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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1911
Page
8
The June 26 1911 issue lists subscription rates for The Sunday Post and general Post Publishing Company offerings. Prices shown include six months 1.50 dollars, one year 3.00 dollars, and Canada copies at 16 cents per copy.
The Daily Post offers mail delivery across the United States and possessions for 25c per month and the Sunday Post for 50c per month Subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration E A Grozier editor and publisher invites readers to notify if delivery is unavailable
A public appeal argues West End stockholders should approve consolidation with the Elevated company or extend the 7 percent lease to enable new subways. It cites public policy, previous votes, and commissions backing 7 percent as fair, urging trustees to act for public interests and reject obstructive committees.
The writer denounces a bill to condemn and buy express companies for inclusion in the postal system. He argues the government needs nothing from them and could compete instead, purchasing only perhaps their horses and wagons.
London whispers claim Adelina Patti may sign for a vaudeville season in the United States with a top theatrical producer. After more than fifty years since her opera debut in the country the Diva would highlight a bold shift in stage entertainment and may perform two turns daily if offered her price.
The excerpt recounts a caregiver’s method to quiet a crying baby by turning on all the gas, creating the illusion of daylight, and then sleeping. It uses a cautionary anecdote to illustrate a dangerous, ethically troubling coping tactic.
A tobacco company representative presents a check for 100 seeds to a famed ballplayer after a center-field homer. Players cluster, remove hats, and acknowledge the gesture, pondering if money talks like a lady.
A quirky verse item pleads for mercy for a garden pest the cut-worm. The speaker laments garden losses and privately expresses a wish to see the worm croak. A separate reader note by Robert Seaver mocks traffic speed sign jokes and describes machine violators passing the eight mph limit at 25 mph.
A Philadelphia woman aged 104 credits avoiding beer for her longevity and predicts mothers will stop giving beer to infants. The piece catalogs a parade of absurd aged sayings from people aged 99 to 107, each claiming a simple habit as the key to a long life, followed by humorous asides.
A humorous fiction piece by Professor Morton Kilgallen discusses eels, praising their slipperiness and knots. It notes the eel as highly limber with peculiar anatomy and behavior, contrasting advanced and limited knot-tying abilities. It ends by mentioning eel eggs and compares eating eel to rattlesnake.
Portsmouth aims for a safe Fourth of July with a child parade led by bands mayor and city officials. Students will march with patriotic floats, then a flag raising and sports on the playground, fireworks eliminated, followed by a banquet and merchant support to prevent accidents.
The article recounts John Burns the Gettysburg figure who, at age 70, joined the Union line after his cows were stolen, and fought through three wounds without retreat. It notes Brady photographs him near the battlefield and Bret Harte’s verse commemorating his actions. It ends with a reference to tomorrow’s Brady War Picture featuring Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
Charley Allanbrook returns to Cleveland after visiting his Swan Street Everett home. Henry B White and brothers depart for a six week tour of Europe with Dr M W White and William L O'Brien accompanying. Harvard crews prepare for Thames race while Coach Wray pushes teamwork. Dorchester group renames to Dorchester Humane Club with 23 branches. Miss Mary J Riley earns Trinity College entrance certificate. Judson A Crane leaves for Tientsin to teach at Imperial Chinese University with bride. Cattle ship Therian voyage referenced by Dan Needham and Kink Hartwell.
A humorous piece by Walt Mason from 1911 satirizes a persistent singer whose cheerful song disturbs neighbors and wakes animals and workers. The narrator claims the singer’s buoyant chorus clashes with quiet daily life, likening it to a noisy rooster and a squawking guineahen as bricks hay and relics pass by.
The group aims to publish their travels for college outlets in fall after graduation from Andover in 1909 and Harvard 1912. They will attend the Oxford Cambridge dual track meet with Harvard Yale and spend summer with George C Durkee in Littleton Mass.
City official remarks on a stenographer as Miss Gertrude Niche, formerly in the Mayor’s office, prepares to take a post listening to the city solicitor. Miss Steele will join Vaughan in the Mayor’s office to assist with clerical work.
Members of St. Omer Temple Knights of Pythian Sisters of C. Bridge held memorial services yesterday at Odd Fellows Hall for Mrs. Ethel Martin and Walter Wooln who died during the year. Miss Sophia Koch gave the introductory address and Mrs. Hannah He delivered the eulogy.
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