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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1911
Page
8
Boston newspaper page from June 27 1911 features city news briefs market notices and local items. The Boston Post reports events around Boston Mass with brief notes on commerce society and public notices.
The notice lists annual and multi month subscription prices for The Sunday Post and Pere Waily, with Canada deliveries at 10 cents per copy. It notes payments at sender's risk and instructs that all checks drafts and money orders be payable to Post Publishing Company.
The Daily Post offers mail delivery across the United States and possessions at 25 cents a month and the Sunday Post at 60 cents monthly. Subscriptions must be prepaid and may be changed by mail. Editor E A Grozier announces continued publication terms and contact details for subscriptions.
The dying words of valet Pahud express regret at failing to save the ladies during the Barnes penthouse disaster in Nantucket. The account praises his gallantry, noting he acted as a true gentleman, beyond servant roles, in a heroic, self sacrificing act.
Senator Bourne backs a parcel post bill to extend government postal privileges to U S citizens sending packages, matching待遇 given to foreigners. Critics note opposition from express magnates who benefit from monopolies and grants. The measure seeks parity in handling outbound packages.
The Senate defeated the Root amendment to the Canadian reciprocity bill, a clear victory for President Taft. Opponents from his own party avoided a roll call, making passage more likely, with the measure now clearly Democratic and supported by a strong minority.
The Boston mayor leaves port to mingle with foreign monarchies and bring back ideas to improve Boston. The trip contrasts with the Boston Chamber of Commerce’s plan to stay in New York. City Hall and social groups will miss his presence as he sails with hope for inspiration and progress.
The state adopts direct nominations for Governor and state representatives marking a shift from delegate conventions and party control. The change limits old deal making and party influence though the full text awaits filing of nomination papers issued yesterday.
A movement seeks to abolish party conventions and delegate assemblies, allowing individual citizenship to act freely and absolutely without factional influence or trade. The change aims to let voters decide directly rather than through party brokers.
The Interior Department, backed by Land Commissioner Denne and Secretary Fisher, rejects the Cunningham claims in full, exposing a scheme by Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate dummy claimants. The ruling curtails millionaire looters and upholds public control of national resources. The syndicate may appeal on points of law.
A New York federal grand jury indicted members of the Eastern Box Board Club under the Sherman act. The box board group, legatees of an earlier trust dissolved in February 1910, has been ordered to dissolve again and faces fines. If jail terms are imposed, they may not reform without penalty.
J Pierpont Morgan presented Emperor William with Luther’s 1521 autograph letter to Charles V, bought for 25500 dollars. The Kaiser awarded the Grand Cross of the Red Eagle. Morgan attended a luncheon aboard the Hohenzollern with Admiral Badger, Hill, and Chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg.
Samuel Lothrop Thorndike, Boston attorney who died at Weston on June 18, filed his will in East Cambridge Probate Court. The 1907 document appoints Albert Thorndike Sturgis Thorndike and Charles H. Fiske Jr. as executors with Mrs. Anna Thorndike and Mrs. Charles H. Fiske Jr. as heirs at law. The will directs distribution as if intestate and is returnable July 6.
A humorous, fictionalized vignette portrays a motorist surprised by a 25 dollar fine after the Supreme Court supposedly allows only driver judgment on speed. An officious bystander and a distracted judge contribute to a satirical scene about legal limits and enforcement.
The text describes a ceremonial bungalow gift to Hooper with Morgan as chair. Gardner perishes via a Collins shortline that Hoop might inhabit. Texas man Tris used a willow to lash the pill and carry it to a pasture, while Strunk took it for his ailment. Duff flogged the fog.
The piece contrasts fanciful views of Winsted Connecticut and Winchendon Massachusetts. It imagines Winsted as sunny with bearded locals and giant pond fish and Winchendon as dark forests housing mountain lions and blackberry gatherers. It mocks locals for dated city tags and calls the Winchendon tales worthy of canning.
A tongue in cheek piece debates phrases comme il faut outre and in statu quo and muses on their meanings. The author hints at a Massachusetts political rumor about Mayor Fitzgerald being invited to sing to a deaf and dumb asylum to prove his musical skill.
The author awards the 1911 intercollegiate baseball championship to Yale despite Harvard wins, arguing a chain of defeats among Dartmouth Williams Villanova Rutgers and Yale beating Rutgers supports Yale. The note references Cornell fielding a team as well.
A speaker complains of a street hurdy-gurdy player outside his window. He lists many tunes and insists the noise drives him to drink and urges violence against the performer. The tone is a heated, personal grievance over street music.
The flounder is today’s topic in a celebrated scientist’s discourse. He notes flounders are familiar to anyone wading near them and getting underfoot. Tomorrow the professor will unveil two hot ones about flying fish that could make that fish leap if heard about.
A humorous, partial field guide describing the flounder’s flat body shape its limp eggs and sand polishing stomach. It notes the species call, a playful comparison to music, and an odd aid relation with pollock in sunny days.
Among 121 graduates at Phillips Exeter Academy today were two sons of notable men Charlemagne Tower and George F B Cortelyou. The ceremony featured diplomas presented by F Sidney Smith of New York, trustee board chairman, with both fathers in attendance.
A detailed account of John Wilkes Booth plotting and carrying out the Lincoln assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14 1865. It covers Booth's preparations his entry into the theater the shooting of Lincoln the strike on Major Rathbone Booth's leap to the stage and his escape into the night with Lincoln dying at 7 22 the next morning.
Mrs. Larz Anderson's garden at Weld Brookline will be open to the public on Tuesday June 27 and Wednesday June 28. The item also covers various local scenes including Governor Foss's Fall River reception and a humorous encounter with a barefoot boy in South Boston.
The piece quotes Walt Mason urging readers to ignore gossip and complaints about social injustice, arguing many blame others and that speaking out yields little payoff. It reflects a defiant, satirical voice on public duty and rumor.
Leading Catholic educators of the region will join sessions including Very Rev. Thomas I. Gasson S J president of Boston College and Rev. George A Lyons supervisor of parochial schools of the archdiocese.
Mr and Mrs John D Beyer return from a lengthy wedding trip to Buffalo Niagara Falls Detroit and Strafford NH and select Greenwood in Wakefield as their summer residence.
The dedication at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Roslindale on Sunday drew a large crowd who witnessed the Sacred Host carried in a dignified ceremony.
The scene showed thousands kneeling in public streets as a young bishop carried by, then again as he imparted his blessing to the crowd, a sight not often seen in New England.
Rev. Father Andrew J. O'Brien of Boston College plans a visit from Rome to his Quincy home before joining St. John's Seminary in Brighton as professor of dogmatic theology. He will celebrate his first public mass in West Quincy early next month.
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