Boston Post 1910 March 7 issue subscription details
The Boston Post issue from March 7 1910 lists subscription rates for home and Sunday editions and notes pricing for Canada. It provides office addresses Boston Mass and mentions editors publisher and departments with payment terms and notice to subscribers to pay in advance.
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Post Publishing Co
Weabington St
Boston
Mass
The
Sunday Post
Canada
Posteffice
Post Publishing Company
A Little Too Much on Immigration Physicals
The piece criticizes Immigration Commissioner Keefe for proposing that all male aliens aged 16 to 50 undergo army style medical exams. It argues such tests would deport healthy, productive men and warns against applying military ideals to immigration policy.
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Keefe
Dubois and Washington A Clash Among Negro Leaders
The piece argues the supposed rift between W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington is unfounded. It extols both figures, praising Du Bois for intellectual leadership at Atlanta University and Washington for practical, executive work at Tuskegee, urging unity in advancing colored people.
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W. E. B. Dubois
Booker Washington
Dr. Dubois
Atlanta University
Dubois
Washington
North
Tuskegee
Commission to study cost of living in Massachusetts
The governor will appoint five members to a commission with a budget not exceeding 15000. The group will investigate why living costs and family maintenance are high in the Commonwealth and recommend intelligent legislation based on the findings.
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Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Pittsburg's Orchestra Fund Drive Aims at Million Endowment
Pittsburg music lovers mobilize to raise a one million dollar endowment for the city's Symphony Orchestra. The effort appeals to wealthy residents to invest in the orchestra's future instead of overemphasizing statues or extravagant city displays.
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Pittsburg
Great Baal
New York
Symphony’s Loss Would Burden Pittsburgh With Its Wealth
A dozen rich men with a tenth part each of Major Higginson’s public spirit sustained the Boston Symphony Orchestra to victory. If Pittsburgh’s metropolis fails to keep such an educating force alive, it must explain to the world what it does with its money.
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Higginson
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pennsylvania
Taft Wins Early Victory On Postal Savings Bill
The postal savings bill advances after a party vote with Democrats mostly opposing. The measure limits investments to US bonds at 2 percent or higher, allows wartime withdrawal, and is described as economical and automatic in operation, moving to the House for concurrence.
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Taft
Postal Savings Bank
United States
Borah
Better Farming Special on Boston & Albany Plan
The Better Farming Special, a mobile agricultural college on wheels, will tour Massachusetts towns late this month. It is organized by the Massachusetts Agricultural College, the State Board of Agriculture, the Forestry Department, the Dairy Bureau and the State Grange to educate farmers via lectures and conferences on improved practical farming methods.
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Boston & Albany
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Agricultural College
State Board of Agriculture
Forestry Department
Dairy Bureau
State Grange
It Must Be Spring Ring Off
Water runs down the hills as waxman collects bills. Town fills with auto men showing off 1910 models and gasoline scents rise. Baseball fans roast air while distractions and memories fill the paper. Teddy returns home as poems fade.
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Waxman
Dawson
Delaware
Newkirk
Joe Cone
Teddy
Mustaches Must Go at University of Chicago
A humorous column recalls University of Chicago women launching a crusade against mustaches declaring them unsanitary and pledging not to kiss men who wear them. The writer jokes about shaving off his own mustache to please the student activists.
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University of Chicago
Chicago University
Chicago
University
Something for Nothing Scam Exposed in Tenderloin Tale
A man, lured by a confident sport with a tale of a sure windfall, loses his saved money after a single night in New York's Tenderloin. The piece warns readers that easy riches can vanish quickly and labels the con as a cautionary fable attributed to O. B. Nervy.
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New York
South Station
The Real Deficit and Second Class Mail Costs
The piece argues the deficit stems from all second class mail, not magazines alone. It disputes a claimed $64,000,000 excess for magazines, noting magazines are 20 percent of the total and cannot exceed half the loss. It suggests magazine-rate increases are unlikely but urges overall cost reforms.
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Providence Journal
Hitchcock
A Veteran Gone Thomas Collier Platt Dies
The death of Thomas Collier Platt removes a powerful political leader who dominated New York politics for over 25 years. He molded Governors, Senators, and Congressmen through practical talents and strong methods, though not a statesman in sentiment. His influence waned with failing health.
