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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1919
Page
12
The Boston Post outlines postpaid subscription prices for Daily and Sunday editions. Rates cover domestic, Canadian, and foreign options with yearly, half year, and monthly terms, including special Canada rates and postage adjustments within the Boston district.
The Massachusetts Senate declared the League of Nations covenant not wholly satisfactory to Massachusetts and to the United States general public. The piece notes President Wilson’s push for amendments as part of broader discontent with the plan.
The article discusses daylight saving time, noting sunrise before six, sunset around six thirty, and the clocks moving forward one hour at two a.m. Sunday. It weighs potential benefits against farmers’ inconvenience and questions whether society could adapt without shifting clocks.
The piece argues that if Republicans move to change the next Congress meeting date from December to nearer the election, it would be a much needed reform. It notes current delays in action by newly elected lawmakers and urges a simple Congressional act without constitutional amendment.
The Post cites Major General Ireland who says no soldiers in WWI American forces are basket cases and no case of soldiers with all four limbs lost reports exist. He stresses records show no such wounds during the war. The piece denounces heartless fabrications about wounded soldiers.
A speaker contends that certain ideas arise from sources beyond ordinary understanding, suggesting they originate outside moral comprehension. The statement implies a critique of the nature and origin of such thoughts and their unsettling influence.
The article contrasts fixed steel prices 80 percent above pre war levels with copper falling below cost, arguing buyers chase price trends more than levels. It notes Judge Gary reports rising steel demand while copper sales lag postwar until steel price assurances boost copper sales. It ends praising a Boston unit aiding western front wounded.
The piece blames Republican senators for the filibuster. It names Sherman and La Follette as the main actors, aided by the Senate’s true Republican leaders, arguing they stalled bills to force an extra session and undermine public welfare.
The Agricultural Department in Washington says Major-General Menoher and the army air service will prepare equipment personnel and facilities for experiments to combat forest fires from airplanes in cooperation with the department. This could open a new field for airmen with detectors of fires and potential excitement in flying over forests, though landing field sites must be cleared and levelled, a planning task for national and state governments in the near future.
The President argues that League of Nations deliberations did not delay the peace treaty. He cites facts and dates to show commissions’ conferences never interfered with treaty making. He urges timely treaties while respecting the deliberations of the immense task.
Officers of the medical unit from Boston City Hospital return from overseas duty to cheers and congratulations. The contingent is celebrated for its earnest patriotic record and service.
The Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce reports freight differentials will be fixed to favor Boston to western destinations. Washington will retain Canadian All Rail Route rates while Lake and Rail Route and Canada Atlantic Route differentials are set to be restored around April 1. The move should restore freighting advantages Boston lost last July, with credit due to Edgar J. Rich for his work.
Amelia Barr once popular novelist daughter of a minister born in England. She moved to Texas then New York after family fever tragedy. Barr wrote Romance and Reality and aimed for pure style, dying March 10 at Richmond Hill Long Island while on her 71st novel.
Admiral Sims returns to the United States with a souvenir block from Victory. The Duchess of Marlborough, Consuelo Vanderbilt, will summer at Marble House Newport and serves on London County Council. Elizabeth Watrous offers portraits for war memorials and her husband completes a Liberty Loan poster. Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth pioneers horse husbandry. The Kaiser’s fortune is touched by seizure, with $400,000 sent to him before the act.
The passage urges turning brilliant ideas into swift action to build both business success and character. It emphasizes not letting inspirations fade and stresses pairing vision with effort, initiative, and teamwork to achieve tangible results.
A remark notes that many men only start to succeed after experiencing failure. It frames failure as a catalyst rather than a setback, suggesting persistence builds achievement and resilience in the face of early defeats.
Physicians in a large Western city offer free talks for fathers only to improve child care. The course covers handling babies, safe holding with rag models, feeding during mothers’ absence, and entertaining infants to make fathers competent and trustworthy nurses.
A humorous exchange between Monty and Newt critiques a proposed potato eye spectacles business. Monty seeks $5000 capital to start a Potato Spectacle Company with Newt as president and Monty as treasurer, but Newt rejects the venture as a scam and refuses to invest or participate.
The column mentions daylight saving shifts and sunset times, Easter timing, and a century of Rabbi Isaac Wise. It reports on Everett Sutcliffe becoming Cambridge Board of Trade president, a Cape Cod codfish catch, and local notes from Natick and Haverhill. It also highlights Bishop Daly, Salvation Army plans for soldiers, and Worcester civic figures including William Barnard.
A historical overview traces alcohol's spread from primitive fermentations to Phoenician trade networks. It notes wine and beer origins, palm sap intoxication, and the role of merchants in diffusion, including Tyre, Damascus, and Palestine. It highlights ornate Phoenician drinking vessels and connections to biblical temples and ancient scenes.
A letter page reply item covers Geraldine Farrar’s name accent, star count limits, Alaska versus Texas size facts, and a reader explanation of phrases down and out and royal flush. It includes best-known definitions of poker hands and a brief astronomy bun theory.
The passage defines poker hands like full house four of a kind straight flush and royal flush. It then includes Q&A on Christmas bans in early New England funeral services slave holding in Massachusetts and the McKinley assassin’s fate with a note on the saying stolen sweets are best from Colley Cibber and Jeremiah.
The Oldest Inhabitant recalls Boston's coldest and warmest March 29 figures. Official data show 21 above in 1887 and 22 above in 1883, with a high of 76 degrees in 1910. No precipitation on this date in the last 19 years except 1911 1912 1916 and 1917.
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