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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1913
Page
12
The Boston Post issue from March 24 1913 provides daily press content with local Boston notices and brief news items. The page lists office address at 259 Washington Street and publication details for No 20, Vol 318.
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The Boston Post quotes Robert Hoe claiming their facility is the largest newspaper printing plant in New England and the largest press worldwide. The assertion highlights the firm's manufacturing prowess and industry standing.
The Connecticut legislature advances a bill to end free lunches in saloons to curb tuberculosis spread. Massachusetts uses looser regulation, but health authorities view elimination as a stronger safeguard against shared meals and infection.
A Columbia University proposal requires BA recipients to swim in at least 10 feet of water and rescue a drowning dummy and a live feigned victim in the gym pool. The writer questions extending the test to higher degrees noting the impracticality for doctors and PhDs yet acknowledging the broader aim.
A University of Pennsylvania funded expedition begins a three year study to uncover the lost world of pre-modern human life in the Amazon and its tributaries. The author notes extreme tropical diseases and hostile interior conditions test explorers as they seek Incas era civilizations.
The text hints at mortuary records of a race inhabiting temperate highlands. It suggests survival is hard to trace yet leaving marks that may be found, denying any notion of a truly lost world.
The nation plans a Washington memorial on a new Capitol Mall site with a one million dollar immediate deposit and two million five hundred thousand total fund. Massachusetts aims to raise two hundred thousand dollars for the effort, pledges go to Hon. William A. Gaston at National Shawmut Bank.
The article questions why living costs surge beyond wages and argues this is a national issue not solved by local strikes. It notes failed attempts to convene an international conference and mentions tariff relief as a possible but insufficient first step. It asks for deeper causes behind widespread economic unrest.
Massachusetts enacts a permanent wage commission with boards in occupations where women’s wages are viewed as inadequate. Boards include employers employees and the public and report employers paying below recommended wages. The commission can order hearings and issue decrees naming noncomplying employers. The effect will rely on public opinion and is subject to close observation.
A concise assessment notes France as the top wine producing nation globally, highlighting its long-standing winemaking heritage and significant output across major regions. The claim reflects comparative production scales and historical prominence in the global wine market.
A playful verse celebrates spring with a baseball itch. The speaker notes seasonal signs like boils and a new straw lid, sulphur and molasses routines, buzzing flies, singing birds, marbles and mud, tying them to warmer days and baseball fever.
A collection of maxims contrasts wit and perception with money and status. It notes the limits of wealth and appearance, warns against bluffing, and jokes about the early bird and fashion in daily conduct.
A narrator recounts an exaggerated dental visit filled with pain and comic menace. He imagines violent outcomes, laments high costs and drills into nerves, and endures the dentist’s theatrics while mocking dental procedures.
The article details the 1910 census cost of over 14 million dollars employing about 75 000 enumerators and clerks, listing a national population of 91 972 266 with extensive coverage including territories. It contrasts with the 1790 census methods, noting technological and administrative shifts from quill pen returns to centralized Washington processing.
The 1910 census will reveal detailed ties of employment with a new question on whether individuals work for others and the wartime survivor data. It shows mass wealth growth from 35 billion to over 100 billion dollars. Massachusetts leads 100 largest cities, population density differs by region, and the westward center moves gradually. Rhode Island is the most densely populated. Nevada remains sparsely populated.
A Boston letter recalls Three sisters born in Brownfield Me health milestones Elizabeth Wentworth near 108 years old sister Mary active as church worker and teacher Patty near a century. Mentions Rev Dr Herbert S Johnson’s grippe illness and Oregon trip. Reports Y C A sign on Huntington avenue and Decatur descendants linked to naval tradition and Wellesley alumnae fellowships for graduate study in science and humanities.
The column reports on a Beacon Street and Bay State road field being prepared for Boy Scouts, with fencing drainage and irrigation. It notes a window memorial for Sophie Jewett in the Wellesley chapel and recalls Civil War veterans linked to Roxbury. mentions Harvard Hollis Hall pageant plans, new Milk and Baby Hygiene director George Bedinger, and gifts to Harvard Union. It also covers a New England supper in Tacoma, garden beds in Public Garden, Lucius M. Tuttle’s railroad history study, Helen King Robinson’s Colorado politics boom, and trainer Paul Spiessent describing Sweet Adeline the bear’s intelligence and political bearing.
A humorous verseRetold by Uncle Walt Mason laments cockfighting culture as roosters clash in rings and pits while humans chase silly battles from Washington to Wooster The poem waxes ironic about men seeking war and prizefights, ending with a warning against hunting for grief.
In the Gem Theatre East Boston a testimonial was held last evening honoring the widow and family of Lawrence F Morris a well known East Boston young man who died recently. About 50 business and professional men from the district attended the event.
A dialect poem recounts a fruit dealer reminiscing about lively Italian speakers. The speaker laments the urge to sell less as he longs to grow the fruit instead and misses fine days across the sea.
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