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Thomas Collier Platt
New York
Bass Request Sparks Family Tension
Baltman asks a fish dealer to send two bass to his house as he heads out of town. He warns that a prior joke about trout led to a salt mackerel and strained relations, insisting the fish be bass this time.
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Baltman
Angleworm Ends The Line With A Poetic Punch
A quip about rhyme turns to a gag as a poet laments rhyming with angleworm. The circle of friends puns on poetry and fishing, the humor lingering as the hush remains.
Crowded Out After Marriage Exchange
A humorous verse notes a wife giving half the clothes hooks at wedding and, after a year, the husband finds his wardrobe crowded out to a chair as he hangs his coat and trousers.
Hat Pin Perils in Crowded Street Cars
A letter from Thomas Decerto of Easton Penn accuses hat pins worn by women on street cars of causing injuries and blood poisoning. The writer mocks the danger, cites Chicago’s ordinance limiting hat pin length, and jokes about wearing armor to defy pin attacks.
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Thomas Decerto
Easton
Penn
Thomas
Chicago
Knights of Old
Partnership Joined by Mrs Lucy Hurst McKinley and Editor
Mrs Lucy Hurst McKinley widow of Francis McKinley and editor A E Olmsted announce a new partnership. The Sentinel will continue under the same name and both members will handle all advertising and subscription bills and receipts.
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Lucy Hurst McKinley
Francis McKinley
Sentinel
Leretofore
Clark County
Ind
A. E. Olmsted
Beige wr te MEMOIRS AS 'BUSINESS, MAN
The fragment quotes a line about watching principal when interest exceeds six percent. The source text is incomplete and lacks clear event or人物 details. No further context is available to determine a full news item or outcome.
Fragments of a Creed on Compassion and Failure
The passage reflects a creed of compassion for those unable to succeed despite effort. It emphasizes sympathetic regard for the underachiever, using a maritime metaphor of a lobster and a general call to humane attitudes.
A Visit to Key West in Cuba’s Shadow of Reform
A traveler arrives in Key West from the steamer and crosses the Florida Keys on a concrete viaduct. The city, seven miles long, lies low above sea level with a coral soil and sparse water supply. The population is largely Cuban and Spanish is the common tongue. fishing and wrecking operate as major industries with the fleet of over 30 vessels and more than 300 men earning about $200,000 a year.
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Key West
Florida Keys
Gulf of Mexico
Havana
Matanzas
Florida Reefs
The Observant Citizen Narrates Boston Oddities and Local Tales
An observant, prominent State Street broker humorously loses a collar in a Washington Street shop and classic Boston legends unfold. The piece weaves election fever in Scituate, Harvard-student bravado, Public Garden misdirections, and the unusual overflow of the Middlesex Fells reservoir.
Uncle Walt Mason Urges Hermit Life Over City Noise
A 1910 verse by Walt Mason laments urban bustle and proposes retreat to virgin woods. The speaker dreams of living quietly in a cave, eating raw turnips, growing long whiskers, and avoiding tariff talk and public discourse.
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Talksmith
Walt Mason
Tragic tensions and public notices feature in Malden piece
The text blends a tense domestic scene with public events. A threatened violence toward a woman unfolds near a home, observed by a cautious narrator. Community updates include Jamaica Plain police patrols for Franklin Park, a Malden Board of Trade legislative night with Governor Draper and leaders, and a Fire opposite the South Station with onlookers cheering a gardener’s hose effort.
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Malden Board of Trade
E. S. Draper
Allen T. Treadway
Senate
Joseph Walker
House
Jamaica Plain
Franklin Park
Thompson
Harriman
Division 13
The Romantic Atmosphere
Nancy confides a troubling secret to her guardian saying the romantic life in their city home has drawn her toward engagement to Harold Spotswood. The guardianship history shows Nancy as a ward in a much older man’s care and hints at tension over the age difference and propriety.
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Secret Service
Nancy
Aunt Jane
Jane
Winfield
Harold Spotswood
Ead
Romantic entanglements unravel as three youths clash
Nancy confesses engagement woes and romantic mix ups as Alec White proposes. The narrator misleads Alec Spotswood about Nancy and his own feelings, then discovers Nancy loves her guardian, ending with a tense confrontation about the atmosphere of romance.
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