Boston Post May 17 1910 subscription rates and notices
The Boston Post issue lists subscription rates for Watley and The Sunday Post, with annual, semi annual and monthly prices in dollars and cents. It includes publication details, mailing and payment instructions, and editors contact information.
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Post Publishing Co
Washington St
Boston
Mass
Watley
The
Sunday Post
Anada
Post Publishing Company
Not a Joke: Transatlantic Piers Reform U S Customs
Advices from New York steamship piers reveal that first class passengers returning to America once treated U S customs rules as a joke. Collector Loeb and his officers are enforcing the law, making arrests on docks and confiscating belongings. Tourists of means are urged to declare honestly, as disregard by the powerful is not a license for others.
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New York
America
United States
Loeb J
Be Neater in Boston Public Garden Is Urged
The Boston Public Garden, praised for its beauty and flowers, is marred by litter around benches. Authors urge visitors to use bins and stop leaving papers boxes bags and peanut shells, advocating stricter measures if needed.
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Boston Public Garden
Plan to purge Rogues Gallery from innocents proposed
The article argues for removing photographs of acquitted individuals from the Rogues Gallery of the Boston police department. It cites harm to reputation and future prospects, comparing it to stigmatizing a house believed disease-free. It calls for complete and consistent reform to spare innocents from ongoing shame.
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Rogues’ Gallery
Boston Police Department
Rogue
Taft Letter Handling Shapes Ethics Debate
President Taft’s partial use of a letter by Assistant Attorney General Lawler exonerating Bellinger raises questions about delegation and presidential prerogative. The piece argues that a president trusted a subservant to draft a personal letter of public weight, and notes the issue lies in the act, not the appearance, while praising Taft’s virtue and his dismissal of Kerby in bringing the incident to light.
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Taft
Lawler
Bellinger
Kerby Critiques Ethics in Comment: Not an Excellent Judge
In a brief remark Kerby noted concern over ethical judgment and called into question the speaker's reliability. The comment appeared amid wider debate on conduct and standards, inviting scrutiny of how ethics are assessed in public discourse.
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Kerby
The Revolt of Dorchester Against Billboards
Citizens protest against billboard encroachment on Washington street in Dorchester. They argue the display degrades a scenic residential area and harms public rights, calling for stronger laws to curb aesthetic destruction and protect the city beautiful.
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Washington Street
Dorchester
Roosevelt’s England funeral mourns absent monarch and ally
An editorial reflection on President Roosevelt’s somber reception in England. The piece notes the pathos of his absence from a public ceremony, the quiet sorrow, and the lost chance to strengthen peace efforts and friendship with Edward. It honors Roosevelt’s role in international amity even as a personal farewell lingers.
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Mr. Roosevelt
England
Roosevelt
Edward
Root of the Matter in Southbridge Savings Bank Loss
A legislative committee blames the Southbridge Savings Bank collapse on Treasurer John Hall and fault the bank department trustees and auditing committee for negligence. It calls for stronger auditing and power to remove trustees to prevent future failures in Massachusetts savings banks.
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Southbridge Savings Bank
John Hall
Bank Department
Cavanaugh
State Department
Bank Commission
Massachusetts Savings Bank
Southbridge
Trial of six men for sugar underweighing fraud opens
The United States District Court in New York began proceedings against six men including the secretary of the American Sugar Refining Company. The case centers on higher up responsibility for a dockside weighing fraud that undercut duties. Earlier underlings have been punished, and immunity pleas by the secretary were rejected, raising expectations that top officials may face accountability.
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New York
United States District Court
American Sugar Refining Company
Heike
Grand Jury
Supreme Court
Her Little Plan Parson Visits Mrs Goodwin in Duty Talk
A new parson calls on Mrs. Goodwin and asks about loving neighbors. She replies she tries, but when neighbors grow mean she contemplates moving. The dialogue captures small town tension over community duty and personal limits.
Gentle Spring in Our Back Yard in Avon
A playful local sketch titled Gentle Spring in Our Back Yard catalogs an alphabetic uproar of yard items and disorder, from ashes and ash heap to rusty pans and tomato cans, ending with a quip about keeping forward. The segment hints at a light, humorous voice from Newton Newkirk and a closing line about moving.
