Boston Post Subscription Rates and Postal Notice
The Boston Post dated March 20 1911 lists subscription rates and terms. It notes prices for various periods and regions including Canada, with payment details and mailing instructions.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1911
Page
8
The Boston Post dated March 20 1911 lists subscription rates and terms. It notes prices for various periods and regions including Canada, with payment details and mailing instructions.
AG subscriptions to the Post must be paid in advance and will be discontinued on expiration without further notice. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly please notify us at once. RF A Grozier Editor and Publisher.
The piece notes courts find dunning or threatening postal cards actionable and reports government moves to bar their use of the mails. It argues creditors should not publicize debtors, cites immodest and indecent cards, and states the post office must refuse licentious content.
New York women form the Horse Aid Society to provide affordable ventilated stables with clean fodder and free veterinary care. The plan includes temporary care for unfit country horses and loaned sound horses to owners while their animals recover, stressing humane treatment as true charity.
Sir Edward Grey clarifies Britain's proposed arbitration pact with the United States. He says including any alliance clause would hinder its purpose and mislead other nations. Public opinion favors general arbitration to curb armament spending and promote peaceful dispute settlement.
The article argues that opposition in Massachusetts and New York claims the income tax unfairly targets their states. It asserts wealthier individuals move to New York, exaggerating gains from the tax, citing Rockefeller Carnegie and others to illustrate how wealth concentrates in one city.
The passage argues that the income tax amendment should levy taxes based on wealth rather than population, asserting the justice of this approach as indisputable.
The piece argues that Arizona should gain statehood despite its constitutional provisions for initiative referendum and recall. It compares to California and Utah, noting no moral issue with popular sovereignty tools. It concludes that if practical problems arise, the people will remedy them.
The article notes Madero’s terms for peace in Mexico call for a single term presidency, prohibition of re election, state governors elected, mayors chosen by residents, and land reform to broaden property distribution. It argues Diaz should accept these reforms to end hostilities and move toward a real republic.
A Broadway booster parade, with two chorus girls in harem skirts, tried to gain access to Mayor Gaynor to question propriety. The executive secretary allowed them to leave without meeting the mayor, disrupting the stunt and leaving the public moment remarking on the unfashionable display.
William J. Bryan, age 61, will attend a birthday dollar dinner in Lincoln tomorrow night. About 900 seats have been booked with prominent Democrats to attend including Senators Owen and Kern and Speaker-to-be Champ Clark. Also slated are Governor Shafroth and Nebraska police officials among other Nebraska Democrats.
The Aug 23 79 eruption of Vesuvius transformed Herculaneum Pompeii and Stabiae from thriving coastal cities to sites buried under mud and ash. The piece notes flashes of chariots, crowds, then sudden disaster with earthquakes and falling roofs, and mentions Le Roux’s depiction and Bulwer Lytton’s novel. It cites Le Roux born 1829 Verdun died 1900 and the Johnson collection Philadelphia housing an Herculaneum painting.
A column presents a batch of spring poems from the 1911 All Sorts by Newton Newkirk collection. The verses celebrate spring’s mischief and renewal, with playful tones about frogs, bonfires, clear skies, and the brewery reference, set in Melrose.
A plea invites spring poets from distant precincts to send verses for print submission. The note promises immortality in a Temple of Fame, framing verse as a cure for fatigue and urging fresh contributors to share their lines promptly.
A speaker laments failing to craft an original spring verse as every image from birds and meadows to blossoms and brooks seems borrowed from prior writings. He resigns to defeat, declaring aloud the parodied line I CAN'T WRITE A POEM ON SPRING and questions the cost of genuine creation.
A quaint collection of verses from towns like Hopkinton New Hampshire Winthrop and Boston laments springtime discomforts. The pieces joke about muddy roads sore throats and a bedless home as signs caution against rough springs and coughing fits.
In Charlestown Boston poet Dave notes spring with slush fading as the umpire calls play ball. Fred A Robson echoes the season’s arrival with poem lines celebrating baseball amid lingering winter chill.
A damaged poem fragment titled Boston by J. J. Stearns references spring and nature imagery. The readable lines mention sun near the equator, regal state, a glade, and a maiden glow with gratitude, along with disjointed repetitions of spring and love.
A playful verse from Dorchester Massachusetts signed by T. R. extols spring as the bed spring and source of rest, with lines about morning, movement, and a celebratory tone.
Miss Florence White cites that U S women spend 420000000 annually on candy gum ice cream sodas and hats. A Boston moving picture piano attracted a mouse which built a nest from keyboard canvas and felt, hampering its action. Boating on the Charles river basin marks the first of the season as naphtha launches are seen. Telegraphing from Sherbrooke requests an expert report for a Boston Sherbrooke match.
A polemic poem by Walt Mason demands punishing poets for celebrating spring. The speaker urges violent action against verse about streams, blossoms, birds, and nature, proposing instead crude farming images and domestic nuisances as acceptable topics. Copyright 1911 by George Matthew Adams.
A well dressed man lends 15 cents to a tramp who claims to be a Coney Island barker. Dedham ladies tote pussy willows to Back Bay hospitals as spring returns. Perkins Institution youths roller skate on hospital verandas. Edward A. Regan, born in Dorchester, becomes assistant U S district attorney for California and was a star Worcester football player.
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