Boston Post Adapts to Subscribers and Rates in 1921
The Boston Post announces subscription rates for daily and Sunday editions, including Canada and foreign options, with advance payment terms and penalties for missed delivery. Editorial staff and contact details are listed, along with Associated Press rights and overseas bureau notes.
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Bathtub Boston and the City’s Clean Record
Boston residents are said to have an extraordinary bathtub-to-person ratio with one bathtub for every four people, possibly exceeding needs. The piece humorously notes the city’s ample water facilities and the statistician’s fondness for unusual compilations.
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Fordney tariff bill looms in special session debate
Republican members of the House Ways and Means push the Fordney emergency tariff bill vetoed by President Wilson. The special session opens in about three weeks and will test whether a permanent policy can be formed. A second national issue concerns government receipts as the income tax is reviewed, with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue sending requests nationwide to individuals.
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Postal Department Seeks Income Tax Data for 1920
Corporations are urged to mail to the department a statement of their incomes for 1920 and the amount of tax paid. The move aims to inform probable changes in the law. A free return envelope is enclosed to ease submission, reducing the department’s cost.
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Weeks as War Secretary urges tariff reform for foreign trade
John W. Weeks, with banking and congressional finance background, urges radical tariff changes in a Pittsburg speech. He cites exchange rate depreciation, needs to protect foreign markets, and potential shifts in rates for Britain France and Germany. He warns against restoring prewar Old Guard policy and supports delegation of tariff adjustments.
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Shipping Board to probe port vessel repairs bid concerns
The Post notes the Shipping Board will investigate claims that vessels under its control were moved to New York or Philadelphia yards before bids for repairs could be offered. Admiral Benson has ordered a formal examination, with hopes that work be done here if prices and speed match other ports, seeking simple justice for local repairing concerns.
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Philadelphia
Benson
Who Is a Slackers? Draft Evasion Lists to be Published
The War Department will begin publishing lists next week naming those deemed deserters from the late war. Corrections are possible by contacting the Adjutant General in Washington. The edition warns that errors may exist and penalties for evasion are severe.
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Say It With Flour Easter Appeal For Starving orphans
The piece appeals to Massachusetts readers during Easter Week to donate pennies through a “Say It With Flour” drive aiding 110,000 starving Christian children in the Near East. It cites Mary Roberts Rinehart on suffering from faith in Him and notes posters will act as silent salesmen, reliant on local generosity rather than solicitation.
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Citizens of the Commonwealth Commit to Relieve Suffering
The statement urges all citizens to act reasonably and generously to relieve suffering anywhere, emphasizing collective responsibility and humanitarian support across communities.
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Efficient Official Helps Tax Return Boom in Boston
The Boston Internal Revenue district shows John J. Mitchell as an efficient collector. More than 400000 national income tax reports have already been received, checked and examined, up from about 335000 at the same time last year. The total tax collected has decreased due to business conditions and the winding down of wartime excess profits taxes, not the collector's fault.
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Not Overcrowded in a Nation With Ample Room
The author argues that Americans feel crowded due to limited personal experience rather than actual density. Census figures show 3534 people per square mile, about 18 acres per person, and with an average family of five each enjoys roughly 90 acres. A skeptic warns of potential crowding at a billion inhabitants, but the speaker counsels not to worry.
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Questions to the Editor Chronicle Twilight Queries Answered
A reader asks what twilight means and when it ends, another asks if the Salvation Army’s current chief is the founder’s son, plus weight categories and other trivia. The column provides definitions, lineage of leadership, weight limits, Mormon prevalence, language rankings, and the date of the last killing frost.
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William Bramwell Booth
Wit and Wisdom From a Village School Memoir
A humorous column mixing classroom quips and social jabs. The teacher explains word endings with jokes about stan and umbrellas, while Willie Brown offers a sly retort about pretending to sleep. The piece riffs on tall women, taxes, groceries, coal, and cultural pretenses with light satire.
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Melrose Eager for a College Ice Spree
Melrose expresses enthusiasm for a college ice spree, urging Toe to join in. The fragment hints at playful plans and a lighthearted social moment during a college setting.
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What the Sphinx Says on Thoughts of Hate and Good
A saying urges guarding the mind from thoughts of hate envy and selfishness by instantly replacing them with a thought of good. The quip frames inner discipline as a daily mental act and reflects a contemplative, period voice.
Maple Sugar Time in Vermont Taste of Snow Nosh
R N Livingstone writes from Vermont about Maple Sugar Time noting the simple country life. He compares city and country living, praises maple sugar poured on snow, and reflects on milk prices and neighborly values in a contented Vermont community.
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Locomotive Headlights Explained in Letter
A reader questions a newspaper report claiming a locomotive will have two head lights one in front and one in the rear. The writer explains that headlights are defined by direction of travel, so when moving forward the headlight is at the front and when backing up the rear light acts as a headlight.
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Dear Miss Champagne Advice on finding love at twenty-two
Mildred Champagne offers guidance to a 22 year old sandwiching work for a mother and three brothers who longs for a home and a partner. She urges meeting the hometown girl, testing compatibility through companionship, and weighing responsibilities before marriage.
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Observant Citizen recalls Boston past and present
Twenty years after Aguinaldo was captured by Frederick Funston the piece reflects on changes, a sun setting in Boston, Prohibition era bars, Back Bay auto guard syndicate, and unsafe Common sidewalks. It notes motorcycle police on highways, street safety near Broad Way School, and a 1775 Patrick Henry reference. It ends with health inspector Campana's Italian audience and a late night Common crossing with police on the job.
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Diff'rent at Princess Theatre Captures a Fatal Courtship
Eugene O'Neill's Diff'rent at the Princess Theatre New York follows Emma Crosby who ends her engagement to Caleb after a South Sea Island incident. Thirty years later Emma’s aging pretense and new affection lead Caleb to suicide, then Emma joins him. The matinees prove Adolph Klauber’s vision in bringing the Provincetown production uptown.
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New Books Review Europe in Troubled Times 1919 1920
A review compares Kenneth L Roberts Europe’s Morning After and Alfred F Seligsberg Invalid Europe. Roberts offers lively travel notes on postwar Europe focusing on living costs and daily life, while Seligsberg provides a sobering, cause-focused look at the continent’s political impasse and need for Anglo American cooperation.
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Harper
Kenneth L. Roberts
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Keeping Busy by Walt Mason
Poet Walt Mason extols busy hands over idle gossip in a verse about tending duties and avoiding town scandals. The speaker works at spinning, fumigating, and house repairs, praising productive toil as the path to achievement and steadiness while critics linger on faults.
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Walt Mason
George Matthew Adama
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