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Darling
Katie
Avon
A Cometic Theory Promotes Earth Growth By Accretion
A reader lampoons Halley’s comet with a humorous period piece theory proposing the earth accumulates layers from passing comets like deposits from a daily bread wagon. He imagines ancient strata formed as the earth absorbed cometary rubbish, notes potential future fossil preservation, and blames a glacial era on a tramp star bulge near the South Pole.
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Reason
School of All Knowledge
Newt
Hoyver
Etna
Vesuvius
South Pole
North Pole
Halley
P. S
The King’s Jester and King George’s Reign Jokes
A humor note from J. J. Stearns of Boston in which jokes about King George V are presented. A punning exchange questions why George is not the whole kingdom, then plays on fractions to imply the queen’s share.
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George V
King George
Great Britain
George
Mary
J. J. Stearns
Boston
Half Grown Girl Inquiry Sparks Readers
A Gloucester Daily Times notice seeks a half grown girl with good references for William H. Weiss in East Gloucester near Mt Pleasant Ave. Readers are asked to explain what constitutes a half grown girl and how age and growth are defined, with additional information requested for the curious 307000 readers.
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William H. Weiss
East
Gloucester
Mt. Pleasant Ave
Gloucester Daily Times
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing quote
A fragment quotes the proverb a little knowledge is a dangerous thing and warns of premature explosion. The line underscores risk of partial understanding and heedless action. It captures a cautionary tone on knowledge and consequence.
A Poet's Thoughts On Unutterable Thoughts
A fragment speaks to a young woman on the verge of Sete ing, hinting at inner musings and thoughts that lie beyond spoken words, capturing a moment of poetic contemplation and toying with meaning.
Ex-President Roosevelt Tour Includes Tower of London visit
The article describes President Roosevelt's European tour with stops in London. It highlights the Tower of London as a historic fortress palace and prison, its White Tower, the royal regalia valued at $15,000,000, and lists numerous famous prisoners and deaths tied to the site. It notes armor rooms, the Beef-Eaters guards, and mentions tomorrow's view of St. Paul’s Cathedral.
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London
Roosevelt
Tower of London
Alfred
William, the Conqueror
England
White Tower
Charles II
Waterloo
Wakefield
Henry IV
Richard III
Duke of Northumberland
Henry VI
Wakefield Tower
Duke Clarence
Anne Askew
Macaulay
Mark Twain
Sailings and social notes from Massachusetts coastal towns
The Observant Citizen notes The White Star Viner Cymric bound for Liverpool with many Boston saloon passengers aboard. Lovely swans in Public Garden Pond, actress Miss C Blanche Rice visiting Moody street, parishioners bid farewell to Rev Joseph Lyons at St John’s Attleboro, and Grace Williams to wed Frank W Martin. Also covers Ross Perley’s mule ride in Dover NH, Minot Fenno’s Kingston estate purchase, Grove Hall Church debt clearance, Ashmont burglary skit, Catholic physicians gathering with Archbishop O’Connell, Commodore Scigliano’s motor boat race, Dorchester pitcher Bill Brennan’s recovery, Mr Yerxa mistaken for King Edward, art museum concerns near Copley Square, and Ruff and Blue Canoe Club May party plans.
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Minot D. Fenno
Revere
Kingston
N. H
G. W. Colson
Charles Conklin
Bill” Brennan
Dorchester High
Conley
Trim Wakefield
Brennan
Yerxa
King Edward
Chapman
Cambridge
Rye Beach
Portsmouth
Wisconsin
Bradward VII
Mr. Yerxa
The Comet in Holmes Juvenile Poems
A reminiscence from Oliver Wendell Holmes notes Halley s comet of 1835 in a 1910 reappearance. The preview hints at harmless crudities in earlier poems, then presents the poem The Comet with visions of cosmic terror and imagined doom. The piece ends with a cautionary verse about nightly meals.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Halley
BeWhiskered Farmer Says Honesty Is Best Policy
In a village store an old farmer declares honesty the best policy. An insurance agent nearby, busy with a cracker barrel, counters that the company has honest policy risks, joking that honesty fricasseed to a frazzle.
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