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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
14
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The Daily Post offers mail subscriptions within the United States and possessions at 25 cents per month and the Sunday Post at 30 cents per month. Addresses may be changed anytime. Subscriptions must be prepaid and will lapse without notice on expiration. If the Post is unavailable, notify the postal service at once. Editor and Publisher FE. A. Grozier.
The court holds that concentrated milk may be brought into the state and bulked with water to be sold legally, implying the concentrate is not milk under the statutes. The piece questions whether adding water creates milk and calls for consumer clarity on what is being purchased.
President Taft rebukes snobbery at the Metropolitan Club over blackballing Martin W. Littleton and three officers resign from the club. The piece links this to a broader push for international arbitration with Britain France and Japan and argues for peaceful settlement and disarmament aims through an impartial commission, easing tensions in the Pacific and advancing universal peace.
The Illinois Legislature reports Lorimer’s 1909 Senate election was achieved by bribery and corruption. The piece argues the stain affects Illinois and national representation, urging Washington to address Lorimer’s seat. It notes the Republican Senate majority and asks whether to retain or expel Lorimer.
The Boston and Maine line reverses plans to discontinue several trains from Boston including the 5 a.m. service to Troy via Greenfield. The mail and newspaper train, long praised for its usefulness, is spared, with other slated cuts also reprieved.
General Manager Barr states the railroad will not adopt its usual summer schedule but will run a more effective and finer quality service. The public, expecting improvements to Maine and New Hampshire resort trains, would have reacted with indignation if trains were curtailed despite New Haven promises of enhancements.
The piece reviews Count Zeppelin’s airship experiments noting several dirigible disasters including the Parsifal II. It argues air flight by man is not proven by balloons and praises aviators for advancing airplanes as the viable path to true flight despite occasional fatal risks.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declares that the rule of reason governs speeding cases. Speed limits are not fixed. four miles per hour may be reasonable in one place and dangerous in another. Automobilists must act with discretion and regard for others, guided by honor and fairness.
An elderly resident from Maine had prayed for rain with fervor but when a sudden cloudburst spoiled his mood he cursed and swore off praying again. The verses capture a stubborn farmer-like figure reacting to nature’s surprise shower.
A missive about oyster seeds egg plants and potatoes yields a satirical reply debunking oyster seed myths and jokingly advising on egg plant and potato ripeness. The text shifts to a Chicago transit prank where James Buck is pinned by a hatpin on a crowded car and humorously punished, with a judge criticising the hatpin user and a punchline about bending hat pins unseen.
Walpole Massachusetts letter ponders why exposed seats at a baseball park are called bleachers and contrasts with tanning. The writer notes fans in open sections do not bleach yet become tan, urging a rethink of the term.
A concise maxims-like line states that increasing earnings leads to greater gains, urging ambition and financial improvement as a path to broader benefits. The quote emphasizes cause and effect between income and benefits in plain, quotable form.
Human Life, the monthly magazine, was sold yesterday at an assignee's sale at 394 Atlantic avenue for $2500 to B F Hackett of New York. The sale included good will, 75000 paid subscriptions, 960 new subscriptions, and $10000 in 1911 advertising contracts, plus office furniture and accessories. HB H Waite was assignee, with Edward F McClennan of Brandeis Dunbar & Nutter counsel. First bid of $500 made by S E Blanchard for the Suffels Engraving Company.
A vivid reminder of the terror during the Petersburg siege of 1864 65, showing a Dunlop house room shell splinters and devastation. Citizens endured daily shelling as Confederate defenses encircled the city with two mile entrenchments while Union forces tightened their grip and entered on April 3.
A crowded column recalls Halley’s comet superstition a Chickasawbut debating team victory and a playful kitten battle with a bee. Harvard wins the Baldwin prize for municipal essays and U S Grant Post plans a new veterans memorial. A South Boston hydrant accident floods streets as 200 youths wade in water while a Roxbury couple depart on a Nova Scotia trip.
A humorous verse celebrating a trusty wheelbarrow as a simple, debt-free companion. The speaker praises the barrow as a green, sturdy conveyance that outshines autos, while joking about joy rides with his wife and the joy of honest, hard work over consumer debt.
Mrs William H Taft the President's wife left New York for Washington today after a brief illness. She traveled with Dr Evan H Evans a trained nurse and Major Archibald Butt. At the station Major Butt asked photographers to refrain from flashing lights to avoid a possible collapse. The illness is a recurrence of a nervous attack from two years ago and officials say she continues to improve.
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