Early 1910 Boston Post subscription notice
The Boston Post announces subscription rates and policy for daily and Sunday editions. Details include prices for 6 months 1 year and Canada copies, plus payment instructions and discontinuation terms.
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Congress Acts to Raise Maine Wreck and Honor Fallen
Congress endorses a $500000 appropriation from the House naval affairs committee to raise the wrecked battleship Maine in Havana harbor and bring home the dead with honors to a national cemetery, completing the nation’s act of reparation.
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Havana
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House Committee On Naval Affairs
Cost of living issue framed for 14th district voters
The speaker urges voters to back Foss if living costs are high and Buchanan if they are low. He argues Congress sets wage value and demands a representative who will defend family support through policy.
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Charles S. Hamlin
Brockton
Foss
Buchanan
Congress
Not Athletic Enough Naval Test Targets Older Officers
The piece criticizes Rear Admiral Nazro for failing a Navy endurance test claiming it too harsh for aging officers. It argues the walking requirement is unnecessary and ridicules the idea that nonpedestrian naval service should endure such strain. It recalls naval heroes like Farragut and Dewey to defend historic combat gains.
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Parragut
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Mobile Bay
Port Reyal
Fort Henry
Manila
United States
Census and Its Questions in the United States
The census aims to determine state representation but extends to social and commercial matters. President Taft urges full disclosure, insisting responses apply to individuals and families, with penalties for refusing to answer. The article distinguishes census data from taxation or enforcement of laws.
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United States
House of Representatives
Taft
United States Position in World Family Clarified
General figures discuss how open, honest answers will strengthen the United States standing among nations, clarifying its role and influence in global affairs. The text emphasizes the importance of transparency in shaping international perception and leadership.
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United States
Family of Nations
A Great Responsibility Taft Faces On Tariff War With Canada
A historical column argues that Taft must decide under the Payne Aldrich tariff whether Canada discriminates against the United States. It warns a tariff war could aid timber and paper interests, raise timberland prices, and push mills to move to Canada, harming Maine power and local workers. It calls the decision a grave responsibility.
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Forestry Trust
Maine
Dominion
Atlantic
Foolish Train Chases and Hair Talk From Old Columns
A humorous verse recounts a fool chasing trains on Dudley Street and suffering a sprain and embarrassment. It then shifts to a satirical essay about a Pittsburg woman selling her hair for $25 and the narrator’s imagined poverty apostrophizing the hair trade.
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Governor Hadley Proposes Cows and Hens to Cut Living Costs
The Missouri governor argues that milk eggs and butter from a cow and hens could lower family expenses though he notes practical limits for urban flats. The writer mockingly questions urban feasibility and lampoons the idea as ridiculous in modern apartment living.
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Missouri
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Fendered Street Car Dangers Spark Public Outcry
An eye witness recounts a boy’s death after being dragged under a fender on Columbus Avenue. The piece criticizes elevated railway "fenders" used on 2000 cars, noting past near misses and urging reform beyond repeated Railroad Commission debates.
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Rail strike averted as mediation opens discussion points
The threat by 25 000 locomotive firemen on Western railroads eases after managers seek Interstate Commerce Commission mediation and workers accept. The move allows calm talks on disputed points, signaling pressure on Philadelphia traction firms to consider arbitration and possible reforms.
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Philadelphia
Sphinx Appears in Little Memoirs Column
A humorous note in the Little Memoirs column recounts the Sphinx standing on his head in the PI room by accident. The piece mocks a printer error that placed the Sphinx atop his head and playfully warns the miscreant to avoid future blunders.
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Roosevelt Visit Includes Assouan Dam During Nile Tour
The Roosevelt party’s Egyptian itinerary includes the Assouan dam completed in 1902 by Sir William Garston. The two mile masonry barrier, 60 feet high with 180 gates, irrigates and safeguards Egypt, enabling reclamation of 50 000 acres in Fayum. Assouan, Elephants Land, Elephantine ruins, Philae island nearby, and megalithic rock tombs round the scenery.
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Engagement and city notes mix with local curiosities
Andrew G. Mercer of Newton announces the engagement of his daughter Dorothy Rumsey Mercer to John Arnold Curtis of Marlboro Harvard 10. The column reports miscellaneous items from Adams Square to Wakefield Y M C A, including a 0 foot steel girder sighting, local travel chatter, a 4000 gift to the Y M C A Auxiliary, and remarks on elevated trains, the Fourth of July, and a goose named Stranger.
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Newton
Dorothy Rumsey Mercer
John Arnold Curtis
Marlboro
Harvard
Adams Square
Odd Egg Colors and Weights Reported in Local Farm Yard
A report notes eggs weighing a fraction over five ounces and about four and three fourths inches in length. One egg described as very dark blue, another light yellow, and a third a half yellow half blue mix.
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Boys of '61-'65 Hold Annual Smoke Talk
The Boys of '61-'65 reunion at the Revere House elected officers including President John J. Gilman and Vice President John Parker. The executive committee lists Charles S. Clark John W. Fairbanks and Benjamin J F. Cook. Ninety deaths were reported in the past two years.
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John J. Gilman
John Parker
C. H. Colgate
Charles S. Clark
John W. Fairbanks
Benjamin J F. Cook
Crown Prince to Open American Art Exhibition in Berlin
Crown Prince Frederick William will inaugurate the American art exhibition in the Royal Academy galleries. Emperor William cannot attend due to other engagements. Dr. William J. Long, noted for his Theodore Roosevelt era nature debates, is featured with a forthcoming Sunday Post Magazine piece titled Winter Trails in North Woods.
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