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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1910
Page
10
The Boston Post issue details annual and short term subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, payment terms, and notices about renewal, delivery, and mailing procedures. It lists editor and publisher names and contact offices in Boston.
The aged revolutionary leader Mme Breshkovskaya is banished to Siberia in perpetual exile after admitting she is a social revolutionist. Critics in America fear the Czar’s action will sour relations while Russia risks signaling fealty to harsh justice.
The piece argues that the New York Legislature is divided on woman suffrage due to noisy debates among suffragists and anti suffragists. It suggests a statewide referendum, proposed by Senator Brackett, to determine whether women citizens want the vote and to illuminate the issue.
A column critiques Senator Lodge’s comparison of current prices to 1836. It notes sugar at 14 cents a pound, lamp oil at $1 a gallon, flour at $8 a barrel, and stagecoaches, post riders, and whale oil lamps from the era. The piece questions the relevance and thoroughness of his argument on price extortion and tariffs.
Governor Draper offers no new light on plan to legalize Boston & Maine bonds for savings banks. The key question remains what backs the guarantee by the New Haven road and how it can be enforced if needed.
The Legislature weighs whether to use public savings for a novel investment. Key questions include whether to pay $175,598,875 or the interest on its $150,000,000 stock. The decision hinges on financial implications before approval of the momentous step.
The letter accepting the Democratic nomination signals a businesslike, price-focused race in the 14th district. Eugene N Foss aims to appeal to ordinary voters with a house-to-house tour and rallies, challenging Republican stand-patters and promising clear issues tied to the national price problem.
The author warns that extending J. P. Morgan & Co. control from railroads to airships and automobiles could allow one financier to dominate all travel. A combined airship and automobile industry could place earth and sky under private domination, a grave, wide reaching proposition.
A judicial critique warns against jailing witnesses who say I don't remember arguing contumaciously. It argues memory lapses vary with age and type, urging fairness and caution before any punishment for forgetfulness.
In a Park square test the new fire engine started in 3 minutes 56 seconds, deemed satisfactory. From Mason street the apparatus would reach key locations quickly, with a two minute difference potentially saving lives. Washington street relief plan, supported by business leaders, is abandoned with no mourning.
A letter to the editor asks the L road management to flash notices from Sullivan Square and other stations indicating whether the smoking car will be on the front or rear of the train. The writer notes this would reduce danger for men and women boarding at Fane and help ladies decide which end to approach.
A wacky column quotes a buggy Caipeart and a boastful caller in a palm tree gag. A Boston reader signs as John Smith offering crude oil cures for baldness, while lamenting rumors and naming Rockefeller and the Sisters. The writer doubts the Smith correspondence and jokes about hair loss remedies.
The first straw hat of the season appears on Middleboro streets worn by a traveling salesman for a Boston hose wholesaler. The item prompts a humorous note on Massachusetts straw hat laws and a mock legal bounty for shooting the hat during the closed season.
A man in a local column cautions readers about thieves and confidence tricks. He advises keeping wallets secure when strangers gain trust and nearby opportunities to steal arise.
The article describes ex President Roosevelt's planned welcome in Khartoum with 700 Hinglish troops and three times as many Egyptian and Nubian soldiers. It contrasts Egyptian and Nubian fighter temperaments, notes Pax Britannica limits, and previews a parade ground view to follow in Saturday's Post.
A collage of local snippets recounts a Beacon Hill woman feeding birds chased off by a dog, curfew bells mis-timed at Portsmouth, a Boston suburb’s two churches and a matinee idol lookalike pastor, and a Revere plan for a Democratic Club with spring barbecue while a Melrose child loses milk on a wandering errand.
Uncle Walt laments a harsh March with winds and storms as Winter stubbornly resists Spring. The poem imagines a tug of war between seasons, bringing cold, illness, and defiant humor from Walt Mason in 1910.
Captain Abner K. Winchester of West Brewster says this is the mildest weather at this time of year in his 72 years. He notes the casual remark follows an incident about milk and a private matter involving Johnny.
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