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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1911
Page
10
The Boston Post daily issue from March 81 1911 highlights local news items from Boston Mass. It lists the Post Publishing Co. office at 259 Washington Street and provides standard newspaper navigation details for readers of that era.
The notice lists pricing for subscriptions and single copies: Baily One year five dollars. six months one dollar fifty. eight months seventy five cents. one month twenty five cents. The Sunday Post one year three dollars. six months one dollar fifty. three months ten cents. one month eighty cents. Canada copies sixteen cents. Mail entries enter Second Class at Boston Post Office. Do not send cash. pay by check, draft, or money order to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Subscription payment reminders from the Past indicate all subscriptions must be prepaid. If you cannot obtain the Post regularly, notify by postal at once. E. A. Grozier, Editor and Publisher.
The Senate reconsidering Mr Tinkham s bill aims to settle Sunday recreation by letting each city with 50 000 or more inhabitants decide on Sunday games. Referendum approved cities set their own rules with no professionalism admission fees or payments to players.
Justice Wright of the District of Columbia Supreme Court rules the anti bucket shop statute unconstitutional due to ambiguity. The higher tribunal upholds the ruling, urging a new start in fighting economic pests. The government’s drafting error interferes with contract rights, but future statutes must have teeth to target bucket shops without failing constitutional tests. Floating contracts for gambling gain no protection.
The judiciary committee of the Legislature unanimously favors a bill to add three judges to the Superior Court. The public relief from crowded dockets would be immediate if the measure passes. The article rejects political influence aimed at blocking the bill and urges the Legislature to adopt a broad, wise view.
The article argues that the income tax amendment to the federal Constitution should be approved by Massachusetts lawmakers. It asserts party alignment, urging Democrats to vote for a national and state tax principle and Republicans to support a measure favored by a Republican Congress and President. It appeals to justice and public spirit.
The Albany State Capitol fire caused substantial damage to contents, though the building itself remains sound. While the structure could be repaired or rebuilt, the irreplaceable items inside were destroyed, the report notes the blast furnace effect within the fireproof walls.
The passage argues that fire proof buildings cannot guarantee history preservation and urges stronger safeguards. It notes Massachusetts law requiring incombustible rooms and vaults for public records and questions if the state meets this standard, citing the Albany capitol fire as a warning and urging safer City Hall measures.
The Shaw estate reveals $14.1 million concealed in the executors inventory and a total $21 million in holdings, with only $5.3 million taxed in 1908. The piece condemns tax evasion as dishonorable robbery of public funds and urges compulsory sworn returns in some states to curb riches’ hidden wealth.
The proposed bill would raise maximum teacher salaries from 936 to 1200 with proportional raises for other grades. A 10 cent per thousand tax levy on Boston valuation is considered to fund the increase, with officials from the city state and school committee to draft a measure.
Elmer Terrill of near Grand Junction Colorado sold two dinosaur footprints to Colorado College at Colorado Springs and is negotiating with the Field Museum of Chicago for two more tracks dug from his ranch footprints.
A Canadian employment agent secures colored domestics to be paid five dollars a month in the Dominion. Sixty women sailors are to depart on the Korona for New York then proceed to Montreal, with an equal number planned to sail on the Parima around mid April from Guadeloupe.
The Pleiades myth links seven sisters of Atlas to stars in Taurus with tales of Artemis and Orion. Elihu Vedder born 1826 in New York, studio in Rome since 1867, illustrated Omar Khayyam and other works. His book The Digressions of V describes life in Italy and features in major collections including General Co. A. Whittier’s in New York.
A lyric piece ushers in spring with rural imagery as rivers swell and willows bloom. A subplot follows Mrs Brown’s awkward reception of a visiting girl, Joanna Deiss, mistaken for a relative, until Brent Gerard Brent helps correct the mix up and offers neighborly hospitality.
In a light hearted tale, policeman George Kramer on an Atlantic City beat arrests a pretty young woman for flirting. The judge fines her 15 dollars and orders her to behave, as Kramer’s chivalrous image clashes with the comic outcome.
The Truth Seeker in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts solves the joke of Adam and Eve’s apples. He argues against endless progressions and states that Adam and Eve shared one apple between them.
The note claims Cain married a wife from the land of Nod and that she was a dream. The text presents a jocular exchange about Cain’s wife end with a joke answer.
Dear Sir asks for time to solve a basic mechanics problem, promising eternal obl... if solved, indicating a curious, informal challenge rather than a news item.
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