dinobryon present later in the year but never in troubling quantities. The tone shifts to whimsical commentary on Asterionella.
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Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board
Wachusett
Sudbury
Framingham
Random reminiscences and town notices brighten Wakefield page
A varied column recalls a good samaritan who returned a lost suitcase tag with a 2 cent stamp, and a Texas traveler remark about West oiling rail beds. It notes Wakefield's sewer case victory fees to M E Clemons, Longyear family plans in Spitzbergen, a surprise tenth anniversary for J Frank Chase, Abigail Collins’ scholastic honors, Major Higginson’s improved health, and Henry Wriston’s Weslayan prizes.
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Wakefield
American Surety Company
Clemons
The Tax Paying Hero and Walt Mason Cherish
A 1911 verse by Walt Mason extols a tax paying hero who smiles under pressure. The poem contrasts brave fighters with the calm financier who honors duty by coughing up taxes and facing danger without fear.
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Earth
Walt Mason
Before and After Portraits of a Married Man
In a dialogue captured from a scene, a woman questions a man’s resemblance to her husband as he smiles. The reply suggests evaluating a picture of him before marriage to settle the doubt.
Cape Cod Replaces Governor Andrew on Nahant Line
The Cape Cod, a Bay line excursion steamer, will replace the Governor Andrew on the Nahant line after the latter burned at East Boston. Chartered for the rest of the season, Cape Cod en route from Quincy to East Boston to Haul out before starting Saturday.
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Nahant Line
Governor Andrew
East Boston
Cape Cod
Lincoln
Bay Line
Boston
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New England Watch and Ward Society
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Palmer Business College
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H. L. Wriston
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