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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1912
Page
12
Daily issue from May 18 1912 published by Post Publishing Co. in Boston Massachusetts. Covers local notices and brief items typical of a city newspaper with society and business mentions.
The notice lists prices for Daily One year three dollars and shorter terms, and The Sunday Post at three dollars yearly with various shorter options. Postage charges apply within the Boston district and foreign copies are priced per copy. Payments should be made to POST PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Editorial and business staff listings for the Post at 1004 1005 Main with Sunday Financial Sporting Editors and subscriptions policy. Discontinue service on expiration. notify by mail if not available from dealer. E A Grozier publisher.
The Boston Post proclaims its ownership of the largest newspaper printing press plant in New England, highlighting a world class press as part of its facilities. This boast cites Robert Hoe and Company as endorsing the achievement.
The piece argues that the parties should enact a single national date for presidential primaries across all states to end the drawn out delegate selection in multiple states. It contends this would curb distraction to business and reduce the demoralizing spectacle of varying election dates.
The Lorimer case in the United States Senate may see a vote in early June as minority and majority reports are to be presented next week. Opinion favors closing the scandal, whether by whitewash or by removing the offense. The Lorimer issue is used as a political bogey in the Republican nomination fight in Chicago.
The House will consider Governor Fosses veto of a bill granting Boston municipal government the exclusive power to override building laws for the City Hall annex beyond 125 feet. The writer urges the House to uphold the veto and reject a measure seen as harming private enterprise and lacking utility.
The Boston Herald condemns attempts to legislate a senatorial preference primary during this session. It notes the Legislature already meets often enough and questions the need for new primary mandates.
The speaker argues against delaying reforms by a year noting the 1913 Massachusetts Senate race and W Murray Crane. He contends progressives favor defeating Crane over the merits of the system, implying delay benefits opponents more than advocates.
As the Republican national committee convenes in Chicago three weeks from Thursday it confronts numerous contested delegations and sharp personal antagonisms. The panel aims to finish in 12 days, with quick action urged including possibly excluding Roosevelt delegates to resolve the split.
The piece discusses stimulants for modern life, favoring natural methods over alcohol. It cites a New York Sun writer advocating cold immersion as a superior daily tonic and dismisses prebreakfast warm water flushing as unnecessary. The cold plunge is praised as an invigorator for this generation of Americans.
Governor Foss signs a new act aiding wild game protection in Massachusetts. The law, effective next year, bans buying selling trading or dealing in dead or living bodies or parts of wild birds or game quadrupeds except hares and rabbits. It aligns with other states in restricting indiscriminate slaughter and aims to curb pet hunting.
A letter from John T. Mahon manager American Tract Society Periodical Dept reports an 85 line double column ad in the Boston Post of April 26 1912 for the American Messenger. Readers from Boston nearby towns and from Massachusetts Maine New Hampshire and Vermont replied expressing gratification and noting they saw the ad in the Post.
A brief humorous exchange shows Pater noting the Marys young man only visits after supper. The line highlights social expectations and wordplay between family members in a domestic vignette.
Leap year advice turns to a humorous Hen farming column by Newton Newkirk. A Massachusetts reader asks how to coax hens to lay eggs while speculating on breed, while Newkirk parodies the "average" egg quota and mocks overtechnical poultry claims.
Milwaukee farmer J Gilbert Hiccox earns $1000 yearly by providing phonograph music to cows during milking. A playful verse traces cows hearing tunes like Breath of Mown Hay and Old Kentucky Bluegrass before a miscue ends the enterprise when The Tune the Old Cow Died On appears in a newspaper.
In Georgia a man with life insurance dies and leaves the policy to his widow. She buys an elaborate mourning outfit and details prices to a friend. The friend quips about the black underwear, and she replies that when she mourns she mourns.
The Yosemite National Park, 140 miles east of San Francisco, hosts Vernal Fall plunging nearly 400 feet on a granite ledge with mist and rainbow colors. It sits beside Nevada Fall in a trio of wonderlands. the park draws visitors from Europe as a rival to the Alps with harmonious beauty, waterfalls, cliffs, forests, and alpine peaks.
A reader seeks dating guidance asking if she should write to a suitor. The column suggests casual meetings to test his interest and offers caution about trust in relationships. It also covers a separate note on a bracelet from a former lover and a final tip about a Lynn Driving Club parade and work-horse entries.
A constant reader writes about encountering a prior acquaintance in a newspaper column. The letter references the Miss Champagne column and asks for guidance, signaling ongoing interest in the advice feature and reader correspondence.
The Memorial Day work-horse parade lists 1050 entries, a record. The old horse class will stage its own show with 85 veterans aged 15 to 89, all in good condition and free from lameness.
Descriptions praise the Merced River winding through green meadows with white cascades and numerous lakes reflecting sunlight. Snowy High Sierra summits rise in the background, forming a dramatic, cloud-wreathed panorama described as beyond mere pictures.
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