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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1911
Page
10
Boston Post reports from March 29 1911 detailing daily news, local notices, weather, and society events. Includes the Post Publishing Co. office contact at 259 Washington Street with coverage of regional happenings and briefs.
The notice lists prices for Daily and Sunday Post subscriptions including one year at 30.00, six months 15.00, three months 7.50, and one month 2.50. Sunday Post rates are 3.00 yearly, 1.50 semiannual, 0.75 quarterly, and 0.80 monthly. Canada shipments priced per copy. Payments by check or money order only. cash not sent.
Public notice from editor E A Grozier states subscriptions must be prepaid and will be discontinued at expiration if not renewed. Readers are asked to notify by mail if they cannot obtain the Post regularly from dealers.
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals approved a free hospital for sick and injured animals at its annual meeting. President Rowley led the plan as a fitting memorial to Dr George T Angell, whose work for animals will live on in daily life.
The mayor commends the action to appoint two more inspectors for the building commissioner’s department. The added staff aims to improve fire safety and prevent disasters like the Truro Street incident, with enforcement of existing facilities laws emphasized despite budget concerns.
The New York Sun reprints hostile remarks by J. B. Browne of Key West president of the United States Bar Association. Critics warn the amendment surrenders state rights by allowing Congress to tax incomes from all sources including state and municipal bonds. They argue the federal power to tax equals the power to destroy and urge against adoption.
The elder Madero in San Antonio proclaims peace within 30 days while his son decrees seven war zones and proclaims himself supreme head of insurgents. The Post reports growing belief that peace negotiations may unfold on American soil and Diaz resignation may be tied to pacification. The coming days promise momentous events in Mexican history.
Boston residents backed by petitions urge the Railroad Commission to create a transfer point at the intersection of Massachusetts and Huntington avenues. They criticize the Elevated for denying the reasonable request despite broad support from individuals and institutions including visitors to the Art and Harvard Medical College.
Citizens from Cambridge and the South End must pay extra fares to reach the American League grounds Opera House Jordan Hall or Children's Hospital or walk in bad weather. The writer argues the Elevated should provide transfers at crossings as a long established public convenience and urges a commission decision.
An editorial lauds private philanthropy funding relief for life saving service workers but argues the nation bears a duty to provide for wounded sailors and surfmen. It praises individual charity yet emphasizes government responsibility to create homes, support dependents, and ensure ongoing care.
The Department of Agriculture signals lands will be examined for purchase under the Weeks law to protect and improve watercourses in the White Mountain region. Secretary Wilson hopes landowners show public spirit and offer lands at nominal prices to start the program, criticizes New Hampshire for inaction, and warns against landowner price-gouging on denuded hillsides.
An elderly lady thanks a laborer who gives up his seat. He replies that a man never ought to let a woman stand, adding that some men only rise for pretty women, but it makes no difference to him. Tit
The article reflects on Nineveh Babylon and Persepolis as relics of ancient splendor and contemplates their ruinous fate. It traces Persepolis from its legendary founding to its decline after Alexander the Great and notes Briton Riviere’s 1878 painting The Persepolis born from those legends.
A humorous shopper’s clash in Boston centers on Belinda’s harem style skirt. The column features Marion Sherman and a Sphinx saying about wisdom and consequences.
George Haven of Sharon Pennsylvania plunged into an abandoned well on a dark night after taking a shortcut. He clung to a cross beam, prayed, and sang a few bars of Old Hundred before dropping to solid ground. He was rescued the next morning, cursing loudly and missing a chance at reform.
The Preachers Aid Society of the New England Conference will send a representative to the Layman's Association on April 7 to seek an increase in its permanent fund. Officers were elected for the coming term with Everett O. Fisk as president and Charles R. Magee among the vice presidents. The Rev. Edward Braislin, D D, of Dorchester Temple Baptist Church, is on a six month leave after a paralytic shock. At Maverick Congregational Church the pastor Rev Albert R Williams will report on travels from the South with guests Rabbi Fleischer and Edwin T Mead. A self denial jubilee at St John’s Methodist Episcopal Church South Boston features Bishop Mallalieu as speaker and announces self denial results. The Boston District Sunday School Association meets at Immanuel Walnut Avenue Church Roxbury with two services and sermons by city clergymen.
Frank M. Chapel and Luke Huban named state game wardens to protect Harry Payne Whitney's moose elk and deer on October Mountain. State authorities will cooperate with Whitney's guardians to prevent a repeat of the February 27 elk shooting and will deploy assistants for regular patrols of the 14 000 acre preserve.
A 1911 verse by Walt Mason lampoons a constant worrier in a village. The poem humorously imagines misfortune haunting the man who always laments. It ends with a moral on how perpetual gloom attracts only more woes. The author is George Matthew Adams.
A Boston Rail Commissioners hearing weighed a proposal to place a transfer station at the Massachusetts Huntington avenue corner to ease travel for riders visiting the New England Conservatory of Music, the Children’s Hospital, and the Boston Opera House. The Brookline Country Club hosts its 30th annual meet with New York horses and Cavalry demonstrations at Clyde Park June 17, 21, and 24. The young Turks advance in Constantinople with a city telephones system planned. Miss Lilla Ormonde, daughter of James Ormonde, gains national acclaim as a soprano after singing before President Taft. The Beck liner Guiana reports two large whales near Cape Cod. Engagements for Miss Joyce Leaman and Howard Banks are announced. Sergeant William M. McMennimen's promotion to lieutenant in Cambridge police garners wide praise after 31 years on the force. William Shaw McCallum shines as a modest attorney in a New Hampshire Street Railway case. City Point photos, two years old, draw attention in a South Boston shop window, showing Marine Park and City Point changes.
Harvard President Lowell informed Cambridge Mayor Brooks that Professor Hector J. Hughes of Harvard Engineering is to assist the Cambridge water department. An inspection of the water system was postponed to sometime next week.
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